If we actually are very serious to get out of the clutches of māyā, this repetition of death, old age and disease, and get back our original, spiritual life, eternal life, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20), there is . . . that is our real identification. We do not die after the annihilation of this body. But we are so dull by the influence of māyā, we think that death is inevitable. No. Why death is inevitable? Death can be avoided, birth can be avoided, disease can be avoided, but you do not know, you have become so dull.
We do not know how to overcome. We are busy temporary inconveniences. The whole world is struggling some temporary. The real business is ātyantika-duḥkha-nivṛtti. Everyone is trying to minimize the miserable condition, but they are busy for temporary miserable condition. But the Vedic knowledge is how to mitigate the topmost miserable condition. That topmost miserable condition is the repetition of birth, death and old age. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam (BG 13.9). Anu-darśanam. We should not be very much afflicted with these temporary things. We must have the sense how to solve the ultimate miserable condition of life. That, tad-vijñānārtham, in order to know that science, sa gurum evābhigacchet.