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Janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi (BG 13.9). There is no excuse. So intelligent man, why he should endeavor for things which are temporary, maybe ten years or hundred years or ten thousand years? That is intelligence, that why should I try for temporary things?

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"Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi" |"There is no excuse. So intelligent man, why he should endeavor for things which is temporary, maybe ten years or hundred years or ten thousand years? That is intelligence, so why should I try for temporary things"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Just like we have got life here for one hundred years maximum, the moon planet, you can live there for ten thousands of years. But after that ten thousand years, you have to die. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi (BG 13.9). There is no excuse. So intelligent man, why he should endeavor for things which is temporary, maybe ten years or hundred years or ten thousand years? That is intelligence, so why should I try for temporary things? If there is possibility of my permanent life, blissful life, so why not try? This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama. Is that not? Find out yad gatvā na nivartante.

The intelligence is there that if, by preparing myself, I can go to God, why shall I endeavor to go to this moon, to the sun, to the hell, to the this or that? For everything I'll have to prepare, so why not prepare myself to go back to home, back to Godhead? That is intelligence. Wherever you want to go, you have to prepare yourself, you have to make some endeavor. So why not make little endeavor for going back to home, back to Godhead? Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama (BG 15.6). And if once you go to God, then you haven't got to come back again to accept this material body. So why not endeavor for this? This is intelligence. What is the benefit if I go to the moon planet? Ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino 'rjuna (BG 8.16). Even if you go to the highest planet, Brahmaloka, you'll have to come back again.

So why you should waste your time in this temporary things? Go back to home, back to Godhead, where you'll get . . . awaken your eternal life, blissful life of knowledge. You go there. That is intelligence. If I have to endeavor, make preparation, for going to the moon planet, so what is that moon planet? You can get duration of life, ten thousands of years. Just like we have got life here for one hundred years maximum, the moon planet, you can live there for ten thousands of years. But after that ten thousand years, you have to die. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi (BG 13.9). There is no excuse. So intelligent man, why he should endeavor for things which is temporary, maybe ten years or hundred years or ten thousand years? That is intelligence, so why should I try for temporary things? If there is possibility of my permanent life, blissful life, so why not try? This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama. Is that not? Find out yad gatvā na nivartante.

Page Title:Janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi (BG 13.9). There is no excuse. So intelligent man, why he should endeavor for things which are temporary, maybe ten years or hundred years or ten thousand years? That is intelligence, that why should I try for temporary things?
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-09-08, 08:38:33
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1