Immortality and Yamaraja

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So Yamaräja is a great devotee Vaiñëava. We should not be afraid of

Yamaräja. Those who are devotees, they are... Yamaräja says that "I offer

them respect, my obeisances." He advised his messengers that "Don't go to my

devotees. They are to be offered respect by me. You go to persons who are

reluctant to chant Hare Kåñëa mantra. You go there and bring them here for

judgment."…

So in other words, it is the duty of the Yamaräja to see that everyone is

becoming Kåñëa conscious. That is his duty, just as the police department's

duty is to see that everyone is law-abiding, acting according to the law of

the state. Police is not anyone's enemy. He is enemy to the criminals, not

to the law-abiding citizens….

 

…If you catch up Kåñëa's lotus feet very tightly, then you will not fall

down. But if you make a show of so-called brahmacäré, so-called gåhastha, or

so-called sannyäsé, then you will fall down. We are experiencing that. Then

you must fall down. Kåñëa will not tolerate a defaulter, a pseudo devotee.

Mäyä is very strong. Immediately capture him: "Come on. Why you are here?

Why you are in this society? Get out." That is Yamaräja's duty. But if you

remain in Kåñëa consciousness, Yamaräja will not touch you. Your death is

stopped from the point where you begin Kåñëa consciousness. Your death is

stopped. …

Therefore it is advised, aho nå-loke péyeta hari-lélämåtaà vacaù. "O the

human society, you have got this body. Just go on drinking the nectarine of

kåñëa-kathä." It is advised here….

 

Now if somebody argues that "Here is... A devotee is also dying." A devotee

is also dying. How can I say that it is deathlessness? No, he does not know.

Devotee is not dying. There is very good example. Just like a cat. He

catches the rat and he catches his cub also. But these two kinds of catching

is different. When the cat catches a rat, that rat means his, "Chi chi chi,"

means dying, actually dying. And the cab (cub), he is feeling very

comfortable: "Meow, meow, meow." Because the same cat, catching, process is

the same, but the feeling is different. So a devotee seemingly dying, he is

not dying. He is going back to Kåñëa. He is very pleased, "Now my labor is

finished. I am going to Kåñëa." That is his feeling. And others, they are

crying, "Oh, this is my estate. This is my family. This is my, this is my,

this is my... I am leaving. I do not want to leave it. What will happen to

that?" He is crying. That is death. And this is not death...

 

If you simply know that "Yamaräja is there; he is supervising that I may not

fall down," then you will not die. You will not die. It is not impractical.

It is practical. Try to perceive the truth that since you have begun Kåñëa

consciousness, to become Kåñëa conscious, your death has been stopped. But

don't fall down and again capture death. That is the instruction.

 

SPL SB 1.16.8 LA 74