without Krishna consciousness, a bleak picture

[Guest guest]

(Srila Prabhupada): Change means rascal. Anything change means it is the

domain of rascals. Pandemonium. Just like in Manu-samhita it is said that

women should not be given independence. Once said, that is fact. If you want

to change, you suffer. That's all."

 

I said, "Any deviation from absolute law means immediate suffering."

 

Prabhupada agreed. "Bas! Immediately you have to suffer."

 

"You're painting a pretty bleak picture," Harikesa said.

 

Srila Prabhupada didn't immediately catch his idiomatic expression, so

Harikesa elaborated. "The one you're painting of society and the future.

There's no hope."

 

"No," Prabhupada said. "Unless they take to Krsna consciousness, there is no

hope; that's a fact. There will be more chaotic condition, and everyone will

suffer and perish. Acchinna-dara-dravina yasyanti giri-kananam. This is

already predicted. I am not painting. It is already there; I am simply

repeating. That's all. I am not speculator."

 

 

(From Transcendental Diary)