Story 11 Don't live, don't die
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 blessed, rāja-putra ciraṁ jīva:
“Oh, you are king’s son, 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, devotee, 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.
Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com