Prabhupada, Bombay, December 17, 1974: ..In the prison house, if you think a first-class prison is very nice, but after all, it is prison house. Your independence is cut down. So you may think that if it is actually first-class prison… Politicians, they are given first-class classification of prison house. Does it mean the politician want to remain there for good? Why they want to come out?
So similarly, here in this material world it is simply vicitra, varieties. We call, “This is first class. This is second class. This is third class.” It is simply varieties. Actually, it is all third class. There is no first class, second class. Gunair vicitrah. Just like you like some color.
Somebody likes red color, somebody likes blue color, sometimes yellow color. But after all, it is color, you like this or that. Similarly, sattva-guna is yellow color, and tamo-guna is blue color, and rajo-guna is red color. So you may like this color or that color—after all, it is material color.
So you should become free from all this colorful life of material existence and you become pure. But how you can become pure? That is also given in the Bhagavad-Gita….Sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-bhuyaya kalpate [Bg. 14.26]. Gunan.
Here it is said, gunair vicitrah: “By the colorful mixture of these modes of material nature, there are so many varieties, varieties of the modes of nature.” But if you want to be out of this colorful material life and you realize yourself, aham brahmasmi, “I am Brahman, and I am the same quality as God,” then you have to engage yourself in devotional service. Full Lecture
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