In a lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam 1.4.24 in Montreal, Srila Prabhupada told us: “Chanakya Pandita says that ‘If you want to make spiritual advancement, then you should always think that ‘Death is next moment. Death is next moment.’ Because there is no guarantee when death is coming. If I think that death is next moment, that is not any [sic] utopian. The next moment may be my death. And Chanakya Pandita says, ‘But if you want to be materially happy, you should always think that I shall never die.’ ”