Prabhupada, Stockholm, September 9, 1973: […] 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 Krishna 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 Krishna 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 Krishna consciousness. There is no other way. Read more…
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