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If you are suffering from disease, where is enjoyment? Mental discomfort, bodily discomfort. You are taking thrice pills for tranquillity. Is that enjoyment?

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"If you are suffering from disease, where is enjoyment? Mental discomfort, bodily discomfort. You are taking thrice pills for tranquillity. Is that enjoyment"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

If you are suffering from disease, where is enjoyment? Mental discomfort, bodily discomfort. You are taking thrice pills for tranquillity. Is that enjoyment?.


Prabhupāda: Then don't discuss. Sleep. If you cannot understand God's logic and God's philosophy, then don't discuss. Stop discussion.

Rādhā-vallabha: Jewish people say that you can't chant the name of God because it is too sacred.

Prabhupāda: Yes, too sacred, that's . . . Actually that's a fact. And those who are too sinful, they cannot chant. (break) . . .these ten kinds of offenses. (break)

Rādhā-vallabha: . . .that God has put the world here for us to enjoy, so we will please Him by enjoying it. (break)

Prabhupāda: However, you go at four o'clock to your working place and come at night, ten. Is that enjoyment?

Rādhā-vallabha: But on the weekend we can go to the beach. And we can eat whatever we want.

Prabhupāda: No, no, you can go to hell also. Different thing . . . (break) . . .jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānu (BG 13.9). That is there. If you are suffering from disease, where is enjoyment? Mental discomfort, bodily discomfort. You are taking thrice pills for tranquillity. Is that enjoyment?

Rādhā-vallabha: They say you have to take the good with the bad.

Prabhupāda: This nonsense enjoyment. Fool's paradise. For keeping the mind in tranquillity he is taking four times pills. For sleeping, he is taking pill. Does he enjoy that?

Rādhā-vallabha: By suffering you can get a deeper appreciation . . .

Prabhupāda: Then what is enjoyment? Suffer. Then why it is called enjoyment? By suffering you can . . . (indistinct—much static from here on)

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They claim that Christ died for them, and do as . . . (indistinct) . . .. And then he walked out . . . (indistinct) . . .. So they think he is very special, because this has not happened to anyone else. And this can happen to everyone who accepts the same . . .

Prabhupāda: We say nobody dies. What did Christ . . . (indistinct) . . .? . . .that takes birth never dies.

Page Title:If you are suffering from disease, where is enjoyment? Mental discomfort, bodily discomfort. You are taking thrice pills for tranquillity. Is that enjoyment?
Compiler:Ionelia
Created:2015-12-27, 20:07:15
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1