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It is the symptom of this age, Kali-yuga, is that we are not living the full term of our life, hundred years

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

It is the symptom of this age, Kali-yuga, is that we are not living the full term of our life, hundred years.

Āyur means duration of life. Simply wasted. Vyayaḥ, vyayaḥ means expended or wasted. Param. This duration of life, human form of life, is param. Param means the supreme. Not like cats and dogs. Their āyuḥ, they also live for some time, we also live, but their life is useless. They cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. But we human being, if we are trained up, we can understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness; therefore it is called param. Everything is param. Just like anna. Anna means ordinary rice. And paramānna, paramānna means the first-class, sweet rice, cooked with milk. You have got good experience. (laughter) So similarly, āyuḥ, the ant has got āyuḥ, the worm has got āyuḥ, the cat has got an āyuḥ, some duration of life. But so far the human being is concerned, that is param āyuḥ. Param āyuḥ. So if we waste our time simply for sense gratification, then we waste our, this valuable life.

Prahlāda Mahārāja advises:

tat-prayāso na kartavyo
yata āyur-vyayaḥ param
na tathā vindate kṣemam . . .
(SB 7.6.4)

We are acting, working for some good achievement. So our achievement, means the human form of achievement is mukunda-caraṇāmbujam—Mukunda means Kṛṣṇa—how to get shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. That is the supreme achievement. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja advises, tato yateta kuśalaḥ kṣemāya bhavam āśritaḥ (SB 7.6.5). Those who are fallen in this material world, somehow or other . . . It is not our place. This is a rotten place, but somehow or other we have fallen. Bhavam āśritaḥ, we have, instead of taking shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, we have taken shelter of this material world. Therefore it is called bhavam āśritaḥ. For them it is imperative, that śarīraṁ pauruṣaṁ yāvan na vipadyeta puṣkalam (SB 7.6.5).

So long we are young, very strong body, senses are very working nicely, this opportunity should be utilized for advancing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore a calculation is there, that one may think, "Yes, that's all right, but I'll live at least one hundred years. So let me enjoy now sense, and later on we shall see the business of Kṛṣṇa consciousness." No. Prahlāda Mahārāja is warning: Yes, you have maximum. But nobody now is, now, is living hundred years. Everyone knows it. This is the symptom of Kali-yuga, that:

prāyeṇālpāyuṣaḥ (sabhya)
kalāv asmin yuge janāḥ
mandāḥ sumanda-matayo
manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ
(SB 1.1.10)

It is the symptom of this age, Kali-yuga, is that we are not living the full term of our life, hundred years. We are not living . . . (aside:) You can go to the wall side.

So anyway, supposing we shall live one hundred years: puṁso varṣa-śataṁ hy āyus tad-ardhaṁ cājitātmanaḥ (SB 7.6.6). Ajitātmanaḥ. Ajita means not conquered. One who has not been able to conquer over the sense activities, for them, it is not, even if he lives for one hundred, fifty years immediately minus in sleeping. In our temple in New York, in the beginning when I was having classes in the morning at seven o'clock, still people from here and there, they would come and protest and go to the police because we were disturbing their sleep. Yes. They want to sleep as much possible hours. I think that is very great gain in the Western country, to sleep. So to sleep means simply waste of time. You must know it. Either I sleep five hours, six hours, ten hours, twelve hours, it is simply waste of time. The valuable life which you have got, immediately so many hours minus. Sleep is not good. Sleep, if we can do without sleep, that is perfection. Not that "Let me enjoy sleep twelve hours, fourteen hours, whole life." No.

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Created:2022-10-13, 14:35:19
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