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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 22]
It is stated that his life was very long, seventy-one  yugas . One  yuga  is completed in 4,320,000 years, seventy-one of such  yugas  is the duration of the life of a Manu, and fourteen such Manus come and go in one day of Brahmā. For the entire duration of his life—4,320,000 times 71 years—Manu engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness by chanting, hearing, talking about and meditating upon Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, his life was not wasted, nor did it become stale.
TEXT 36
स एवं स्वान्तरं निन्ये युगानामेकसप्ततिम् । वासुदेवप्रसङ्गेन परिभूतगतित्रयः ॥३६॥
sa evam svāntaram ninye yugānām eka-saptatim vāsudeva-prasaṅgena paribhūta-gati-trayaḥ
saḥ —he (Svāyambhuva Manu);  evam —thus;  sva-antaram —his own period;  ninye —passed;  yugānām —of the cycles of four ages;  eka-saptatim —seventy-one;  vāsudeva —with Vāsudeva;  prasaṅgena —by topics connected;  paribhūta —transcended;  gati-trayaḥ —the three destinations.
TRANSLATION
He passed his time, which lasted seventy-one cycles of the four ages [71 x 4,320,000 years], always thinking of Vāsudeva and always engaged in matters regarding Vāsudeva. Thus he transcended the three destinations.
PURPORT
The three destinations are meant for persons who are under the control of the three modes of material nature. These destinations are sometimes described as the awakened, dreaming and unconscious stages. In  Bhagavad-gītā  the three destinations are described as the destinations of persons in the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance. It is stated in the  Gītā  that those who are in the mode of goodness are promoted to better living conditions in higher planets and those who are in the mode of passion remain within this material world on the earth or on heavenly planets, but those who are in the mode of ignorance are degraded to an animal life on planets where life is lower than human. But one who is Kṛṣṇa conscious is