Arrival Speech

Prabhupāda: Jaya.

Devotees: Jaya.

Prabhupāda: [Hindi]

Viśvambhara: [Hindi]

Prabhupāda: So I cannot speak. I am feeling very weak. I was to go to other places like Chandigarh program, but I cancelled the program because the condition of my health is very deteriorating. So I preferred to come to Vṛndāvana. If death takes place, let it take here. So there is nothing to be said new. Whatever I have to speak, I have spoken in my books. Now you try to understand it and continue your endeavor. Whether I am present or not present doesn't matter. As Kṛṣṅa is living eternally, similarly, living being also lives eternally. But kīrtir yasya sa jīvati [Cāṅakya Paṅḍita]: "One who has done service to the Lord lives forever." So you have been taught to serve Kṛṣṅa, and with Kṛṣṅa we'll live eternally. Our life is eternal. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg 2.20].

[For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.]

A temporary disappearance of this body, it doesn't matter. Body is meant for disappearance. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ [Bg 2.13].

[As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.]

So live forever by serving Kṛṣṅa. Thank you very much.

Devotees: Jaya! [offer obeisances] [break]