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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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When one is intelligent actually, then he considers that "If I am eternal, why should I accept repetition of birth and death?" That is intelligence.
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[[Vanisource:730625 - Lecture SB 01.10.11-12 - Mayapur|730625 - Lecture SB 01.10.11-12 - Mayapur]]
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So ''bhava-sāgarasya.'' The whole universe is ''bhava-sāgara. Sāgara'' means ocean, or sea. And ''bhava'' means repetition of birth and death. ''Bhava. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate'' ([[vanisource:BG 8.19 (1972)|BG 8.19]]), in the ''Bhagavad-gītā''. Once we take birth, we remain here for some time, then we give up this body; we accept another body. ''Tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati'' ([[vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]). We have to . . . so long we are in this material ocean, we have to accept these laws of nature, repetition of birth and death. This is called ''bhava-sāgara''. So we are eternal, ''nityaḥ śāśvato 'yaṁ na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre'' ([[vanisource:BG 2.20 (1972)|BG 2.20]]). It requires little intelligence that, "I am eternal. Why I am in this business, accepting one body and again giving up, giving it up? And there is no guarantee what kind of body I'm going to accept next." There is no guarantee. It will be according to your work. We can become an insect, or we can become the demigod. We can become tree; we can become animal—anything, according to our ''karma''. ''karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa'' ([[vanisource:SB 3.31.1|SB 3.31.1]]).

So this rascal civilization, they do not understand what is ''bhava-sāgara,'' what is ''bhava''. Nothing. They are so rascal. And they're passing on as civilized men. No knowledge. So when one is intelligent actually, then he considers that, "If I am eternal, why should I accept repetition of birth and death?" That is intelligence. But they have given (in) to birth and death—"Never mind." Even university students, they say, "If next life, if I become animal, what is the wrong?" Just see, how much degraded. In Hawaii University, one student said that, "Even if I become an animal, what is the wrong there?" Just see how much degraded the human society has become. They are prepared to become animal, cats and dogs, trees, anything.
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