All materialists and impersonalists endlessly repeat sense gratification in different forms; only Krishna consciousness purifies senses and grants real freedom.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — April 7, 1975, Māyāpur 750407MW-MAYAPUR [43:44 Minutes] Walk_750407MW-MAYAPUR Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Money is nothing but paper, but with the paper I can buy food. So why is it that we say that money is nothing but paper?
Prabhupāda: You belong to the cheaters' association. You are cheated, and you cheat others. So the whole world is the association of cheaters and cheated. That's all.
Because you are cheated, you want to cheat others.
Devotee: Sometimes, Śrīla Prabhupāda, they say well, if there is no God, then it doesn't matter what I do. But there is God, and He knows what I am going to do at every moment, then it doesn't matter what I do either. He knows what I am going to do, so what does it matter? I can do anything.
Prabhupāda: Yes, but why do you suffer? Why do you suffer? You do anything, that's all right, but why do you suffer?
Devotee: Well, it's all God's plan. I suffer according to God's plan; I enjoy according to God's plan.
Devotee: Yeah, there may be God, but what does it matter what I do? He is controlling everything. What do I have to say?