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Imported quote 23201 Prabhupada: Yes. I think it is... Maybe it is described in Seventeenth Chapter. According to our free will, we are associating with a certain type of the modes of material nature, and then we become subjected to that material modes. The same example: you infect some disease, contamination, and you gain the result of it. So our endeavor should be how to raise ourself to the..., first to the sattva-guna. That we can do. And then transcend sattva-guna and reach the spiritual platform. Everyone is trying to improve his position, but they do not know what is meant by improvement. Improvement means mostly they are in tamo-guna, ignorance. So rise from tamo-guna to rajo-guna, rajo-guna to sattva-guna, and then sattva-guna to transcendence. That is improvement. So generally, people are suffering on account of association with tamo-guna and rajo-guna, whole material world; mostly tamo-guna and few of them in rajo-guna. The symptoms of rajo-guna and tamo-guna are lust and greediness. Just like yesterday you told me the students are talking about homosex. That means tamo-guna, that the education students, they are discussing about homosex. That means tamo-guna, lusty desires very prominent, and how to fulfill, by homosex or sex with woman. This is their subject matter, kama. So everyone in this material world infected with this tamo-guna, all lusty desires, in various ways, varieties. And some of them in rajo-guna-politics and improvement of material condition. So we have to cut down this tamo-guna and rajo-guna, come to the sattva-guna. Then he'll not be disturbed by these lusty desires and greediness. Then he'll be happy. Sthita-sattve prasidati. When he comes to the sattva-guna, now he has to make further progress, sattva-guna. Further progress means, being situated in sattva-guna, if he advances in devotional service, Krsna consciousness, then he surpasses all the material qualities. That is perfection of life.
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