2
Elevation at Death

There are different kinds of transcendentalists
who are called jogis—hatha-yogis, jfidna-yogis,
dhyana-yogis and bhakti-yogis--and all of them are
eligible to be transferred to the spiritual world. The
word yoga means “‘to link up,” and the yoga systems
are meant to enable us to link with the transcendental
world. As mentioned in the previous chapter, origi-
nally we are all connected to the Supreme Lord, but
now we have been affected by material contamina-
tion. The process is that we have to return to the
spiritual world, and that process of linking up is
called yoga. Another meaning of the word yoga is
“plus.” At the present moment we are minus God,
or minus the Supreme. When we add Krsna—or God—
to our lives, this human form of life becomes perfect.

At the time of death we have to finish that process
of perfection. During our lifetime we have to practice
the method of approaching that perfection so that at
the time of death, when we have to give up this
material body, that perfection can be realized.
