Fly our own plane!

Verse 1.15.50 (Saci Suta Prji):

* Two imp points that can be learnt from here
- responsibility of each individual as man and woman
- recognizing the goal of life
* Husband means to take care of the wife at all times, and wife means being chaste and dutiful to husband at all times.
* Draupadī had five husbands, and no one asked Draupadī to come; Draupadī had to take care of herself without waiting for her great husbands. And because she was already trained, she at once took to concentration upon the lotus feet of Lord Vāsudeva, Krsna, the Personality of Godhead.
* SB also confirms this: one who has taken shelter of the Lord, has no obligations to society and family, especially at the end of life when one has to cross the ocean of material existence.
* Nice example given by SP: When flying an airplane, one cannot take care of other planes. Everyone has to take care of his own plane, and if there is any danger, no other plane can help another in that condition. Similarly, at the end of life, when one has to go back home, back to Godhead, everyone has to take care of himself without help rendered by another. The help is, however, offered on the ground before flying in space. Similarly, the spiritual master, the father, the mother, the relatives, the husband and others can all render help during one's lifetime, but while crossing the sea one has to take care of himself and utilize the instructions formerly received.
* More examples: 1) Preparing for exam and writing the exam
2) Preparing for Olympics, and the actual race
3) Similarly when we chant, we are preparing for the final text, death.
* So we need to be alert and attentive. Cause we do not know when death will come.
* So every moment we need to be Krishna Conscious.
* Story about Vaisnava association and value of human form of life. (Narada Muni, Vishnu, the worm, the calf and the prince).