# Temporary World *On understanding that this world is duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam* --- ### You Will Not Be Allowed to Stay > So this happiness... Suppose this life I am a king. Maybe for few years, but I have to change this body. *Tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati*. So there is no happiness. Suppose you arrange very nicely to live very happily in this world, but you'll not be allowed to live. You'll not be allowed. *Duḥkhalayam aśāśvatam*. So long we live, there is happiness or distress. There is no happiness. To get happiness we have to go through distress. Anyway, mixed-up happiness or distress, even if you make nice arrangement, but all of a sudden you'll be asked to get out. *Duḥkhalayam aśāśvatam.* Therefore we should not be attracted with this happiness, so-called happiness of material world. *Aśāśvatam.* Even if you think you are happy, you'll not be allowed to stay here. — [[spoken/1977/770204ar.cal|Arrival Lecture, Calcutta, February 4, 1977]] --- ### Mrtyu-Samsara-Vartmani > So *mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani* is not good life. *Mṛtyu-saṁ..., mṛtyu... Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi.* If you take birth, then you'll have to die; and if you have to die, you have to take birth again. This is called *mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartma.* So this is not very good business. That intelligence is lacking. We are simply trying to adjust things for a few years, but we are not taking account of our real life. Our real life is *na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre*. That is real life, that we do not die. But our brain is so dull that we have accepted *janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi* as usual thing. — [[spoken/1977/770204ar.cal|Arrival Lecture, Calcutta, February 4, 1977]] --- ### Falsely Puffed Up > Out of this, Allahabad is very insignificant, and we, what to speak of our position, we are very, very insignificant in the creation of the Lord. But we are puffed up—"I am God" We are so much puffed up, our position is so insignificant, but we are puffed up; we speak of that "I am God" That is called *māyā.* That is called *māyā:* which is not actually fact. — [[spoken/1971/710201l1.all|Lecture at Government Center, Pedagogical Institute, Allahabad, February 1, 1971]] --- ### We Are Falsely Happy > *Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam*. We are trying to have, become happy by our scientific knowledge, by advancement of knowledge, but Kṛṣṇa says that you cannot make any solution of these four problems. What is that? Birth, death, old age and disease. That is not possible. So we are happy by false happiness. This is called *māyā.* This is culture, this Indian culture. They agree, there is a *māyā.* This is Eastern culture. *Māyā. Māyā* means we are falsely happy. — [[spoken/1973/730131le.cal|Lecture at Indo-American Society "East and West", Calcutta, January 31, 1973]] --- ### Not This Body > Therefore the *śāstra* says: *yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke*. Tri-dhātuke.* This body is made of three elements, according to Āyur-vedic system: *kapha pitta vāyu,* mucus, bile and air. So actually, the combination of this body is like that. As soon as the spirit soul goes out of this body, it is nothing but bone, flesh and urine and stool, and it has to be thrown away. In every society, as soon as the man is dead... So while he was living, he was acting so nicely, so intelligently. Now as soon as the soul is gone, immediately everything is gone. So do you think it is a combination of bones and flesh? — [[spoken/1973/730131le.cal|Lecture at Indo-American Society "East and West", Calcutta, January 31, 1973]] --- *5 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on the temporary world*