You cannot trust even your mother, what to speak of others.

Killer Moms

Precarious place

Actually, in this material world we are all suffering. Duhkhalayam ashashvatam [Bhagavad-gita 8.15]. You cannot make it a happy place. That is not possible. Krishna says, who has created this material world, He says, duhkhalayam ashashvatam. Duhkha means unhappiness; alayam means place. Duhkhalayam ashashvatam. That is also temporary. Duhkhalayam ashashvatam, napnuvanti mahatmanam samsiddhim paramam gatah. So this is place of duhkhalayam. Any commonsense man can understand that Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita... You may challenge, "Where is the unhappiness? We are very happy." Madmen. Krishna points out, "No, it is not place of happiness." Why it is not place of happiness? Now, janma-mrityu-jara vyadhi-duhkha-doshanudarshanam [Bg. 13.9]. Why don't you see the real unhappiness? This is real duhkha, or unhappiness. What is that? Janma-mrityu-jara-vyadhi. You have to die. You have to take birth within the womb with so much risk that even your mother can kill you. Is it very happiness? At the present moment the mother... When the child sleeps very peacefully, that "I am on the lap of my mother," now the time has come when the mother is killing the child. So is it very happiness place? That you cannot trust even your mother, what to speak of others. The time has come, degraded, that... Naturally a child, he thinks, "I am safe now with my mother." But the Kali-yuga is so cruel that even with mother you are not safe. And still you say it is a place of happiness? This is called illusion.