Paramahaṁsa: If God is all-good, why does He permit so many wars to go on?
Prabhupāda: Because you want to be finished. You create war to be finished. God does not create. Just like you have created this weapon. In the name of finishing your enemy, you'll be finished also. Is that very good credit? And God has created like that? You have created. Why don't you understand this?
Yogeśvara: Well, why has God permitted me to do such a horrible thing?
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is your little independence. God does not want to touch any . . . by your independence, go to hell or go to heaven. That's your choice. God says that, "Don't use your independence by malpractice." Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām . . . (BG 18.66). God . . . that is God's statement. "You surrender to Me. I'll guide you." But if you misuse your independence, that's your business. You go to hell or heaven, that's your business. (japa)
Bhagavān: (aside) Where do we go now?
Paramahaṁsa: The car will be waiting for us down there.
Bhagavān: You're going to get it right now?
Paramahaṁsa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (japa) They're all demigods, these pictures?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Demi-animals.
Prabhupāda: This is, I think, Adam and Eve, in the midst, middle? There must be some sense in the picture.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes, there is.
Paramahaṁsa: People are believing that at the end of life there's just death. So why worry about anything else? Therefore we should just enjoy right now.
Prabhupāda: That is the difference between you and animal. The animal is in the slaughterhouse, he's not worried. But why you are worried? Suppose if you are brought in the slaughterhouse, and if you know that you'll be slaughtered, are you not worried? An animal is not worried. He's eating grass. That's all. So that is the difference between animal and man. If you are not worried, then you are animal. That's all.