General propensity is sense gratification, but if you can stop this process of sense gratification, that is real life. That is real life. Nivṛttis tu mahā-phalām. Real life means if you stop the process of sense gratification, then you go back to home, back to Godhead, your real place. And if you increase your propensity for sense gratification, then you remain within the cycle of birth and death. There are 8,400,000 species of life. So we change our body from this body to that body, that body, that body, that body, and we do not know where it will end. It will go on and on, very risky. Now I may think, “I am American. I have got all facilities. I have got a skyscraper building; that's all right.” But are we going to live there forever? No. That is not possible. You will be kicked out. Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham (BG 10.34): as death. "You rascal, you do not accept Me in your lifetime, but you . . ." Just like Hiraṇyakaśipu. He could not accept God during his lifetime, but when God came as death he could not resist; he had to surrender.
This is our position. Atheist class of men, in the beginning in their lifetime, they say, "What is God? We don’t care for God.” But when God comes as death they say, 'Yes, Sir, take me wherever You want." Finished. At that time you cannot say, “No, no, I don’t care for death.” But you must care. This is our position. And after death they do not know, they are so fools and rascals. After death their is life, they don't believe in. If they believe, then their whole plan is spoilt. But believe or not believe, there is. Just like this child: if you don’t believe, "No, no, this child will not change body," you may believe like that, but it will change. Similarly, I am old man. If I say, "No after-death. I have no," as I have changed my childhood body, youthhood to boyhood like that, again similarly I will change. These are very plain facts, but modern civilization, they are so fools and rascal, they cannot understand even this plain truth—tathā dehāntara-prāptir (BG 2.13). There is.