Those who die under the influence of ignorance of the facts relating to God, their true spiritual identity, spiritual knowledge, and existential truth are reborn in the animal world. And those who are under the influence of ignorance fall onto the infernal planets that make up Hell.

Those enveloping themselves in ignorance go mad. Because their situation throws them into distress, they take refuge in intoxicants and drugs, and thus sink deeper into ignorance. Their future is very dark. They fall into the infernal worlds. Their reprehensible actions can, on the contrary, precipitate them to various infernal planets to suffer further the torments of material life.

The Lord affirms that demonic beings who refuse to acknowledge His existence sink ever deeper into the darkness of ignorance and thus reincarnate, life after life, without the slightest knowledge of His Person.

It is now, throughout our present life, that we must prepare for our next existence.

What good is it to have a long life in this world if we must spend it in fear, anguish, suffering, and ignorance of existential truth?

A moment of perfect awareness is better, for it marks the beginning of a quest toward our true ultimate goal, God.

The material cosmos, in which countless galaxies float, each laden with a considerable number of diverse stars and planets, is in reality called “the world of forgetfulness and the abode of the dead.” We are in the abode of the dead because death means separation from God. Now it is up to us to remedy this.

Let us understand that it is useless and futile to dwell in this world of forgetfulness for hundreds of years without any knowledge of the problems associated with existence, and that it is better to live for a single moment in perfect awareness of our supreme interest, which is all knowledge, bliss, and eternity. Let us be fully aware that if the soul, which each of us actually is, conditioned by material and illusory energy, is given human form, it is to achieve spiritual perfection.

Each of us must devote his or her entire life to glorifying Lord Krishna by all means, and without committing the slightest offense.

How could one compare living, even for a moment, a long life spent in ignorance of God, existential truth, and spiritual knowledge, to that of souls enclosed in the bodies of trees whose existence can extend for centuries, without them being able to make the slightest spiritual progress?