# Death *On the inevitability of death and how to prepare for it* --- ### No One Can Check > Death is inevitable. Nobody can check death. That death may come at any moment. Old age or childhood, it doesn't matter. Everyone is subjected to death. Nobody... Neither a man is subjected to death in old age. No. A man is subjected to death, old age or any age. — [[spoken/1976/760619sb.tor|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### The Greatest Fear > This is the greatest problem, that "I am suffering. I do not want to die." But everyone is forced to die. Anything he does not like, he is forced to accept. And there is no solution. These problems are there. So human life is meant for solving these problems. Not to waste time like cats and dogs, eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. — [[spoken/1976/760619sb.tor|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### Most Intelligent Question > This is the most intelligent question, how to stop death. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam. This is intelligence. "Why shall I die? What is the remedy of death?" This question should be asked by an intelligent man. But they are so dull, these questions never arise. — [[spoken/1976/760630sb.nv|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.16, New Vṛndāvana, 1976]] --- ### Cannot Be Bribed > Death cannot be bribed. However great politician, diplomatist, or rich man you may be, you cannot bribe Yamarāja. That is not possible. There is no question of money. When the time is there, you must go. There is no counteraction. — [[spoken/1970/701219sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.34–39, Surat, 1970]] --- ### Time for Death > I am very busy making money. I have no time for this Kṛṣṇa consciousness." But you have time for death. You cannot say, "I am very busy. I cannot die." No. The death will say, "No, although you are very busy, I have come." — [[spoken/1976/760619sb.tor|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### Next Life Prepared > This life is preparation for the next life. It is a great science, but people do not know it. They are simply leading a life like cats and dogs, not knowing what is next life, what they are going to have. There are 8,400,000 forms of life. You may get any one of them according to your work. — [[spoken/1975/750310bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 7.2, London, 1975]] --- ### What Happens at Death > At the time of death, whatever state of being one remembers when quitting his body, that state he will attain without fail. This is the law. If you remember Kṛṣṇa at the time of death, you go back to Kṛṣṇa. If you remember your cat, then you become a cat. — [[spoken/1968/680816jm.mon|Janmāṣṭamī Lecture, Montreal, 1968]] --- ### How to Practice > The whole process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is to practice remembering Kṛṣṇa. Then at the time of death, naturally you will remember Kṛṣṇa. And if you remember Kṛṣṇa, your life is successful. You go back to Kṛṣṇa. — [[spoken/1968/680816jm.mon|Janmāṣṭamī Lecture, Montreal, 1968]] --- ### Ajāmila's Example > So Ajāmila was liberated simply by uttering "Nārāyaṇa." He was addicted to so many sinful activities, but at the time of death, when he called his youngest son, whose name was Nārāyaṇa, "Nārāyaṇa!" That word "Nārāyaṇa" gave him liberation. — [[spoken/1970/701219sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.34–39, Surat, 1970]] --- ### The Only Solution > There is no other way to escape death and old age and birth. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya. If you always think of Kṛṣṇa, then you are guaranteed that after leaving this body, there is no more material body. You go back to home, back to Godhead. — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- *10 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on death* [[wiki/quotes|Back to Quotes]]