insects living for only one night

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So why a devotee should be interested in such thing? No. A devotee wants Krsna, the supreme eternal. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam [Katha Upanisad ]. That is the Vedic version. The Supreme Lord is the supreme leader of the nityas. We are all nityas, eternal. He guides. Therefore Krsna plays with the living entities, Narayana, Krsna, in the spiritual world. There Krsna and the devotees become His friend, cowherd boy. They play with Krsna. They want that thing. They do not want to go to the Brahmaloka or the Candraloka or this loka or that loka, because that will be finished. That will be finished. Because that is mayavinas tam. Maya will finish. It may be... Just like here we see, a germ lives for a few seconds, or a worm at night... There is clogging together, so many millions and millions, and by the morning they are all dead. So their duration of life comparative. Similarly, Brahma also. It may be millions of year, but he'll die. Krsna has said in the Bhagavad-gita that abrahma-bhuvanal lokaḥ punar avartino 'rjuna [Bg 8.16]. The birth and death, old age and disease, they are everywhere. Either you go to the Brahma planet or this lower planet or this Brahma life or human life or cat's life, dog's life, tree's life-everything is finishable. Mrtyuḥ sarva-haras caham [Bg 10.34]. (More...)

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