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From the Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 2 Chapter 1 Text12 and 15
To encourage the King, (Maharaja Pariksit) who had only seven remaining days of life, Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī asserted that there is no use in living hundreds of years without any knowledge of the problems of life — better to live for a moment with full consciousness of the supreme...
And Srila Prabhupada explains further on his purport:
The foolishness of gross materialism is that people think of making a permanent settlement in this world. However, it is a settled fact that one has to give up everything here that has been created by valuable human energy.
The bodily relations extend not only to this body but also to the family members, wife, children, society, country, and many other things that end at the end of life. After death, one forgets everything about the present bodily relations; we have a little experience of this at night when we go to sleep.
While sleeping, we forget everything about this body and bodily relations, although this forgetfulness is a temporary situation for only a few hours. Death is nothing but sleeping for a few months to develop another term of bodily engagement, which we are awarded by the law of nature according to our aspiration.
Read also Jaipal Singh Datta.
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