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"DEATH IS NATURAL"
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Prabhupada: You become... I am explaining. You
become entangled. Now, as soon as you become entangled...
Suppose you become a dog. Now you suffer. |
Dr. Patel: But when the dog is there, he does
not think he's suffering. He's just like that pig. |
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Prabhupada: That is
illusion. That is called moha, moha. One is
suffering. Everyone is suffering. Suppose a big man,
a minister, or the prime minister, or the chief
minister, he's also suffering. But he's thinking,
"Now I am prime minister." That is illusion. |
Nobody, nobody is here peaceful. Everyone is
suffering. Because threefold miseries. That is the
conditional life. And after all, Krsna says that "If
you are thinking that you are very happy, that you
must know at least these things:
janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi [Bg.13.9]." How you can get
out of it? You'll die. Nobody wants to die.
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| Dr. Patel: Body dies. |
| Prabhupada: But these
rascals, they do... say, "Death is natural." But why
don't you like to die? That is suffering. But he
thinks, "No, no, it is good." But as soon as I say,
"I shall kill you," "No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't kill me. Don't kill me." He does not like to
die, but... |
| Chandobhai: Very
helplessly. |
| Prabhupada: Helplessly.
Just like.. |
| Dr. Patel: Swamiji, who
dies? |
| Prabhupada: Now, again
you are... |
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Dr. Patel: Because he has got this...
[break] |
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Prabhupada:
...identification is all right, but you must come to
the practical point. Then don't treat any patient.
You can say, "Who is suffering?" |
Dr. Patel: "Body."
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Prabhupada: "Who is
suffering..?" |
Dr. Patel: We are treating the body.
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Prabhupada: "There is no
need of taking medicine." |
Dr. Patel: I am treating the body. I am
not in... You are treating the...
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Prabhupada: That's all
right. That body is there, and you are absorbed in
body. Therefore there is suffering. You may say that
"I am not this body, and I am not this body," but
when the body's going to be killed, you become
afraid. Because you are absorbed. Why go beyond this
practical point? |
Dr. Patel: Accha. |
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Prabhupada: Just like
everyone knows that you are not the motor car.
Everyone knows it. But as soon as there is any
breakage in the nice motor car, "Oh, I am gone."
Why, where you gone? You are not motor car. But
because you are absorbed in the sense that "It is my
car, my car, my car," you have become absorbed. So
any accident to the motor car, you become unhappy.
But everyone knows you are not motor car. Why you
become unhappy?
This is called maya. So you are not completely free.
So so long we are in this body, so the sufferings of
the body is there.
Therefore Krsna says that
tams titiksasva bharata. "Just tolerate." Just
tolerate.
Matra sparsas tu kaunteya
sitosna-sukha-duhkha-dah
agamapayino 'nityas
tams titiksasva...
[Bg. 2.14]
You don't be mad, but, because "My motor car is now
broken." Or, "There is some accident in my house."
But you are not house, neither you are motor car.
Everyone knows that. But why you have become so much
affected? There, therefore tams titiksasva bharata.
You have to tolerate. |
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