Abandon the foolish belief in permanent material security; prepare now for the inevitable departure to your next body.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — December 27, 1972, Bombay 721227R1-BOMBAY [32:29 Minutes] Conv_721227R1-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: They think that "Now I have become this position, it will continue." But how long it will continue? They do not care for this. śeṣāḥ sthāvaram icchanti kim āścaryam ataḥ param [Mahābhārata, Vana-parva 313.116] The Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja was asked by Dharmarāja, "What is the most wonderful thing in this world?" He explained that, ahany ahani lokāni gacchanti yama-mandiram [Mahābhārata, Vana-parva 313.116] 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. That he does not know. So long he lives, he thinks, "It is my permanent position." That is mistake, the greatest mistake.
Everyone is thinking. That is the most wonderful thing. Nobody thinks that "I'll have to die, I'll have to take another body, I'll have to change the whole atmosphere, and what I am preparing for that?" Nobody thinks. This is the defect of the civilization.
Indian lady: That must be due to māyā? Prabhupāda: Huh? This is māyā, illusion. He's thinking that "This is my permanent position." Any moment you can be finished. That he does not take seriously.
Therefore, Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhiduḥkha-doṣānudarśanam [Bg. 13.9] You have become confident that you are happy, but do you consider janma, mṛtyu, jarā, vyādhi? What you have done for this? Can you stop death? Can you stop birth?
Can you stop disease? Can you stop old age? Then, what you have made solution? If these miserable condition of life are there, then what is the value of your scientific advancement? This is the essence of material life, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi.
And Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means to stop this problem, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi. That is conclusion. How scientific movement it is. People should try to understand solution of the all problems.