Devotee (2): Śrīla Prabhupāda, this is about the business of us getting back to Kṛṣṇa, to get back to Godhead where we were originally, apparently. Then if we were all there originally, way back at the beginning, why did Kṛṣṇa allow us to go away from Him?
Prabhupāda: It is not allowing. You wanted, Kṛṣṇa has given you the chance. You wanted to come here in this material world and enjoy material, so Kṛṣṇa has given you the chance. Now you are suffering, you are implicated.
Devotee (2): You are saying there that we got back to Kṛṣṇa?
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is the original place. You have come from Kṛṣṇa; now you have to go back to Kṛṣṇa.
Devotee (2): And once we're back there it's all over; we don't come back to the material form.
Prabhupāda: (aside) What is that?
Devotee: He wants to know if we go to Kṛṣṇa there is no coming back.
Prabhupāda: No, you can come back. You are free. But because you are getting . . . if you are intelligent, you are getting these experiences, perhaps you will not come back again. (laughter) Because you have got good experience if you are intelligent. The constant repetition of birth and death is not very good experience.
So if you go back to Kṛṣṇa and if you get permanent life, most probably you will not come back again. Yes. That's natural. Just like a person left his home, and throughout the whole life he's loitering, wandering from country to country, country to country. After being fatigued, if he comes back home again, he doesn't go again. That is natural.