Harikeśa: Everything is unmanifest in the beginning, manifest in the middle, and unmanifest at the end. So why should I care for anything in this lifetime?
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Harikeśa: If it's all unmanifest in the beginning, it's only manifest in the middle, and it's unmanifest again at the end, why should I care about anything this life?
Prabhupāda: Then why you are making so much arrangement for sense gratification?Harikeśa: Well, I can enjoy while I've got it.
Prabhupāda: But why... If it is not manifested, what is the enjoyment?
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Harikeśa?
Prabhupāda: You know Bengali?
Devotee (4): No, Subhaga has spoken to me, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Harikeśa: Well, it's better to enjoy than to suffer.
Prabhupāda: And where is enjoyment? The thief also thinks like that: "Let me enjoy by stealing." Then, when he goes to the prison, then his enjoyment finished. If somebody gives you so many rasagullā, that "You take this rasagullā, and after finishing, I shall beat you with shoes," then will you take? (laughter) This is enjoyment. No sane man will like to enjoy like that. "Take this rasagullā, and after this, I will beat you with shoes, as many rasagullā you have taken." Will you take it?
Morning Walk -- November 26, 1975, New Delhi
Write a comment