So sufferings are always there, but we are trying to adjust by patchwork. Sufferings are always there. Everyone is trying to get out of sufferings. That is a fact. The whole struggle for existence is to get out of the suffering. But there are different kinds of prescriptions. Somebody says that you get out of the sufferings in this way, somebody says you get out of the sufferings in that way.
So there are prescription offered by the modern scientist, by philosophers, by atheist or by theist, by fruitive actors—so many there are. But according to Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, you can get out of all sufferings if you simply change your consciousness, that's all. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
As I have given you several times the example . . . all our sufferings are due to lack of knowledge, ignorance. That knowledge can be achieved by association of good authorities. There is a nice Bengali verse:
- kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva bhoga vāṣchā kare
- pāsate māyā tāre jāpaṭiyā dhare
- (Prema-vivarta)
As soon as our original consciousness becomes polluted with the consciousness of material enjoyment that, "I want to lord it over the resources of matter . . ." As soon as we turn our consciousness in this way, then our troubles begin. Immediately māyā. This very consciousness that, "I can enjoy this material world to my best capacity . . ." Everyone is trying to do that.