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Suffering, three kinds of suffering - adhyatmika, adhibhautika... The suffering is there. If you say adhyatmika suffering is better than adhibhautika suffering, that is foolishness

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Suffering, three kinds of suffering—ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika . . . The suffering is there. If you say ādhyātmika suffering is better than ādhibhautika suffering, that is foolishness. Atyantika-duḥkha-nivṛttiḥ.

Prabhupāda: They make analysis: "This is good; this is bad." The whole thing is bad, they do not understand. Dvaite bhadrābhadra sakale samana, ei bhala ei manda saba manodharma. A mental concoction we analyze: "This is good; this is. . ." And because the whole population is such rascals, therefore we see whole world they are creating government, they are making this advancement, taking. . . Everything is spoiled. That they do not understand, that "We have tried so far, scientifically, and this way and that way. Why there are so many things disturbing and miserable?" The whole policy is to give you trouble.

That is the material nature. You must be always in trouble—ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika. "No." They will say, "No, this trouble is better than that trouble." (laughter) This is the. . . "This trouble is better than that trouble." Hare Kṛṣṇa. This Dr. Ghosh, he said. . . When he was student in Calcutta he was doctor of tropical medicine. So one English doctor was his professor, Colonel Mellar(?). So he was lecturing and. . . Now the friends have come to greet. He said that "In our country seventy-five percent, at least, students are infected with syphilis."

Brahmānanda: Infected to?

Devotee: Syphilis.

Brahmānanda: Oh, syphilis.

Prabhupāda: Syphilis, yes. So in India the syphilis is a very horrible disease. So he exclaimed, "Oh, it is horrible!" The doctor, that Colonel Mellar?(?), he was astonished: "Why you say it is horrible? In your country they suffer, ninety percent, from malaria. That's not horrible?" So the example is that when you are suffering, for a doctor, either you are suffering from malaria or from syphilis, we are suffering from disease. Why you say, "This disease is horrible than that disease"? Actually, this is the fact. Why should you discriminate? So he chastised him, that "As a medical man, you cannot say this disease is more dangerous than that. Every disease is dangerous." Actually you should take that. Suffering, three kinds of suffering—ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika . . . The suffering is there. If you say ādhyātmika suffering is better than ādhibhautika suffering, that is foolishness. Atyantika-duḥkha-nivṛttiḥ. Spiritual life means to end all kinds of suffering. That is spiritual life. Not that I get free myself from this kind of suffering and I accept that kind of suffering. This is not good conclusion. Atyantika-duḥkha. Duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam (BG 8.15). This place is duḥkhālayam, full of miseries. And Kṛṣṇa is canvassing, "Why you are suffering? Come to Me." This mercantile community, they are earning money for mitigating suffering, but for earning money they are accepting any means. In future he is creating field of another suffering. That he does not know. He thinks, "Now, if I get money somehow or other, my present sufferings will be mitigated." But he does not know that he is creating another field of suffering.

Page Title:Suffering, three kinds of suffering - adhyatmika, adhibhautika... The suffering is there. If you say adhyatmika suffering is better than adhibhautika suffering, that is foolishness
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-10-25, 15:08:17
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1