How to reach the Absolute (God)

The Supreme Lord says:

The imperishable spiritual being (the soul) is called spiritual. The self is its eternal nature, and karma, or material action, the acts that generate and determine the successive bodies it dons.

The material manifestation is in permanent mutation, and the universe, with all its celestial beings, constitutes the universal form of the Supreme Lord; and I am that Lord, the Master of sacrifice, who as the Supreme Soul, dwells in the heart of every incarnated being.

Whoever, at death, at the very moment of leaving the body, remembers Me alone, immediately reaches My Abode, do not doubt it.

For, it is the thoughts, the memories of the being at the moment of leaving the body that determine his future condition.

Thus, in Me, Krishna, in My personal Form, always absorbs your thoughts. Dedicating your actions to Me, turning your mind and your intelligence towards Me, you will undoubtedly come to Me.

He who always remembers Me, the Supreme Lord, and meditates on Me, without deviating from the path, he undoubtedly comes to Me. One should meditate on the Supreme Lord as the Omniscient Being, the most ancient, the Master and Sustainer of all, who, even more tenuous than the most tenuous, is inconceivable, beyond material intelligence, and always remains a person. Resplendent as the sun, He transcends this world of darkness.

He who, at the moment of death, fixes his vital air between his eyebrows and, with the deepest devotion, absorbs himself in the remembrance of the Supreme Lord, will go to Him.

The great sages of renunciation, versed in the Vedas (the original holy scriptures), and who utter the omkara (the spiritual sound vibration), enter the Supreme Spiritual Being.

I will now instruct you in this way of salvation, which requires continence. For, yoga (yoga = the practice of union and communion with God) consists in detaching oneself from all sense activity. It is by closing the doors of the senses, keeping the mind fixed on the heart and maintaining the vital air at the top of the head that one becomes established.

Thus established in yoga, and uttering the sacred syllable om, the supreme alliance of letters, he who, at the moment of leaving the body, thinks of Me, God, the Supreme Person, he will undoubtedly reach the spiritual planets.