We are making our plan that “I shall be happy in this way. I have got this body, so let me make this body very strong, go in the beach and run on the beach to make the body very strong.” There are so many other methods to keep the body very strong. Deha, apatya. Maintain the children very nicely. Dehapatya-kalatra, wife. Decorate the wife very nicely. “In this way I shall be happy. Let me keep my body fit, let my children grow very nicely, wife be decorated with ornaments, with sari, and I will see and will be happy.”
No. You cannot remain. Even if you arrange like that, you cannot remain. Krsna says, “One day I shall come as death, and not only I shall take you out of the scene, but I shall take away all your possessions.” Mrtyuh sarva- haras caham.
So Prahlada Maharaja, although a child only, but because he is devotee, he is experienced. He’s experienced that, “My father was so strong that even the denizens of heavenly planets, Indra, Candra, Varuna and others, they are all afraid of Hiranyakasipu. If by austerity, penance, he got so much power that even the chiefs of the higher planetary system, they were afraid of…” Vijrmbhita-bhru. “Hiranyakasipu will stare his eyes and move his eyebrow. The other demigods, they’ll be afraid, such powerful.” Ye asmat pituh. Ye, the chiefs of the higher planetary system, they have got very long duration of life. In the higher planetary system, everyone has got hundred years maximum period of life, but as I was explaining, everything is relative. The ant’s hundred years of life is not equal to my hundred years of life. It is relative. Similarly, the demigods’ hundred years of life is not equal to our hundred years of life.
It is relative. Similarly, the demigods’ hundred years of life is not equal to our hundred years of life. Everything relative—speed. Just like when the sputniks… In the beginning the sput, sputniks were in the outer space. Generally, to go around the world, it takes twenty-five hours. But because the speed was greater, so the sputnik surrounded the whole world in one hour, twenty-five minutes.
So in the higher planetary system, the time, everything is relative. This is relative world. So these demigods, their one day equal to our six months. Our six months equal to their one day. Such one day, then thirty days, one month; then twelve months, one year. Such ten thousand years, their duration of life. Such ten thousand years. So just imagine what is their duration of… Ayuh. And so far strength is concerned, that, the Indra is in charge of thunderbolt, so when Indra throws the the thunderbolts to scatter the cloud, we have experience how terrible sound it is. So they have got so long duration of life, strength, administrative power and so many things. Still, they were afraid of Hiranyakasipu, still… In spite of possessing so much big, big possessions. Akhila-dhisnya-panam ayuh sriyo vibhava. And everyone, icchati, everyone desires. “If I could live so many years like Brahma”—everyone is aspiring. Therefore they want to be promoted to the higher planetary system for which they perform yajna to be promoted. In this life they struggle, the karmis. They struggle to become prime minister and Birla and this and that. And again, for the next life, they make provision. Therefore they want to give some charity, yajna-dana-ta… Yajna, performing yajna. Yajna-dana-ta… Tapasya. Hiranyakasipu also underwent severe type of austerity, and he got benediction from Brahma that “You’ll not be killed by any man, any demigod, any animal. You’ll not be killed in the sky or the water or the land,” so many ways. But Brahma did not give him the benediction of becoming immortal. He first of all wanted, “Make me immortal.” So “That is not possible because I am… Myself is not immortal. How can I give you?” So he took indirectly how to become immortal.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.23
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Mayapur, March 1, 1976
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