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as he grows up, there is more suffering. He does not want to go to school, but he is forced to. He does not want to study, but the teacher gives him tasks. If we analyze our life, we will find that it is full of suffering. Why then are we coming here? The conditioned souls are not very bright. We should inquire, “Why am I suffering?” If there is a remedy, we must take advantage of it.
We are eternally connected with the Supreme Lord, but somehow or other we are now in material contamination. Therefore, we must take up a process to go back again to the spiritual world. That linking process is called  yoga . The actual translation of the word  yoga  is “plus,” which is just the opposite of minus. At the present moment we are minus God, or minus the Supreme. When we make ourselves plus—connected—then our human form of life is perfected. During our lifetime we have to practice approaching that point of perfection, and at the time of death, when we give up this material body, that perfection has to be realized. At the time of death, one must be prepared. Students, for instance, prepare for two to five years in college, and the final test of their education is the examination. If they pass the examination, they get a degree. Similarly, in the subject of life, if we prepare for the examination at the time of death and pass it, then we are transferred to the spiritual world. Everything is examined at the time of death.
There is a very common Bengali proverb that says that whatever one does for perfection will be tested at the time of his death.  Bhagavad-gītā  describes
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what we should do at the point of our death, when we are giving up this present body. For the  dyana-yogī  (meditator) Śrī Kṛṣṇa speaks the following verses:
yad akṣaram veda-vido vedanti viśanti yad yatayo vīta-rāgāḥ yad icchanto brahmacaryam caranti tat te padam saṅgraheṇa pravakṣye
sarva-dvārāṇi saṁyamya mano hṛdi-nirudhya ca mūrdhny ādhāyātmanaḥ prāṇam āsthito yoga-dhāraṇām
“Persons learned in the  Vedas , who utter  omkara  and who are great sages in the renounced order, enter into Brahman. Desiring such perfection, one practices celibacy. I shall now explain to you this process by which one may attain salvation. The  yogic  situation is that of detachment from all sensual engagements. Closing all the doors of the senses and fixing the mind on the heart and the life air at the top of the head, one establishes himself in  yoga .” (Bg. 8.11-12) In the  yoga  system this process is called  pratyāhāra , which means, in technical language, “the opposite.” Now the eyes are engaged in seeing worldly beauty, so one has to withdraw them enjoying that beauty and concentrate on seeing beauty inside. That is called  pratyāhāra . Similarly, one has to hear the  omkāra  sound from within.