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Story 11 Don't live, don't die

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PRABHUPĀDA: So, today is the
disappearance day of my Guru Mahārāja.

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As I told you that
<i>sādhavo jīva vā mara vā</i>.

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There was a nice story
the other day I told you.

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That a sage is giving different kinds of
blessings to different types of persons.

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So to a king’s son, a prince, he
blessed, <i>rāja-putra ciraṁ jīva</i>:

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“Oh, you are king’s son,
prince: you live forever.”

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And <i>muni-putra</i>, the
son of a saintly person,

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he blessed him: <i>mā jīva
mā jīva</i>: “You don’t live.”

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<i>Rāja-putra ciraṁ
muni-putra mā jīva</i>.

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And <i>sādhu</i>, devotee,
he blessed him:

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<i>jīva vā mara vā</i>: “Either you
live or you die, as you like.”

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And there was a
butcher, he blessed him:

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<i>mā jīva mā mara</i>: “You
don’t die, don’t live.”

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So these words are
very significant.

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That I have already explained,
still I am explaining.

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A prince, he’s enjoying
sense, that’s all.

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He has got enough facility
for sense enjoyment.

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So his next life is hellish.

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Because if you indulge in sex life,

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then Kṛṣṇa will give you facility to
have sex life three times in an hour,

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just like the pigeons, the monkeys, the
sparrows, they are very sexually strong.

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You have seen it.

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So, the facility is given.

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So princely order, they
are after sense enjoyment.

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So, he’s blessed that, “Better you live
forever, because after your death,

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you do not know what is going to happen
to you; you are going to get a hellish life.

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Better you live for some time.

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Go on with your enjoyment.”

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And <i>muni-putra mā jīva</i>.

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<i>Brahmacārī</i>, working
under the guidance,

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under strict disciplinary
guidance, of a spiritual master,

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he is blessed: <i>mā
jīva</i>: “You better die.

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Because you are so trained to
enter into the kingdom of God,

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so why should you
take so much trouble?

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Better you die and go
back to Godhead.” <i>Ma jīva</i>.

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And a devotee he blessed:

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<i>jīva va maro va</i>: “My dear devotee,
either you live or die, the same thing.”

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And the butcher, he blessed him: <i>ma</i>
<i>jīva ma mara</i>: “You don’t live, don’t die.”

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What he’s to do?

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His living condition
is so abominable.

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From the morning, he has to
slaughter so many animals.

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See the bloodstain.

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The ghastly scene.

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That is his livelihood.

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So what a horrible life this is.

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So “Don’t live.

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And, don’t die also.”

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Because after death, oh, he is going
to be in so much hellish condition:

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Nobody can describe.

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So both lives, living condition and death,
after death, his condition is very horrible.

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Anyway, apart from
others, the devotee:

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for him: appearance and
disappearance—the same thing.

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