Lusty desires never cease even at death; spiritual life must begin in childhood to escape material bondage forever.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.8 — December 10, 1975, Vṛndāvana 751210SB-VRNDAVAN [35:39 Minutes] SB-07.06.08_751210SB-VRNDAVAN Harikeśa: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Seventh Canto, Sixth Chapter, eighth verse.
[leads chanting of verse, etc.] durāpūreṇa kāmena mohena ca balīyasā śeṣaṁ gṛheṣu saktasya pramattasyāpayāti hi [SB 7.6.8] [break] [00:51] Translation: "Persons with uncontrolled mind and senses become more and more attached in family life on account of never-satiable lusty desires, which are very strong. The balance ten years of life of such madmen is also wasted because they cannot engage themselves in devotional service." Prabhupāda: durāpūreṇa kāmena mohena ca balīyasā śeṣaṁ gṛheṣu saktasya pramattasyāpayāti hi [SB 7.6.8] So our lusty desires, sense gratification, cannot be satisfied even throughout the whole life. The account is being given of the whole life, hundred years. So out of hundred years, fifty years wasted by sleeping, twenty years wasted by playing like boy and young man, and twenty years as old man, diseased, invalidated, and balance ten years.
Because ninety years he has been so much attached to materialistic way of life, naturally the balance ten years, śeṣam, he cannot utilize any other way. He can simply engage himself in that lusty desire for material existence. Adurātmanena kāmena. In this connection there is a very instructive story—it is fact—that the Emperor Akbar, he enquired from his minister...
He had one very big minister; I forget just his name. Devotee: Birbal. Prabhupāda: What is? Devotee: Birbal. Prabhupāda: Birbal? Maybe. Yes. That "How long one remains in lusty desires?" This was Emperor Akbar's question, and the minister replied, "Up to the last point of death." So Akbar did not believe it.
Akbar said, "No, no. How it can be?" So the minister said, "All right, I shall reply, timely." So one day, all of a sudden he approached the emperor and said, "Sir, you immediately be ready to come with me with your young daughter." So Akbar, he knew that this minister is very intelligent; there must be some purpose. She went with him, and he took him to a person who was going to die. And the minister asked the emperor that "You kindly study the man who is going to die, on his face." So in the Akbar [indistinct], and his young daughter was entering, the dying man was seeing to the face of the young girl.
So Akbar—after all, he was emperor; he could study—he, "Yes, Birbal, what he said, that up to the last point of death this desire is there to see the face of a young girl." This is called durāpūreṇa. It is never fulfilled. This attraction of man and women in family life continues. The other day one devotee came to me, and he was almost crying, that "My wife is suffering, and she may not live.
So kindly give me some blessings." Before the death of his wife—because there was nothing serious—the wife has said, "My dear husband, I may not live very long with you," and he is so disturbed that he is thinking, "My wife may die at any moment." So this is the position. This is not very extraordinary thing. This attraction of man and women, this is material bondage. Therefore it is said, durāpūreṇa kāmena [SB 7.6.8]: these lusty desires is never fulfilled, even up to the point of death.