Everyone should try to avoid death and rebirth by cultivating spiritual life and should not submit to death without struggling to survive

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"Everyone should try to avoid death and rebirth by cultivating spiritual life and should not submit to death without struggling to survive"

SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13

Everyone should try to avoid death and rebirth by cultivating spiritual life and should not submit to death without struggling to survive.

SB 10.1.48, Purport:

It is natural for a person facing untimely death to try his best to save himself. This is one's duty. Although death is sure, everyone should try to avoid it and not meet death without opposition because every living soul is by nature eternal. Because death is a punishment imposed in the condemned life of material existence, the Vedic culture is based on avoiding death (tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti (BG 4.9)). Everyone should try to avoid death and rebirth by cultivating spiritual life and should not submit to death without struggling to survive. One who is not trying to stop death is not an intelligent human being. Because Devakī was face to face with imminent death, it was Vasudeva's duty to save her, as he was trying his best to do. He therefore considered another way to approach Kaṁsa so that Devakī would be saved.