22 The Nectar of Devotion

begin the process of hearing and chanting and remembering God.”
If one can chant and hear Hare Krsna and always remember Lord
Krsna, then he is sure to become fearless of death, which may come
at any moment.

In the statements of Sukadeva Gosvami it is said that the Supreme
Personality of Godhead is Krsna. Therefore Sukadeva recommends
that one should always hear about Krsna. He does not recommend
that one hear and chant about the demigods. The mayavadis
(impersonalists) say that you can chant any name, either that of
Krsna or those of the demigods, and the result will be the same.
But actually this is not a fact. According to the authorized version
of Srimad-Bhagavatam, one has to hear and chant about Lord
Visnu (Krsna) only.

So Sukadeva Gosvami has recommended to Pariksit Maharaj that
in order to be fearless of death one has to hear and chant and remem-
ber the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, by all means. He
also mentions that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is sarvatma.
Sarvatma means “‘the supersoul of everyone.” Krsna is also men-
tioned as isvara, the supreme controller who is situated in everyone’s
heart. Therefore, if some way or other we become attached to Krsna,
He will make us free from all danger. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said
that anyone who becomes a devotee of the Lord is never vanquished.
Others, however, are always vanquished. Vanquished means _ that
after getting this human form of life, a person does not come out of
the entanglement of birth and death and thus misses his golden op-
portunity. Such a person does not know where he is being thrown by
the laws of nature.

Suppose one does not develop Krsna consciousness in this human
form of life. He will be thrown into the cycle of birth and death in-
volving 8,400,000 species of life, and his spiritual identity will re-
main lost. One does not know whether he is going to be a plant, or a
beast, or a bird, or something like that, because there are so many
species of life. The recommendation of Ripa Gosvami for reviving
our original Krsna consciousness is that somehow or other we should
apply our minds to Krsna very seriously. and thus also become fear-
less of death. After death we do not know our destination, because
