Like Mahārāja Parīkṣit is the instance, that he was cursed by a brāhmaṇa that he would die within seven days, and he was preparing. He was preparing himself because, "I have to meet death." But we are so forward that we do not think of our death. But death is in . . . "As sure as death." Everyone has to meet death. And we have to consider what we are preparing for our life after death. That is intelligence. That is intelligence. Not that to be absorbed in simply only this small duration of life, say fifty years, sixty years or hundred years. You are not hundred years or sixty years, fifty years. You are soul. You are eternal. So what is your eternal life? How you can . . .
. . . become eternally happy? How you can have eternal life? That is your problem. That is your problem.
So Parīkṣit Mahārāja, therefore, when he was preparing . . . because he was emperor, many great sages, saintly person, many great kings and emperors assembled there, because everyone knew that, "He is going to die within seven days." So he had some notice that, "My dear sir, you'll die within seven . . ." But we can die any moment, because there is no notice. Even if I stepping down on the street I may die. There may be some accident. Even if we are sitting here, there may be some accident; we may immediately die.
So we have no notice. So we should be more careful and cautious than Parīkṣit Mahārāja, who had seven days' notice at least, that at least he was not going to die within seven days. So he was preparing. At that time he was asking all saintly persons there that, "What is my duty? Now I am going to die. What is my duty?" So in that way . . . because he was from the very beginning Kṛṣṇa conscious and devotee of Kṛṣṇa, so he also questioned, "Whether I shall simply remember Kṛṣṇa?"