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“Only the material body of the indestructible, immeasurable, and eternal living entity is subject to

Śrī Kṛṣṇa therefore encourages us to transcend the bodily conception of existence and attain to our actual

guṇān etān atītya trīn dehī deha-samudbhavān janma-mṛtyu jarā-duḥkhair vimukto ’mṛtam aśnute

“When the embodied being is able to transcend these three modes [goodness, passion, and ignorance], he can become free from birth, death, old age, and their distresses and can enjoy nectar even in this life

This method is called bhakti-yoga or mantra-yoga, and it is employed by the highest transcendentalists How the transcendentalists realize their identity beyond birth and death, beyond the material body, and

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