Text 58] Hiranyakasipu, King of the Demons 121
death. Afflicted by a poor fund of knowledge, you do not know
that even if you lament for your dead husband for hundreds of
years, you will never get him back alive, and in the meantime your
lives will be finished.
PURPORT
Yamaraja once asked Maharaja Yudhisthira, “What is the most won-
derful thing within this world?” Maharaja Yudhisthira replied
(Mahabharata, Vana-parva 313.116):
ahany ahani bhitani
gacchantiha yamélayam
Sesah sthavaram icchanti
kim ascaryam atah parari
Hundreds and thousands of living entities meet death at every moment,
but a foolish living being nonetheless thinks himself deathless and does
not prepare for death. This is the most wonderful thing in this world.
Everyone has to die because everyone is fully under the control of ma-
terial nature, yet everyone thinks that he is independent, that whatever
he likes he can do, that he will never meet death but live forever, and so
on. So-called scientists are making various plans by which living entities
in the future can live forever, but while they are thus pursuing such
scientific knowledge, Yamaraja, in due course of time, will take them
away from their business of so-called research.
TEXT 58
ve ad saata at fafaasaa: |
areal | Aiat aaafrerrTa ery Uhl
Sri-hiranyakasipur uvdca
bala evarn pravadati
sarve vismita-cetasah
Jfidtayo menire sarvam
anityam ayathotthitam
