Remember Krishna at death by knowing His eternal, blissful form through authorized scripture, not imagination.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 8.5–8 — October 23, 1966, New York 661023BG-New York [63:38 Minutes] CDM_120-1 Prabhupāda: There is a story, in a cowshed there was fire. So, after that incidence the cow as soon as the cow sees something red oh, they began to disturb. “Oh, there is fire.” Similarly, here tasting the bitterness of so-called rascaldom, they think that Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa is also similar rascaldom.
Prabhupāda: So, when they have sent the file? Did you ask?
Prabhupāda: Oh. Then they might have received.
Prabhupāda: om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayācakṣur unmīlitaṃ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ śrī-caitanya-mano-'bhīṣṭaṃ sthāpitaṃ yena bhū-tale svayaṃ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaṃ dadāti sva-padāntikam vande 'haṃśrī-guroḥśrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṃśrī-gurun vaiṣṇavāṃś ca śrī-rūpaṃ sāgrajātaṃ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaṃ taṃ sa-jīvam sādvaitaṃ sāvadhūtaṃ parijana-sahitaṃ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaṃśrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān saha-gaṇa-lalitā-śrī-viśākhānvitāṃś ca In the eighth chapter, Bhagavad-gītā Lord Kṛṣṇa says, anta-kāle ca mām eva smaran muktvā kalevaram yaḥ prayāti sa mad-bhāvaṃyāti nāsty atra saṃśayaḥ [Bg. 8.5] Anta-kāle means “at the time of death.” At the time of death, one who remembers Me. Anta-kāle ca mām eva, mām eva, mām eva means…Eva means “certainly” and me means… mām means “me.” “Certainly Me.” The Supreme Personality of Godhead says, “certainly Me.” That means Kṛṣṇa, or Kṛṣṇa’s expansion the form, not formless—mām. Formless, this is explained in the 12th chapter: kleśa adhikataras teṣām avyaktāsakta-cetasām [Bg. 12.5] One who is attached to the impersonal Brahman then his business is troublesome. Kleśa, kleśa means “troublesome”.
Avyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṃ, dehavadbhir avāpyate. Dehavadbhir because we are in this material body and our senses are not able to understand except something form. So, if by artificial way I want to think of formless, it becomes a troublesome business. Actually, God is not formless, but his form is different.
Everything has form without form there is nothing, even the smallest atom it has got form. Ah, [coughs] just like in geometry they describe that the point has no length, no breadth. Because the point is so small that our instrument, measuring instrument fails to measure what is its length or breadth. Therefore, the [indistinct], that it has no length and no breadth but actually it is not a fact it has got length and breadth, but we have no instrument, we have no power to see. So, spirit soul is aṇor aṇīyān mahato mahīyān [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.20(1)].
This is “soul is the greater than the greatest and the smaller than the smallest.”So, we cannot see the smallest, we cannot see the greatest, “greater than the greatest.” We can think of the greatest—the sky, the expansion of the sky—unlimited. But such sky, God is so great that innumerable millions and billions of skies are within it. In the Brahma-saṃhitā [5.48] it is stated: yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya. Therefore, we have to refer to the authoritative scriptures, to get knowledge.