Interviewer: Now, I want to ask you something. You said we live in a bad world, but through our mind, our soul, we can escape.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Interviewer: Or through Krishna consciousness. We’re not solving anything then by doing that. We’re sort of, in our own mind, we’re running away.
Prabhupada: Yes, that running away is the best sol… Suppose you are put in a prison house. The solution is to go out of it. If you want to make adjustment of the prison house, that is impossible. You may be a first-class prisoner or second-class prisoner, third-class prisoner, but you will remain a prisoner. But if you want freedom, then you must go out of the prison walls.
Interviewer: But I notice you have many, you seem to have a lot of young men who are part of your organization. These young men must face the material problems of today like the draft and Vietnam and everything.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Interviewer: Isn’t it difficult to belong to Krishna consciousness and exist in this world we must exist in?
Prabhupada: Yes, the thing is that persons who are in Krishna consciousness anywhere, even they are put into a very uncomfortable position, they are not suffering in the same way as ordinary man.
Interviewer: Oh, we have people who want to talk to you. Caller, you’re on the air with the Swami on KGO.
Caller: Thank you. Hello, Swamiji?
Prabhupada: Yes?
Caller: What is the perfection of this life?
Prabhupada: The perfection of this life is to understand oneself, what I am. This is the beginning. Why I am suffering? If there is any solution of this suffering? And there are so many things. These questions should be there. Unless a man is awakened to these questions, that “What I am? Why I am suffering? Wherefrom I have come, and where I have to go?” then he’s considered on the animal level. Because animals, they have no such questions. It is in the human form of life these questions are there. And their answers are all there in the scriptures. So if we are inquisitive and follow the answers from authoritative sources, then the solution of life is there.
Full Interview: http://krishna.org/srila-prabhupadas-kgo-radio-interview-1968/
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