Prahlāda Mahārāja recommends that, "Don't try for nonperishable things . . . don't try for perishable things. Try for nonperishable things." And that is bhaktyā uktayeṣaṁ bhajatātma-labdhaye (SB 7.7.40). As the devotees recommend to worship the Supreme Lord, and the Supreme Lord also confirms it: yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama (BG 15.6), that supreme abode, where going, nobody returns . . .
Prahlāda Mahārāja recommends that, "My dear friends, you just worship that Supreme Personality of Godhead, where going, nobody comes back."
- yad-artha iha karmāṇi
- vidvan-māny asakṛn naraḥ
- karoty ato viparyāsam
- amoghaṁ vindate phalaṁ
- (SB 7.7.41)
In this material world we are making so many plans for permanent settlement, but unfortunately, we are meeting with just the opposite result. That is in our experience. There is very nice song sung by a Vaiṣṇava poet. He says, sukhere lagiya e baro bhaginu anale puria gelā: "I constructed this house for living happily. Unfortunately, it was set in fire, so everything is finished." That is going on. In the material world we are making so many plans for living very comfortably, peacefully, eternally—but that is not possible.
People do not understand it. They are seeing, experiencing, from śāstra; from scripture we are getting instruction that nothing is imperishable. Everything is perishable in the material world. And we are actually seeing also that perishable agents are always ready.