Prajāpati: [break] ...Śrīla Prabhupāda, is what's called "linguistic analysis."
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Prajāpati: So they don't want to find out really what God is, but simply what do you mean when you use the word "God".
Prabhupāda: We mean God is great. That's all. There is no need of linguistic analysis. One word is sufficient. God is great.
Karandhara: They would say the psychology of that is that you're suffering from an inferiority complex.
Prabhupāda: Eh. You are inferior. You are being kicked every moment by the laws of nature. How do you claim that you are superior? Why you are covering? Because you are kicked by the laws of material nature.
Umāpati: There's no complex.
Prabhupāda: There is no question... You have to cover yourself.
Bali Mardana: They say that...
Prabhupāda: How do you say you are superior? You are inferior. As soon as you cover your body, you are inferior.
Karandhara: They say, "Well, we, I made this hat. So whatever inferiorities I have, I can conquer them by my intelligence."
Prabhupāda: But that intelligence, superior intelligence will never come to you. You'll always remain inferior.
Hṛdayānanda: What about death?
Prabhupāda: Yes. We are always inferior.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: They will prolong death.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: They will prolong death. They're trying to prolong.
Prabhupāda: "They're trying."
Svarūpa Dāmodara: A bit longer.
Prabhupāda: Death.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Ultimately, find there is no death.
Prabhupāda: No, what...? Death is... What do you mean by death?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Losing the material body.
Prabhupāda: Yes. So that you are losing every day, every moment. You are not today what you were yesterday, that you are losing. So, how can you defeat? You are, every moment you are being defeated.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: There are some theories now. By turning the temperature, by cooling down little more than the body temperature, you can live longer.
Prabhupāda: Well, you can live little longer, but you cannot live forever. That is not possible.
Morning Walk
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December 6, 1973, Los Angeles
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