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video: ISKCON Bangalore Group
Guest, April 18, 1974, Hyderabad: What is the ultimate aim of this Krishna consciousness?
Prabhupada: Yes, ultimate aim is that there is spirit and matter. As there is material world, there is spiritual world also. Paras tasmat tu bhavah anyah avyaktah avyaktat sanatanah [Bg. 8.20]. The spiritual world is eternal. The material world is temporary. We are spirit soul. We are eternal.
Therefore our business is to go back to the spiritual world, not that we remain in the material world and change body from bad to worse or worse to bad, er, good.
That is not our business. That is a disease. Our healthy life is to enjoy eternal life. Yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama [Bg. 15.6]. So our human life should be utilized for attaining that perfectional stage—not to get any more this material body which we have to change. This is the aim of life.
Guest: Is that perfection possible in one life?
Prabhupada: Yes, in one moment, if you agree. Krishna says that
sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami ma sucah [Bg. 18.66]
We change our body on account of sinful activities, but if we surrender to Krishna and take Krishna consciousness, immediately you are on the spiritual platform.
mam ca yo ’vyabhicarena bhakti-yogena sevate sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-bhuyaya kalpate [Bg. 14.26]
As soon as you become unalloyed devotee of Krishna, you immediately transcend this material platform. Brahma-bhuyaya kalpate. You remain in the spiritual platform. And if you die in the spiritual platform, then you go to the spiritual world.
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by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
April 18, 1974, Hyderabad
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