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should be proud of his knowledge. Everyone in this material world is a rascal. A particular living entity desires, “If I can get the opportunity to obtain the post of Brahmā, then I can create a big universe.” Thus he receives the body of Brahmā. And the small insect thinks, “If I can create a small hole within this room, then I can live very peacefully and eat.” Thus Brahmā desires to create a universe, we desire to create a skyscraper, and an ant desires to create a hole in a room, but the quality of the work is the same. We are all fools, however, because we do not realize that because these things are material they will not last. Because of ignorance we think, “This will be very nice. That will be very nice.”  Kāma-karmabhiḥ . We create some desire ( kāma ), and then we work accordingly. This results in so many difficulties ( kliśyanti ). To become Brahmā is not a very easy thing. Brahmā is such a big post, and it is given to a very qualified living entity who is highly advanced in austerities and penance. But he is also a living entity like us. In America there are many citizens, and President Ford is also a citizen, but by dint of his ardent labor and diplomacy he captured the post. Still, he is an ordinary citizen. President Nixon, for example, has now been dragged down and is no longer President. This is because he was an ordinary citizen. Similarly, if we like, we may also become Brahmā. Therefore Bhaktivinoda Thākura says:
kīṭa-janma hao yathā tuyā dāsa bahirmukha brahma-janme nāhi āśā
“Let me become an insect in a place where Your devotee is present, because if I fall down in the dust of the feet of a devotee my life will be successful.” Bhaktivinoda Thākura says,  bahirmukha brahma-janme nāhi āśā : “I would not want to be a Brahmā and not be a devotee of Kṛṣṇa.”
Because we are in ignorance,  māyā , at any time we may forget Kṛṣṇa. Therefore we must always engage in Kṛṣṇa consciousness so that we shall not forget Him. That is indicated by Kuntīdevī by the words  śravaṇa-smaraṇārhāṇi . The word  śravaṇa  means “hearing,”  smaraṇa  means “remembering,” and  arhaṇa  means “worshiping the Deity of Kṛṣṇa.” One should always engage onself in hearing about, remembering, and worshiping Kṛṣṇa. All the centers of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are opened only for this purpose—to facilitate chanting, dancing, and worshiping so that we shall not forget Kṛṣṇa.  Sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ : if we always think of Kṛṣṇa, there is a chance that we shall remember Kṛṣṇa at the end of life ( ante nārāyaṇa-smṛtiḥ ).