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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithDrTheodoreKneupperNovember61976Vrndavana_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="329" link="Room Conversation with Dr. Theodore Kneupper -- November 6, 1976, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation with Dr. Theodore Kneupper -- November 6, 1976, Vrndavana">
<div class="heading">Yes, that is. Mokṣa means to stay in your original body. And bondage means we want different types of enjoyment, so God gives us the facility: "All right. Enjoy."
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Dr. Theodore Kneupper -- November 6, 1976, Vrndavana|Room Conversation with Dr. Theodore Kneupper -- November 6, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dr. Kneupper: Why does man... Why does the soul come into the body in the first place?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Punishment.</p>
<p>Dr. Kneupper: But he must have done something...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You want to enjoy. Can you understand this? Everyone is trying to enjoy. So enjoy independently means that you don't care for... That is the fact. They don't care for God. So because they don't care for God, therefore they are punished: "You take care of your body." And as soon as you care for God, then there is no material body. Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti. So God, therefore, teaches us how to get out of this body.</p>
<p>Dr. Kneupper: That's the whole idea of mokṣa?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Dr. Kneupper: Mokṣa?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, that is. Mokṣa means to stay in your original body. And bondage means we want different types of enjoyment, so God gives us the facility: "All right. Enjoy." If I do not make any discrimination of food... As human being, we must have discrimination. But if you don't discriminate, then you get the body of a pig. You can eat even stool. If you want to eat meat unrestricted, you become a tiger. Nature will give you facility. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13|BG 2.13]]). Dehāntara. And there are 8,400,000's of bodies. So according to your desire, you'll get a body. God will give you.</p>
<p>Dr. Kneupper: Is that what is meant when a man thinks when he dies, at the moment...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Kneupper: He goes there. Are there many places, let's say, beyond the physical?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So many places. Don't you see, night?</p>
<p>Dr. Kneupper: No, I mean beyond this physical, three dimensional universe.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. This is only one-fourth part manifestation of God's property. The three-fourth part is the spiritual world.</p>
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