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PRABHUPĀDA: So today is the disappearance day of my Guru Mahārāja. As I told you that
“sādhavo jīva vā mara vā” There was a nice story the other day I told you that a sage is giving
different kinds of blessings to different types of persons. So to a king’s son, a prince, he blesses,
“rāja-putra ciraṁ jīva” “You are a king’s son, a prince. You live forever.” And muni-putra, the son
of a saintly person, he blessed him, “mā jīva mā jīva” “You don’t live.” Rāja-putra ciraṁ
“muni-putra mā jīva” And sādhu, devotees, he blessed him, jīva vā mara vā: “Either you live or you
die, as you like.” And there was a butcher, he blessed him, mā jīva mā mara: “You don’t die, don’t
live.” So these words are very significant. That I have already explained, still I am explaining. A
prince, he’s enjoying sense, that’s all. He has got enough facility for sense enjoyment. So his next life
is hellish. Because if you indulge in sex life, then Kṛṣṇa will give you facility to have sex life three
times in an hour, just like the pigeons, the monkeys, the sparrows, they are very sexually
strong. You have seen it. So the facility is given. So princely order, they are after sense enjoyment.
So he’s blessed that “Better you live forever, because after your death, you do not know what is
going to happen to you. You are going to get a hellish life. Better you live for some time. Go on
with your enjoyment.” And “muni-putra mā jīva. Brahmacārī”, working under the guidance,
under strict disciplinary guidance, of a spiritual master, he is blessed, mā jīva, “You better
die. Because you are so trained to enter into the kingdom of God, so why should you take so much
trouble? Better you die and go back to Godhead.” Ma jīva. And a devotee he blessed, jīva va maro
va: “My dear devotee, either you live or die, the same thing.” And the butcher, he blessed him, ma
jīva ma mara: “You don’t live, don’t die.” What he’s to do? His living condition is so abominable.
From the morning, he has to slaughter so many animals, see the bloodstain, the ghastly scene.
That is his livelihood. So what a horrible life this is. So “Don’t live. And don’t die also.” Because after
death, oh, he is going to be in so much hellish condition, nobody can describe. So both lives, living
condition and death, after death, his condition is very horrible. Anyway, apart from others, the
devotee, for him, appearance and disappearance the same thing.
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