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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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The science cannot give you permanent life. Oh, that is not possible. You may . . . however you may be proud of your scientific advancement of knowledge, but Bhagavad-gītā says that four things . . . Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam (BG 13.9): "My dear sir, however you may make advancement in scientific knowledge, you cannot stop birth, you cannot stop death, you cannot stop old age, neither you can stop diseases.".
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[[Vanisource:660311 - Lecture BG 02.13 - New York|660311 - Lecture BG 02.13 - New York]]
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Just like our Captain sāheb is here. I have seen in the ship he has got very serious duty in the ocean. He's always consulting the chart and the latitude, longitude, which side the ship is going. That is anxiety, because so many lives, so many property is under his control. Any, a slight mistake, would play havoc. We do not know. I was asking the Captain sāheb, "Where you are going?" But I do not know. I see simply vast of water. But he has got responsibility. He knows the thing.

So any responsible officer . . . any responsible . . . your President Johnson, he's also full of anxiety. I am also full of anxiety. You are also full of anxiety. Even a, a small bird, you'll find . . . You give a small bird some grains, you'll see like this: "Is there enemy? Somebody's coming. Somebody's killing me." So full of anxiety. This is the condition. This is the condition. So you cannot . . . you cannot be free from the anxiety, dehinaḥ. Prahlāda Mahārāja says, sadā samudvigna-dhiyām.

And why this anxiety? Now, asad-grahāt. Asad-grahāt: "Because he has accepted this temporary body." He is eternal. A living spirit is eternal, but he has been forced to accept this temporary body. This is my position. One should be conscious of his precarious position, that "I am eternal, but I am encaged in a temporary body which will not exist. However I may try to make it youthful by so many arrangement, but no." The science cannot give you permanent life. Oh, that is not possible. You may . . . however you may be proud of your scientific advancement of knowledge, but Bhagavad-gītā says that four things . . . Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam ([[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.9]]): "My dear sir, however you may make advancement in scientific knowledge, you cannot stop birth, you cannot stop death, you cannot stop old age, neither you can stop diseases." You see?

So, so long we have got this body, so we must have anxieties. That is the law of nature. Now here, here it is said that . . . now let us finish that. Prahlāda Mahārāja said, sadā samudvigna-dhiyām ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.5|SB 7.5.5]]): "My dear father, for persons who have accepted this temporary material body and is full of anxiety always, for them, my idea is that they should give up this materialistic life and surrender unto Hari." Hari means Bhagavān, the Supreme Lord.

That is the way of getting out of . . . and actually, this is so. In the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find in the last instruction to Arjuna is, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]): "This is the most confidential knowledge I am giving you, because you are My friend and because I love you very much. Therefore this is My last word."

So we can get free from all anxieties as soon as we are surrendered to Hari. That is the whole system of spiritual knowledge. Ārādhito yadi haris tapasa tatha kim (Nārada Pañcarātra 1.2.6).
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