son leaves rich father

Krsna says that this place is duḥkhalayam asasvatam [Bg 8.15]. This material world, where we are now living under different change of body one after another, it is duḥkhalayam. Why I have to change my body? Why not... I am permanent. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg 2.20]. Therefore we have to learn, we have to be educated, we have to receive knowledge from the perfect. And Krsna personally, the Supreme Perfect Person, is giving you knowledge. And if we are so unfortunate that we do not take the perfect knowledge-we concoct, we speculate, we create our own idea-then it is to be understood that durasaya. We are thinking, "I shall be happy in this way. I shall be happy in this..." Nothing. You shall never be happy-this is perfect instruction-unless you go back to home, back to Godhead. Just like a mad boy, he has forsaken his father. His father is rich man, everything is there, but he has become hippie. So similarly, we are also like that. Our father is Krsna. We can live there very comfortably, without any botheration, without endeavor for earning money, but we have decided that we shall live here in this material world. This is called ass. This is the... Therefore mūḍha.    (More...)