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<div class="heading">Without knowing the Absolute Truth, if somebody dies—everyone will die, you cannot check. You may be very much advanced in scientific knowledge, but you cannot stop death. That is not possible. Neither you can stop old age, neither you can stop birth.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Delhi, November 10, 1971|Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Delhi, November 10, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is attempting to educate people how to utilize this human form of life properly. It will not stay; it will also die, just like cats die, the dogs die. We also die, but there is difference of this death. We can die knowing the Absolute Truth. The cats and dogs die without knowing. That is the difference. In the ''Garga Upaniṣad'' it is said, ''etad viditva ga prayatisa brāhmaṇa etad aviditva ga prayatisa kṛpaṇa'' (''Garga Upaniṣad'').

''Etad'', this absolute knowledge, without knowing the Absolute Truth, if somebody dies . . . everyone will die, you cannot check. You may be very much advanced in scientific knowledge, but you cannot stop death. That is not possible. Neither you can stop old age, neither you can stop birth.

''Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam'' ([[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.9]]). In the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' it is said that you may be very much advanced, you have mitigated all your sufferings, all the problems of life, but these problems of life, ''janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi'', birth, death, old age and disease, that you cannot avoid. That is not possible. So, if . . . but everyone has got the tendency to avoid birth, death, old age and disease.

Why? Because the spirit soul, I am, in reality, I am not subjected to birth, death, old age, and disease. Because I have accepted this material body, therefore apparently I am subject to birth, death and old age. Otherwise, I am eternal. Just like God is eternal, similarly I am also eternal. ''Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre'' ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20 (1972)|BG 2.20]]). This living entity, the soul, after the annihilation of this body, he does not die.

So this is . . . these are the subject matter of knowledge in the human form of life. So ''etad aviditya'', without knowing this science, if somebody dies like cats and dog, he is a ''kṛpaṇa''. ''Kṛpaṇa'' means miser. And one who dies with the knowledge of this ''brahma-jñāna'', self-realization, he is called ''Brāhmin''. ''Brāhmin'' means ''brahma jānāti iti brāhmaṇaḥ''. One who knows Brahma, the Absolute Truth, he is called ''Brāhmin''. Therefore our business is to become a ''Brāhmin''. Don't think that ''Brāhmins'' are produced only in India. No. ''Brāhmin'' can be produced any part of the world. Simply by knowing Brahma, he can become ''Brāhmin''. Every one of you can become ''Brāhmin'', if you understand what is Brahma, because ''Brāhmin'' means one who knows the Brahma.