Prepare!
The verb, prepare, means: to make something ready for use or consideration.
Great thinkers everywhere speak enthusiastically about the power of preparation.
For instance, George Clason writes:
“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.”
And William Shakespeare remarks:
“All things are ready, if our mind be so.”
Wise people know that one’s destiny in this life and the next are dependent on the way in which one prepares oneself in the present.
Or stated concisely:
Our preparation leads us to our destination.
The great master teachers of bhakti similarly direct us to prepare ourselves during our short lives for going to the highest destination, the spiritual world.
Srila Prabhupada:
“According to our activities in this life, we either rise or sink. This life is a preparation for the next life. If we can prepare, therefore, in this life to get promotion to the kingdom of God, then surely, after quitting this material body, we will attain a spiritual body just like the Lord’s.” (Bhagavad-gita As it Is; introduction.)
Vaisesika Dasa