we try to keep death under wraps / Pompeii can happen at any moment / fear, dread and resignation at the moment of death / fear for our loved ones in the future / regret about how we treated loved ones in the past / life will go on without us / they'll be eating chips and dip, and laughing at your funeral / the iceberg of death is coming, destroying love and romance / only spiritual knowledge will save us from the pain of separation / our miserly intelligence limits our love

SB 4.28.18-22

"… our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross / we're here for self realization / there's a bigger ROI on your spiritual life / yoga wisdom could save yoga asana / Postulate 4 - My body is a vehicle for devotional service / sexual attraction is the basic principle of material existence, and leads to thinking in terms of I and mine / who is the real sannyasi?

SB 4.28.14-17

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."- Haruki Murakami / the terror of death without spiritual knowledge / "Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go." Jean de La Fontaine / death can be a gift to put your life in perspective / our deep affections for family should be based on truth / the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they're too heavy to be broken

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SB 4.28.1-13

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How to explain your new interest in Bhakti to loved ones? / Can you pinpoint the reasons why you both got into Bhakti?

know that Krishna listens to the voice of your chanting / share the spiritual messages that strike you with others / remain clear that we are staying only a short time in the guesthouse of planet earth / do I treasure things that aren't so valuable? / are my thoughts giving me energy? / finding the small spark in the heart and acting out of love

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dying as a spiritually aware person / time is creeping up on us / Time gives birth to Old Age, who teams up with Fever & Disease to attack our body / Vaishnavas are immune the anxiety and suffering of old age and disease / even curses can be blessings / old age can be an impetus for our spiritual life / separating ourselves from our external reality through Bhakti / yoga leads to boundless happiness, truth, and steadiness through life's greatest challenges

Bhakti Tirtha Swami's last kirtan:

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SB 4.27.21-30

we're here to observe, learn, grow, love and then return home / you don't need to decorate your hotel room / Postulate 14 - let Krishna be the attractive one / we can't handle fame, wealth, beauty, etc. / both materialistic piety and decadence lie on the other side of truth / Krishna comes in the form of time and forces us to surrender / our life airs are being attacked by time, along with the days and nights / every time the sun sets we can reflect that my body is losing a battle / for those who identify with the body, time brings anxiety / time brings disease

SB 4.27.5-20

what is normal now is really abnormal / the blind pursuit of materialism is a hamster wheel of debt / making sense of an upside world through Bhakti / stay where you are but cultivate wisdom / Bhagavatam juxtaposes spirituality, not only with moral decadence, but with materialistic piety as well / material enjoyment is just a thin veneer over suffering / material happiness will shoot you in the groin / disease and time are creeping up on us / what's your pillow, that helps you sleep through life's important messages?

SB 4.27.1-4

the desires of the guru are always in the heart of the disciple / "What is sacred is considered to be ordinary & what is ordinary is considered to be so important." - Radhanath Swami / Clear out the junk in your mind to make space for the extraordinary / let your Inner archaeologist dig deep / Krishna's Lila as the ultimate focal point / It's not just cleaning and emptying the house, it's filling the house with love / the higher consciousness is inaccessible through the material senses / meditation on Krishna's Lila arises in the consciousness, reveals itself and summons the eternal, blissful participation of those who meditate upon it / Krishna's dance is the churned essence of all the Vedic literature