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Understanding Material Nature
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without doubting, and after quitting his material body he at once reaches the destination for which he has prepared himself. After reaching that abode, he never comes back to this material world.
The words  lingād vinirgame , which are used here, mean “after being freed from the two kinds of material bodies, subtle and gross.” The subtle body is made of mind, intelligence, false ego and contaminated consciousness, and the gross body is made of five elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether. When one is transferred to the spiritual world, he gives up both the subtle and gross bodies of this material world. He enters the spiritual sky in his pure spiritual body and is stationed in one of the spiritual planets. Although the impersonalists also reach that spiritual sky after giving up the subtle and gross material bodies, they are not placed in the spiritual planets; as they desire, they are allowed to merge in the spiritual effulgence emanating from the transcendental body of the Lord. The word  svasansthānam  is also very significant. As a living entity prepares himself, so he attains his abode. The impersonal Brahman effulgence is offered to the impersonalists, but those who want to associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His transcendental form as Nārāyaṇa in the Vaikuṇṭhas, or with Kṛṣṇa in Kṛṣṇaloka, go to those abodes, wherefrom they never return.
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यदा न योगोपचितासु चेतो मायासु सिद्धस्य विषजतेऽङ्ग । अनन्यहेतुष्वथ मे गतिः स्याद् आत्यन्तिकी यत्र न मृत्युहासः ॥३०॥
yadā na yogopacitāsu ceto māyāsu siddhasya viṣajjate 'nga ananya-hetuṣu atha me gatiḥ syād ātyantikī yatra na mṛtyu-hāsaḥ
yadā —when;  na —not;  yoga-upacitāsu —to powers developed by  yoga ;  cetaḥ —the attention;  māyāsu —manifestations of  māyā ;  siddhasya —of a perfect  yogī ;  viṣajjate —is attracted;  anga —My dear mother;  ananya-hetuṣu —having no other cause;  atha —then;  me —to Me;  gatiḥ —his progress;  syāt —becomes;  ātyantikī —unlimited;  yatra —where;  na —not;  mṛtyu-hāsaḥ —power of death.