Yogeśvara: (translating question from French man) He says because we have no Kṛṣṇa consciousness, no God consciousness, therefore we are responsible for not having been able to save them.
Prabhupāda: That is false. That I am saying. This is false responsibility. Actually you cannot become responsible. You have no power. Everyone is under the laws of nature. Just like some birds flying in the sky—the father, mother and children. But nobody is responsible for anyone. When there is danger in the sky, you cannot give protection. Suppose one bird is hit, he is falling. The father, mother and others, they cannot give any protection. He has to become responsible for himself. Just like the aeroplane. When the one plane is in danger, no other plane come and help it. Even if you see that the other plane is flying just a few yards, and if it is in fire, you cannot help. There is one nice story that one hunter was hunting birds, and he spread his network. So when the children of the parent birds, they become victimized by the network, so when the parents came, they saw, "Oh, my children have been caught up by the net of the hunter." So mother became very overwhelmed. She went to rescue them and she also become victimized. Then the father was intelligent, he saw that, "My children, my wife, they all have been victimized, and if I foolishly go to save them, then I will be also victimized. Let me go this way. Take sannyāsa and go." No responsibility. It is not possible when everyone is captured by the laws of nature. How you can help, and what is your responsibility?
So this is called māyā. The children are thinking that, "My father and mother will give me protection," and the father and mother is thinking that, "There is my responsibility." This is called māyā. With this false responsibility, they are packed up in a home. But when death comes, nobody can help. Nobody. This is happening every day, every moment, and still we are falsely thinking, "I am responsible." So what is the value of your responsibility? If you cannot give protection, then what is the value of your responsibility? There is no responsibility. The only responsibility is that I have got this human form of life. Even in this life I do not realize God, then I remain cats and dogs, that's all. This is the only responsibility. If you miss this opportunity, then I do not know what I am going to become in my next life. So gaining or losing this opportunity, that is my responsibility