Guest: You said that God created us because He was lonely. How could God, who is perfect, be lonely?
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Devotee (1): He said that you say, he said you said that God created us because He waw lonely.
Prabhupāda: No, I didn't say lonely.
Guest: Oh, I misunderstood then.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Guest: Would you say that...
Prabhupāda: God cannot be lonely. Just like as soon as you say that President Nixon is coming, it does not mean he's coming alone. Because his position as President means whenever he goes he has got his secretaries, his military commanders, so many things. Similarly, God is never alone. God is always with many paraphernalia. So God is not lonely. Never.
Guest: You say that we have eternal relationships with the Supreme?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Guest: Does that mean that at one time we had this relationship and now we still have it, and then we will still have it later?
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes, not once you have it, still. Without God's grace, you cannot live. You are still, but you have forgotten. Just like a prisoner. A prisoner is put into prison house. That does not mean he has lost his relationship with the state. Before coming to the prison house he was a state citizen, and in the prison also, he is also a state citizen. And the government has concern both ways, when he was free, and when he is in prison. So our relationship with God is not broken, or it cannot be separated. It is there always, but at the present moment, we are covered. We are thinking there is no God. That is our ignorance. Therefore you are suffering.