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Knowledge about Conquering Death

At the time of death every living entity worries about what will happen to his wife and children. Similarly, a politician also worries about what will happen to his country or his political party. Unless one is fully Kṛṣṇa conscious, he has to accept a body in the next life according to his particular state of consciousness. Since Purañjana is thinking of his wife and children and is overly engrossed in thoughts of his wife, he will accept the body of a woman. Similarly, a politician or so-called nationalist who is inordinately attached to the land of his birth will certainly be reborn in the same land after ending his political career. One’s next life will also be affected by the acts one performs during this life. Sometimes politicians act most sinfully for their own sense gratification. It is not unusual for a politician to kill the opposing party. Even though a politician may be allowed to take birth in his so-called homeland, he still has to undergo suffering due to his sinful act...

The fruitive activities of a living entity oblige him to accept different types of bodies.

  Although threatened from all sides, the deer simply eat grass in a nice flower garden, unaware of the danger all around him. All living entities, especially human beings, think themselves very happy in the midst of families. As if living in a flower garden and hearing the sweet humming of bumblebees, everyone is centered around his wife, who is the beauty of family life. The bumblebees’ humming may be compared to the talk of children. The human being, just like the deer, enjoys his family without knowing that before he is the factor of time, which is represented by the tiger. The fruitive activities of a living entity simply create another dangerous position and oblige him to accept different types of bodies. For a deer to run after a mirage of water in the desert is not unusual. The deer is also very fond of sex. The conclusion is that one who lives like a deer will be killed in due course of time. Vedic literature, therefore, advise that we should understand our constitutional ...

It is yamaraja who decides what kind of body one gets next in accordance with one’s past actions.

When Yamarāja and his assistants take a living entity away to the place of judgment, the life, life air and desires, being followers of the living entity, also go with him. This is confirmed in the  Vedas.  When the living entity is taken away or arrested by Yamarāja ( tam utkrāmantam ), the life air also goes with him ( prāṇo ’nūtkrāmati ), and when the life air is gone ( prāṇam anūtkrāmantam ), all the senses ( sarve prāṇāḥ ) also go along ( anūtkrāmanti ). When the living entity and the life air are gone, the lump of matter produced of five elements — earth, water, air, fire and ether — is rejected and left behind. The living entity then goes to the court of judgment, and Yamarāja decides what kind of body he is going to get next. This process is unknown to modern scientists. Every living entity is responsible for his activities in this life, and after death he is taken to the court of Yamarāja, where it is decided what kind of body he will take next. Although the gros...

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....