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on Viṣṇu. Impersonalists imagine that they see the form of Viṣṇu or the Lord, but those who are personalists do not imagine this—they actually see the form of the Supreme Lord. Either way, if one concentrates his mind through imagination or if one actually sees, one has to concentrate his mind on the Viṣṇu form.  Mām  means unto the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu. Anyone who leaves this body and concentrates his mind on Viṣṇu enters into the spiritual kingdom after quitting his body. Those who are actually  yogīs  do not desire to enter any other planet because they know that there is temporary life on the temporary planets, and thus they are not interested. That is intelligence.
Those who are satisfied with temporary happiness, temporary life and temporary facilities are not intelligent according to  Bhagavad-gītā .  Antavat tu phalaṁ teṣam tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām : “One whose brain substance is very meager is interested in temporary things.” (Bg. 7.23) That is the version of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavad-gītā . I am eternal, so why should I be interested in nonpermanent things? Who wants nonpermanent existence? No one wants it. If we are living in an apartment and the landlord asks us to vacate, we are sorry, but we are not sorry if we move to a better apartment. This then is our inclination. We do not wish to die because we are eternal.
The material atmosphere is robbing us of our eternality. The  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  says, “Our duration of life is being diminished by the sun, beginning from its rising until the time it sets.” Daily we are losing the duration of our lives. If the sun rises at 5:30 in the morning, at 5:30 in the evening twelve
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hours have been taken away from the duration of our lives. We will never get this time back. If we ask any scientist, “I will give you twelve million dollars. Please give me back these twelve hours,” he will reply. “No, it is not possible.” The scientist cannot do it. Therefore the  Bhāgavatam  says that from sunrise to sunset the duration of our lives is being diminished.
Time is called  kāla —past, present, and future. What is now present, tomorrow will be past, and what is now future, tomorrow will be present. But this past, present and future are the past, present and future of the body. We do not belong to the category of the past, present and future. We belong to the category of eternity. Therefore one should be concerned with how to attain or how to be elevated to the platform of eternity. The developed consciousness of the human being should be utilized not in the animal propensities of eating, sleeping, mating and defending but in searching out the valuable path which will help him get that life of eternity. It is said that the sun is taking away our duration of life—every minute, every hour, every day—but if we engage ourselves in the topics of  Uttama-śloka , the topics of the Lord, that time cannot be taken away. The time which one devotes in a Kṛṣṇa consciousness temple cannot be taken away. It is an asset—a plus, not a minus. The duration of life, so far as the body is concerned, may be taken; however one tries to keep it intact, no one can do it. But the spiritual education which we receive in Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot be taken away by the sun. It becomes a solid asset.