If you get better thing, you give up inferior quality thing. That is our nature. Just like our students, American students, they were all accustomed to meat-eating. But now another student, she is preparing the sweet balls

Expressions researched:
"if you get better thing, you give up inferior quality thing. That is our nature. Just like our students, American students, they were all accustomed to meat-eating. But now another student, she is preparing the sweet balls"

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Prabhupāda: Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate (BG 2.59). Param, if you get better thing, you give up inferior quality thing. That is our nature. Just like our students, American students, they were all accustomed to meat-eating. But now another student, she is preparing the sweet balls, ISKCON balls, and they are forgetting meat-eating. They do not like any more meat-eating. They have got better engagement: sweet balls. Similarly, that is the way. When you get better engagement . . . we are hankering after pleasure. Ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt (Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12). Every living entity is seeking after pleasure. That is his nature. You cannot stop. If you stop . . . just like a child is seeking after some enjoyment, he's breaking something, enjoyment. But he does not . . . that he is breaking, but he's simply enjoying that breaking.

681219 - Lecture BG 02.62-72 - Los Angeles

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ". . . he was similarly allured by the incarnation of Māyādevī, but Haridāsa easily passed the test because of his unalloyed devotion to Lord Kṛṣṇa. A sincere devotee of the Lord learns to hate all material sense enjoyment due to his higher taste for spiritual enjoyment in the association of the Lord. That is the secret of success."

Prabhupāda: Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate (BG 2.59). Param, if you get better thing, you give up inferior quality thing. That is our nature. Just like our students, American students, they were all accustomed to meat-eating. But now another student, she is preparing the sweet balls, ISKCON balls, and they are forgetting meat-eating. They do not like any more meat-eating. They have got better engagement: sweet balls. (laughter)

Similarly, that is the way. When you get better engagement . . . we are hankering after pleasure. Ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt (Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12). Every living entity is seeking after pleasure. That is his nature. You cannot stop. If you stop . . . just like a child is seeking after some enjoyment, he's breaking something, enjoyment. But he does not . . . that he is breaking, but he's simply enjoying that breaking.