Initiation transforms the base metal of conditioned life into the gold of pure devotion to Krishna.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Initiation Lecture — September 7, 1971, London 710907IN-LONDON [16:35 Minutes] Initiation_710907IN-LONDON Prabhupāda: So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement... They are trying to go to the nature. Just like there is a propaganda, nature means to become animal. They live like animals, naked.
They have sex life on the street. They say it is freedom. But the rascals do not know there is no freedom at all. Where is freedom?
So long you are under the grip of material nature, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi [Bg. 13.9], where is freedom? By nature does not mean that you have got freedom. There is no freedom. We are all conditioned. Simply falsely we are thinking of freedom.
It requires little brain. Where is freedom? Nobody wants to die, and where is the freedom not to die? Who has got the freedom?
Nobody wants to become old, and where is the freedom? Everyone becomes old. But I have got the desire. Even old man, old woman tries to remain young by cosmetic help, to be good looking, and where is the freedom?
By nature he is becoming bad looking. So there is no freedom. It is false idea, freedom. Nobody wants to die; death is sure. [aside:] He's sleeping. Nobody wants to become old; he's becoming old. Nobody wants to take birth...
Of course, that is very higher stage. Jñānī, they want mukti; that is also not possible. Otherwise why Kṛṣṇa says, bahūnāṁ janmanām ante [Bg. 7.19]? To stop death, to stop birth is not possible unless one comes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.