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different kinds of transcendentalists who are called yogīs – haṭha-yogīs, jñāna-yogīs, dhyāna-yogīs, and bhakti-yogīs – and all of them are eligible to be transferred to the spiritual world. The word yoga means “to link up,” and the yoga systems are meant to enable us to link with the transcendental The process is that we have to return to the spiritual world, and that process of linking up is called

At the time of death we have to finish that process of perfection. During our lifetime we have to practice …

prayāṇa-kāle manasācalena bhaktyā yukto yoga-balena caiva bhruvor madhye prāṇam āveśya samyak sa taṁ paraṁ puruṣam upaiti divyam

“One who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the eyebrows and in full devotion engages

Just as a student studies a subject for four or five years and then takes his examination and receives with the subject of life, if we practice during our lives for the examination at the time of death, and

yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajaty ante kalevaram taṁ tam evaiti kaunteya sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ

“Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.” (Gītā 8.6)

There is a Bengali proverb that says that whatever one does for perfection will be tested at the time of …

yad akṣaraṁ veda-vido vadanti viśanti yad yatayo vīta-rāgāḥ yad icchanto brahmacaryaṁ caranti tat te padaṁ saṅgraheṇa pravakṣye

sarva-dvārāṇi saṁyamya mano hṛdi nirudhya ca mūrdhny ādhāyātmanaḥ prāṇam āsthito yoga-dhāraṇām

“Persons learned in the Vedas, who utter oṁ-kāra and who are great sages in the renounced order, enter Closing all the doors of the senses and fixing the mind on the heart and the life air at the top of the

eyes are engaged in seeing worldly beauty, at death one has to retract the senses from their objects and

oṁ ity ekākṣaraṁ brahma vyāharan mām anusmaran yaḥ prayāti tyajan dehaṁ sa yāti paramāṁ gatim

“After being situated in this yoga practice and vibrating the sacred syllable oṁ, the supreme combination of letters, if one thinks of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and quits his body, he will certainly

In this way, all the senses have to be stopped in their external activities and concentrated on the form When the mind is fixed within the heart and the life air is transferred to the top of the head, one can

In the material universe there are innumerable planets, and beyond this universe there is the spiritual The yogī knows all these descriptions, and he can transfer himself to any planet he likes without the Perhaps with a great deal of time, effort, and money a few men may be able to reach other planets by material means – spaceships, spacesuits, etc. – but this is a very cumbersome and impractical method.

on whatever planet one enters in the material sky, the four principles of birth, old age, disease, and By “material universe” we refer to those planets where birth, old age, disease, and death reside, and by “spiritual universe” we refer to those planets where there is no birth, old age, disease, and death

thousand or fifty thousand or even millions of years, in the material world the years are all counted, and

na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin nāyaṁ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ ajo nityaḥ śāśvato ’yaṁ purāṇo na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre

He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying, and primeval.