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The Real Goal of Life February 28, 1972 (continued)
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  This movement is especially meant to enable a human being to reach the real goal of life.
BOB:  The real goal . . . ?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  The real goal of life.
BOB:  Is the real goal of life to know God?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes. To go back home, back to Godhead. That is the real goal of life. The water that comes from the sea forms clouds, the clouds fall down as rain, and the actual goal is to flow down the river and again enter the sea. So, we have come from God, and now we are embarrassed by material life. Therefore, our aim should be to get out of this embarrassing situation and go back home, back to Godhead. This is the real goal of life.
mām upetya punar janma duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ
[“After attaining Me, the great souls, who are  yogīs  in devotion, never return to this temporary world; which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.”] That is the version of  Bhagavad-gītā . If anyone comes to Me— mām upetya : he does not come back again. Where?
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