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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 10]
will be elevated to the heavenly planets.” Everyone should be ready to die while performing glorious deeds. A glorious person is not meant to meet death like cats and dogs.
TEXT 33
द्वौ संमताविह मृत्यू दुरापौ 
  यद् ब्रह्मसंधारणया जितासुः । 
  कलेवरं योगरतो विजह्याद् 
  यदग्रणीर्वीरशयेऽनिवृत्तः ॥३३॥
dvau sammatāv iha mṛtyū durāpau 
  yad brahma-sandhāraṇayā jitāsuḥ 
  kalevaraṁ yoga-rato vijahyād 
  yad agraṇīr vīra-śaye 'nivṛttaḥ
dvau —two;  sammatau —approved (by  śāstra  and great personalities);  iha —in this world;  mṛtyū —deaths;  durāpau —extremely rare;  yat —which;  brahma-sandhāraṇayā —with concentration on Brahman, Paramātmā or Parabrahma, Kṛṣṇa;  jita-asuḥ —controlling the mind and senses;  kalevaraṁ —the body;  yoga-rataḥ —being engaged in the performance of  yoga ;  vijahyāt —one may leave;  yat —which;  agraṇīḥ —taking the lead;  vīra-śaye —on the battlefield;  anivṛttaḥ —not turning back.
TRANSLATION
There are two ways to meet a glorious death, and both are very rare. One is to die after performing mystic yoga, especially bhakti-yoga, by which one can control the mind and living force and die absorbed in thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The second is to die on the battlefield, leading the army and never showing one’s back. These two kinds of death are recommended in the śāstra as glorious.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Sixth Canto, Tenth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “The Battle Between the Demigods and Vṛtrāsura.”