More Reasons for Remembering Him

Prabhupada has said that each person is ultimately alone, like a pilot in a one-man airplane.  This will be made clear to us at the time of death when we have to “fly our own plane.”  Then we will want to surrender ourselves fully to Prabhupada and Krishna.  Then there will be no relief in medicines, when the body itself, which seemed to be our friend and shelter, will not be able to sustain us.  Worldly pleasures and possessions will lose their taste.

Now is the time to prepare.  Later, our ability to think of Krishna and Prabhupada will be impaired.  Telling memories of Prabhupada is for now, when we are looking for subject matter for hearing and reading, and when we are capable of it.  The living being is so lively and curious that if he doesn’t hear of the pure devotee, he will hear something else.  So Prabhupada meditation is a way to keep the mind fixed at the lotus feet of the pure devotees.

Some philosophers say that the best preparation for death is detachment toward things of this world.  It is not possible for the eternal living being to kill all his attachments and desires, but one may transfer them from material things to Krishna consciousness.  Whatever we think of at the end of life will form our situation in the next life.  And so it is said by Lord Kapiladeva:

“Every learned man knows very well that attachment for the material is the greatest entanglement for the spirit soul.  But that same attachment, when applied to self-realized devotees, opens the door of liberation.”  – Bhag. 3.25.20