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So everyone has got little independence. So everyone can go to the spiritual world if he likes. But if he does not like, he will remain here. That is his choice

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"So everyone has got little independence. So everyone can go to the spiritual world if he likes. But if he does not like, he will remain here. That is his choice"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1969 Conversations and Morning Walks

So everyone has got little independence. So everyone can go to the spiritual world if he likes. But if he does not like, he will remain here. That is his choice.


Prabhupada Listening to Recording of His Own Room Conversation with Students -- April 25, 1969, Boston:

Prabhupāda: As you enter the body, the happening is according to the body.

Student (4): But does this go on and on indefinitely, or does it stop? Do you just keep changing bodies indefinitely, or does it end?

Prabhupāda: Not indefinitely. If you become Kṛṣṇa conscious, then you haven't got to change this material body. You are transferred to the spiritual world. There is eternal body.

Student (4): Oh. Does everyone go there, or only some?

Prabhupāda: It is accepted that everyone goes. But if somehow you are stubborn to remain here, how one can help? (laughter) Just like the university is open for everyone. But somebody is stubborn to go to the prison department. So how the government can help? Government does not say that, "Some selected people come to the university, and others go to the prison department."

It is open for everyone, but it is the particular mentality— one is going to the university, one is going to the prison house. That is your individual independence. That is your choice. Just like so many students, they have come here. Others have not come here. So everyone has got little independence. So everyone can go to the spiritual world if he likes. But if he does not like, he will remain here. That is his choice.

Student (5): Why do you . . . (indistinct) . . . butter, cheese . . .

Prabhupāda: I do not know. No. We avoid.

Student (5): (indistinct) . . . is that part of the whole . . .

Prabhupāda: No. There is not part only, but we discourage killing. That is in the Bible also, "Thou shall not kill," but they are killing. What can be done? In the Bible, Ten Commandments, there is, "Thou shall not kill." But they are killing. What shall be done?

Student (6): (indistinct) . . . have you ever found what you believe to be your self? Have you ever found your inside, I mean, not physically or mental . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes.

Page Title:So everyone has got little independence. So everyone can go to the spiritual world if he likes. But if he does not like, he will remain here. That is his choice
Compiler:Serene
Created:10 of Feb, 2013
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1