My dear Lord, this whole cosmic manifestation is just like a flashing dream, and its temporary existence simply disturbs the mind. As a result, we are full of anxiety in this existence; to live within this material world means simply to suffer and to be full of all miseries.
Material world means...
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 2
SB 2.10.41, Purport:
To associate with persons engaged in lording it over the material world means to enter into the darkest region of hell.
SB Canto 4
SB 4.30.35, Purport:
Vaikuṇṭha means "without anxiety," and the material world means full of anxiety.
Other Books by Srila Prabhupada
Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Lecture on BG 1.1 -- London, July 7, 1973:
Politics are always there, and enviousness, jealousy. This is the nature of this material world. You cannot avoid it. Spiritual world means just the opposite. There is no politics. There is no jealousy. There is no enviousness. That is spiritual world. And material world means politics, jealousy, diplomacy, enviousness, so many things.
Lecture on BG 1.4-5 -- London, July 10, 1973:
Material world means these five elements, gross and subtle. Earth, water, air, fire, sky, these are gross. And mind, intelligence, and ego, these are subtle.
Lecture on BG 1.24-25 -- London, July 20, 1973:
This material world means material senses. That's all.
Lecture on BG 1.45-46 -- London, August 1, 1973:
Material world means step by step, simply danger.
Lecture on BG 2.1-11 -- Johannesburg, October 17, 1975:
Material world means in every step there is danger.
Lecture on BG 2.9 -- London, August 15, 1973:
Material world means this. Puṁsaḥ striyā maithunī-bhāvam etat. The whole basic principle of this material world is sense gratification. Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tucchaṁ kaṇḍūyanena karayor iva duḥkha-duḥkham (SB 7.9.45).
Lecture on BG 3.27 -- Melbourne, June 27, 1974:
Material world means the relative world.
Lecture on BG 4.8 -- Bombay, March 28, 1974:
So this material world means the living entities are given chance.
Lecture on BG 4.14 -- Bombay, April 3, 1974:
The material world means you work, and you enjoy or suffer the result of your work.
Lecture on BG 4.19 -- New York, August 5, 1966:
Material world means so long we'll have this material body, we'll have to face so many disturbances.
Lecture on BG 4.24 -- August 4, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm):
So, I am speaking, but I'm not present there. Similarly, material world means it is being conducted by Kṛṣṇa, but still, Kṛṣṇa, personally, He's not present there.
Lecture on BG 4.24 -- August 4, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm):
There is no good or bad, it is mental concoction. But on the whole, in the material world means everything bad. Spiritual world everything is good.
Lecture on BG 4.24 -- August 4, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm):
Material world means absence of spiritual world, that's all. You bring again spiritual world, it is good.
Lecture on BG 4.27 -- Bombay, April 16, 1974:
The whole activities of the material world means everyone is acting as the servant of his senses, that's all.
Lecture on BG 5.3-7 -- New York, August 26, 1966:
The idea of sāṅkhya-yoga, analytical study of this material world, means you have to find out the spiritual existence.
Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Nairobi, October 27, 1975:
The material world means bodily consciousness: how to keep the body in comfortable.
Lecture on BG 7.4 -- Bombay, February 19, 1974:
Material world means suffering.
Lecture on BG 7.4 -- Nairobi, October 31, 1975:
So everything is energy of God, Kṛṣṇa, but this material world means we are missing Kṛṣṇa.
Lecture on BG 7.5 -- Bombay, February 20, 1974:
The normal condition is the finger is to work for my body. Similarly, we, being part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, when we are engaged in Kṛṣṇa's service, that is our normal condition, our healthy life. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says that "These foolish creatures, mūḍhāḥ, who are thinking that 'We shall work for sense gratification,' they are mūḍhas." Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ (BG 7.15). The animals cannot understand this constitutional position of the living entity. Because this material world means all the living entities, they have come here for satisfying their senses.
Lecture on BG 7.5 -- Nairobi, November 1, 1975:
That God is great and we are small, there is no disagreement. That is spiritual world. And the material world means "God is great, we are small"—there is disagreement.
Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Melbourne, April 19, 1976:
Material world means... Although the varieties are there in the spiritual world... There are also trees, as we have got here trees. But there the forms are spiritual form, and here they are material form.
Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 23, 1976:
Material world means there are innumerable universes.
Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 23, 1976:
Material world means it comes into existence at a certain date, it remains for some time, it gives so many by-products, and it expands, and then dwindles, then finish.
Lecture on BG 9.5 -- Melbourne, April 24, 1976:
Material world means where God is forgotten.
Lecture on BG 9.5 -- Melbourne, April 24, 1976:
Material world means full of criminals, or against God, or defying the authority of God.
Lecture on BG 9.20-22 -- New York, December 6, 1966:
The lower grade life and higher grade life in this material world means those who are proportionately less sinful, they are promoted in higher planets.
Lecture on BG 13.5 -- Bombay, September 28, 1973:
You, in this body you have to work because this material world means one has to work.
Lecture on BG 13.20 -- Bombay, October 14, 1973:
By nature the females, they are by nature apt to dress attractively, and the puruṣa is attracted. So this prakṛti and puruṣa. Actually none of us are puruṣa. This conception of puruṣa, enjoyer, that is there in so-called woman and so-called man. The man also wants to enjoy. Not only man, every living entity, cats, dogs, trees, aquatics, everyone, because this material world means all the living entities, beginning from Lord Brahmā, down to the smallest ant, they are seeking after enjoyment.
Lecture on BG 13.20 -- Bombay, October 14, 1973:
This material world means it is made of this inferior prakṛti, bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ.
Lecture on BG 13.22-24 -- Melbourne, June 25, 1974:
So material world means you associate with the material three qualities—goodness, passion or ignorance.
Lecture on BG 15.1 -- Bombay, October 28, 1973:
Activities of the material world means to act in such a way that you become liberated at the end and go back to home, back to Godhead.
Lecture on BG 16.8 -- Hyderabad, December 16, 1976:
The material world means we are conditioned.
Lecture on BG 16.9 -- Hawaii, February 5, 1975:
The demons and the rākṣasas, they're existing always. As I have told you, two classes of men are always there. But in this age the number of atheist class, or demons, are very much increased. Otherwise, material world means for the demons, atheistic class.
Lecture on BG 16.10 -- Hawaii, February 6, 1975:
In the spiritual world you haven't got to work, neither you have to eat. Everything is complete. But in the material world means for your maintenance you have to work.
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Lecture on SB 1.1.3 -- Caracas, February 24, 1975:
Here this material world means everyone is trying to be master.
Lecture on SB 1.1.9 -- Auckland, February 20, 1973:
Material world means to get this material body, and material body means subjected to the tribulations of material nature.
Lecture on SB 1.2.3 -- Rome, May 27, 1974:
Material world means darkness wherein you cannot understand what is God, what you are.
Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- Hyderabad, November 26, 1972:
Material world means everyone is working hard only for the happiness of the body.
Lecture on SB 1.2.7 -- Hyderabad, April 21, 1974:
Material world means sense enjoyment, and spiritual world means not sense enjoyment for personal sense enjoyment, but enjoyment of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Lecture on SB 1.2.19 -- Calcutta, September 27, 1974:
So the principle is that we have to place our mind, or consciousness, in the sattva-guṇa. That is the first business. Because the material world means sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa.
Lecture on SB 1.2.23 -- Los Angeles, August 26, 1972:
So material world means the three qualities. Material world is going on under three energetic energies: sattva, rajas, tamas.
Lecture on SB 1.2.23 -- Los Angeles, August 26, 1972:
Generally, we see tree downwards, root, but in the reflection you will find the roots upward. Therefore ūrdhva-mūlam adhah-śākham means these material varieties are simply an imitation of the original variety. Just like I'll give you very nice example. Just there will be a great fair. Just like we had in this Allahabad, Māgha-melā. So because government knew that many people will come to take bath in the Ganges, confluence of Ganges and Yamunā, all of a sudden, a great city, practically, was developed. Those who have seen—so many houses, camps, electric lights, post office, everything. Temporary, created. But as soon as... It is maintained also so long the melā, the fair, is going on. And as soon as the duration of melā is finished, all people go away and the temporary township is also demolished. That we have seen. Similarly, this material world means it is a kind of fair, assembly of so many men.
Lecture on SB 1.2.30 -- Vrndavana, November 9, 1972:
There is another, another manifestation of His internal potency. That is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. Here, in this material world, material world means it is not eternal, not blissful and not full of knowledge.
Lecture on SB 1.5.1-4 -- New Vrindaban, May 22, 1969:
So this is material world means everyone is trying to become God.
Lecture on SB 1.5.1-8 -- New Vrindaban, May 23, 1969:
Material world means this monetary strength he has got.
Lecture on SB 1.7.6 -- Vrndavana, April 23, 1975:
To exist in this material world means it is a losing business.
Lecture on SB 1.7.9 Excerpt -- Vrndavana, September 8, 1976:
Suppose if somebody is assured that now, henceforward you haven't go to do anything, everything will come automatically, naturally one becomes prasannātmā, very jolly. I am free from the anxieties. Because this material world means full of anxieties, sadā samudvigna-dhiyām, that is material world. And when you come to the spiritual platform, there is no anxiety, no na śocati na kāṅkṣati.
Lecture on SB 1.7.11 -- Vrndavana, September 10, 1976:
Material world means three modes of material nature: sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa.
Lecture on SB 1.7.22 -- Vrndavana, September 18, 1976:
They are thinking, "We are very happy," but this material world means continuously suffering.
Lecture on SB 1.7.30-31 -- Vrndavana, September 26, 1976:
This material world, in this way, sometimes it is manifested and sometimes it is not manifested. The energy is there, but the material world means the energy sometimes manifested, sometimes not manifested.
Lecture on SB 1.8.18 -- Chicago, July 4, 1974 :
To accept this material world means to accept different types of material body, and so long you have got this material body, either you have got the body of a human being or an animal or of demigod, that always there must be fearfulness, anxiety, because we have accepted something foreign.
Lecture on SB 1.8.26 -- Mayapura, October 6, 1974:
This material world means sex attraction, mithunī-bhāva.
Lecture on SB 1.8.35 -- Los Angeles, April 27, 1973 :
In this material world means sense gratification, because kāma, kāma means sense gratification.
Lecture on SB 1.8.38 -- Los Angeles, April 30, 1973:
This material world means sense enjoyment. But without Kṛṣṇa or without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there is no possibility of sense enjoyment.
Lecture on SB 1.8.42 -- Los Angeles, May 4, 1973:
Material world means forgetfulness, forgetting our relationship with God.
Lecture on SB 1.8.42 -- Mayapura, October 22, 1974:
This material world means in every step vipadām, danger.
Lecture on SB 1.15.27 -- Los Angeles, December 5, 1973:
So this material world means you must suffer.
Lecture on SB 1.16.5 -- Los Angeles, January 2, 1974:
Devotees are interested to discuss something if it is helping us how we can become more and more attached to Kṛṣṇa. That is the... Otherwise, we are not interested in the matter of general principles of morality, social culture, ethics. They are required, but because this material world means it is a contaminated world, infected world.
Lecture on SB 1.16.21 -- Hawaii, January 17, 1974:
Kṛṣṇa is already father for everyone, either in spiritual or material. Father is father. Does it mean, if your father goes somewhere and the relationship changes, you become father and he becomes son? He's always father, either in this apartment or that apartment. So spiritual, material world means different atmosphere only. So father is always father, and son is always son.
Lecture on SB 2.1.2 -- Mombassa, September 13, 1971:
This material world means this universe which you can simply see a big sky, and within that sky there are millions and trillions of planets.
Lecture on SB 2.1.2 -- Vrndavana, March 17, 1974:
Material world means apaśyatām ātma-tattvam, one who has no enquiry or vision of the ātmā.
Lecture on SB 2.1.2 -- Paris, June 11, 1974:
The material world means innumerable universes are coming out through the breathing of Mahā-Viṣṇu.
Lecture on SB 3.22.21 -- Tehran, August 10, 1976:
And this material world means you have to maintain by working.
Lecture on SB 3.22.21 -- Tehran, August 10, 1976:
This material world means you have to work and adjust things for your maintenance.
Lecture on SB 3.25.3 -- Bombay, November 3, 1974:
Material world means asad-vastu. Asad-vastu means not good or which will not stay.
Lecture on SB 3.25.15 -- Bombay, November 15, 1974:
Material world means the three qualities, tri-guṇa, guṇamayī.
Lecture on SB 3.25.15 -- Bombay, November 15, 1974:
And material world means guṇa, tri-guṇa.
Lecture on SB 3.26.2 -- Bombay, December 14, 1974:
Material world means forgetting Kṛṣṇa.
Lecture on SB 3.26.2 -- Bombay, December 14, 1974:
Spiritual world means there is full consciousness of the existence of God, and material world means to full forgetfulness of God.
Lecture on SB 3.26.3 -- Bombay, December 15, 1974:
Material world means the three guṇas, sattva, rajo, tamo-guṇa.
Lecture on SB 3.26.5 -- Bombay, December 17, 1974:
So this material world means all crazy, mad fellow after sense gratification.
Lecture on SB 3.26.46 -- Bombay, January 21, 1975:
This material world means first of all we have got desire of sex, mixing together, man and woman.
Lecture on SB 3.28.1 -- Honolulu, June 1, 1975:
And the material world means they are making progress towards nonpermanent life.
Lecture on SB 5.5.2 -- Hyderabad, April 12, 1975:
First of all this material world means anxiety.
Lecture on SB 5.5.3-4 -- Bombay, March 29, 1977:
This material world means to take birth and die.
Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976:
This material world means at every step we are creating another difficulty.
Lecture on SB 5.5.28 -- Vrndavana, November 15, 1976:
Material world means when you forget Kṛṣṇa.
Lecture on SB 6.1.6 -- Los Angeles, January 3, 1970:
This material world means it is a place where māyā is predominant.
Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- New York, July 25, 1971:
Wherefrom this idea of love comes? It comes from there, Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. Because we are part and parcel of God, we have got all the instincts of God in minute quantity. But because here we are in this material world, material world means where God is forgotten.
Lecture on SB 6.1.34-39 -- Surat, December 19, 1970:
Here, this material world means everyone is trying to become the master.
Lecture on SB 6.1.40 -- Surat, December 22, 1970:
Material world means everyone wants to enjoy to his satisfaction sense gratification.
Lecture on SB 6.1.41 -- Los Angeles, June 7, 1976:
This material world means karma-samjñaḥ. Without working, you cannot live. You have to work.
Lecture on SB 6.1.51 -- Detroit, August 4, 1975:
So this material world means māyā. Māyā means which is not fact. It is an illusion.
Lecture on SB 6.1.61 -- Vrndavana, August 28, 1975:
The material world means there is a heart disease which is called kāma, hṛd-roga-kāma.
Lecture on SB 6.1.62 -- Vrndavana, August 29, 1975:
This material world means this Madana, Cupid, whole material world.
Lecture on SB 6.1.62 -- Vrndavana, August 29, 1975:
So this material world means that maithunādi. Maithuna means sex intercourse. That is the beginning of material life.
Lecture on SB 6.1.62 -- Vrndavana, August 29, 1975:
If you accept this temporary material world, means temporary body...
Lecture on SB 6.1.67 -- Vrndavana, September 3, 1975:
So the material world means suffering.
Lecture on SB 6.2.1 -- Vrndavana, September 5, 1975:
And the material world means anxiety: "What will happen? What will happen."
Lecture on SB 6.2.15 -- Vrndavana, September 18, 1975:
This material world means every step there is danger.
Lecture on SB 6.2.16 -- Vrndavana, September 19, 1975:
The material world means world of duality.
Lecture on SB 7.5.31 -- Mauritius, October 4, 1975:
This material world means... You have... We have got experience about this universe up to the sky, as far as we can see, the horizon. This is one universe. And there are millions of universes like this.
Lecture on SB 7.7.30-31 -- Mombassa, September 12, 1971:
This material world means we have got a seed of ambition that I want to become greater than everyone.
Lecture on SB 7.9.4 -- Mayapur, February 11, 1976:
So this material world, material world means so many planets you see, so many stars and planets, the sun planet, moon planet and loka, sarva-loka-maheśvaram (BG 5.29).
Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Mayapur, February 17, 1976:
Material world means everyone is falsely proud.
Lecture on SB 7.9.13 -- Mayapur, February 20, 1976:
And material world means that "Why there should be one master? We are all master. Why you are searching after one God? Don't you see? All we are Gods, loitering in the street, especially the poor God, daridra-nārāyaṇa." This is all material conception. Lord is one, Kṛṣṇa.
Lecture on SB 7.9.19 -- Mayapur, February 26, 1976:
The rascal does not know that Kṛṣṇa wants you all to be happy, and He has given the instruction how to become happy, but we are unfortunate. We do not take Kṛṣṇa's instruction and suffer. This knowledge is not there. Māyāyapahṛta-jñānā. He's suffering for his own fault, and he's accusing God that "He has put me into this position." No. Therefore those who are devotees, they do not become so foolish. When they are suffering, they do not accuse Kṛṣṇa. They say, "My Lord, it is Your mercy that I am suffering." Just the opposite. Tat te 'nukampāṁ susamīkṣamāṇaḥ (SB 10.14.8). Because he knows that "I am suffering on account of my own fault. So better Kṛṣṇa is adjusting the thing, giving me little trouble, that's all." That is the position. Karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām (Bs. 5.54).
So we have to learn all these things. Then, taptasya tat-pratividhiḥ. I think in some reading there is yat-pratividhiḥ. Eh? But here it is tat-pratividhiḥ. All right, what it is... So they, we have so many countermeasures for..., because this whole world, this material world, means duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam (BG 8.15). It is a place for suffering.
Lecture on SB 7.9.55 -- Vrndavana, April 10, 1976:
So this material world means that yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam, to be attracted by money and woman.
Lecture on SB 7.12.2 -- Bombay, April 13, 1976:
Now we have got this nice human form of body, but if we associate with the low-grade qualities of this material world—means tamo-guṇa—then again we are going to become animal automatically.
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures
Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.108 -- San Francisco, February 18, 1967:
Material world means three modes.
Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.101 -- Washington, D.C., July 6, 1976:
This material world means we must suffer trouble.
Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.102 -- Baltimore, July 7, 1976:
In this material world means the suffering is going on.
Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.110-111 -- Bombay, November 17, 1975:
This material world means full of avidyā and karma-saṁjñā, and working hard like hogs and dogs day and night. This is material world.
Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.110-111 -- Bombay, November 17, 1975:
Material world means based on ignorance that "I am this body," and working day and night like hogs and dogs.
Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.112 -- Bombay, November 24, 1975:
This material world means everyone has to work.
Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.112 -- Bombay, November 24, 1975:
The material world means my words and me, we are different.
Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 22.11-15 -- New York, January 9, 1967:
Material world means threefold miseries.
Sri Brahma-samhita Lectures
Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Verse 33 -- Stockholm, September 6, 1973, Upsala University:
A material world means within the universe.
Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Lecture -- Stockholm, September 7, 1973:
Material world means the universe.
Festival Lectures
Ratha-yatra -- Philadelphia, July 12, 1975:
So this material world means in whichever position you may be situated, it doesn't matter. It is full of anxiety.
Varaha-dvadasi, Lord Varaha's Appearance Day Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 31, 1977:
This material world means the same enjoying spirit is there within me, but if I want to become Kṛṣṇa or enjoy independently, then it is māyā.
Arrival Addresses and Talks
Arrival Lecture -- Dallas, March 3, 1975:
So the material world means we are running after false family.
Arrival Lecture -- Calcutta, February 4, 1977:
Material world means dirty things and spiritual world means clean.
General Lectures
Lecture -- Seattle, October 18, 1968:
Actually, material world means completely in forgetfulness of God, or Kṛṣṇa.
Northeastern University Lecture -- Boston, April 30, 1969:
This material world means creation of the energy of the sunshine.
Pandal Lecture -- Bombay, April 11, 1971:
Now, if the water drops in too much muddy place, it becomes too much muddy. And if it drops in a clear place, then it remains clarity. Similarly, our coming in contact of this material world means we come in contact of the three qualities of matter: sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa. So if you come in contact with sattva-guṇa, then your position ms very clear, just like sunshine, prakāśa. And if you are in rajo-guṇa, then you are very passionate. And if you are in tamo-guṇa, then you are in darkness. But Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so nice that in whatever quality or modes of nature you are in, if you simply chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, all of you come to this transcendental position of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Lecture -- Los Angeles, July 20, 1971:
Material world means it is being manipulated by the material energy of Kṛṣṇa, prakṛti, nature.
Lecture -- London, August 26, 1973:
Our material understanding of pains and pleasure (is) on account of this body. When the body feels cold, we cover. When the body feels very warm, we uncover. The covering and uncovering is due to seasonal changes. Therefore this material world means changing always.
Address to Rotary Club -- Chandigarh, October 17, 1976:
This material world means always disturbed condition, but in this age, Kali-yuga, the disturbance is more and more.
Departure Talks
Conversation -- Hawaii, June 20, 1975:
So this service of this material world means I become more and more implicated.
Philosophy Discussions
Philosophy Discussion on David Hume:
Material world means full of miseries.
Philosophy Discussion on William James:
Material world means it is existing in the spiritual effulgence of the Lord.
Philosophy Discussion on Karl Marx:
The material world means everyone is seeking after some profit, everyone is seeking after some adoration, and everyone is seeking, I mean to say, some position.
Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Aquinas:
Material world means temporary, and some philosophers, like the Māyāvādīs, they say it is false. But we Vaiṣṇavas, we don't say it is false, but it is temporary illusion. It is reflection of the spiritual world, but there is no reality. Sometimes it is compared with the mirage in the desert. There is no water in the desert, but sometimes, by reflection of the sun, it appears that there is water. Similarly, in the material world there is no happiness, but the transcendental bliss and happiness existing in the spiritual world is reflected here, and those who are less intelligent, they are after this illusory happiness, forgetting real happiness in the spiritual life.
Conversations and Morning Walks
1972 Conversations and Morning Walks
Conversation with Bajaj and Bhusan -- September 11, 1972, Arlington, Texas, At Their Home:
Prabhupāda: Material world means everyone wants his sense satisfaction, but the same way, when you'll satisfy Kṛṣṇa's senses, then you become brāhmaṇa or Vaiṣṇava.
1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
Morning Walk -- May 2, 1973, Los Angeles:
Prabhupāda: So this material world means this part, and spiritual world means this part.
Room Conversation -- September 19, 1973, Bombay:
Prabhupāda: This material world means sense enjoyment.
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Morning Walk -- January 5, 1974, Los Angeles:
Prabhupāda: So the material world means they have got different devices for wasting time, not for utilizing time.
Morning Walk -- April 1, 1974, Bombay:
Prabhupāda: Material world means that, sex life.
Morning Walk -- April 11, 1974, Bombay:
Prabhupāda: Bhūmir āpo analo vāyuḥ (BG 7.4). Because this material world means these elements, this earth, this water, then fire, then air, then sky—five elements.
Room Conversations -- September 10, 1974, Vrndavana:
Prabhupāda: The material world means in every step there is danger.
1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Room Conversation with Psychiatrist -- February 22, 1975, Caracas:
Prabhupāda: Material world means ignorance of the driver.
Room Conversation with three Trappist Monks, Psychologists from the University of Georgia, and Atlanta Lawyer, Michael Green -- March 1, 1975, Atlanta:
Prabhupāda: Material world means it has got beginning, and it has got end.
Morning Walk -- March 4, 1975, Dallas:
Prabhupāda: The thing is that here material world means that whatever you want, you have to work for it.
Morning Walk -- May 12, 1975, Perth:
Prabhupāda: Material world means they want some material gain, some adoration, and some fame.
Morning Walk -- May 20, 1975, Melbourne:
Prabhupāda: Material world means avoiding God.
Morning Walk -- June 2, 1975, Honolulu:
Prabhupāda: This material world means anxiety.
Morning Walk -- June 29, 1975, Denver:
Prabhupāda: The material world means avidyā-karma-samjñānya tṛtīyā śaktir iśyate. This is out of ignorance they are working so hard.
Conversation with Professor Hopkins -- July 13, 1975, Philadelphia:
Prabhupāda: Material world means ups and down, ups and down.
Morning Walk -- October 3, 1975, Mauritius:
Prabhupāda: We are in the material world means everyone is diseased.
Room Conversation -- October 21, 1975, Johannesburg:
Prabhupāda: So material world means the spirit soul is wandering throughout the universe under material conditions.
Morning Walk -- November 14, 1975, Bombay:
Prabhupāda: This material world means they are combined together on the platform of sex.
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Morning Walk -- January 19, 1976, Mayapur:
Prabhupāda: Material world means chewing the chewed.
Morning Walk -- June 3, 1976, Los Angeles:
Nothing will stay. It may stay for five hundred years or five thousand years. But is it not permanent. Anything you take—the trees, this land, nothing; even this ocean. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate (BG 8.19). It appears again and again disappears, that's all. Everything. The material world means that. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate. Vyaktāvyaktam. Sometimes manifested, sometimes not manifested. This town is manifested, and one big wave of sea, it will be nonmanifested, immediately.
Garden Conversation -- June 23, 1976, New Vrindaban:
The material world means simply creating unnecessary duties.
'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.:
The form is offered by the Supreme Absolute Truth, as he desires. Just like the cloth has no form, but as the customer desires, the tailor gives a form suitable to his desire. Similarly, material world means we have got varieties.
Evening Darsana -- July 8, 1976, Washington, D.C.:
Prabhupāda: Material world means you must act, then you can live. Otherwise you will die.
Room Conversation -- August 2, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm):
Prabhupāda: This material world means nobody wants to surrender.
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Arrival of BBT Manager -- January 9, 1977, Bombay:
Prabhupāda: This material world means this sex.
Conversation on Roof -- February 14, 1977, Mayapura:
Prabhupāda: This material world means so long we'll have a pinch of material desire, we'll have to take birth.
Room Conversation -- April 22, 1977, Bombay:
Prabhupāda: "If you become my enemy, I shall be your enemy." That is everywhere. Material world means that.
Evening Darsana -- May 13, 1977, Hrishikesh:
And association of material world means accepting one type of body and enjoy or suffer for some time; then you get another body.
Room Conversation -- October 12, 1977, Vrndavana:
And material world means there are simply all protecting bones and flesh together.
| Page Title: | Material world means... |
| Compiler: | Rati, MadhuGopaldas |
| Created: | 11 of Dec, 2008 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=2, CC=0, OB=1, Lec=124, Con=29, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 156 |