All men, they have been declared in the Bhagavata abodha-jata (SB 5.5.5), born fools and rascals. But these are very strong words. But if we state this strong, that is another foolishness

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1970 Conversations and Morning Walks

All men, they have been declared in the Bhāgavata abodha-jāta (SB 5.5.5), born fools and rascals. But these are very strong words. But if we state this strong, that is another foolishness. It is so, and if we deny that, "We cannot accept such strong things," then another foolishness.

701221 - Conversation A - Surat

You are now curing physical disease, but when you take up curing material, I mean to say, spiritual disease . . . yes. Try to bring all people to the normal spiritual life. All their suffering is due to abnormal spiritual life. All suffering. Because, I was discussing with my disciples just now, nature's law is so subtle and so acute that a little violation will be punished immediately. You know. You are medical man. Little violation will immediately subjected to the punishment. This is God's law.

There is a word in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, uru-dāmni baddhāḥ. Uru. Uru means very strong, and dāmni means rope. Just like if you are tied up with a strong rope, hands and feet, as you are helpless, our position is like that. This very word is used, uru-dāmni baddhāḥ. Na te viduḥ . . . and such baddha, conditioned souls, they are declaring freedom: "I don't care for anyone. I don't care for God." How much foolishness.

Just like sometimes naughty children, they are also bound up. Yaśodāmayī also bound up Kṛṣṇa. That is an Indian system, for everywhere, (chuckles) tied up. And that small child, when it is bound up, if that child declares freedom, how it is possible? Similarly, by the laws of Mother Nature we are bound up. How you can declare freedom? Every part of our body is being controlled by some controller. That is stated in the Bhāgavatam. Even your this eyelid moving, that is also under some controller.

So the people do not understand it, and they are declaring, "I am God. I don't care for God. God is dead." How God is dead? You are under so much control, and how God is dead? You can say that there is no government, provided there is nobody to check you. But if you are in every step checked, how you can say that there is no government? That is another foolishness.

All men, they have been declared in the Bhāgavata abodha-jāta (SB 5.5.5), born fools and rascals. But these are very strong words. But if we state this strong, that is another foolishness. It is so, and if we deny that, "We cannot accept such strong things," then another foolishness.