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Is it the spirit soul which is desiring or is it just karma?

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"Is it the spirit soul which is desiring or is it just karma"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

After desiring, there is karma. First of all willing.
Morning Walk -- April 19, 1975, Vrndavana:

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Is it the spirit soul which is desiring or is it just karma?

Prabhupāda: The desiring... After desiring, there is karma. First of all willing.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: That is the soul.

Prabhupāda: Thinking, feeling, willing. What you think, you feel, and then you will, and Kṛṣṇa sanctions, that "Do it."

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: So is the thinking material?

Prabhupāda: Material and spiritual also.

Passer-by: Hari bol!

Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Just like this machine can be used for material and spiritual purpose. When it is being used for spiritual, it is spiritual. Otherwise, material.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Everything is Kṛṣṇa's energy.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So it can be used in either way.

Prabhupāda: Either way, yes.

Devotee (2): So our thinking and our feeling and our willing is the same. It can be either used in...

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But some energy of Kṛṣṇa's cannot be used either way.

Prabhupāda: Hm? Everything can be used. What is the example, it cannot be used?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, I was thinking of Kṛṣṇa's internal energy.

Prabhupāda: No, internal energy, when it is perverted, that is material energy, when it is covered. Just like the sun. When it is covered, it is called cloud.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I was thinking of just like Kṛṣṇa's pure devotees like Mother Yaśodā. They are always eternally remaining.

Prabhupāda: Yes. (break)

Page Title:Is it the spirit soul which is desiring or is it just karma?
Compiler:Marc, Rishab
Created:01 of Aug, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1