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Krsna says, most authoritative statement, and giving the example, dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram . . . (BG 2.13). So how you can check this dehantara

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"Kṛṣṇa says, most authoritative statement, and giving the example, dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāram . ." |"So how you can check this dehāntara"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

Śatadhanya: They say everything is getting better. Prabhupāda: What is that better? Yaśodā-nandana: Well, a few hundred years ago there was no airplanes, no cars, no facilities . . . Prabhupāda: That's all right, but when you become a dog next life, then what is your gain? You are not going to use this airplane. You have to make a rest in this car, in this seat. What you are going to do that about? Dehāntara-prāptiḥ. Kṛṣṇa says, most authoritative statement, and giving the example, dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāram . . . (BG 2.13). So how you can check this dehāntara? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They argue that "We are getting people to live longer now than they used to live.".

Prabhupāda: So that change of body is in nature's hand. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa (SB 3.31.1). That is not in your hand. When the body will change, you cannot say: "No, no, I'll not change," because that is not under your dictation. So is it not simply waste of time?

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes. Bhāgavata says so clearly, śrama eva hi kevalam.

Prabhupāda: These rascals, they do not understand. This is the position.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Next verse?

Prabhupāda: Hmm.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam . . . (SB 1.2.11).

Prabhupāda: That's all right. And therefore the civilization should be athāto brahma jijñāsā, simply to enquire about the Absolute Truth. And that is civilization. Now you can . . . whatever little we have discussed, you can discuss now and close our book. How wrongly the whole civilization is carried on, how risky it is, that they do not know. Now, what the materialist has to say in this connection?

Śatadhanya: They say everything is getting better.

Prabhupāda: What is that better?

Yaśodā-nandana: Well, a few hundred years ago there was no airplanes, no cars, no facilities . . .

Prabhupāda: That's all right, but when you become a dog next life, then what is your gain? You are not going to use this airplane. You have to make a rest in this car, in this seat. What you are going to do that about? Dehāntara-prāptiḥ. Kṛṣṇa says, most authoritative statement, and giving the example, dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāram . . . (BG 2.13). So how you can check this dehāntara?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They argue that "We are getting people to live longer now than they used to live."

Prabhupāda: After all, you'll have to change. In a false platform, to live longer, is that very great profit?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, as we improve material life . . .

Prabhupāda: No, why is improved? You are going to be a dog, suppose. Where is your improvement?

Svarūpa Dāmodara: It's an illusion.

Prabhupāda: They lose.

Page Title:Krsna says, most authoritative statement, and giving the example, dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram . . . (BG 2.13). So how you can check this dehantara
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-02-15, 10:41:05
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1