Just like the topmost demigod is Lord Brahmā. The demigod planets means their higher standard of life and span of life, more facilities, thousands and thousands—they are beyond our imagination. Just like Brahmā, Brahmās life is described in the Bhagavad-gītā, only one day:
- sahasra-yuga-paryantam
- ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ
- (BG 8.17)
Our yuga is their millennium. So one millennium means 4,300,000s of years. So multiply it, increase it by one thousand times, that is the duration of Brahmās one day. So it is beyond our mind and speculation; still, they are within the material world. So if you like, you can go there. But the duration of life may be so long years, but there is death. Death you cannot avoid within this material world, as I was explaining yesterday, last night:
- janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-
- duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam
- (BG 13.9)
Within this material world you cannot avoid these four principles of miserable condition: birth, death, old age and disease. That you cannot avoid, either you take your birth as Lord Brahmā or take your birth as insignificant ant. These things will go on.
But if you go back to Kṛṣṇa, as Kṛṣṇa says, mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām. There is facility of going back to Kṛṣṇa, or God. You can go. So why do you not accept this cultivation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness so that you may go back again to Kṛṣṇa? This is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, the highest benefactory contribution to the human being. We're giving such information: simply take Kṛṣṇa consciousness cultivation, or bhakti cult, and just after you are giving up this body . . .
You are giving up this body, as soon as you take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, as soon as you become a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, you become a candidate, pass candidate for going back to home, back to Godhead immediately. Just like I gave this example—in your country I do not know whether there is such an example. The British period in India there was ICS examination, Indian Civil Service. Similarly, nowadays the same ICS examination is going on under different name, IAS, Indian Administrative Service. Formally it was ICS, now the Indian government changed IAS. What is this IAS? You pass this examination . . .
The government requires so many officers for conducting the government, so there is an examination. High-class educated persons are allowed to sit in that examination, and I suppose thousands, they sit down, but they take the first, second, third, fourth, like that. As many officers they require, they select and take from, beginning from, according to the marks: first, second, third. In this way they collect officers.
So these officers, as soon as they are accepted by the government, they immediately they are officers. But they are first of all given a chance for being trained up. Under such-and-such officer he is trained up, and as soon as he is trained up he is given receipt, "Come on, you take charge." Similarly, as soon as you take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness you become a pioused officer for going back to home, back to Godhead. As soon as. As soon as you are initiated and you execute the regulative principles as they are prescribed, you become eligible; there is no doubt.