Atheist class of men, in the beginning in their lifetime, they say, "What is God? We don’t care for God.” But when God comes as death they say, 'Yes, Sir, take me wherever You want." Finished. At that time you cannot say, “No, no, I don’t care for death.” But you must care. This is our position. And after death they do not know, they are so fools and rascals. After death their is life, they don't believe in. If they believe, then their whole plan is spoilt. But believe or not believe, there is. Just like this child: if you don’t believe, "No, no, this child will not change body," you may believe like that, but it will change. Similarly, I am old man. If I say, "No after-death. I have no," as I have changed my childhood body, youthhood to boyhood like that, again similarly I will change. These are very plain facts, but modern civilization, they are so fools and rascal, they cannot understand even this plain truth—tathā dehāntara-prāptir (BG 2.13). There is.
Now what kind of dehānta, change of body, that depends on you. You are preparing your own body; I am preparing my body. So that is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. You can prepare your next body in higher planets as demigods or you can prepare your next body within this planet. You can go to the Pitṛloka, and if you like you can go to Kṛṣṇa's abode. That depends on you. You make your choice. So the intelligent person will say that "What is the use of going to the higher planet or remaining here if I have to prepare my own body for the next life? Why not prepare my next life to associate with Kṛṣṇa?" This is intelligence. And what is the benefit of going to Kṛṣṇa? Kṛṣṇa says,
- yad gatvā na nivartante
- tad dhāma paramaṁ mama
- (BG 15.6)
That if you go back to home, back to Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, then you haven’t got to come again and accept this temporary, material body and suffer. This whole thing is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. Read very carefully. I have tried to explain.
So make your point like that we should not be attracted by the so-called material bodily comfortable life. This is also comfortable. Simply we imagine that city life, having many cars and many skyscraper buildings, big, big roads, that is comfortable. Comfortable means without anxiety. That is comfort. Real life is without anxiety. That is comfortable life. And if you are living, sleeping in a very high skyscraper building and full of anxieties, is that comfortable life? That is not comfortable life