THE PRABHUPADA CONNECTION
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We Are Always in Danger
(Kṛṣṇa saves His devotee from the ocean of birth and death)

"So at the present moment, people are becoming implicated with māyā more and more, because foolishly they are thinking that 'I am now very comfortable. I have got this skyscraper building. I have got so much bank balance. I have got so nice wife. So I am comfortable.' They are thinking like that. They do not know that it is not comfortable life. It is dangerous life, because you have to change your body. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ (BG 2.13). Why don't you remember that? Because as soon as death will take place next moment... You are proprietor of this house; next moment you become dog of this house. If you have got very much attachment for the house, and at the same time your activities have been like dog's, then you get the body of a dog, and you may remain in this quarter and bark, 'Gyeow! Gyeow! Gyeow! Gyeow! Gyeow!' That they do not know. Nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma (SB 5.5.4). When there is nice building, nice comfortable life, they do anything sinful without knowing that 'I am not going to be escaped by these sinful activities. I will have to suffer for this. As I am enjoying now material comforts due to my some pious activities in the past, similarly, if I commit sinful life, then I'll have to suffer next life.' That they do not know.

Therefore it is always dangerous. To enjoy in this material life is dangerous because you are creating next life very, very abominable. That... The only escape is... That will be explained by Kuntīdevī in the next verse, that they were in danger, but they were simply thinking of Kṛṣṇa, 'Kṛṣṇa, we have no other shelter.' This position should be taken. We are always in danger, and we should always think of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. Then we are safe. Otherwise it is very dangerous."

(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Mayapur, October 4, 1974)

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