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Slightest Material Desire Tinge Forces Another Body – Bhagavad-Gita Is Test Paper Exposing All Mudhas

📅 October 3, 1975 📍 Mauritius ⏱ 59 min
The slightest material desire forces rebirth; only bhakti-yoga cures the disease of Maya.
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Morning Walk — October 3, 1975, Mauritius 751003MW-MAURITIUS [59:30 Minutes] Walk_751003MW-MAURITIUS Prabhupāda: [indistinct] ...a man will think that "I shall be happy in this material world," he'll not be able to take Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Cyavana: The slightest tinge of a material desire will force him to take another body. Is that it?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṛṣṇa will give him full advantage of enjoying this material world. Unless he is disgusted, he cannot. He'll not become disgusted.

Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, "Give up this." Personally, he is not going to be disgusted. Māyā. Therefore Kṛṣṇa personally asks him, "Give up this business." Sarva-dharmān parityajya [Bg. 18.66]. But we are thinking, "Eh!

Why this man asking like this? Sarva-dharmān parityajya. I shall give up my business, I shall give up my family, I shall give up my country and simply surrender to Him? Oh, it is too much." Sophisticated.

What is called? "Sophistry." What is sophistry? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Sophistry?

Prabhupāda: Yes? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Half wise, half foolish. Brahmānanda: Sophistry means some...

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