The real business is that we have to withdraw our attraction for this material... That they do not know. I am a spirit soul. Being attracted by this material nature, I am now encaged within this body, and I am changing this body. Just like I am changing this body from boyhood to childhood, childhood to, from childhood to boyhood, from youthhood. In this way, I have been entangled in this transmigration of the soul. This is my problem. Bhagavan, Krsna, says, "Real problem is janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi." This is not problem. Nowadays they have discovered so many problems. But actual problem -- janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi -- they are not very much serious. Therefore they have been described here as pramattah, madmen. He does not know what is the real problem, but he is very busy with the superficial problems. Therefore sastra says that these people, blind, they do not know what is the problem. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum [SB 7.5.31]. My real self-interest is to go back to home, back to Godhead. That is my real self-interest. They do not know. They want to live here, which is described as duhkhalayam asasvatam [Bg. 8.15], simply a place of miserable conditions and repetition of birth, death, old age and disease.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
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