another form before the present life. The body we will receive in our next life is the consequence of our current thoughts, words and actions and the good or bad influence that drives us. We simply change bodies according to our actions. Therefore, we have to develop the desire to know how to end this cycle, how to regain our original spiritual body. Being aware of Krishna, God, allows us to know this truth and act on it. Thus we will be sure not to return in our next life in the form of an animal.
God says: “He who knows the absolute of My Advent and My Acts will no longer have to be reborn in the material universe; leaving his body, he enters My eternal kingdom. Who knows Me as I am is freed from death and rebirth”.
To know God, one must first rise to the spiritual level where one acquires the necessary intelligence. And whoever succeeds will never have to take back any material body. He returns to his original home, near God, to live there forever without ever changing bodies.
At the moment of death, the pure soul regains its spiritual body.
Death is inevitable for every embodied spiritual being, but the spiritual soul itself never dies, being entirely separate from the material body in which it has stayed. The idea “I will die one day” originates from ignorance of the data relating to existential truth, because the soul does not undergo the bodily phases of non-existence, of birth, of existence and death. When the subtle mental covering of the body is destroyed by transcendental knowledge, spiritual knowledge, the soul inside the body again shows its original identity, thus becoming aware of its true identity of being a spiritual being. The material body which results from the fusion of the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion and ignorance, appears at birth and displays life for a time, duration determined by the Supreme Lord. Finally, the combination of the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature dissolves and the body suffers death.
Knowing this truth, when the hour of death comes, we should meditate on Lord Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, so death will not affect us, because unlike the body, we remain unborn. There has not been a time in the past when we did not exist, and at the end of the body's life, we will not be destroyed, because we will have no end since we are immortal.
In a dream, we can see our own bloody head and thus understand that our real self actually stays away from the dream experience. Likewise, as our body awakens, we can see that it is the product of the five elements of material nature; earth, water,