Elevation at Death
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covered no solution to the problems of old age, disease and death. They cannot make any machine that will check death, old age or disease. We can manufacture something that will accelerate death, but nothing that will stop death. Those who are intelligent, however, are not concerned with the fourfold miseries of material life but with elevation to the spiritual planets. One who is continuously in trance ( nitya-yuktasya yoginaḥ ) does not divert his attention to anything else. He is always situated in trance. His mind is always filled with the thought of Kṛṣṇa, without deviation ( ananya-cetāḥ satatam ).  Satatam  refers to anywhere and anytime.
In India I lived in Vṛndāvana, and now I am in America, but this does not mean that I am out of Vṛndāvana because if I think of Kṛṣṇa always, then I'm always in Vṛndāvana, regardless of the material designation. Kṛṣṇa consciousness means that one always lives with Kṛṣṇa on that spiritual planet, Goloka Vṛndāvana, and that one is simply waiting to give up this material body.  Smarati nityaśaḥ  means continuously remembering, and for one who is continuously remembering Kṛṣṇa, the Lord becomes  tasyāhaṁ sulabhaḥ —easily purchased. Kṛṣṇa Himself says that He is easily purchased by this  bhakti-yoga  process. Then why should we take to any other process? We can chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare twenty-four hours daily. There are no rules and regulations. One can chant in the street, in the subway or at his home or office. There is no tax and no expense. So why not take to it?