So how time can be utilized very nicely, that was also explained yesterday, mukunda-caranambujam. Just to take shelter of Mukunda. Mukunda means who can deliver you from this conditional life. He is called Mukunda. That is the whole thing. Krsna comes... The whole Bhagavad-gita teaching ultimately ends with this order, mukunda-caranambujam. Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. This is the ultimate. But because people have become deviated, fallen, they do not know what is the aim of life, what is the goal of life. They are simply wasting time. Vimara-cetah (?). Prahlada Maharaja said, "My Lord, I am not very much anxious for me because I have no trouble. As I have learned to chant Your glories, so anywhere I am happy simply by glorifying Your activities. But I am unhappy for this reason: when I see that these rascals simply for little material happiness, they are working so hard." Tato vimukha-cetasa maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan [SB 7.9.43]. "They have forgotten You." Vimukha cetasam. They think that "What is the use of this Krsna consciousness?" Vimukha. And what is required? Maya-sukhaya. For few years to live in material comforts, bharam udvahato vimudhan, they are manufacturing so many big, big skyscraper building, nice road, nice car. Maya-sukhaya. In Western countries there is very... We are also imitating in India like Bombay city and others, bharam udvahato, gorgeous arrangement. And what for? For living for a few years. Then he is going to cats and dogs. He doesn't know that. Therefore maya-sukhaya. If somebody says that "You come here at my place. I shall give you very good food, nice shelter, all comforts, and after few days I shall drive you away and I shall beat you with my shoes," will anybody agree? No. So we are doing that. Forgetting our real business, we are busy in maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan [SB 7.9.43].

So Prahlada Maharaja concludes this instruction in this way: tato yateta kusalah ksemaya bhavam asritah. Bhavam means this material world, where we take birth and die after some time. Bhavam. Bhavam means "become, manifest." This is material world. We take birth, we exist for some time, we grow, then there are some by-products, and then we become old and then die. This is called sad-vikara, six kinds of changes. But the atma is the same. The example is given: just like a tree, any tree, say a mango tree. During season, summer season there are flowers in the tree, and then they grow a small green mango, then it becomes yellow or reddish, and then it becomes ripened. Then there is a seed within the mango. And then, when it is over-ripened, it falls down. Then finished, business finished. Similarly... But when the mango is finished, it does not mean the tree is also finished. The tree is there, and again, in the next season, there will be mango and the same changes will go on. Similarly... It is a crude example. We spirit soul, we are eternal exactly like the tree. Tree is not eternal, but in comparison to the fruit, it is eternal. A tree lives for hundred thousand, five hundred, years and the same business go on. The mango, it is coming in fu..., just like flower, then green, then grows, then dwindles. So we are eternal, and our different bodies are just like seasonal fruits. On account of our different karma, we get different body. So this body is undergoing the six kind of changes. But the soul, he is not going any change. He is the same.

So here it is said that we are changing, bhava. Ever-increasingly we are taking birth. Janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam [Bg. 13.9]. This is our actual distress, that we are obliged to take birth, death, disease, old age. So we are struggling against it. Nobody wants to become old man, especially in this winter season. It is very difficult for old men. So, but you have to accept jara and vyadhi. Nobody can escape disease. Nobody can escape birth. Nobody can escape death. But struggle is going on. When you are diseased, there is a great struggle how to cure myself, go to the doctor, take good medicine and so on, so on. But we cannot check the diseased condition. Similarly, we cannot check our old age, cannot check our birth, death. Therefore here it is said, kusalah. Kusalah means if you actually want benefit, because this kind of struggling has not given you any benefit, but if you want actually benefit, kusalah, tato yateta, then you should endeavor for this. What is that? Ksemaya, for your ultimate benefit. And how long? Sariram purusam yavan na vipadyeta puskalam. So long you are stout and strong, you should try how to become free from this bondage of birth, death, old age and disease, not that you keep yourself, this business set aside: "When we shall get old then we shall chant Hare Krsna and become Krsna conscious." That is not the meaning. Immediately. Prahlada Maharaja said that kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. From the very beginning of life, when kaumara, a small child, boy, from that age one should begin this bhagavata life, or Krsna consciousness. That is called brahmacari, to teach brahmacarya from the very beginning of life. And when you are young, then you should work with more vigor and intelligence. At that time brain is very nice. Young man has got all the facilities. The machine is strong. This is a machine. So old machine cannot so work. So it is a great fortune for the young boys and girls of Europe and America that in this young life they are cultivating Krsna consciousness. It is a very good fortune.

Here it is recommended by Prahlada Maharaja, sariram paurusam yavan na vipadyeta puskalam. So long you do not become invalid, old, unable to work, you should try. Not try, you mustyatetafor developing Krsna consciousness. Not that "When I shall become old, before death I shall try a few months Hare Krsna." No. From the very beginning of life, from childhood, they should be taught how to chant Hare Krsna, how to attend mangala arati, how to... In this way, by this practice, vidhi, vidhi-bhakti, regulated principle, tapasya... This is called tapasya. Tapo divyam putraka yena suddhyet sattvam [SB 5.5.1]. If you want to purify your existence, then you should begin... That is human life, tapasya. Human life is not meant for polished dogism and pigism. That is not human life. If a cat and dog becomes nicely dressed, that does not mean he becomes a human being. He is cat and dog. Similarly, if we keep our mentality like cats and dog and outwardly we dress very nicely, they have been described as dvi-pada-pasuh, "two-legged animal." Animal. He is animal because he is not cultivating Krsna consciousness. The cats and dogs cannot do it, so he is no better than cats and dog. This is the conclusion. Sa eva go-kharah [SB 10.84.13]. That is the verdict of Vedic literature.

So therefore it is advised... So anyone who is coming to Vrndavana, they must seek out the devotees who have dedicated to Krsna consciousness and trying to preach Krsna consciousness to the ignorant people who are busy in material activities. This is tirtha. Therefore it is recommended. In India you'll find so many tirthas, so many tirthasPrayag, Mathura, Vrndavana, Hardwar, Ramesvaram. That is the arrangement. And after retirement of life, vanam vrajet. Pancasordhvam vanam vrajet. Prahlada Maharaja also said to his father, hitvatma-ghatam grha-andha-kupam vanam gato yad harim asrayeta. Formerly big, big kings, everyonecompulsory retirement, vanaprastha, sannyasa. Vanam means go to the forest. One who goes to the forest, he is called vanaprastha. From vana, the word vana, has come vanaprastha. Pancasordhvam vanam vrajet, that "After fifty years of age one must go to the forest for meditation, for tapasya, austerity." And when he is perfectly trained up... This training is given from brahmacari life, grhastha life also, but people are not taking training. They are not kusalam. Actually they do not know what is the aim of life. They are cats and dogs. So one who is kusala, actually knows the aim of life, for him, yateta ksemaya bhavam asritah. Because in the material existence it is simply suffering. But these foolish men, they do not understand. They are thinking, "Enjoyment." How you can enjoy? Krsna says, duhkhalayam asasvatam: [Bg. 8.15] "This is a place for suffering." Actually suffering, tri-tapa-yatanah, adhibhautika, adhidaivika adhi... But because they have become fools and rascals, they do not understand that they are suffering. They are taking it they are enjoying. Bhavam asritah. Therefore, anyone who is in such condition, abominable condition, condemned condition, they must take to shelter of Krsna consciousness so long the body is strong enough. [break] ...when the body is old and it cannot move, it is attacked with rheumatism, and so many other things, indigestion. No. So long it is sariram purusam. Purusam, why this word used? There are women also. Purusam does not mean man. Purusam means one who wants to enjoy. He is called purusa. Anyone here in the material world, although one has got the body of a male or although one has got the body of a female, both of them are for enjoyment. Therefore it is used, purusa. Purusa means enjoyer. So either the woman or man, the propensity is how to enjoy life. Therefore it is called. So either purusa, the male or female, anyone who has got this body, he must perform Krsna consciousness until she becomes... It should go on. If you practice when you are stout and strong... Just like a person begins exercising in young age, and in the old age also he can perform exercise. Practice, anything you practice, that is recommended. Yateta kusalah ksemaya bhavam asritah.

So this is Prahlada Maharaja's instruction, that "Don't waste your time. Human life is very valuable." And Canakya Pandita also says, ayusah ksana eko 'pi na labhyah svarna-kotibhih: "You cannot get back even one moment of your life by paying millions of dollars. So if you waste your time..." The Krsna conscious people, they should not be lazy. They should always remember that death is already there. Let me finish my business properly so that after death I may not be a cat and dog. At least I may get... There is no... My Guru Maharaja used to say that "Why should you wait for another life? Finish Krsna consciousness business in this life." In this life. Why you should set aside the business for another life? No. Turnam yateta anumrtya pateta yavat. This is the instruction of... Before the next death you should prepare yourself for death. Death is inevitable. You cannot avoid death. But before the next death comes, if you become fully Krsna conscious, then your life is successful. Janma karma ca me divyam yo janati tattvatah [Bg. 4.9]. What is Krsna? Try to understand KrsnaKrsna, what is Krsna, why He appears, why He disappears, what is His nature, who is He. So many things are to be known. Krsna is God. He is not an ordinary thing. He has got unlimited qualities, unlimited function. And if we simply understand that krsnas tu bhagavan svayam... [SB 1.3.28]. Without going into the details, if we accept simply this fact, that "Here is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vasudeva, and everything is the exhibition of His different energies," vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma su-durlabhah [Bg. 7.19], if you simply understand, even if blindly, that everything, whatever we see, that is exhibition of Krsna's energy... Just like in this material world the practical example is, whatever we see, the trees and the plants and buildings, the chemicals, the... Everything is generating from the sunlight, energy of the sun globe. Similarly, whatever we see... Krsna says also,

So if you simply learn this art, that is Krsna consciousness. Then the result will be tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9]. You have to give up this body. That is certain. But if you don't take to Krsna consciousness, then you have to accept another body. Bhutva bhutva praliyate [Bg. 8.19]. So don't do this business. Finish this business. Samupeta-mrtyum. Na mocayed yah samupetya-mrtyum. This material existence means repetition of birth and death, bhavasritah. So if we want to be saved and elevated to our original position, then only means is Krsna consciousness. There is no other way out. That is stated by Prahlada, mukunda-caranambujam. He does not say for any other gods. Mukunda. Then what about others who are worshiping other demigods? Mudha. They have been... Kamais tais tair hrta-jnana yajanty anya-devatah [Bg. 7.20]. These rascals are befooled on account of lusty desires. Antavat tu phalam tesam [Bg. 7.23]. Suppose you worship a demigod. Yanti deva-vrata devan [Bg. 9.25]. You can be elevated to the celestial world, heavenly planet. But what will be benefit? You'll have to die there. The same death is there. You have to struggle there. Don't think that the demigods, they are living very peacefully. No. That is not possible. Indra is always embarrassed with so many things. You have read the fight with Indra. So many asuras, devasura, Hiranyakasipu. The same thing as... Simply they have got a long duration of life, a high standard of life, but the same struggle. Just like here you see in India and Europe, America. They have got the high standard of life, they have got skyscraper building, very big, big roads, motorcar. But what is that? Simply struggling. Are they happy? We are poor country. Of course, we have no such opulence. But the standard, the janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi [Bg. 13.9], is there, not that they are sitting idly and food is coming automatically. No. They have to struggle. So either you be in the heavenly planet or in the lowest planet, the struggle is there. Manah-sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati [Bg. 15.7]. So long we'll be in the material world, you have to... A-brahma-bhuvanal lokan punar avartino 'rjuna. Even you go to the Brahmaloka or Indraloka, Candraloka... They are trying to go to the Candraloka. They are trying to go to the Candraloka, but they do not know where is Candraloka. They are going and coming, going and coming. So one must know it that "Even if I go to the Brahmaloka by our material power, that is also punar avartino arjuna. That is bhavam asritah." So we should try to avoid the material existence and come to our original life, eternal life, blissful life, sac-cid-ananda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1]. That is really solution of the problem, ksemaya. Kusalah ksemaya. So long this human body we have got, and especially young men, don't spoil it. That is our Krsna consciousness movement.

Thank you very much. (end)