Bhagavad Gita 8.5

anta-kāle ca mām eva smaran muktvā kalevaram

yaḥ prayāti sa mad-bhāvaṁ yāti nāsty atra saṁśayaḥ

 

Those who remember me at life’s final breath,

Thus leave the body gracefully at death,

My own nature shall be their destination,

About this truth, have no apprehension.

 

My dear Lord, your longing that I come to you is much stronger than my longing to come to you. Help me to know the truth that you know: my eternal home is with you and not in this mortal, miserable, material world.

My merciful Lord, empowers me with the conviction to practice bhakti diligently so that my attraction, affection, and absorption all become increasingly centered on you. Only then can I experience far greater shelter in remembering you, in being in your presence, than what I experience in my physical home, surrounded by the things and people I am presently attached to. Only then can I be calm, clear, and confident that you are my home.

Help me, O all-pervading Lord, to see my present home not negatively as a trap, but positively as a training ground to prepare me and indeed propel me on the journey toward my ultimate home. Grant me the conviction that you are eager and expert to transform the turbulent and traumatic transition of death into a sacred homecoming.

Bless me, O Lord, so that at the moment of death I am ready to come home to you—for an unending life of undistracted, undiluted, undiminishing love.

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08.05 Unintelligent men, who do not know Me perfectly, think that I, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, was impersonal before and have now assumed this personality. Due to their small knowledge, they do not know My higher nature, which is imperishable and supreme.

At death let me come home not leave home (8.05)