Reality vs Maya
≻ Pinch Me, Am I Dreaming? - Hansadutta presents the science of Krishna Consciousness In fact we are dreaming. At night we dream six or seven or eight hours. President Obama lies down and forgets everything. The whole country is going on, but he's dreaming. What he's dreaming, I don't know. And when he's dreaming, he doesn't know that he's dreaming. ... But we're dreaming now. The difference is this dream here is 60 years, and the other is nine or six hours. More
≻ The Delusion Pandemic Every one of us who are in this material world, we are all under the full control of this illusory energy and working differently according to the influence of the different modes of material nature.. More
≻ Scientist wants to fortify drinking water with lithium to numb consciousness Simply negation will not help you. There must be some positive occupation. So we say, "Do not do this, but do this." We say, "Do not eat meat," but we say, "Eat Krishna's nice prasadam, halava.". More
≻ No, THIS is The God Delusion The story of King Paundraka is very interesting because it proves that there have always been many rascals and fools who have considered themselves God. More
≻ Curing Mental Illness with Yoga On account of accepting this material body, there is always miserable condition. Therefore everyone requires the psychiatric treatment so that the mind may be transferred from matter to spirit soul. More
≻ Information and sensory overload turning us into numbskulls Our news, we have to canvass, "Will you kindly take this? Will you kindly take this." They are not interested. They're interested in this material news – radio, paper, magazine, edition after edition. ... So they have no time to read a little news we are giving about God. More
≻ Phantasmagoria The great ocean of material nature is tossing with the waves of time, and the so-called living conditions are something like foaming bubbles, which appear before us as bodily self, wife, children, society, countrymen, etc. More
≻ Profound conversations to make you happy Shukadeva Gosvami advised, "You hear about Krishna. This is the most important subject matter." More
≻ Prognosis for New World Order In the present confused state of humanity, Krishna consciousness, the chanting of the holy name of the Lord—Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare—is the only remedy for setting the world aright. More
≻ Want your fortune told? I can tell everyone’s fortune, even my own…. More
≻ Too many possessions If one gets more than is needed, the surplus should be fully engaged in the Lord's service. More
≻ Getting away from it all? The animals, they cannot know, they do not know, what is unhappiness. When there is a slaughterhouse, they'll be slaughtered next moment. They are standing and eating grass because, due to ignorance. More
≻ Pulling the wool away from eyes People say, "These men are not hammering like us. They must think there is no value in our hammering." In this way, most people think hammering is the real business of life. So, our business is to educate them: "Your hammering is not your real business. Freedom is your real business." More
≻ The Naked Truth Due to lack of Krishna consciousness, people are being fooled by so-called leaders and planmakers. Consequently, the sufferings of the people are increasing. More
≻ The Shadow Maya analogously represented by the Fiat Money System "Why do we discuss mundane topics like finance, politics etc.? What is the value in discussing these things?" Good question. The answer is because everything in this world is a perverted reflection of the Krishna consciousness state. ISHOPANISHAD states we should understand the absolute truth and simultaneously understand the shadow of MAYA side by side. More
≻ You're Not That Body Preliminary talks on spiritual matter is discussed in this Bhagavad-gita. And this book is still read, even after five thousand years, all over the world. More
≻ Wash your brain Your brain is filled up with all rubbish things: meat-eating and illicit sex, gambling. So we are washing them. More
≻ Memory Lapse Since time immemorial we have been wandering from one life to the next, changing bodies one after the other — our disassociation from reality (that our real identity is spirit soul, eternal servant of Krishna) a kind of dream state, phantasmagoria, from which we seem to wake one lifetime after another, thinking, like Mr. Wearing, "Now I am really awake," but in fact we are still caught up in the dream. More
≻ Gruesome facts of material life Reading this book, I thought everyone on this planet is a condemned homeless refugee on a long death march beginning with birth, ending with death in one way or another ... More
≻ More or Less Crazy In the courtroom he said, "I have tested many persons, and I have concluded that everyone is insane to some degree. In the present case, if the defendant is pleading insanity, then you may acquit him if you like, but as far as I know, everyone is more or less insane." More
≻ Finding comfort in misery According to the law of karma, everyone is destined to suffer or enjoy according to a certain material standard, but the mercy of Lord Krishna is so powerful that the Lord can change all the reactions of one's past karma. More
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≻ The Delusion Pandemic Every one of us who are in this material world, we are all under the full control of this illusory energy and working differently according to the influence of the different modes of material nature.. More
≻ Scientist wants to fortify drinking water with lithium to numb consciousness Simply negation will not help you. There must be some positive occupation. So we say, "Do not do this, but do this." We say, "Do not eat meat," but we say, "Eat Krishna's nice prasadam, halava.". More
≻ No, THIS is The God Delusion The story of King Paundraka is very interesting because it proves that there have always been many rascals and fools who have considered themselves God. More
≻ Curing Mental Illness with Yoga On account of accepting this material body, there is always miserable condition. Therefore everyone requires the psychiatric treatment so that the mind may be transferred from matter to spirit soul. More
≻ Information and sensory overload turning us into numbskulls Our news, we have to canvass, "Will you kindly take this? Will you kindly take this." They are not interested. They're interested in this material news – radio, paper, magazine, edition after edition. ... So they have no time to read a little news we are giving about God. More
≻ Phantasmagoria The great ocean of material nature is tossing with the waves of time, and the so-called living conditions are something like foaming bubbles, which appear before us as bodily self, wife, children, society, countrymen, etc. More
≻ Profound conversations to make you happy Shukadeva Gosvami advised, "You hear about Krishna. This is the most important subject matter." More
≻ Prognosis for New World Order In the present confused state of humanity, Krishna consciousness, the chanting of the holy name of the Lord—Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare—is the only remedy for setting the world aright. More
≻ Want your fortune told? I can tell everyone’s fortune, even my own…. More
≻ Too many possessions If one gets more than is needed, the surplus should be fully engaged in the Lord's service. More
≻ Getting away from it all? The animals, they cannot know, they do not know, what is unhappiness. When there is a slaughterhouse, they'll be slaughtered next moment. They are standing and eating grass because, due to ignorance. More
≻ Pulling the wool away from eyes People say, "These men are not hammering like us. They must think there is no value in our hammering." In this way, most people think hammering is the real business of life. So, our business is to educate them: "Your hammering is not your real business. Freedom is your real business." More
≻ The Naked Truth Due to lack of Krishna consciousness, people are being fooled by so-called leaders and planmakers. Consequently, the sufferings of the people are increasing. More
≻ The Shadow Maya analogously represented by the Fiat Money System "Why do we discuss mundane topics like finance, politics etc.? What is the value in discussing these things?" Good question. The answer is because everything in this world is a perverted reflection of the Krishna consciousness state. ISHOPANISHAD states we should understand the absolute truth and simultaneously understand the shadow of MAYA side by side. More
≻ You're Not That Body Preliminary talks on spiritual matter is discussed in this Bhagavad-gita. And this book is still read, even after five thousand years, all over the world. More
≻ Wash your brain Your brain is filled up with all rubbish things: meat-eating and illicit sex, gambling. So we are washing them. More
≻ Memory Lapse Since time immemorial we have been wandering from one life to the next, changing bodies one after the other — our disassociation from reality (that our real identity is spirit soul, eternal servant of Krishna) a kind of dream state, phantasmagoria, from which we seem to wake one lifetime after another, thinking, like Mr. Wearing, "Now I am really awake," but in fact we are still caught up in the dream. More
≻ Gruesome facts of material life Reading this book, I thought everyone on this planet is a condemned homeless refugee on a long death march beginning with birth, ending with death in one way or another ... More
≻ More or Less Crazy In the courtroom he said, "I have tested many persons, and I have concluded that everyone is insane to some degree. In the present case, if the defendant is pleading insanity, then you may acquit him if you like, but as far as I know, everyone is more or less insane." More
≻ Finding comfort in misery According to the law of karma, everyone is destined to suffer or enjoy according to a certain material standard, but the mercy of Lord Krishna is so powerful that the Lord can change all the reactions of one's past karma. More
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≻ Danger in Every Step This material world is certified by the Lord in the Bhagavad-gita as a dangerous place full of calamities. Less intelligent persons prepare plans to adjust to those calamities without knowing that the nature of this place is itself full of calamities. More
≻ Mind: Friend or Enemy? Desire is the function of the mind, and one desires according to his association; so if the mind is to act as friend, there must be good association. More
≻ Mind Control Intelligence is supposed to direct the mind, but the mind is so strong and obstinate that it often overcomes even one's own intelligence. More
≻ An Instance of Free Will A living entity is eternally servant of Krishna, either he admits or not admits. That doesn't matter. He's a servant. Just like any citizen is law abider or subservient to the state. He may say that "I don't care for the state," but by the police, by the military, he'll be forced to accept. So one is being forced to accept Krishna as the master, and the other is voluntarily offering service. That is the difference. More
≻ High Anxiety Because I am a being of the land, artificially, when I go up on a plane, in the sky, this is the cause of my anxiety. So I am a spirit being, I am a spirit soul. So long I'll live in material conception of life, we cannot avoid anxiety. This is not possible. This is the problem. More
≻ The material world and virtual reality This material world is only imitation. This material sky and everything, whatever you see—all imitation, shadow. It is shadow. Just like in cinematographic picture you see the shadow of the real thing behind, similarly, this is only shadow. More
≻ Krishna consciousness vs unconsciousness It's just like there are two fish. One fish says, "Didn't you see the water?" And the other fish says, "No. Where is it?" More
≻ Value of the Real Thing As soon as you try to sell a diamond, you cannot expect many customers. Nonetheless, a diamond is a diamond, even if there are no customers. The number of customers is not the test. The customer must pay the value of the item. More
≻ Admitting to madness Anyone who is in this material world—more or less crazy, madman. Because he doesn't care for God, therefore he's crazy. He is completely under the control of God, but still, he has the audacity to say, "No, I don't believe in God." More
≻ Murder and Madness Our viewpoint is that in the material world, who has accepted this material body—anyone, but we specially take the human society—they require treatment, everyone. Everyone is mentally diseased, and therefore he is unhappy. Everyone. More
≻ The Mother of All Mistakes They are taking care of the shirt and coat, not the person who is putting on the shirt and coat. This is the mistake of the modern civilization. More
≻ Perverted Reflection All our relationships here, either as master and servant or as friend and friend or as parents and child or as husband and wife or as lover and the beloved, any relationship, whatever we see here, that is the perverted reflection of our eternal relationship with God. More
≻ Serving the Wrong Masters You can go on giving service in this material world under so many designation, but you will never be happy, and the person to whom you are giving service, he will be not happy. More
≻ Can You See Where You're Going? The sun immediately dissipates mist or fog as well as darkness. As stated before, we should try to make the sun of Krishna rise within our hearts. More
≻ Just One More Thing Everyone feels spiritual life is very nice, but "I have to do this, I have to do that." One Christian saint prayed, "O Lord, please save me, but not today." More
≻ No Sir, You are Not Safe I am thinking, "Now I have got good home, good wife, nice children, nice bank balance. So I am safe now." More
≻ Maya On a morning walk with Prabhupada in Stockholm, Sweden, we were suddenly blinded by what appeared to be the light of the sun. It was only the sun being reflected from a large glass window. Prabhupada stopped and pointed in the direction of the glare. "This is maya. More
≻ Virtual Reality: First Subtle, Then Gross The mind is the subtle substance in which the body is created, as we actually experience in our dreams and also when we are awake in contemplation. One must understand that the process of mental speculation develops a new type of body that does not actually exist. More
≻ Waking Up Whether I am intelligently working during the time when I am awake, or whether I am working under dreams, or whether I am being transferred to another body—I am having sound sleep under chloroform—I am the same. I am the same. I am that eternal soul. More
≻ Cheaters and the Cheated That means it is a association of cheaters and cheated. Somebody wants to cheat and somebody's being cheated. More
≻ Endangered Species Where there is danger in every step, but we are thinking we are very happy, we are advancing in material civilization, and, as far as we can imagine, that we are very prosperous and everything. This is called maya. More
≻ Psychological Breakdown Disciple: Another reason they feel very depressed is that they feel powerless, that they have no power to control their destiny, that all the big social forces, all the big social powers, they're controlling their lives, and... More
≻ Servant of Dog I have no shame that I have become servant of dog and I refuse to be servant of God. More
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≻ Mind: Friend or Enemy? Desire is the function of the mind, and one desires according to his association; so if the mind is to act as friend, there must be good association. More
≻ Mind Control Intelligence is supposed to direct the mind, but the mind is so strong and obstinate that it often overcomes even one's own intelligence. More
≻ An Instance of Free Will A living entity is eternally servant of Krishna, either he admits or not admits. That doesn't matter. He's a servant. Just like any citizen is law abider or subservient to the state. He may say that "I don't care for the state," but by the police, by the military, he'll be forced to accept. So one is being forced to accept Krishna as the master, and the other is voluntarily offering service. That is the difference. More
≻ High Anxiety Because I am a being of the land, artificially, when I go up on a plane, in the sky, this is the cause of my anxiety. So I am a spirit being, I am a spirit soul. So long I'll live in material conception of life, we cannot avoid anxiety. This is not possible. This is the problem. More
≻ The material world and virtual reality This material world is only imitation. This material sky and everything, whatever you see—all imitation, shadow. It is shadow. Just like in cinematographic picture you see the shadow of the real thing behind, similarly, this is only shadow. More
≻ Krishna consciousness vs unconsciousness It's just like there are two fish. One fish says, "Didn't you see the water?" And the other fish says, "No. Where is it?" More
≻ Value of the Real Thing As soon as you try to sell a diamond, you cannot expect many customers. Nonetheless, a diamond is a diamond, even if there are no customers. The number of customers is not the test. The customer must pay the value of the item. More
≻ Admitting to madness Anyone who is in this material world—more or less crazy, madman. Because he doesn't care for God, therefore he's crazy. He is completely under the control of God, but still, he has the audacity to say, "No, I don't believe in God." More
≻ Murder and Madness Our viewpoint is that in the material world, who has accepted this material body—anyone, but we specially take the human society—they require treatment, everyone. Everyone is mentally diseased, and therefore he is unhappy. Everyone. More
≻ The Mother of All Mistakes They are taking care of the shirt and coat, not the person who is putting on the shirt and coat. This is the mistake of the modern civilization. More
≻ Perverted Reflection All our relationships here, either as master and servant or as friend and friend or as parents and child or as husband and wife or as lover and the beloved, any relationship, whatever we see here, that is the perverted reflection of our eternal relationship with God. More
≻ Serving the Wrong Masters You can go on giving service in this material world under so many designation, but you will never be happy, and the person to whom you are giving service, he will be not happy. More
≻ Can You See Where You're Going? The sun immediately dissipates mist or fog as well as darkness. As stated before, we should try to make the sun of Krishna rise within our hearts. More
≻ Just One More Thing Everyone feels spiritual life is very nice, but "I have to do this, I have to do that." One Christian saint prayed, "O Lord, please save me, but not today." More
≻ No Sir, You are Not Safe I am thinking, "Now I have got good home, good wife, nice children, nice bank balance. So I am safe now." More
≻ Maya On a morning walk with Prabhupada in Stockholm, Sweden, we were suddenly blinded by what appeared to be the light of the sun. It was only the sun being reflected from a large glass window. Prabhupada stopped and pointed in the direction of the glare. "This is maya. More
≻ Virtual Reality: First Subtle, Then Gross The mind is the subtle substance in which the body is created, as we actually experience in our dreams and also when we are awake in contemplation. One must understand that the process of mental speculation develops a new type of body that does not actually exist. More
≻ Waking Up Whether I am intelligently working during the time when I am awake, or whether I am working under dreams, or whether I am being transferred to another body—I am having sound sleep under chloroform—I am the same. I am the same. I am that eternal soul. More
≻ Cheaters and the Cheated That means it is a association of cheaters and cheated. Somebody wants to cheat and somebody's being cheated. More
≻ Endangered Species Where there is danger in every step, but we are thinking we are very happy, we are advancing in material civilization, and, as far as we can imagine, that we are very prosperous and everything. This is called maya. More
≻ Psychological Breakdown Disciple: Another reason they feel very depressed is that they feel powerless, that they have no power to control their destiny, that all the big social forces, all the big social powers, they're controlling their lives, and... More
≻ Servant of Dog I have no shame that I have become servant of dog and I refuse to be servant of God. More
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≻ Changing Bodies in
this Lifetime As you are changing your body, we have changed, every one of
us, we have changed body. I was a baby. I was a child. I was a boy. I
was young man. Now I have got a different body. Where have those bodies
gone? More
≻ Recovery from Amnesia The spiritual master's duty is to lead a person, a forgotten soul, to the right way in terms of the shastra and scripture, and when he begins sincerely and with love and seriously, then the next stage is that God within, who is sitting within you, He'll dictate, "Yes, you do like this. You do like this." So in every respect the Lord is trying to help us. More
≻ Big Thief, Small Thief Alexander the Great arrested one thief, and he was going to punish him. The thief pleaded, "Sir, you are going to punish me, but what is the difference between you and me? I am a small thief, you are a great thief. More
≻ The Real American Idols Karandhara: They trust the doctors the first, and they trust television the second. Prabhupada: Television. Karandhara: Whatever they see on television, they accept. Prabhupada: Why they give so much authority to television? More
≻ Propensity for Amnesia After creating in bodily relationships so many unwanted things, I am absorbed in thought, that "I am, I belong to such and such nation. Therefore I have got my duty to do this, do that for the nation, or to the society, or to the family, or to my personal self, or to my wife, my children." This is, according to Vedic conception, this is illusion. More
≻ Day Dream, Night Dream Just like in dream we see so many things. But it has nothing to do with me. So this is night dream. At night, we forget all these things about the day dream. More
≻ The Clock is Ticking, But Time is Not About to Run Out Just Yet The duration of the material universe is limited. It is manifested in cycles of kalpas. A kalpa is a day of Brahma, and one day of Brahma consists of a thousand cycles of four yugas or ages: Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali. More
≻ Living a Life of Deception For a transcendentalist, it is a suicidal policy to be intimately in touch with the sense gratifiers of the world, because such a policy will frustrate the ultimate gain of life. More
≻ Free from Anxieties It is a drug. It is oblivion. Sometimes, for sometimes we forget everything, but again when you come to your consciousness the same anxieties and same thing are there. More
≻ Power Beyond Us If we do not believe in God, we must believe in some power beyond us which is controlling us at every step, call that power God or nature or whatever. There is a controlling power in the universe, and no sane man can deny it. More
≻ Believe or Not Believe; Fact is Fact This is not science. But they are going on like that. Whole Darwin's theory is based on this, "Maybe millions of years past..." More
≻ Quarrels Breaking Out over Trifles These literatures in the modes of passion and ignorance are distributed under different labels, but they can hardly help the spiritual urge of the human being. More
≻ No Such Thing as Non-reality It is spiritual as soon as you become a devotee, spiritual. We are living in the spiritual world. That I explained last night. So ultimately there is nothing material. Material means when you forget Krishna. More
≻ Wake Up to Your Real State of Consciousness When we're sleeping, we are not aware of the fact that we're sleeping. We think we're awake. More
≻ World of Terror We speak of terrorism from the Islam world, but more terrifying than all the terrorists combined is the terror of old age, disease, and unavoidable and inevitable DEATH awaiting every living being, be he Arab, American, black, white, man, woman, rich or poor. More
≻ Who are the Terrorists? The government leaders, the educators, the scientists and pseudo-religionists who perpetuate by conventional habit the bodily concept—all of them are terrorists. They are waging a war for and of sense gratification. Everyone is planning on increasing their sense gratification, up to the point of suicide bombing. More
≻ The Premise is the Problem The premise that the material world is a place of enjoyment for the living entity is the problem. Actually, the material world is a place of perpetual suffering, and material activities are a perpetual struggle to avoid or counteract these sufferings. More
≻ Description of the Age of Quarrel A person's spiritual position will be ascertained merely according to external symbols, and on the same basis people will change from one spiritual order to the next. A person's propriety will be seriously questioned if he does not earn a good living. And one who is very clever at juggling words will be considered a learned scholar. More
≻ Out from Delusion The material world is not a place for enjoyment; it is a place for suffering. But because we are mad… nunam pramattah kurute vikarma: when one makes the aim of life sense gratification, he becomes mad. He becomes deranged, deluded. He is in hallucination. More
≻ Who is Crazy? The body may change, yet we have the feeling that we do not change. “I am the same man,” we think, “and in my childhood I looked like this or like that.” More
≻ Do You Really Know Who You Are? It is said that just as travelers at an inn meet for some time during their meal and when their meals are finished again go their separate ways, similarly, living entities are brought together by the force of karma... More
≻ Lust, Anger, Greed; Don't Walk the Road to Hell The disease of the conditioned soul is that he wants to lord it over material nature. He wants to usurp the position of the supreme living entity. Everyone is trying to become the greatest person in his field. That is called ahankara. Ahankara means false ego, or false identity. More
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≻ Recovery from Amnesia The spiritual master's duty is to lead a person, a forgotten soul, to the right way in terms of the shastra and scripture, and when he begins sincerely and with love and seriously, then the next stage is that God within, who is sitting within you, He'll dictate, "Yes, you do like this. You do like this." So in every respect the Lord is trying to help us. More
≻ Big Thief, Small Thief Alexander the Great arrested one thief, and he was going to punish him. The thief pleaded, "Sir, you are going to punish me, but what is the difference between you and me? I am a small thief, you are a great thief. More
≻ The Real American Idols Karandhara: They trust the doctors the first, and they trust television the second. Prabhupada: Television. Karandhara: Whatever they see on television, they accept. Prabhupada: Why they give so much authority to television? More
≻ Propensity for Amnesia After creating in bodily relationships so many unwanted things, I am absorbed in thought, that "I am, I belong to such and such nation. Therefore I have got my duty to do this, do that for the nation, or to the society, or to the family, or to my personal self, or to my wife, my children." This is, according to Vedic conception, this is illusion. More
≻ Day Dream, Night Dream Just like in dream we see so many things. But it has nothing to do with me. So this is night dream. At night, we forget all these things about the day dream. More
≻ The Clock is Ticking, But Time is Not About to Run Out Just Yet The duration of the material universe is limited. It is manifested in cycles of kalpas. A kalpa is a day of Brahma, and one day of Brahma consists of a thousand cycles of four yugas or ages: Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali. More
≻ Living a Life of Deception For a transcendentalist, it is a suicidal policy to be intimately in touch with the sense gratifiers of the world, because such a policy will frustrate the ultimate gain of life. More
≻ Free from Anxieties It is a drug. It is oblivion. Sometimes, for sometimes we forget everything, but again when you come to your consciousness the same anxieties and same thing are there. More
≻ Power Beyond Us If we do not believe in God, we must believe in some power beyond us which is controlling us at every step, call that power God or nature or whatever. There is a controlling power in the universe, and no sane man can deny it. More
≻ Believe or Not Believe; Fact is Fact This is not science. But they are going on like that. Whole Darwin's theory is based on this, "Maybe millions of years past..." More
≻ Quarrels Breaking Out over Trifles These literatures in the modes of passion and ignorance are distributed under different labels, but they can hardly help the spiritual urge of the human being. More
≻ No Such Thing as Non-reality It is spiritual as soon as you become a devotee, spiritual. We are living in the spiritual world. That I explained last night. So ultimately there is nothing material. Material means when you forget Krishna. More
≻ Wake Up to Your Real State of Consciousness When we're sleeping, we are not aware of the fact that we're sleeping. We think we're awake. More
≻ World of Terror We speak of terrorism from the Islam world, but more terrifying than all the terrorists combined is the terror of old age, disease, and unavoidable and inevitable DEATH awaiting every living being, be he Arab, American, black, white, man, woman, rich or poor. More
≻ Who are the Terrorists? The government leaders, the educators, the scientists and pseudo-religionists who perpetuate by conventional habit the bodily concept—all of them are terrorists. They are waging a war for and of sense gratification. Everyone is planning on increasing their sense gratification, up to the point of suicide bombing. More
≻ The Premise is the Problem The premise that the material world is a place of enjoyment for the living entity is the problem. Actually, the material world is a place of perpetual suffering, and material activities are a perpetual struggle to avoid or counteract these sufferings. More
≻ Description of the Age of Quarrel A person's spiritual position will be ascertained merely according to external symbols, and on the same basis people will change from one spiritual order to the next. A person's propriety will be seriously questioned if he does not earn a good living. And one who is very clever at juggling words will be considered a learned scholar. More
≻ Out from Delusion The material world is not a place for enjoyment; it is a place for suffering. But because we are mad… nunam pramattah kurute vikarma: when one makes the aim of life sense gratification, he becomes mad. He becomes deranged, deluded. He is in hallucination. More
≻ Who is Crazy? The body may change, yet we have the feeling that we do not change. “I am the same man,” we think, “and in my childhood I looked like this or like that.” More
≻ Do You Really Know Who You Are? It is said that just as travelers at an inn meet for some time during their meal and when their meals are finished again go their separate ways, similarly, living entities are brought together by the force of karma... More
≻ Lust, Anger, Greed; Don't Walk the Road to Hell The disease of the conditioned soul is that he wants to lord it over material nature. He wants to usurp the position of the supreme living entity. Everyone is trying to become the greatest person in his field. That is called ahankara. Ahankara means false ego, or false identity. More
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