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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]]
[[Category:Questions On... Consciousness]]
[[Category:Questions On... Reincarnation, Afterlife, Transmigration of the Soul]]
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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="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Do you remember everything what you did last year or yesterday? So that is your nature. You forget.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 14, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- May 14, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Karandhara: And one is known by the company he keeps.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Kāranaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya ([[Vanisource:BG 13.22 (1972)|BG 13.22]]). The best friend will lead him to take birth in that family. He'll help him next birth because he'll always think of dog, so next birth, dog. Yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvam ([[Vanisource:BG 8.6 (1972)|BG 8.6]]). At the time of death, if you are attached to something then you'll think of it, and next birth is that.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, if one's life is achieved by one's consciousness, how is it one cannot remember one's previous life?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Do you remember everything what you did last year or yesterday?</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: No, I don't.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So that is your nature. You forget.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: Something.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Something there is possibility of. Something..., somebody forgets more, somebody forgets little. But the forgetfulness is there.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: That's the platform of material nature.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like stealing. Somebody's pick-pocket. Somebody's dacoit. The stealing is there.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: When we sleep, when we dream, are we carried away by the three subtle elements, mind, intelligence...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You are carried always by nature under different conditions. You're simply being carried by the nature. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni ([[Vanisource:BG 3.27 (1972)|BG 3.27]]). You are under the grip of material nature. Just like pulling the ear.</p>
<p>Kṛṣṇa-kāntī: By our desires we are pulled?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. You desire. There it is. That's how. It is not willingly because you are willing desires against Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore she's giving chance, "Come on here. Take stool. Become hog. You wanted to eat stool. Come on." This is going on.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: This also shows the eternal nature of the spirit soul?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, no. That is not eternal.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Because I'm conscious.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore your consciousness is being revived. Come to the standard of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you'll be happy. That is our business. His consciousness is being misled by so many ways. Therefore we are trying to give him the standard consciousness, "Come to this point, you'll be happy."</p>
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