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My father has died. My elderly . . . my mother has died, my grandfather has died. Therefore I will also die. And my next generation, he will also die. My wife also will die. So everybody will die. Asatsv api

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"My father has died. My elderly . . . my mother has died, my grandfather has died. Therefore I will also die. And my next generation, he will also die. My wife also will die. So everybody will die. Asatsv api"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

How do I know they will not exist? My father has died. My elderly . . . my mother has died, my grandfather has died. Therefore I will also die. And my next generation, he will also die. My wife also will die. So everybody will die. Asatsv api. They know by experience that they will not exist, but still, their business has become to struggle for existence. Dehāpatya-kalatradiṣu.

They are attached because they are attached to this body, therefore attached to the children, dehāpatya. Apatya means children. And kalatra. Kalatra means wife. Dehāpatya-kalatradiṣu ātma-sainyeṣu. This very word, sainya . . . sainya means soldier. Here in the material world, every one of us is struggling very hard. That is a fact. Everyone knows. So when we struggle, when we fight, then we must have soldiers. Without soldiers, nobody fights. So they are our soldiers, this body.

Everyone wants to keep this body fit. And maintaining the children and the wife . . . dehāpatya-kalatradiṣu. We are thinking that, "My this body and wife and children and home and country and society will save me." I am struggling against . . . what is that struggling? I do not wish to die. I do not wish to be diseased. I do not wish to become old man. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi (BG 13.9).

I don't wish to get birth again, or I want to stop birth. Janma-mṛtyu. I want to stop death. I want to stop disease. And I want to stop old age. These are the activities, material activities, struggling against. And I am thinking that, "These soldiers, or this my body or my wife, my children, will protect me," dehāpatya-kalatradiṣv ātma-sainyeṣv asatsv api, although I am experiencing every day that they are asat, they will not exist.

How do I know they will not exist? My father has died. My elderly . . . my mother has died, my grandfather has died. Therefore I will also die. And my next generation, he will also die. My wife also will die. So everybody will die. Asatsv api. They know by experience that they will not exist, but still, their business has become to struggle for existence. Dehāpatya-kalatradiṣu.

These are very important subject matter. Try to understand. We know that nobody will exist. I want to exist. That is my intention. I do not wish to die; I want to exist. But I know also that all these my soldiers, including my this stout and strong body, it will also not exist. Dehāpatya-kalatradiṣu, teṣāṁ pramattaḥ.

Page Title:My father has died. My elderly . . . my mother has died, my grandfather has died. Therefore I will also die. And my next generation, he will also die. My wife also will die. So everybody will die. Asatsv api
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-10, 14:02:38
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1