THREE

The Real Goal of Life
February 28, 1972 (continued)

SRILA PRABHUPADA: This movement is especially meant
to enable a human being to reach the real goal of life.
BOB: The real goal . . . ?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: The real goal of life.

BoB: Is the real goal of life to know God?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. To go back home, back to God-
head. 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 embar-
rassed 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.

mam upetya punar janma
dubkhdlayam asaivatam
napnuvanti mahdtmanah
samsiddhimh paramam gatah
(‘After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devo-
tion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of
miseries, because they have attained the highest perfec-
tion.”] That is the version of Bhagavad-gita. If anyone comes
to Me—mam upetya: he does not come back again. Where?

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