Prabhupāda: If you can avoid death, disease, old age, then you are well. You cannot avoid all these things. You must become old man, you must die, you must be diseased—then where is the meaning of this "well"? It is simply concoction. (break) Where is happiness? Where is well-being? That they do not know. (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. That they do not know. Just like a man lying on sickbed, and some friends come, "How are you?" "Yes, today I am well." What is this "well"? You are lying on the sickbed, hospital, and you are speaking, "Yes, I am well." (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya.
There is no "well." So long you are subjected to birth, death, old age and disease, there is no question of "well." When you can avoid these things, then you are well. (break) . . . have got now our independence. What is that independence? No rice, no gehu. What is this independence? (break) Sab control ho jayega, sab . . . (Everything will be controlled, this) . . ."godless civilization" Sab bhukha marega, bas yehi hai. (Everyone will die of hunger, that's it.) (break) . . . take shelter of Kṛṣṇa, everything is false. You cannot escape. Yama ache piche. (Yamarāja is behind you.) The death is there. Mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham (BG 10.34). So at the end everything will be taken away by Kṛṣṇa in the form of death. Mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham. (japa) Everyone, especially the karmīs, they think that they will live forever.
Mr. Sar: Yes.
Prabhupāda: This is the most wonderful thing. Because everyone is dying, but the man who is not yet dead, he thinks that he'll live forever. This is the most wonderful thing.
- ahany ahani lokāni
- gacchanti yama-mandiram
- śeṣaḥ sthitam icchanti
- kim āścaryam ataḥ param
- (Mahābhārata, Vana-parva 313.116)
He does not think that, "I will have to die. So what I am doing?"