An ocean metaphor for meaningful life and successful death is given in the Bhagavad Gita 11.28 and 29, where it states that the death of materialists is like a moth entering into fire: it just burns and it ends. Whereas the death of spiritualists is like a river flowing toward the ocean. While flowing toward the ocean, the river provides life-giving water to everybody on its banks. Like that, spiritualists offer service to all of humanity while they live. And just as the river continues to have its aqueous nature of water, even after entering into the ocean, the spiritualists continue with their spiritual nature of loving and serving Krishna even after their death.

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11.28 As the many waves of the rivers flow into the ocean, so do all these great warriors enter blazing into Your mouths.