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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="1970_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1970 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1970 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationDecember211970Surat_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="8" link="Room Conversation -- December 21, 1970, Surat" link_text="Room Conversation -- December 21, 1970, Surat">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- December 21, 1970, Surat|Room Conversation -- December 21, 1970, Surat]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Now we are with Sambhu in Bombay. As soon as the aeroplane would come on top of the house it is just like thunderbolt. Yes. At least I was feeling like that. Vajrapa. You see? So this is called illusion. We are creating a civilization which is so much painful, but we are thinking that we are advanced. This is illusion. We are creating simply problems, and still, we are thinking that we are advanced.</p>
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<div id="1971_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1971 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1971 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="ConversationwithJournalistsAugust181971London_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="21" link="Conversation with Journalists -- August 18, 1971, London" link_text="Conversation with Journalists -- August 18, 1971, London">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with Journalists -- August 18, 1971, London|Conversation with Journalists -- August 18, 1971, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Suppose if I give somebody intelligence, "You make this table like this," I give ingredients, I give him money, then after the table is manufactured, if the carpenter says, "It is mine," is that proper ? I have given you money, I have given you the wood, I have given you the intelligence, I have maintained you. How it belongs to you? So this is going on. Everything God's, and we are claiming "Mine." Ahaṁ mameti, janasya moho 'yam ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.8|SB 5.5.8]]). This is called illusion. I am not the proprietor, but I am thinking I am... This is called illusion. So Kṛṣṇa consciousness means to remove this illusion, to accept the real fact. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationDecember101971NewDelhi_1" class="quote" parent="1971_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="30" link="Room Conversation -- December 10, 1971, New Delhi" link_text="Room Conversation -- December 10, 1971, New Delhi">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- December 10, 1971, New Delhi|Room Conversation -- December 10, 1971, New Delhi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there is no bodily barrier. No. "Because I have got a particular type of body, therefore Kṛṣṇa consciousness is forbidden for me." No, that is not. In any body, any circumstances, you can cultivate Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But not material. But people, they do not know. They think that "Kṛṣṇa consciousness there is no need, but let me improve my bodily comfort." This is called illusion. He cannot improve, even by an inch, the burden, but still... But you can improve, or you can purify, your consciousness. That is open to you, oh, irrespective of bodily (indistinct).</p>
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<div id="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1972 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1972 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithKennethKeatingUSAmbassadortoIndiaOctober141972NewDelhi_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="42" link="Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi" link_text="Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi|Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Just like we have seen in Calcutta when there was a (indistinct) during the transition state. Britishers are going on. There was a great Hindu-Muslim riot. Now they fought, Hindus and Muslims, and they died. After death, they're lying piles of dead body. No more Hindu and Muslim. It is simply lump of matter. But because they got a type of body, a type of mental situation, consciousness, they fought with one another, and then after death, no more claiming "Hindu" and "Muslim." This is called illusion. "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am this," "I am that"—these are all designation. Really what I am? I am pure soul, part and parcel of God. That is my identity.</p>
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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 id="RoomConversationwithAnnaConanDoyledaughterinlawoffamousauthorSirArthurConanDoyleAugust101973Paris_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="59" link="Room Conversation with Anna Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- August 10, 1973, Paris" link_text="Room Conversation with Anna Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- August 10, 1973, Paris">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Anna Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- August 10, 1973, Paris|Room Conversation with Anna Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- August 10, 1973, Paris]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Behind the background of nature is God. Just like background of police force is the government. Similarly, background of the stringent laws of nature is God. That they do not understand. They're struggling with the natural laws. And that struggle they are taking as advancement. That's all. It is a struggle. But they're taking it as advancement. This is called illusion. It is not advancement. It is simply struggle.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember131973LosAngeles_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="100" link="Morning Walk -- December 13, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 13, 1973, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 13, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- December 13, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So everyone is thinking that "I am very happy," but he's in condemned condition. The pig. He is eating stool, living in a filthy place, but he is getting fat because he is thinking he is very happy. This is called illusion. You are thinking, "Oh, what a nasty condition. This animal is eating stool and living in a filthy place." But he is thinking that he is very happy. Unless he thinks like that, he cannot live in that condition. That is called illusion. He does not know what is the actual high standard of happiness.</p>
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkJanuary181974Hawaii_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="12" link="Morning Walk -- January 18, 1974, Hawaii" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 18, 1974, Hawaii">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 18, 1974, Hawaii|Morning Walk -- January 18, 1974, Hawaii]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: He thinks that "I am now independent of the Supreme Lord." But because he's foolish, he cannot understand that you are not independent. You are being controlled by another agent of God. And because, although he's being controlled, he's thinking, "I am free," therefore he's in illusion. This is called illusion. Illusion means something which is not fact. That is illusion.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkApril141974Bombay_1" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="63" link="Morning Walk -- April 14, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 14, 1974, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 14, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- April 14, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: This is called illusion.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: All relations of the son, child, wife, husband, all these are of the... (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...just like in the river sometimes several straws will meet together. And again they disperse. (break) We get our body and mix together, and again we are dispersed by the waves of time. (break) ...at the end we shall see Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithProfessorDurckheimGermanSpiritualWriterJune191974Germany_2" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="123" link="Room Conversation with Professor Durckheim German Spiritual Writer -- June 19, 1974, Germany" link_text="Room Conversation with Professor Durckheim German Spiritual Writer -- June 19, 1974, Germany">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Professor Durckheim German Spiritual Writer -- June 19, 1974, Germany|Room Conversation with Professor Durckheim German Spiritual Writer -- June 19, 1974, Germany]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Time is there, but because I have got this temporary body, I am thinking past, present, future. The temporary body will vanish. I shall get another temporary body. Then again my begins past and present. So therefore this is called illusion. Time is eternal. It has no beginning, no end, but we transmigrate from one body to another. We are calculating, miscalculating, past, present, future.</p>
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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 id="MorningWalkOctober21975Mauritius_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="196" link="Morning Walk -- October 2, 1975, Mauritius" link_text="Morning Walk -- October 2, 1975, Mauritius">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- October 2, 1975, Mauritius|Morning Walk -- October 2, 1975, Mauritius]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Cyavana: They've made so much propaganda that life is meant to enjoy. Everywhere...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Enjoy, but where is your enjoyment? Come to the practical point. Where is your enjoyment? You are simply suffering. That is their rascaldom. They are suffering; still, they say, "I am enjoying." This is called illusion, māyā. Enjoy. That we also say, that we are trying to take you to a certain place, kingdom of God or back..., where you will enjoy. Enjoy... Ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt (Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12). That enjoy is our aim. But where is your enjoyment here? That is your rascaldom. There is no enjoyment; still, you say, "We shall enjoy."</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkOctober21975Mauritius_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="196" link="Morning Walk -- October 2, 1975, Mauritius" link_text="Morning Walk -- October 2, 1975, Mauritius">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- October 2, 1975, Mauritius|Morning Walk -- October 2, 1975, Mauritius]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Satyānanda-cid-ātmani. Yogis, bhakti-yogis, they also want ānanda, but not this false ānanda, satyānanda-cid-ātmāni, iti... Therefore they call Rāma. Rāma means ramaṇa, enjoyment. Iti rāma-padenāsau paraṁ brahmābhidhiyate ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.29|CC Madhya 9.29]]). They do not know what is satyānanda. They do not understand, as soon as we accept this material body, it is misery, simply misery. The body is constructed within the womb of the mother in a miserable condition. These rascals, they do not understand. In a packed-up way, head down, leg up. And it is enjoyment. The body is created in this troublesome, from miserable condition; still, they say, "enjoyment." This is foolishness. This is called illusion.</p>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkJanuary81977Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="15" link="Morning Walk -- January 8, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 8, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 8, 1977, Bombay|Morning Walk -- January 8, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Everyone is being conducted by his destiny. The father, mother, may be there or may not be there; his destiny will go on. This is the law of nature. You see here. Do you mean to say, because that man is poor, he's not taking care of the child? Why the child is crying twenty-four hours? So if one child is made to cry by his destiny, even in the presence of his father, mother, he has to cry. Nobody can make him happy. So this is called illusion, that "I am doing." Ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate ([[Vanisource:BG 3.27 (1972)|BG 3.27]]).</p>
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