The Fate of the Unsuccessful Yogi 57

Jyfiasur api yogasya
sabda-brahmativartate

“By virtue of the divine consciousness of his previ-
ous life, he automatically becomes attracted to the
yogic principles—even without seeking them.” (Bg.
6.44) In the material world, we have experience
that we do not carry our assets from one life to
another. I may have millions of dollars in the bank,
but as soon as my body is finished, my bank balance
is also. At death, the bank balance does not go with
me; it remains in the bank to be enjoyed by some-
body else. This is not the case with spiritual culture.
Even if one enacts a very small amount on the spiri-
tual platform, he takes that with him to his next
life, and he picks up again from that point.

When one picks up this knowledge that was inter-
rupted, he should know that he should now finish
the balance and complete the yogic process. One
should not take the chance of finishing up the process
in another birth but should resolve to finish it in
this life. We should be determined in this way:
‘Somehow or other in my last life, I did not finish
my spiritual cultivation. Now Krsna has given me
another opportunity, so let me finish it up in this
life.’ Thus after leaving this body one will not again
take birth in this material world where birth, old age,
disease and death are omnipresent, but will return
to Krsna. One who takes shelter under the lotus
feet of Krsna sees this material world simply as a
place of danger. For one who takes to spiritual
culture, this material world is actually unfit. Srimate
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati used to say, “This place is
