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Enjoy this material world.

The nature is so kind that in whichever way you want to enjoy this material world, she will give you a suitable body under the direction of the Lord. Because Lord is situated everyone's heart. So He knows everything, that you still want something material. He will give you. "Yes, you take it." Krsna wants that you get full experience that by material gain, you'll never be happy. This is Krsna's business. It's full freedom. Although we have got minute quantity of freedom, because we are part and parcel of Krsna. Krsna has got full freedom, but the freedom quality is there in me because I am part and parcel of Krsna. The chemical composition. The drop of sea water has got a drop of salt also. Although it is not comparable with the salt containing in the sea water. But the salt chemical is there. This is our understanding. Janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1]. Whatever we have got in minute quantity, the same thing, in fullness is there in Krsna. In fullness. Just like Krsna says: mrtyuh sarva-haras ca aham.

Now we have got a propensity to take other's thing. You can say it is stealing. We have got that propensity. Why? Now Krsna has got. Krsna is known as the Butter-thief. The beginning, thiefing, stealing. So unless that stealing propensity's there, how I can get? But Krsna's stealing and my stealing is different. Because I am materially contaminated, therefore my stealing is abominable. Whereas the same stealing in the spiritual absolute platform is so nice that enjoyable. Mother Yasoda enjoying the activities of stealing by Krsna. That is the difference. Material and spiritual. Any activities spiritual, that is all good, and any activity, material, that is all bad. This is the difference. Here, the so-called morality, goodness, they're all bad. And in the spiritual world, so-called immorality is also good. That you have to understand.

Prabhupada's lecture.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.8.28
Los Angeles, April 19, 1973