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So long you have not solved the four prominent miserable condition of life - birth, death, old age and disease - you cannot say there is no God

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"So long you have not solved the four prominent miserable condition of life—birth, death, old age and disease—you cannot say there is no God"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Hṛdayānanda: There is one great scientist when I was a student, and he was trying to prove how there was no God, and he was so nervous, sometimes he could hardly speak he was shaking so much. (laughter) Vīrabāhu: Oh, yes, that is what happens. When one starts speaking of God, they just. . . Prabhupāda: So long you have not solved the four prominent miserable condition of life—birth, death, old age and disease—you cannot say there is no God. There is controller who is forcing you to accept these conditions. Therefore there is authority. How you can avoid this?.

Hṛdayānanda: There is one great scientist when I was a student, and he was trying to prove how there was no God, and he was so nervous, sometimes he could hardly speak he was shaking so much. (laughter)

Vīrabāhu: Oh, yes, that is what happens. When one starts speaking of God, they just. . .

Prabhupāda: So long you have not solved the four prominent miserable condition of life—birth, death, old age and disease—you cannot say there is no God. There is controller who is forcing you to accept these conditions. Therefore there is authority. How you can avoid this?

Vīrabāhu: They say: "Some day. Some day we will do."

Prabhupāda: Some day, rascal, somebody will come and kick your face with shoes. (laughter)

Hṛdayānanda: Prabhupāda, if we go back this way, we'll get back around the right time.

Page Title:So long you have not solved the four prominent miserable condition of life - birth, death, old age and disease - you cannot say there is no God
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-06-30, 13:42:45
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1