What is the ultimate vimukti? Ultimate vimukti is to get freedom from birth, death, old age and disease. That is ultimate vimukti. The modern scientists, they are giving us so many facilities to get out of some material difficulties, but that is temporary. That is not actually vimukti. Actual vimukti is to get freedom from birth, death, old age and disease. That vimukti can be achieved from Kṛṣṇa: hariṁ vinā na mṛtiṁ taranti.
You cannot get out of it, out of these four kinds of material tribulation, without being favored by the Supreme Lord. That is also stated in the Bhagavad-gītā: daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā. Mama māyā duratyayā: "It is very difficult to get out of the entanglement of . . . created by My māyā, illusory energy." Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te (BG 7.14), "But anyone who surrenders unto Me, he can get out of this entanglement."
So here it is stated that sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmaḥ yato bhaktir adhokṣaje. The whole human civilization is trying to get freedom from some inconvenience—the state, politics, sociology, humanity, religions, so many things. So ultimately it is taken religion is the path of vimukti. Religion. Because other things are being tried by the animals. The animals also have their ways of getting out of inconvenience. They know how to do it. Just like a bird, he knows that, "On the land I am in danger." As soon as there is some danger, immediately flies up to the tree. He knows.
So everyone knows. You will find in animal kingdom, in birds' kingdom, everyone knows how to protect. It is said—we learn from Bhāgavata that also—that fish within the water, they have got so sensitive power that miles away if some enemy is coming, they can understand and they take shelter. Just like dog can smell from distant place that somebody unknown is coming. So every animal has got a special qualification. Don't think that human being is only intelligent. No. The intelligence for these four things, how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex intercourse and how to defend, these intelligence are there in every animal. Don't think simply human being has got this intelligence.
So vimukti . . . therefore they do not know what is the ultimate goal of vimukti, or getting out of the inconveniences of life. Na te viduḥ, they do not know. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ durāśayā (SB 7.5.31). They are trying to adjust things by material adjustment. That is not possible. They do not know that. Adānta-gobhir. Andhā yathāndair upanīyamānāḥ. But they are being misled by blind leaders. They are themselves blind, and some blind leaders. Therefore we should not accept blind leaders. We should accept a leader who is not blind. We therefore accept Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Person, who knows everything, past, present and future. We take His leadership or we take the leadership of His representative. That is our process.