“Wherever you go, your fate will go with you.”

They are trying to improve the condition. How you’ll improve the condition? Just like in our Bengal there is a word, jadi jau bange kapala jabe sange. Just like people are going from this country to that to improve economic condition. But it is a common saying that “Wherever you rascal go, your fate will go with you.” Either you go to England or India or here and there… Because people are struggling for economic development. But he does not know that I cannot make an inch of development beyond the destiny which is already fixed up. Already fixed up.

Don’t you see that two men, they are working day and night, very hard. One man has become all of a sudden millionaire, and another man, he has no employment. Why? Why this distinction? Both of them have worked hard to improve economic development, but one has become very quickly millionaire, another is still struggling. He does not know how to eat tomorrow. Why this arrangement? Who has made this arrangement? So this is actually study—that you cannot change your fate. Already fixed up. The material condition of life, as soon as you get a certain type of body, your pains and pleasure already fixed up within the body routine work. You cannot make any change. Just like the—I have given many times-the pig, he’s destined to eat stool. Therefore he has been awarded that type of body. So however you canvass this pig, “Why you are eating the stool? Take this halava,” he’ll not take. It will not take. Because his destiny means he has got that particular type of body. So these are finer studies.

So according to the body, everyone’s happiness and distress is already fixed up. You cannot change it. That is called fate. That is called fate. But you can change your fate if you take to Krsna consciousness. That is possible. So far your body is concerned… Take for example, just all of you, you were accustomed to the Western way of life, eating meat or drinking or illicit sex or so many things. But because you have taken to Krsna consciousness, you have stopped. Nobody can stop. No government can do it. Is there any possibility? Not possible. Not possible. Therefore, if you want to change your lot, your destiny, then you must take to Krsna consciousness. There is no other way. This so-called rascaldom, philanthropism this “ism,” that “ism,” that will not be able to change your lot. Just like these Communist countries. In 1917, I think, the revolution was there, Communist. And what is it today? Nineteen seventeen, and it is 1973, ’74. How many years? How many years?

Hamsaduta: Fifty-six.

Prabhupada: Fifty-six years they are advocating this philosophy, Comm… What they have done? Now they are going to hold conferences, how peace. Why not peace by your philosophy, this Communist philosophy? What you could not attain working fifty- seven years, now they will attain by holding another conference. Just see. Just see the rascaldom. They could not improve anything. The same fearful of other countries. I went to Moscow. There, all people are unhappy. Their economic condition is not very developed. Simply advertisement. I was talking with that Professor Kotovsky, I asked him, “Please call for a taxi.” So he was sorry, he said, “Swamiji, it is Moscow. it is very difficulty to get a taxi.” Just see what is the condition of the country. Then he came down personally up to the door, and he showed me one short cut, “Swamiji, if you go like this, in this way, then you’ll get to your hotel.” Because he was disappointed to give me immediately a taxi. Now we can understand. Either there is no demand for taxi… People cannot pay for it. That is the fact. Or the government arrange such that everyone is poor man. There is no possibility of thriving in taxi business or getting taxi. This is practical, I have seen. And actually in no other city in Europe and America I have seen so many people walking on the street. We can study. Just like there is rice cooking. You take one grain of rice and press it. If it is soft, then you know that now the rice is prepared. So it is intelligence required.