Trees they live for five thousand years or more than that

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Prabhupada, Melbourne, May 21, 1975 : […] Nobody wants to die. He wants to enjoy life perpetually. Now the scientists are trying to live more years. So what is the use of living more years? The sastra says, taravah kim na jivanti [SB 2.3.18] . The trees they live for five thousand years or more than that. So do they not live long years? So sane man will think that “What is the use of living for five hundred or five thousand years, standing in one place?”

So this is not advancement. The advancement is that, as Krishna says, that to solve the problem of birth, death, old age, and disease. That is advancement. So Krishna says, therefore, that abrahma-bhuvanal lokan punar avartino ’rjuna. Even if you go… Why to the moon planet? Even if you go to the topmost planet, which is called Brahmaloka… There you can live for many millions of years, but you have to die. As you have to die here, as the cats dies, dog dies… We human being, we also die. The demigods, they also die. The Brahma will also die. Nobody can save himself from death. Death… Birth, death, old age, and disease. We have already discussed that we living beings, soul, we are eternal. We are eternal, we are simply changing the body, one body to another. In this way, material life means you can live for one minute or one hour or hundred years or millions of years. You get a particular type of body, and according to that body, you live. And therefore you have to die. Krishna says that abrahma-bhuvanal lokan punar avartino ’rjuna. Even if you go to the topmost planet, you can live for long, long years, but you will have to die and again come to this earthly planet and again begin your life. This is going on. So how it is going on? Pravrtti-marga. “I want to enjoy sense gratification.” This is the basic principle. So this Krishna consciousness movement means that back to home, back to Godhead, not to make proceed or progress towards birth, death, old age, and disease, but make progress towards no birth, no death, no old age, no disease. That is Krishna consciousness. That is called nivrtti-marga. Nivrtti-marga. Nivrtti means stop this type of progress.