Devotee: The question was when we take initiation from you, we understand that we become your eternal servitors.
Srila Prabhupada: Yes, but if you remain eternally in the instruction. If you fall from the instruction, how can you remain eternal? You have to stay on the platform, then eternally you are safe. If you fall down fromthe platform, then it is your fault. Just like we all in Vaikuntha.Now, we wanted to enjoy this material world, and we fell down, just likeJaya and Vijaya. Now we are trying to go back home again. Therefore wesay, "Go back to home, back to Godhead." There is a process. If youfollow the process, then you go back. If you fall down, that is yourfault. Therefore life is meant for tapasya. That is Risabhadeva’sInstruction, that our life should not be wasted like dogs and hogs. Itshould be utilized for tapasya, for understanding our position.This is the aim of life. We have to purify our existence. At the presentmoment our existence is impurified. Therefore we are subjected tobirth, death, old age and disease. And as soon as we purify ourself,then we are not subjected to these four material laws.
Trust nofuture. We must always be ready for destruction. The material world islike that. Canakya Pandita said, "Avoid bad men’s company. Always try toassociate with the learned, with the devotees. Avoid this worldly men’sassociation and try to associate with devotees—and then always thinkthat everything here in this material world is for a few days only."That’s all. Don’t associate with materialistic persons, try to associatewith devotees, and always think that everything here in this materialworld is for a few days only" That’s all. Don’t associate withmaterialistic persons, try to associate with devotees, and always thinkthat this world is for a few days.—And act piously, day and night.
Thisshould be our motto....
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