Question: What determines whether a devotee goes to a Vaikuntha planet or to Goloka Vrndavana?

Question: What determines whether a devotee goes to a Vaikuntha planet or to Goloka Vrndavana?............  

Prabhupada: Those devotees who are following viddhi marg are meant for going to Vaikuntha planets and those who are following raga marg are meant for going to Krsnaloka. It is generally that the followers of Lord Caitanya are going to Goloka Vrndavana. There is no difference between the Vaikuntha planets and Krsnaloka, it is a matter of personal taste only.>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Tamala Krsna  --  Los Angeles 21 June, 1970

Question: Does the soul ever become weak or strong on account of its association and contact with material nature?.... 

Prabhupada: It is not the spirit soul that becomes weak or strong but it is his determination to become Krsna Conscious that he become weak or strong. By the influence of the modes of passion and ignorance he becomes weak and by the influence of the mode of goodness he becomes strong. But by the association with the pure devotee he becomes strongest.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Caturbhuja  --  Los Angeles 9 May, 1973

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Question: His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur always sat very erect, and it is stated here in the Bhagavad-gita that one should sit erect. Will this aid us in our concentrating on chanting our japa?.........

Prabhupada: No, no. It doesn't require any sitting posture. But if you can sit, it helps you. It helps you. If you can sit straight like this, it will be very nice; it can help, yes, you can concentrate even in chanting and hearing. Therefore these things are required. But we are not very much particular about this. But he was brahmacari; he could sit like that. [laughter] That is the sign of brahmacari. He was not a false brahmacari, but he was real brahmacari yes.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 6.35–45  – February 20, 1969, Los Angeles

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What happens at the time of Death, if a devotee is unable to remember or chant the name of Krsna??.......

Question: What happens at the time of Death, if a devotee is unable to remember or chant the name of Krsna??.......

Srila Prabhupada says, ''So if you become Krsna conscious once, even if at that time you are so-called unconscious, [death] still, Krsna is with you; He is not forgetful. Krsna remembers, ''he has done so much for Me.'' There is no cause for hopelessness''.....

Prabhupäda: So if you become Krsna conscious once, even if at that time you are so-called unconscious, still, Krsna is with you; He is not forgetful. He is not forgetful. Therefore He will give you the proper result. Don't think that at the time of your death, because you are so completely out of consciousness, therefore there is frustration. No. There is no frustration. There is no frustration. Because your activities are already recorded by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated within your heart, so therefore there is no question of frustration. You just practice. While you are in good health, while you are in good body, while you are in good consciousness, just practice this Hare Krsna,  and the result is guaranteed.>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.7.22–26 -- March 10, 1967, San Francisco

Prabhupada: That is guarantee.  Because he is devotee, for material condition he could not remember, but Krsna remembers, "Yes," that "he has done so much for Me."Yes, that is general. But a devotee, because Kṛṣṇa has taken charge of him, even he does not remember Kṛṣṇa, still, Kṛṣṇa is there. Generally devotee dies remembering Kṛṣṇa. Generally. But even if for material condition he cannot, then Kṛṣṇa is taken charge. And there is no question of hopelessness. No. We have to do our duty very seriously. Then everything is all right

(.>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk -- March 17, 1976, Mayapur)

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Kātyāyanī vrata

During the month of Mārgaśīrṣa, every day early in the morning the young daughters of the cowherds would take one another's hands and, singing of Kṛṣṇa's transcendental qualities, go to the Yamunā to bathe. Desiring to obtain Kṛṣṇa as their husband, they would then worship the goddess Kātyāyanī with incense, flowers and other items.

One day, the young gopīs left their garments on the shore as usual and began playing in the water while chanting of Lord Kṛṣṇa's activities. Suddenly Kṛṣṇa Himself came there, took away all the garments and climbed a nearby kadamba tree. Wanting to tease the gopīs, Kṛṣṇa said, "I understand how fatigued you gopīs are from your austerities, so please come onto the shore and take back your clothes."

The gopīs then pretended to become angry and said the cold water of the Yamunā was giving them great pain. If Kṛṣṇa did not give them back their garments, they said, they would inform King Kaṁsa of all that had happened. But if He did give the clothes back, they would willingly carry out His orders in the mood of humble servants.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa replied that He had no fear of King Kaṁsa, and that if the girls really intended to follow His command and be His maidservants they should each immediately come onto the shore and take their respective garments. The girls, trembling from the cold, climbed out of the water with their two hands covering their private parts. Kṛṣṇa, who felt great affection for them, again spoke: "Because while executing a vow you bathed in the water naked, you have committed an offense against the demigods, and to counteract it you should offer obeisances with joined palms. Then your vow of austerity will achieve its full result."

The gopīs followed this instruction and, folding their hands in respect, offered obeisances to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Satisfied, He gave them back their clothing. But the young girls had become so attracted to Him that they could not leave. Understanding their minds, Kṛṣṇa said that He knew they had worshiped Kātyāyanī to get Him as their husband. Because they had offered their hearts to Him, their desires would never again become tainted by the mood of materialistic enjoyment, just as fried barleycorns can no longer grow into shoots. Next autumn, He told them, their most cherished desire would be fulfilled.

Then the gopīs, fully satisfied, returned to Vraja, and Śrī Kṛṣṇa and His cowherd friends went off to a distant place to graze the cows.

(Srimad-Bhagavatam - Tenth Canto - Chapter 22)

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