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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Asat means that does not exist, "not eternal." It is just opposite. Eternal is called sat, om tat sat, and asat means just the opposite. So here in this material world everything is asat. Even this body is asat; it will not exist. And what to speak of other things with reference to the body. Everything is asat. Anything material is asat; it will not stay, either these trees or this land or this world or this country or this..., anything, asat.
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Nalinīkaṇṭha: "My dear friends born of demoniac families, the happiness perceived with reference to the sense objects . . ."

Prabhupāda: He (Prahlada Maharaja) is addressing his friends, "Born of demoniac families, my dear friends." (laughs) Give him one chair, Dr. Wolfe. Yes, that's nice. He used to address his father also as, "The best of the demons." Once his father asked him, "My dear son, what nice lesson you have learned in the school? Please tell me." So he addressed his father, ''asura-vārya'', "the best of the ''asuras''."

:''tat sādhu manye 'sura-vārya dehināṁ''
:''sadā samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahāt''
:''hitvātma-pātaṁ gṛham andha-kūpaṁ''
:''vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta''
:([[vanisource:SB 7.5.5|SB 7.5.5]])

So "My dear father . . ." Not "father"; "the best of the ''asuras''," ''asurya-vārya'', the chief ''asura''. "To my opinion," ''tat sādhu manye'', "I think, so far I have studied," ''tat sādhu manye'', "I think that is very nice, very honest profession of occupation for persons who are always full of anxieties." In the material world everyone is full of anxiety. That's a fact. Even in your country, the President Nixon, he was in full of anxiety while he was in office, and now, out of his office, he's also full of anxiety. So just see. This is the best man in your country, president, the foremost man. So if he is full of anxiety, the others naturally . . . everyone. So what is the cause of the anxiety? ''Asad-grahāt. Sadā samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahāt''. ''Asat'' means that does not exist, "not eternal." It is just opposite. Eternal is called ''sat'', ''oṁ tat sat'', and ''asat'' means just the opposite. 

So here in this material world everything is ''asat''. Even this body is ''asat''; it will not exist. And what to speak of other things with reference to the body. Everything is ''asat''. Anything material is ''asat''; it will not stay, either these trees or this land or this world or this country or this . . . anything, ''asat''. So ''asad-grahāt'', on account of accepting things which are ''asat'', not permanent, they are always full of anxiety. Just see how nicely explained, why one is full of anxiety. The reason is, he has accepted something which will not stay, endure and he has accepted, "This is all in all. My country is all in all. My family is all in all. This body, all in all." But it will not stay. That's a practical fact.
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