36 Beyond Birth and Death

This material world is certified by Si Krsna, the
creator, as duhkhalayam—full of miseries. How then
can we make it comfortable? Is it possible to make
this world comfortable by the so-called advancement
of science? No, this is not possible. As a result, we
do not even wish to know what these miseries are.
The miseries, as stated before, are birth, old age,
disease and death, and because we cannot make a
solution to them we try to set them aside. Science has
no power to solve these miseries that are always
giving us trouble. Instead they divert our attention
into making spaceships or atomic bombs. The solu-
tion to these problems is given here in Bhagavad-gita:
if one attains to Krsna’s platform he does not have
to return again to this earth of birth and death. We
should try to understand that this place is full of
miseries. It takes a certain amount of developed con-
sciousness to understand this. Cats and dogs and hogs
cannot understand that they are suffering. Man is
called a rational animal, but his rationality is being
used to further his animalistic propensities instead of
finding out how to get liberation from this miser-
able condition. Here Krsna explicitly states that one
who comes to Him will never be reborn to suffer
miseries again. Those great souls who come to Him
have attained the highest perfection of life which
alleviates the living entity from the suffering of con-
ditional existence.

One of the differences between Krsna and an
ordinary being is that an ordinary entity can be only
in one place at a time, but Krsna can be everywhere
in the universe and yet in His own abode, simultane-
