of a series of fourteen Manus, as they extend over the course of a day of Brahma, the demiurge, the first creature and ruler of our galaxy, placed at this post by God. In Sanskrit, the word man is called manusya, which means "descendant of Manu".

We have the choice.

At the moment of death we can remain in the material universe, or we can go into the kingdom of God.

God, the Supreme Lord says: "For it is the thoughts, the memories of being at the moment of leaving the body, which determine its future condition. It is said to be unmanifest and imperishable, this supreme kingdom, ultimate goal; for the one who reaches it, no return (in the material universe). This world is My absolute abode. Whoever, at the moment of death, at the very instant of leaving the body, remembers Me alone, immediately reaches My home, do not doubt it."

Let us remember this idea: he who, at the very moment of his death, thinks of Krishna, God, in his original form, will go to Him, and reach the spiritual world. Whoever thinks of Him at the moment of death immediately obtains a spiritual body, all of knowledge, bliss and eternity, and reaches the kingdom of God, for we put on a spiritual body and abandon our material bodies (of dense matter and ethereal) according to well-established rules. Thus, when we die, our next body is already determined, not by us, but by higher authorities, according to the acts we have committed in the life that is coming to an end. According to our actions in this life, we will be raised or degraded. So we are preparing our future life today. That is why an existence of spiritual preparation guarantees us, after death, the benefit of a spiritual body, similar to that of the Lord, and the return to his kingdom. We must ardently desire it. This is the first choice.

The second choice, which almost all living beings make, is that of not listening to God, of not doing what He says, and thus of being obliged to remain in this world of matter and to undergo the cycle of rebirth, sickness, old age, and death, life after life, perpetually, and therefore suffer every existence.

Attributes of the pure devotee of God.

A person who is conscious of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, who devotes himself entirely to the sublime love service of the Lord, acquires many of the divine virtues of celestial beings.