This body is temporary, but our tendency is to live forever. The scientists are trying how to keep this body fit. One Russian scientist said that, "By material science we shall be able to keep this body forever." They may say like that, but in the history we do not find any evidence that anyone has ever been able to keep this body forever, immortal. That is not possible.
But this tendency can be satisfied if you transfer yourself to the spiritual world. Because we are marginal. I have already said that we are in a marginal position. If we like, we can keep on this material side of the nature, and if we like, we can transfer ourself to the spiritual side of nature. And what we are? We are also spiritual spark. Therefore we cannot adjust with this material nature.
Our real hankering is how to go to the spiritual nature. But due to our long association with this material nature, we are thinking wrongly that, "I am a product of this material nature. I will have to adjust with the elements here, and . . . but because there is no other way, so as long is possible, let me live comfortably and satisfactorily." This is our nature.
But we get information from Bhagavad-gītā, by simply doing one thing you can make your life permanent, eternal and never to die again, or never to take birth again. What is that? That Lord Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā that:
- janma karma me divyaṁ
- yo jānāti tattvataḥ
- tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
- naiti mām eti kaunteya
- (BG 4.9)
Kṛṣṇa says: "Simply by understanding about My appearance and My activities, janma karma . . ." Janma means appearance, and karma means activities. Janma karma me divyam: "They are transcendental." Yo jānāti tattvataḥ: "If anyone understands in truth," tyaktvā deham, "then such person, after giving up this body," punar janma naiti, "do not come to take birth again in this material world, but he comes to Me."