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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
[[Category:Questions On... Successful Life, Goal of Life]]
[[Category:Questions From... Journalists, Reporters, Writers]]
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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 class="heading">Meaning of life means to enjoy, but we are in a different platform of life. Therefore we are suffering instead of enjoying.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Radio Interview -- July 27, 1976, London|Radio Interview -- July 27, 1976, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Mike Robinson: I see. Can you tell me what you believe to be the meaning of life, why do we exist in the first place?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Meaning of life means to enjoy, but we are in a different platform of life. Therefore we are suffering instead of enjoying. But if you come to the real platform, then you enjoy. Because here we see struggle for existence, everyone is struggling, but what is the aim? For enjoyment of life. Therefore life means enjoyment. But at the present moment our life is not enjoyment.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: At the present moment, our life is not...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Our life is not enjoyment-suffering.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: Suffering, hmm.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, do you admit or not?</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: You are saying at the present moment we are all suffering?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: Yes, I would agree with that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Then the question should be, "I want to enjoy. Why I am suffering?" Then you will have to mold your real life.... </p>
<p>Then you'll enjoy. And that is spiritual knowledge.</p>
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