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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 class="heading">Any kind of distress we suffer, it is due to our impious activities in the past.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Talk with Bob Cohen -- February 27-29, 1972, Mayapura|Talk with Bob Cohen -- February 27-29, 1972, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bob: I'd like to ask you just something I talked with devotees about, just medicine. I went to go, I walked to the river with some devotees today. I have a cold, so I said I shouldn't go in the water. Some felt I should because it is the Ganges, and some said I shouldn't because I have a cold. And we were talking, and I don't understand. Some... Devotees, do we get sick because of our bad actions in the past?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's a fact.</p>
<p>Bob: But when one is...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Any kind of distress we suffer, it is due to our impious activities in the past.</p>
<p>Bob: But when one is removed from karmic influence...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes?</p>
<p>Bob: ...does he still get sick?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Even if he gets sick, that is very temporary. Just like this fan is moving. If you disconnect with the electric power, then the fan will move for a moment. That movement is not due to the electric current. That is force. What is called physically, this...</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Momentum.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Momentum.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Momentum. But as soon as he stops, no more movement. Similarly, a devotee who has surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, even he's found that he's suffering from material consequences, that is temporary. Therefore a devotee does not take any material miseries as misery. He takes as Kṛṣṇa's, God's, mercy.</p>
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