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Pradyumna: Translation = "Nature is said to be the cause of all material activities and effects, whereas the living entity …

Prabhupāda: This is very funny, that you get the body according to your karma, but the..., you are liable to …

The living entity... Just like we, on this Jeep car, we can move from here and there. Somebody has given …

prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate

[Bg. 3.27]

This is our foolishness. So long we are under the clutches of māyā, it is just like pulling by the …

Everything is controlled. The ultimate controller is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, because īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati, bhrāmayan [Bg. …

So we are trying to make the situation improved because, after all, as soon as you get this material body, …

There are varieties of living entities, bodies. As Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura therefore says,

karma-kāṇḍa jñāna-kāṇḍa, sakhale viṣera bhāṇḍa, amṛta boliyā jebā khāya nānā joni brahman kore, kadarya bhakṣana kore, tāra janma adhahpāte jāya

[Śrī Prema Bhakti-candrikā 8.8]

Nānā joni brahman kore. We are wandering in different species of life. There are cockroaches in the commode, they are …

And we are not very much serious about this thing, that "I am part and parcel of God, sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ [Bs. …

Everything is suffering according to the body, and the body is supplied by the nature. That is explained here. Kārya-kāraṇa-kartṛtve …

Prakṛtiḥ. Just like one criminal is punished by the magistrate, that "This man should undergo six months' imprisonment." So the …

kārya-kāraṇa-kartṛtve hetuḥ prakṛtir ucyate puruṣaḥ sukha-duḥkhānāṁ bhoktṛtve hetur ucyate

[Bg. 13.21]

So bhoktṛtva, my enjoyment... Because we have come to this material world for enjoyment. So everyone's enjoyment is not of …

Therefore when we get real consciousness by good association, if we can understand that "I am under the clutches of …

You cannot change. But you can change by one process. What is that? Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti …