Elevation at Death 31

covered no solution to the problems of old age,
disease and death, They cannot make any machine
that will check death, old age or disease. We can
manufacture something that will accelerate death,
but nothing that will stop death. Those who are
intelligent, however, are not concerned with the four-
fold miseries of material life but with elevation to
the spiritual planets. One who is continuously in
trance (nitya-vuktasya yoginah) does not divert his
attention to anything else. He is always situated in
trance. His mind is always filled with the thought
of Kysna, without deviation (ananya-cetah satatam).
Satatam refers to anywhere and anytime.

In India I lived in Vrndavana, and now I am in
America, but this does not mean that I am out of
Vrndavana because if I think of Krsna always, then
I’m always in Vrndavana, regardless of the material
designation. Krsna consciousness means that one al-
ways lives with Krsna on that spiritual planet, Goloka
Vindavana, and that one is simply waiting to give up
this material body. Smarati nityasah means continu-
ously remembering, and for one who is continuously
remembering Kysna, the Lord becomes tasyaham
sulabhah—easily purchased. Krsna Himself says that
He is easily purchased by this bhakti-yoga process.
Then why should we take to any other process? We
can chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna,
Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama,
Hare Hare twenty-four hours daily. There are no
rules and regulations. One can chant in the street, in
the subway or at his home or office. There is no tax
and no expense. So why not take to it?
