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Prabhupada, New York, August 27, 1966 — There is a very good example here, that lotus, lotus flower and leaves of the lotus stem. So if you put some water, that water does not stick into the lotus leaf.
By natural way. It will not touch. It will then never be moist. Similarly just like the lotus flower leaf does not moist, although it is in the water… Lotus flower is in the water, and the leaves are also in the water, but it has no connection with the water. Even a drop of water, if you put on it, it will at once fall down.
Lotus flower. It is so made by nature. So here the same example is there, that although we may be in this material world, so because I am staying in Krishna consciousness and I’m acting under the direction of Krishna, therefore nothing will affect me.
Nothing will affect me. Because due to this material affection, contamination, now I am in trouble. I am getting this body one after another just like changing dress.
So myself, the pure spirit soul, so I am now in contamination because I am absorbed in the material consciousness. So as soon as I transfer myself into Krishna consciousness, then I become aloof from this material…
Just like the example is given here, the leaf of the lotus flower, although it is in the water, it has no connection with the water. Not a drop of water will stay there.
Not a drop, even a drop, although it is in the huge mass of water. Waves are going over it and so many things. Water it is moving always, but that particular leaf of lotus flower, it has no connection with the water.
Similarly with all upheavals of this material world, one who is Krishna conscious, he has nothing to do. Visvam purnam sukhayate.
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