Don't Cheat Yourself By Being a Slave of Maya

Don't cheat yourself by being a slave of maya or illusion. You are an eternal spiritual being qualitatively one with God. While it may appear very attractive to gratify your senses whenever they request to be gratified, the reality is that you have nothing to do with your material senses. They are just a covering of your actual self. Therefore as long as you remain on the platform of material sense gratification you will never be able to taste or experience the genuine unlimited pleasure of your actual spiritual existence. Quasi-spiritualists talk about God and self-realization, but they take God as someone who facilitates their material sense gratification. Such "God consciousness" is not God consciousness at all. It is sense gratification consciousness masquerading as God consciousness. Real God consciousness is taught both by Lord Jesus and Lord Krishna. Real God consciousness means to full surrender unto Krishna or God accepting everything in your life which is pleasing to Him and rejecting from your life whatever is displeasing to Him. This the real platform of spiritual realization, of unlimited happiness which every living needs to come to as soon as possible if they are going to be genuinely satisfied with their life. Otherwise they will remain frustrated and confused just like Arjuna was in the opening pages of the Bhagavad-gita.

Srila Prabhupada Teaches How to Surrender to Krishna


Srila Prabhupada Teaches How to Surrender to Krishna

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Does Every Soul Go to Yamaraja at the Time of Death?

Respected Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to You and Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you very much for your kind blessings.

With your kind permission I would like to ask a few related questions:-
After death, does each soul have to go to Yamaraja, or only human souls before taking up another body?

Do pious souls also have to go?

Hoes does one Yamaraja handle so many souls on a daily basis.

What is the time difference between two bodies?


Warm regards,
Your student
Mohit

Answer: All Sinful Souls Go to Yamaraja

Only sinful human beings go to the court of Yamaraja. They go at the time of death to be judged and awarded suitable punishments for their sinful activities. Of course, in this age everyone is sinful engaging in all sorts of irreligious activities. Therefore nowadays practically all human beings are headed for the court of Yamaraja at the time death in order to be judged and punished.

Although upon leaving one's present body at the time of death he is immediately transferred to another body, because time is relative within that brief period of time he goes to abode of Yamaraja experiencing his time of punishment as many, many years.

Yamaraja is not an ordinary living being like you and me who can only do one thing a time. He has no difficulty multitasking in his duty of judging and punishing millions of sinful human beings.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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