# Time and Death *On the certainty of death and the urgency of spiritual life* --- ### Everyone Thinks They Will Not Die > Every moment millions of people are dying. *Śeṣāḥ sthāvaram icchanti.* But those who are not dying, he's thinking that "I will not die. I will stay in my this position. Therefore I don't care for anything." This is most wonderful. Everyone is thinking that "I shall continue." He forgets that at any moment he'll be kicked out. — [[spoken/1972/721227r1.bom|Room Conversation, Bombay, December 27, 1972]] --- ### They Do Not Know Life After Death > This world is condemned either by Śaṅkarācārya or others, everyone. But the modern rascals, they have taken this world as everything. Therefore they are in ignorance. Do you follow? They have taken this world, this life of fifty years or sixty years, at most hundred years, as reality. These rascals have no knowledge that we have life after annihilation of this body. *Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ*, who knows it? Bring big, big men, big, big politician. — [[spoken/1976/761231iv.bom|Press Interview, Bombay, December 31, 1976]] --- ### Life's Mission Unknown > They do not know. Life's mission is how to achieve the platform where I can talk with Kṛṣṇa, I can talk with Lord. Where is that? Nobody knows that. They do not believe there is Kṛṣṇa, there is Lord, there is God and you can see Him, you can talk with Him. They do not believe. Mostly impersonalists. And impersonalists, they're all mostly atheists. So what they'll do by jugglery and this magic? This magic will be finished within twenty or fifty years. That will be finished. Show this magic, that "No! No more death." That is real magic. What is this magic? In a moment you'll be slapped and go. — [[spoken/1976/761231iv.bom|Press Interview, Bombay, December 31, 1976]] --- ### No Solution for Death > So there is no solution for birth, there is no solution for death, there is no solution for disease and there is no solution for old age. There was a great scientist, Professor Einstein, he also died in old age. Why did he not stop to check old age? Everyone is trying to remain youthful. Where is that process? So they do not care how to solve this, because this is beyond their means. They are giving something bluff, that's all. They do not care what is the real problem, how to solve it. They do not care for it. — [[spoken/1968/681230iv.la|Press Interview, Los Angeles, December 30, 1968]] --- ### Death Will Come to Everyone > Their value is increasing due to our temple also, because now they advertise in the papers, "Next to Hare Kṛṣṇa *mandir.*" — [[spoken/1975/750815mw.bom|Morning Walk, Bombay, August 15, 1975]] --- ### After Death, You Must Change Body > For this subject matter there is no university education. What type of body am I going to get? Will that be of a hog or a demigod, or a tree, or a fly? No such consideration. *andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās te 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ* He is bound up by the nature's law still he doesn't think and the leaders misguide him. *andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās.* This is going all over the world. — [[spoken/1976/761114le.vrn|Lecture in Hindi, Vṛndāvana, November 14, 1976]] --- ### Not Even A Moment Should Be Wasted > Advancement of devotional service means always be alert whether a moment is misused. Because you cannot get back even a moment of your life if you pay millions of dollars. Not possible. Nineteen sixty-seven, 10th June, 5 o'clock, you had to do something, and if you have missed, then that 5 o'clock, 10th June, 1960, ah, '76, will never come back, even you pay millions of dollars. So if that moment is improperly passed, then what is more loss than that? So *avyartha-kālatvam.* We should not let even a moment of our life misused. *Avyartha-kālatvam. Nāma-gāne sadā ruciḥ.* This is advanced life of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. — [[spoken/1976/760610gc.la|Garden Conversation, Los Angeles, June 10, 1976]] --- ### Real Problem Is Birth, Death, Old Age, Disease > The real problem is, Kṛṣṇa says in the *Bhagavad-gītā, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam*. Our real miserable condition of life is birth, death, old age and disease. Where is scientific help to mitigate these miseries? There is no stoppage of birth; there is no stoppage of death; there is no stoppage of disease. You can manufacture very good medicine for disease, but you stop disease. That is not possible. — [[spoken/1974/741227sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.18, Bombay, December 27, 1974]] --- *8 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on time and death*