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In this material world we find almost everyone has forgotten God

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

In this material world we find almost everyone has forgotten God.


Prabhupāda: ...finger is part and parcel of my body, but its business is to serve the body. I ask the finger: "Come here." It is doing like that. I ask the finger to: "Come here." It is doing like that. So it is the business of the finger is to serve the whole. It is part. And the body is the whole. So therefore, business of the part and parcel is to serve, render service to the whole. This is natural condition.

Yogeśvara: (C'est la condition naturel de partie de rendre service au gros)

Cardinal Danielou: I agree with this...

Prabhupāda: Let me finish.

Cardinal Danielou: Yes. And I think that the vocation of each creature is the service of God, yes.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Cardinal Danielou: The service of God.

Prabhupāda: Yes. So when the living entity forgets this business, that is material life.

Cardinal Danielou: That is...? (Quand il n'ya pas ce service)

Yogeśvara: (quand l'etre vivant oublie)

Cardinal Danielou: (alors c'est ca, alors c'est ca)

Prabhupāda: Therefore in this material world we find almost everyone has forgotten God.

Yogeśvara: (Donc dans le monde materiel on trouve que c'est tout le monde qui a oublié Dieu)

Cardinal Danielou: (C'est ca)

Prabhupāda: The conclusion is that this material world is created...

Cardinal Danielou: Created...

Prabhupāda: Created for the forgotten souls.

Yogeśvara: (la conclusion est que ce monde materiel existe seulement pour les ames qui on oublié Dieu)

Cardinal Danielou: Yes.

Prabhupāda: And here the business is to again revive them to God consciousness.

Yogeśvara: (Donc notre devoir c'est de retablir cet conscience)

Cardinal Danielou: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So the process of enlightening the living entities, especially the human being, because in the animal form of life, one cannot be enlightened. Neither the animal can understand what is God.

Cardinal Danielou: Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Prabhupāda: It is only the human being who can understand. If he's trained, then he can come to God consciousness.

Cardinal Danielou: Yes, yes, yes, yes, It is so.

Prabhupāda: So this creation is meant for the forgotten souls to give them a chance for reviving their God consciousness.

Yogeśvara: Is it clear?

Cardinal Danielou: Yes, it is clear. It is very, very clear. Very clear.

Prabhupāda: And for this business, sometimes God personally comes. Sometimes He sends His representative, His son, or His devotee, His servant. This is going on. God wants that these forgotten souls should come back to home, back to Godhead.

Cardinal Danielou: Yes. Return, yes.

Prabhupāda: Therefore from His side, there is constant endeavor to revive their God consciousness.

Cardinal Danielou: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Now this God consciousness can be awakened in the human form of life, not in other form of life.

Cardinal Danielou: Not in the... yes.

Prabhupāda: Maybe very rarely, but the human being... (aside:) Where is the water?

Yogeśvara: She said she was coming with it...

Prabhupāda: Ācchā. The human being has got the prerogative to awaken his dormant God consciousness.

Yogeśvara: (C'est le droit exclusif de l'etre humaine)

Cardinal Danielou: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So the best service to humanity is to awaken their God consciousness.

Cardinal Danielou: Yes, it is true, it is true.

Prabhupāda: Best service.