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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1972]]
[[Category:Questions On... States of Heart and Mind]]
[[Category:Questions On... Discrepancies, Slips, Falldowns]]
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<div id="LectureonSB291TokyoApril201972_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="404" link="Lecture on SB 2.9.1 -- Tokyo, April 20, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 2.9.1 -- Tokyo, April 20, 1972">
<div class="heading">That is also illusion. That is also illusion. You are fallen means you have got some certain desires except service of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore the conclusion is that if you keep yourself tightly in Kṛṣṇa's service, there is no question of falling down or there is no question of māyā. You see?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.9.1 -- Tokyo, April 20, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.9.1 -- Tokyo, April 20, 1972]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Trivikrama: This feeling that we have, that we are fallen, that we are very fallen...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is also illusion. That is also illusion. You are fallen means you have got some certain desires except service of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore the conclusion is that if you keep yourself tightly in Kṛṣṇa's service, there is no question of falling down or there is no question of māyā. You see?</p>
<p>Devotee: Even at that state, still the body is affected by the modes of nature. We are experiencing desires.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You are not experiencing. Your body is experiencing. You are feeling cold due to this body. You are not feeling cold. You are not feeling cold.</p>
<p>Devotee: But I think I am feeling cold.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You are thinking. That is illusion. That is illusion.</p>
<p>Devotee: So rise above that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. But not artificially, but this is the fact. You have to gradually rise to that platform. The fact is this. Just like when you are feverish, actually you are healthy, but it has come. So in the feverish condition you are thinking, "I am now feverish." But this feverish will not, condition, will not stay. You will come to the healthy stage. Therefore don't be disturbed with the feverish condition. Go on with your duty. Don't misidentify, "Now I have become feverish. Everything is finished." No. That is external. It has come; it will go. That is given in the Bhagavad-gītā. Mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.14 (1972)|BG 2.14]]). Just like seasonal changes. Sometimes it is very hot, sometimes very cold, sometimes warm. So these are coming and going. So if there is some feeling of pain and pleasure, simply just tolerate it, but don't be absorbed in that thought. That's all. Therefore titikṣava. The first symptoms of a saintly person is titikṣava, tolerant. Tolerant. So go on reading, go on understanding. Everything will be clear.</p>
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