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So we have to understand that what is the aim of life. Aim of life is go back to home, back to Godhead. Unless we understand this, our life is in darkness. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninah [SB 7.5.31]. We are trying to be happy in this place of miserable condition, manufacturing so many ways of life. In the modern age they are thinking that “If we have got a very nice car and nice residential quarter and nice wife…” Oh, people also do not care now for wife and children.
They want car, of course. That is essential, although at any moment he can meet accident and finish. So this is not the aim of life. The aim of life is described that how to go back to home, back to Godhead. That should be. So if that is our aim of life, then we must engage ourself in devotional service, or Krsna consciousness. Then our life is successful. Otherwise we shall continue and drag the miserable condition of life, means we shall change in different ways, but it will never be successful.
Thank you very much. (end)
Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.18
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Honolulu, May 18, 1976