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They (big, big scientists or big, big philosophers) talk of millions of years, but personally they live only fifty or sixty years, that's all. This is their position

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"They talk of millions of years, but personally they live only fifty or sixty years, that's all. This is their position"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

If you want satisfaction, if you want real life, then you accept this, yato bhaktir adhokṣaje. Here the same thing, anarthopaśa . . . this business, struggle for existence, "Survival of the fittest," they say. But nobody is fit to survive. Everyone has to die. Nobody, even big, big scientists or big, big philosophers and . . . they cannot survive. They talk of millions of years, but personally they live only fifty or sixty years, that's all. This is their position. They simply cheat people, "Maybe," "Perhaps," "Millions of years." And you are going to live for fifty years. Why you are talking of millions of years? So this is anartha.

If you want satisfaction, if you want real life, then you accept this, yato bhaktir adhokṣaje. Here the same thing, anarthopaśa . . . this business, struggle for existence, "Survival of the fittest," they say. But nobody is fit to survive. Everyone has to die. Nobody, even big, big scientists or big, big philosophers and . . . they cannot survive. They talk of millions of years, but personally they live only fifty or sixty years, that's all. This is their position. They simply cheat people, "Maybe," "Perhaps," "Millions of years." And you are going to live for fifty years. Why you are talking of millions of years? So this is anartha.

So anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣāt. If we want to stop this unwanted business . . . if you don't want, go on with your business: bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate (BG 8.19). Now take this life, this body of human being or Indian and then American, then cat, then dog, then hog, then tree—so many, eight million—you go on if you like. But if you are actually intelligent, if you are disgusted, that "This is not very good business. This is anartha, unwanted business. I have been forced, yayā sammohitaḥ . . . being bewildered, being illusioned, misdirected by this material energy, I am trying to be happy here in this material . . . and it is not my business." If one comes to this sense . . . that is stated in the Bhagavad . . . bahūnāṁ janmanām ante (BG 7.19): "After many, many births. After many, many births, jñānavān, one who is actually in knowledge, wise . . ." Then what does he do? Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate: He surrenders to Kṛṣṇa.

Page Title:They (big, big scientists or big, big philosophers) talk of millions of years, but personally they live only fifty or sixty years, that's all. This is their position
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-06-09, 16:55:02
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