snake in Mayapur

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So nobody is immortal within this material world. And still, we are attached. We want to be immortal. That is the psychology. Just like last night, when the snake... We do not... We did not want to be killed by the snake. We became disturbed. Why this psychology? Because we don't want to be dead, because we are eternal. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg 2.20]. Neither we wish to take the trouble of being changed of the body. Otherwise, why we became disturbed? We know... Others may not know that we shall not be killed, even bitten by the snake. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire. So why we become disturbed? What is the psychology? The basic principle is that we don't want to be killed. We don't want to change the body even. We have got attraction for the body. Even an animal or insect, living very wretched condition of life, still, if you want to kill it, it will protest. It will protest: "No, no. I don't want to be killed." This is the psychology. (More...)

So therefore the family attraction especially, the family attraction is so strong that life after life one is bound up again in this material world, and he gets one body. To get body means to suffer. To get material body... Matra-sparsas tu kaunteya sitosna-sukha-duḥkha-daḥ [Bg 2.14]. We are suffering the sitosna... Sometimes we feel some pleasure, sense pleasure. But actually we are suffering. Just see. We thought on the fourth floor, or third floor, such marble, I mean to say, level. And still, there is a snake. How it gone to such a high floor, and...? That is also surprising. But it has managed to go there. That's a fact. And a snake means death. Sa-sarpe ca grhe vaso mrtyur eva na samsayaḥ. So you cannot avoid danger in any condition of life. This is material world. But still, they want to remain here. Death is in every step. Padam padam yad vipadam [SB 10.14.58]. (More...)

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