Elevation at Death
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“For one who remembers Me without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of Pṛthā, because of his constant engagement in devotional service.” (Bg. 8.14)
Those who are satisfied with temporary life, temporary pleasure and temporary facilities are not to be considered intelligent, at least not according to  Bhagavad-gītā . One whose brain substance is very small is interested in temporary things, according to the  Gītā . We are eternal, so why should we be interested in temporary things? No one wants a non-permanent situation. If we are living in an apartment and the landlord asks us to vacate, we are sorry, but we are not sorry if we move into a better apartment. It is our nature, because we are permanent, to want permanent residence. We don’t wish to die because in actuality we are permanent. Nor do we want to grow old or be diseased because these are all external or nonpermanent states. Although we are not meant to suffer from fever, sometimes fever comes, and we have to take precautions and remedies to get well again. The fourfold miseries are like a fever, and they are all due to the material body. If somehow we can get out of the material body, we can escape the miseries that are integral with it.
For the impersonalists to get out of this temporary body, Kṛṣṇa here advises that they vibrate the syllable  om . In this way they can be assured of transmigration into the spiritual world. However, although they may enter the spiritual world, they cannot enter into any of the planets there. They remain outside in the  brahmajyoti . The  brahmajyoti  may be likened unto the sunshine, and the spiritual planets may be likened