Our next body depends on the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion, ignorance, which will predominate in us at the time of death. Those who die influenced by ignorance will get bodies of animals or even lower species. Those who die of passion will obtain human form on an earth-like planet. And those who die under the aegis of virtue will be promoted to the higher planetary systems, Edenic, paradisiacal, and will acquire the body of a celestial being (beings more evolved than man). But all these bodies are material, and therefore temporary, ephemeral.

Only one who is lucky enough to die thinking of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person can obtain an eternal body like that of the Lord. He will join the Supreme Lord, Krishna, in his eternal abode, and never return to the material universe again.

The Supreme Lord said:

In My personal form, always absorb your thoughts, without failing. Dedicating your actions to Me, turning your mind and intelligence towards Me, without a doubt you will come to Me.

He who, at the moment of leaving the body, thinks of Me, God, the Supreme Person, that one will undoubtedly reach the spiritual planets.

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There are two places from which, if one enters, one no longer leaves.

Krishna who is God, the Person Supreme, encourages us in these terms:

When they have reached Me, the transcendentalists imbued with devotion, these noble souls, having thus raised themselves to the highest perfection, never again return in this transitory world (the material universe) where suffering reigns.

He who knows the Absolute of My advent and of My acts will no longer have to be reborn in this material universe. By leaving his body he will enter My eternal kingdom.

Whoever enters the kingdom of God does not return to the material universe. If he has reached the state of purity and chooses to surrender himself to the Lord and to serve him with love and devotion, he does not return here below after having left his carnal envelope, but he returns to God, in his original abode, to live there eternally in knowledge and bliss.