Only through understanding the soul, matter, and Supreme Lord can one escape birth and death forever.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 13.24 — October 23, 1973, Bombay 731023BG-BOMBAY [23:06 Minutes] Bg-13.24_731023BG-BOMBAY Pradyumna: Translation: "One who understands this philosophy concerning material nature, the living entity and the interaction of the modes of nature is sure to attain liberation. He will not take birth here again, regardless of his present position." [Bg. 13.24] Prabhupāda: So the aim of life is always being stressed by Kṛṣṇa, to stop this process of undergoing different changes of body. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi [Bg. 13.9]. [loud sound of firecrackers throughout] Na bhūyo 'bhijāyate.
In many places Kṛṣṇa has said this. Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama [Bg. 15.6]. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9]. This is the aim of life.
But people are misled by the blind leaders. We can say rascal leaders, but it may be very strong language. Kṛṣṇa has said. All persons who are not interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all such persons have been described as mūḍhas, rascals. Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ [Bg. 7.15].
Narādhamāḥ. He has chastised and used very strong words. Ajasram andha-yoniṣu [Bg. 16.19]: "I push them in the darkest region of material existence." Actually that is happening. People without God consciousness, without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, gradually becoming entrapped in ignorance. The such important life, human form of life, nobody is interested to know about the philosophy of life, value of life.
They have become so frivolous. In this evening, everyone is engaged in childish activities, but nobody is interested in the real problem of life. The real problem of life is stated, na bhūyaḥ abhijāyate. And big, big leaders...
Ask them what is the real problem of life. They do not know. Andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ [SB 7.5.31]. [aside:] Who is talking, this child? Durāśayā, "expectation which will never be fulfilled." Never be fulfilled.
They are trying to adjust things by so-called material adjustment, and that will not be. Therefore it is said durāśayā. Āśayā means "hope," and dur means "never to be fulfilled; far, far away." Durāśayā. Without God consciousness, without stopping the process of birth and death, you cannot be happy. That is not possibility. But they have become so foolish.