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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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People are very much anxious to become immortal. Nobody wants to die. Everyone knows that, "I shall die." But if there is immediately some danger, fire, immediately you go away from this room. Why? I do not wish to die. I do not wish to die. Although I know I must have to die, still, why do I go away? I know that . . . "Oh, let there be fire. I have to die, today or tomorrow. Let me die." No. I do not wish to die. Therefore I go away. This is psychology. So everyone wants to live forever. That's a fact. So if you want to live forever, then you have to take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so important and nice. Everyone wants to live. So actually, if you want to live, then you take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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[[Vanisource:720612 - Lecture SB 02.03.17 - Los Angeles|720612 - Lecture SB 02.03.17 - Los Angeles]]
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People are very much anxious to become immortal. Nobody wants to die. Everyone knows that, "I shall die." But if there is immediately some danger, fire, immediately you go away from this room. Why? I do not wish to die. I do not wish to die. Although I know I must have to die, still, why do I go away? I know that . . . "Oh, let there be fire. I have to die, today or tomorrow. Let me die." No. I do not wish to die. Therefore I go away. This is psychology. So everyone wants to live forever. That's a fact. So if you want to live forever, then you have to take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so important and nice. Everyone wants to live. So actually, if you want to live, then you take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

This verse confirms it. Āyur harati vai puṁsām udyann astaṁ ca yann asau. The sun is rising early in the morning. As it is rising, gradually it is taking your life. That's all. That is the business. But if you want to defeat Kṛṣṇa . . . er, the sun . . . sun is very powerful. It is very difficult to fight. But you can fight with the sun. How? Simply by reading kṛṣṇa-kathā, the words of Kṛṣṇa. Uttama-śloka-vārtayā. Vārtayā. Uttama-śloka, Kṛṣṇa. So this is the simple process. So don't waste your time by talking nonsense. Therefore Rūpa Gosvāmī has advised, atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś ca prajalpo niyamāgrahaḥ. Prajalpaḥ.

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:atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś ca
:prajalpo niyamāgrahaḥ
:laulyaṁ jana-saṅgaś ca
:ṣaḍbhir bhaktir pranaśyati 
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Our devotional life can be finished, means may be baffled . . . those who are in devotional life, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is fortunate. This fortune can be ruined by six things. Be careful. What is that? Atyāhāra. Atyāhāra means eating more than necessity or collecting more than necessity. Āhāran. Āhāran means collecting. We require to collect some money, but we should not collect more than necessity. That we shouldn't.
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