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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
[[Category:Questions On... God]]
[[Category:Questions On... Sin, Morality, Good, Evil]]
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Because you have to suffer. You are rascal. You must suffer. Therefore evil must be there.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- October 2, 1975, Mauritius|Morning Walk -- October 2, 1975, Mauritius]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Sometimes people ask that "If God is so great, then why doesn't He just come and destroy all the evil?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because you have to suffer. You are rascal. You must suffer. Therefore evil must be there.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Why doesn't He force us to be good?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like if the criminals and thieves say, "Why government has created this prisonhouse?" Is it very good argument? It is for you, rascal. You are criminal. You must suffer. Why it is to be abolished? Otherwise who will suffer? It is for your suffering.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Why are we evil? Why doesn't God makes us good?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Why are we evil?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, God says that "You become devotee of Me." You do not become. That is your fault. Therefore you must... Just like government does not say that you become criminal. Government says, "You become educated. You become high-court judge, become big officer." Why you become criminal, pickpocket? Does government give any education for becoming pickpocket? Hm? Is there any institution how to steal, how to become pickpocket? (laughter) Then why do you become? Just see. (break) </p>
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