Prabhupada, Los Angeles, May 16, 1973: We are so fool that we consider distressed condition as happiness.
This is called maya, distressed condition as happiness. For example, suppose you have to go to see a friend, and nowadays, friend or anything, not less than ten miles. So you have to go ten miles, and then see your friend, and then do your work.
So I am taking the trouble of going ten miles to see a friend or thirty miles to see a medical practitioner, but I am very much proud of my car, that I have got a car. I don’t consider that although I have got car, still, I have to waste so much time.
I have to take so much trouble. And there is every possibility of accidents. So many calamities are awaiting me. But we think that “Now we have discovered this horseless carriage, we are advanced.”
Similarly, if you study every item, you will find that although you have created by the modern scientific advancement a little comfort of life, side by side, we have created many discomforts. That we do not find.
That is the ways of this material nature. The ways of material nature is that you cannot remain in comfort. That is not possible. Full Lecture
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