Death will not wait for your duties to finish; only Krishna consciousness removes all anxiety.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: [leads devotees in chanting] tasya pravayasaḥ putrā daśa teṣāṁ tu yo 'vamaḥ bālo nārāyaṇo nāmnā pitroś ca dayito bhṛśam [SB 6.1.24] [01:29] So he was engaged in maintaining the family. Everyone is engaged like that. Cats and dogs also do that. It is not very extraordinary thing.
Sometimes they say, "It is my duty." Yes, it is duty, but the prime duty is to solve the real problems: how to stop mṛtyu, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi [Bg 13.9]. That we forget. Minor duties we take prominent. That is the present situation.
They do not know that there is life after death, and according to our karma, we are getting the next life. Just this morning we were discussing. Kṛṣṇa is always ready. Automatically it is going on.
Kāraṇaṁ guṇa saṅgo 'sya [Bg 13.22]. As you desire according to the contamination of different modes of material nature, immediately the body's ready. Immediately after death. So everyone is engaged in so-called duties but forget the real duty. This is called māyā.
By the spell of māyā we forget what is the objective of life, what is the aim of life. This is called māyā. We are thinking this is our duty. No.
Real duty in the human form of life is here is a chance whether you want to go to back to home, back to Godhead, or again you want to go to hell, the repetition of birth and death. That is your choice. Otherwise why there are so many scriptures, religious system, all over the world? It is not only in India.
According to the capacity of understanding, in every civilized human society there is a system called religion. It may be Hindu religion, Christian religion or Buddha religion—these are major religious systems—but the aim is how to make a solution of the problems of life. That is. But because they do not seriously discuss nowadays the religious propensity, tendency of the human society decreases.