As early as this morning, I heard Prabhupāda speaking about how, when we travel, we have many requirements to get from one place to another. For instance, going to a foreign country, he said, requires a visa. He said for his, coming to America, he had to show his bonafides and he had to have some special paperwork. And he said for going anywhere, we need to prepare ourselves. It's not that just willy-nilly you can go from one place to another, nor can you willy-nilly just go back to Godhead by accident. It's a 'śīla,' it's a cultivation that one enacts in this lifetime, and one develops one's bonafides. And you get a visa and a passport and so forth. You should have your paperwork in order.

Like right now, we're already thinking about just going from here to Calcutta It is a big deal, right? Say yes, otherwise, you may be left behind. I mean, you've got to figure out how much you can bring; you've got to figure out is my ticket, is it my name spelled correctly, and so forth. So there's this sense Prabhupāda was instilling in us, and I mean by this lecture he was giving this morning is, don't think that it's something that just happens if you're haphazard, but be very deliberate about it. So this verse inspires us in this way to look at the end of life. 'Ante' means the end when you leave the body and we've been reading every evening chapter of Bhagavad-gītā chapter 15 in which Kṛṣṇa gives the science of what happens when you leave your body.

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