Morning Walk [Partially Recorded]
Prabhupāda: ...has got the body of a tree and one has got the body of human being, demigod. So the reason is kāraṅam—kāraṅam means reason—guṅa-saṅgo 'sya [Bg 13.22], as he is infecting the modes of material nature.
[The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil amongst various species.]
Infection. If we infect some choleric diarrhea, we'll suffer. Nature's law is. Therefore human being should be cautious not to infect. Just like educated man or civilized man, he is cautious not to infect some kind of contaminated disease. Similarly, human form of body with higher consciousness is there just to remain always cautious not to infect material, I mean, modes of nature. And that is devotional service.
māṁ ca avyabhicāreṅa bhakti-yogena yaḥ sevate sa guṅān samatītyaitan brahma-bhūyāya kalpate [Bg 14.26]
[One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman.]
"One who is always engaged in My service, without any deviation..." Hare Kṛṣṅa. Jaya.
Devotee: Haribol, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Haribol.
Devotee: Say "Haribol, Prabhupāda." [talking to child]
Prabhupāda: Oh, he has got beads? Or what...?
Madhudviṣa: No, those are mittens. [baby cries]
Prabhupāda: That's all right. That's all right.
[japa] [break]
Madhudviṣa: ...to understand a mode. Is a mode a personality?
Prabhupāda: Mode? What is the meaning of mode?
Madhudviṣa: Mode. I do not know what a mode is.
Prabhupāda: Mode means a...
Madhudviṣa: Influence?
Prabhupāda: ...situation. [japa] [end]