Cultivate Krishna consciousness while your body is strong; genuine pilgrimage is seeking devotees, not merely bathing in rivers.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.5 — December 7, 1975, Vṛndāvana 751207SB-VRNDAVAN [33:13 Minutes] SB-07.06.05_751207SB-VRNDAVAN Harikeśa: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Seventh Canto, Sixth Chapter, verse number five.
[leads chanting of verse, etc.] tato yateta puruṣaḥ ksemāya bhavam āśritaḥ śarīraṁ pauruṣaṁ yāvan na vipadyeta puṣkalam [SB 7.6.5] [break] [01:19] Translation: "For this reason, a person who is fully competent to distinguish wrong and right while keeping himself in material existence, bhavam āśritaḥ, must endeavor for achieving the highest goal of life so long the body is stout and strong and is not embarrassed by the dwindling condition of life." Prabhupāda: tato yateta puruṣaḥ ksemāya bhavam āśritaḥ śarīraṁ pauruṣaṁ yāvan na vipadyeta puṣkalam [SB 7.6.5] So Prahlāda Mahārāja said that people are engaged for improving economic condition. He has cancelled, that tat prayāso na kartavyo yata āyur vyayaḥ param [SB 7.6.4]. Prahlāda Mahārāja derides, that "These people who are simply wasting time for improving material condition, āhāra-nidrā-bhayaṁ maithun, they are not at all intelligent, because simply wasting time, valuable time." That I have explained yesterday, how important is this human form of life. Every moment should be utilized.
Every moment is so valuable that if we lose one moment we lose so many hundred thousands of dollars. That they do not understand. So how time can be utilized very nicely, that was also explained yesterday, mukunda-caraṇāmbujam, 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. Kṛṣṇa comes... The whole Bhagavad-gītā teaching ultimately ends with this order, mukunda-caraṇāmbujam. Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66].
This is the ultimate. But because people have become deviated, fallen, they do not know what is the end of life, what is the goal of life. They are simply wasting time. Vimura-cetaḥ[?].
Prahlāda Mahārāja 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 māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān [SB 7.9.43]. "They have forgotten You." Vimukha cetasa.
They think that "What is the use of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness?" Vimukha. And what is required? Māyā-sukhāya. For few years to live in material comforts, bharam udvahato vimūḍhān, they are manufacturing so many big, big skyscraper building, nice road, nice car.