All beings are spirit souls; only bodily identification makes one animal, yet only devotion to Krishna liberates everyone equally.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — July 9, 1975, Chicago 750709MW-CHICAGO [16:23 Minutes] Walk_750709MW-CHICAGO [in car] Prabhupāda: ...sex, up to the point of death. [break] ...[indistinct] was urine. Brahmānanda: Yes, he got his karma. F.D.R.
Jayatīrtha: He was paralyzed also. Brahmānanda: Yeah, he could not walk. [break]
Prabhupāda: ...disease, heart failure, these are the modern disease. People... Cancer. Brahmānanda: You were also saying that the psychology of the abortion is that the parents do not want to take the trouble...
Prabhupāda: Yes, that I explained. Brahmānanda: Yes. Of raising the child. Therefore they create some...
Prabhupāda: Otherwise, what is the reason? They know there are so many troubles. To avoid the troubles, "Kill this." That's all. So to save trouble, people are prepared to kill child even.
Brahmānanda: And that's considered advancement in modern life, to remove trouble. The whole life is conveniences, remove trouble. That shows they will go to any extent.
Prabhupāda: So trouble, that is, atyantika-duḥkha-nivṛtti, how to mitigate or finish all trouble, that they do not know. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma [Bg. 4.9]. So long you will get this body, you will have trouble.