“Here in the material world, we manufacture so many plans to be happy, material desires. Somebody’s thinking, “I shall be happy in this way.” Somebody’s thinking… There is no question of happiness here. The place is contaminated. In a contaminated…
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Just like in an infected place you cannot be happy. The medical officer will ask you to leave that place, that “This quarter has been infected by the disease. Better you leave, you go somewhere else.” That is the treatment. Infected place must be left immediately. So similarly, this world, this material world of three modes of different qualities, you have to keep yourself always antiseptic, pure, by remembering Krishna.”
Initiations: Talk, Initiation Lecture, and Ten Offenses Lecture
Los Angeles, December 1, 1968