INTRODUCTION
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Kṛṣṇa explains how transient this
material world is. During a single
‘blink of Brahma’— the Lord of
creation, so many things change. In
our concept of time, we see things
as permanent, but when we operate
in a different zone of space and
time, all this becomes temporary.
Our ignorance makes us think that
all that we see is real and
permanent. Once we understand
that this entire life and the world
around us is impermanent, we see
everything from a completely
different space. Why do we run
behind material things? Why do we
again and again want to possess
things?
In our concept of time and space, we see material things as permanent. We think we can control them. We want to have ownership over everything that is available. And the problem is everyone wants the same thing! Everyone fights to take charge of the same thing. We are like cats fighting over a piece of bread.
Please listen, we fight to catch hold of this body. We want to hold onto this body for as long as we can. Even at sixty or seventy, many people go in for plastic surgery. They do things to look young. Why? They do not want to accept the truth that the body is impermanent.
