Elevation at Death 27
“For one who remembers Me without deviation, I
am easy to obtain, O son of Prtha, because of his
constant engagement in devotional service.” (Bg. 8.14)

Those who are satisfied with temporary life, tem-
porary pleasure and temporary facilities are not to be
considered intelligent, at least not according to
Bhagavad-gita. One whose brain substance is very
small is interested in temporary things, according to
the Gita. We are eternal, so why should we be inter-
ested in temporary things? No one wants a non-
permanent situation. If we are living in an apartment
and the landlord asks us to vacate, we are sorry, but
we are not sorry if we move into a better apartment.
It is our nature, because we are permanent, to want
permanent residence. We don’t wish to die because
in actuality we are permanent. Nor do we want to
grow old or be diseased because these are all external
or nonpermanent states. Although we are not meant
to suffer from fever, sometimes fever comes, and we
have to take precautions and remedies to get well
again. The fourfold miseries are like a fever, and
they are all due to the material body. If somehow
we can get out of the material body, we can escape
the miseries that are integral with it.

For the impersonalists to get out of this temporary
body, Krsna here advises that they vibrate the syllable
om, In this way they can be assured of transmigration
into the spiritual world. However, although they may
enter the spiritual world, they cannot enter into any
of the planets there. They remain outside in the
brahmajyoti. The brahmajyoti may be likened unto
the sunshine, and the spiritual planets may be likened
