Elevation at Death
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years. Yet despite such a long life span, death awaits everyone. Even if one lives twenty thousand or fifty thousand or even millions of years, in the material world the years are all counted, and death is there. How can we escape this subjugation to death? That is the lesson of  Bhagavad-gītā . (Bg. 2.20)
na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin 
    nāyam bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ 
    ajo nityaḥ śāśvato'yam purāṇo 
    na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre
“For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, once having been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.”
We are spirit soul, and as such we are eternal. Why then should we subject ourselves to birth and death? One who asks this question is to be considered intelligent. Those who are Kṛṣṇa conscious are very intelligent because they are not interested in gaining entrance to any planet where there is death. They will reject a long duration of life in order to attain a body like unto God’s.  Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ. Sat  means eternal,  cit  means full of knowledge, and  ānanda  means full of pleasure. Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of all pleasure. If we transfer ourselves from this body into the spiritual world—either to Kṛṣṇaloka, Kṛṣṇa’s planet, or any other spiritual planet—we will receive a similar  sac-cid-ānanda  body. Thus the aim of those who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is different from those who are trying to promote