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Bhagavad Gita As It IsReferences to text BG 8.6 |
BG 8.6: Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, O son of Kuntī, that state he will attain without fail.
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| In due course of time, when Pá¹›thu MahÄrÄja was to give up his body, he fixed his mind firmly upon the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, and thus, completely situated on the brahma-bhÅ«ta platform, he gave up the material body. Maharaja Prithu's Going Back Home |
| SB 4.23.13 |
| Once the dangerous soldiers attacked the city of Purañjana with great force. Although the city was full of paraphernalia for sense gratification, it was being protected by the old serpent. Puranjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life |
| SB 4.28.2 |
| King Purañjana gave up his body while remembering his wife, and consequently in his next life he became a very beautiful and well-situated woman. He took his next birth as the daughter of King Vidarbha in the very house of the King. Puranjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life |
| SB 4.28.28 |
| The caterpillar transports itself from one leaf to another by capturing one leaf before giving up the other. Similarly, according to his previous work, the living entity must capture another body before giving up the one he has. This is because the mind is the reservoir of all kinds of desires. Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi |
| SB 4.29.76-77 |
| After PÅ«rvacitti’s departure, King Ä€gnÄ«dhra, his lusty desires not at all satisfied, always thought of her. Therefore, in accordance with the Vedic injunctions, the King, after his death, was promoted to the same planet as his celestial wife. That planet, which is called Pitá¹›loka, is where the pitÄs, the forefathers, live in great delight. The Activities of Maharaja Agnidhra |
| SB 5.2.22 |
| At the time of death, the King saw that the deer was sitting by his side, exactly like his own son, and was lamenting his death. Actually the mind of the King was absorbed in the body of the deer, and consequently — like those bereft of Kṛṣṇa consciousness — he left the world, the deer, and his material body and acquired the body of a deer. However, there was one advantage. Although he lost his human body and received the body of a deer, he did not forget the incidents of his past life. A Description of the Character of Bharata Maharaja |
| SB 5.8.27 |
| My dear heroic King, due to my past sincere service to the Lord, I could remember everything of my past life even while in the body of a deer. Because I am aware of the falldown in my past life, I always keep myself separate from the association of ordinary men. Being afraid of their bad, materialistic association, I wander alone unnoticed by others. Conversation Between Maharaja Rahugana and Jada Bharata |
| SB 5.12.15 |
| The fruitive activities a living being performs, whether pious or impious, are the unseen cause for the fulfillment of his desires. This unseen cause is the root for the living entity’s different bodies. Because of his intense desire, the living entity takes birth in a particular family and receives a body which is either like that of his mother or like that of his father. The gross and subtle bodies are created according to his desire. The History of the Life of Ajamila |
| SB 6.1.54 |
| If one chants the holy name of Hari and then dies because of an accidental misfortune, such as falling from the top of a house, slipping and suffering broken bones while traveling on the road, being bitten by a serpent, being afflicted with pain and high fever, or being injured by a weapon, one is immediately absolved from having to enter hellish life, even though he is sinful. Ajamila Delivered by the Vishnudutas |
| SB 6.2.15 |
| As long as the spirit soul is covered by the subtle body, consisting of the mind, intelligence and false ego, he is bound to the results of his fruitive activities. Because of this covering, the spirit soul is connected with the material energy and must accordingly suffer material conditions and reversals, continually, life after life. Hiranyakasipu, King of the Demons |
| SB 7.2.47 |
| Having experienced a situation by seeing or hearing about it, one contemplates and speculates about that situation, and thus one surrenders to it, not considering his present body. Similarly, by mental adjustments one dreams at night of living under different circumstances, in different bodies, and forgets his actual position. Under this same process, one gives up his present body and accepts another [tathÄ dehÄntara-prÄptiḥ]. The Advent of Lord Krishna: Introduction |
| SB 10.1.41 |
| When one seriously engages in the devotional service of the Personality of Godhead, fixing the Lord’s lotus feet within one’s heart as the only goal of life, one can destroy the innumerable impure desires lodged within the heart as a result of one’s previous fruitive work within the three modes of material nature. When the heart is thus purified one can directly perceive both the Supreme Lord and one’s self as transcendental entities. Thus one becomes perfect in spiritual understanding through direct experience, just as one can directly experience the sunshine through normal, healthy vision. Liberation from the Illusory Energy |
| SB 11.3.40 |