The material body is the root of all suffering, and only Krishna consciousness provides liberation from this fundamental illusion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — September 19, 1972, Los Angeles 720919MW-LOS ANGELES [51:08 Minutes] Walk_720919MW-LOS ANGELES Svarūpa Dāmodara: Morning walk September 19, Tuesday, 1972. Los Angeles. [in car]
Prabhupāda: [indistinct] ...don't know how they are becoming entangled, by this continues change of material body. That is defect of the modern civilization. Kleśada āsa dehaḥ [SB 5.5.4]. Kleśada.
Any material body, that is… kleśada. Kleśa means “pains.” Da, da means “killing.” Any material body, it doesn’t matter [indistinct], it is troublesome. They do not know. They try to get out of trouble, but the real trouble is covering him.
He does not know. Just like the deer, they grow musk on their navel. Śyāmasundara: They grow what?
Prabhupāda: Musk. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, musk. Serum.
Prabhupāda: By the smell, they become mad: “Where is that smell? Where is that smell? Where is that smell?” Mad. But he does not know that the smell is within his navel.
Similarly these rascals, they are trying to make solution of the problem. But the rascal does not know that the problem is this material body.