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<div class="heading">Before your next death you finish your Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is the real gain of life. Don't wait that "I shall become old, and when I shall become feeble—there is no more energy—then I shall become Kṛṣṇa conscious." Of course, Kṛṣṇa conscious, one can become in a moment perfect. But that is rarely done. Everyone should be taught Kṛṣṇa consciousness from the very childhood. This is human civilization.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.5-6 -- Vrndavana, September 9, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.5-6 -- Vrndavana, September 9, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
So it is the duty of ''guru'', it is the duty of father, it is the duty of the government, it is duty of the elderly relative to educate everyone. This is human life, not that simply eating like dog and dancing like dog. This is not human civilization. So ''sa kathaṁ nyarpitātmānaṁ kṛta-maitram acetanam''. If I think that "My spiritual master is here. He will save me," and if I do not train him how to save them, then what is the use of having such spiritual master? What is the use of having such father? And what is the use of such government? There is a Bengali poetry by a Bengali Vaiṣṇava: ''janame janame sabe pitā mātā paya, kṛṣṇa guru nahi mile bhajaha e aya''.(?) As soon as you take birth, there is father. Either you take birth as a snake or you take birth as a human being, without father and mother there is no question of birth. So father and mother you will get in every birth. But ''kṛṣṇa guru nahi mile bhajaha e aya''(?): Kṛṣṇa and ''guru'' will not be available in every birth. That is very important thing. You cannot get Kṛṣṇa in the form of a snake or a cat and a dog, but you can get Kṛṣṇa in the form as a human being.

Therefore human being, this form of human being . . . ''Labdhvā sudurlabham idaṁ bahu-sambhavānte'' ([[Vanisource:SB 11.9.29|SB 11.9.29]]). After many, many millions of years we have got this human form of body. It should not be misused simply like cats and dogs. This is not success of life. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja, although he was five-years-old boy, he advised his class friend that ''kaumāraṁ ācaret prājñaḥ''. He was instructing. He was a devotee. He was preaching, "My dear friend, you just become devotee of Kṛṣṇa." The children protested, "Eh! We shall now play or we shall become Kṛṣṇa conscious? No, no, we shall play." So Prahlāda Mahārāja repeatedly said, "No, no, no. Even we are children, we should not play. We should become Kṛṣṇa conscious." ''Kaumāraṁ ācaret prājñaḥ''. If you are intelligent . . . ''Kaumāraṁ. Kaumāram'' means from the childhood, from five years. ''Kaumāraṁ ācaret prājño dharmān bhāgavatān iha''. "Why? All right, if you say that I shall become Kṛṣṇa conscious, I shall become. Let us grow now." No. ''Durlabhaṁ mānuṣyaṁ janma tad api adhruvam arthadam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 7.6.1|SB 7.6.1]]). "No, no, no. Don't spoil your life in that way. It is . . . Although we have got this body, human form, but it is also ''adhruvam''. It will not stay."

So before your next death you finish your Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is the real gain of life. Don't wait, that "I shall become old, and when I shall become feeble—there is no more energy—then I shall become Kṛṣṇa conscious." Of course, Kṛṣṇa conscious, one can become in a moment perfect. But that is rarely done. Everyone should be taught Kṛṣṇa consciousness from the very childhood. This is human civilization.

Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa. 

Devotees: ''Jaya'' Śrīla Prabhupāda!
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