24 No Loss of Diminution

No Loss of Diminution


All material accomplishments are finished at the time of death. "You
can't take it with you." The pharaohs in Egypt were buried with their
worldly belongings (including their wives and servants); yet thousands
of years later their bodies were dug up and all the worldly belongings
were still there (unless grave robbers had taken them). We come into
this world naked and leave in the same way, regardless of what we have
acquired in this lifetime: prestige, money, family, education, etc.


Devotional service performed in this lifetime is never lost. If one
becomes 1% Krishna conscious in this lifetime, he will take up
devotional service from this point in the next. Krishna informs us
that in Krishna consciousness there is no loss or diminution, and that
a little Krishna consciousness will protect one from the most
dangerous situation--losing the facility of having a human body in the
next life.


A devotee who leaves his body after a little devotional service goes
to the heavenly planets, and thereafter takes birth in a well-to-do
family. During this birth he gets further opportunities to progress in
devotional service.


A devotee who leaves his body after a great deal of devotional service
takes birth in a family of transcendentalists where he is immediately
engaged in devotional service and is able to perfect his Krishna
consciousness.
Of course, a devotee who leaves this world after perfecting his
devotional service, never comes back to this world again, but attains
Krishna's eternal abode, Goloka Vrindavana.
1. Bhagavad-gita 2.40
2. Bhagavad-gita 6.41
3. Bhagavad-gita 6.42

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