Prabhupada Podcast

A class on Srimad Bhagavatam 7.6.6-9 given by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on June 23, 1968 in Montreal, Canada. A transcript of the class can be found here: https://goo.gl/NzjBYq. Srimad Bhagavatam 7.6.6 puṁso varṣa-śataṁ hy āyus  tad-ardhaṁ cājitātmanaḥ niṣphalaṁ yad asau rātryāṁ  śete ’ndhaṁ prāpitas tamaḥ Every human being has a maximum duration of life of one hundred years, but for one who cannot control his senses, half of those years are completely lost because at night he sleeps twelve hours, being covered by ignorance. Therefore such a person has a lifetime of only fifty years. Srimad Bhagavatam 7.6.7 mugdhasya bālye kaiśore  krīḍato yāti viṁśatiḥ jarayā grasta-dehasya  yāty akalpasya viṁśatiḥ In the tender age of childhood, when everyone is bewildered, one passes ten years. Similarly, in boyhood, engaged in sporting and playing, one passes another ten years. In this way, twenty years are wasted. Similarly, in old age, when one is an invalid, unable to perform even mate