Because constantly absorbed in devotional service, he who always remembers Me, without deviation, reaches Me without difficulty. When they have reached Me, the spiritualists imbued with devotion, those noble souls, having thus ascended to the highest perfection, never again return to this transitory world, where suffering reigns.

All the planets of the universe, from the most evolved to the lowest, are places of suffering, where birth and death follow one another. But for the soul that reaches My Kingdom, there is no more rebirth.

One day of Brahma (the first created being, and demiurge of our galaxy) is worth a thousand of the ages known to men, and as much its night.

With the day of Brahma all varieties of beings are born, and when his night comes, all are annihilated.

Endlessly, day after day, the day is reborn, and each time, myriads of beings are brought back into existence. Endlessly, night after night, night falls, and with it, beings, in annihilation, without their being able to do anything about it. There is, however, another world, eternal, beyond the two states, manifest and unmanifest, of matter. This is the supreme world, which never perishes. When everything in the material universe is dissolved, it remains intact.

It is said to be unmanifest and imperishable, this supreme kingdom, the ultimate goal, for those who reach it, there is no return. This world is My Absolute abode.

Only through pure devotion can one reach God, the Supreme Lord, greater than all. Although He never leaves His kingdom, He penetrates everything, and everything in Him rests.

Let me now describe to you the moments when one leaves this world and never returns, and those when one leaves and returns.

He who knows the Supreme Spiritual Being leaves this world at an auspicious time, in the light of day and under the sign of the celestial being of fire, during the fifteen days when the moon grows and the six months when the sun passes to the north.

Whether he leaves at night, in the smoke, during the waning of the moon, or in the six months when the sun passes to the south, let him reach the lunar star, and the spiritualist will still have to return to this world.

According to the Vedas (the original holy scriptures), there are two ways to leave this world: in darkness or in light. One is the way of return, and the other is the way of no return. They never go astray, the devotees who know these two ways. Be therefore, O ever steadfast in devotion.

The study of the Vedas (the original holy scriptures), sacrifices, austerities, charitable acts, philosophical research and self-serving action. He who chooses the path of devotional service is in no way deprived of their fruits, and in the end he gains the absolute kingdom.