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Rāāja-vidvā:  The King of Knowledge
and death.  Aprāpya mām nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani.  Being subjected to  saṁsāra , the cycle of birth and death, does not guarantee that one will necessarily get a similar facility for understanding  Bhagavad-gītā  in the next life. One may not necessarily be born again as a human being, or in America, or in India, or even on this planet. There is no certainty; it all depends on our work. On the path of birth and death we take our birth, remain for some time, enjoy or suffer, then again give up this body and enter into the womb of a mother, either human being or animal, then prepare another body to come out and begin our work again. This is called  mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani . If one wants to avoid this path, he must take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
When Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja was asked, “What is the most wonderful thing in the world?” he replied, “The most wonderful thing is that every day, every moment, people are dying, and yet everyone thinks that death will not come for him.” Every minute and every second we experience that living entities are going to the temple of death. Men, insects, animals, birds—everyone is going. This world, therefore, is called  mṛtyuloka —the planet of death. Every day there are obituaries, and if we bother to go to the cemetery or crematorium grounds we can validate them. Yet everyone is thinking, “Somehow or other I’ll live.” Everyone is subject to the law of death, yet no one takes it seriously. This is illusion. Thinking we will live forever, we go on doing whatever we like, feeling that we will never be held responsible. This is a very risky life, and it is the densest