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In the human form of life, if we do not try to understand God, then we are committing suicide

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"In the human form of life, if we do not try to understand God, then we are committing suicide"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

In the human form of life, if we do not try to understand God, then we are committing suicide. Yes. Because we got the chance. Nature gave us the chance to understand God. But if we do not divert our attention in understanding God, then we are making suicide. Misuse of human life. For a human being, the only business is how to understand God. Not for economic development. What economic development? This Napoleon planned so many things. But where he is now? Can anyone say where is Napoleon? (eating) One astrologer in India has said that Jawaharlal Nehru is now a dog in the house of a gentleman in Sweden.

Anna Conan Doyle: We are, in a sense, to a dog, we are God to him. As man is a dog, we are God to him, to the dog. Because the way he loves us, his fidelity to us, he doesn't understand God, and we understand God.

Prabhupāda: No, he's not in position to understand God.

Anna Conan Doyle: He doesn't understand. He understands only us.

Prabhupāda: He understands that he has got a superior, but he does not understand who is the most superior. A human being can understand who is the most superior, topmost superior.

Anna Conan Doyle: Well, we have also superior, but we have forgotten to understand that.

Prabhupāda: Yes, we have forgotten. Everyone is . . . dog is also forgotten. But his forgotten stage is more acute. More acute. And human being is advanced.

Guru-gaurāṅga: Should we distribute this?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Guru-gaurāṅga: Would you like some, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: In the human form of life, if we do not try to understand God, then we are committing suicide. Yes. Because we got the chance. Nature gave us the chance to understand God. But if we do not divert our attention in understanding God, then we are making suicide. Misuse of human life. For a human being, the only business is how to understand God. Not for economic development. What economic development? This Napoleon planned so many things. But where he is now? Can anyone say where is Napoleon? (eating) One astrologer in India has said that Jawaharlal Nehru is now a dog in the house of a gentleman in Sweden. (laughter)

Guru-gaurāṅga: Could you understand that?

Anna Conan Doyle: Not exactly.

Guru-gaurāṅga: Prabhupāda said that Jawaharlal Nehru, the former prime minister of India, someone has said now he is the house dog in a home in Sweden.

Anna Conan Doyle: Yes, (laughs) I hope not for him. Sad.

Prabhupāda: You may not; but nature is different. Just like a child does not hope that if he puts his finger in the fire, it will not burn. But nature is so strict, it doesn't care for the child or the old man. It will burn. I may prove very innocent, but nature doesn't care for that. Nature doesn't care for that. Nature will not show any mercy for the innocent child. No. That is nature. Is it not fact? If a child puts his finger on the fire, nature will not consider that, "Here is a innocent child. He may not be burned." No. Equally.

Page Title:In the human form of life, if we do not try to understand God, then we are committing suicide
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-21, 08:14:26
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1