His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada explains in the Bhagavad-gita (8.5-15):
And whoever, at the time of death, quits his body remembering Me
alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.
Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.
Therefore, Arjuna, you should always think of Me in the form of
Krsna and at the same time carry out your prescribed duty of fighting.
With your activities dedicated to Me and your mind and intelligence
fixed on Me, you will attain Me without doubt.
He who
meditates on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, his mind constantly
engaged in remembering Me, undeviated from the path, he, O Partha
[Arjuna], is sure to reach Me.
One should meditate upon the
Supreme Person as the one who knows everything, as He who is the oldest,
who is the controller, who is smaller than the smallest, who is the
maintainer of everything, who is beyond all material conception, who is
inconceivable, and who is always a person. He is luminous like the sun
and, being transcendental, is beyond this material nature.
One who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the eyebrows
and in full devotion engages himself in remembering the Supreme Lord
will certainly attain to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Persons learned in the Vedas, who utter omkara and who are great
sages in the renounced order, enter into Brahman. Desiring such
perfection, one practices celibacy. I shall now explain to you this
process by which one may attain salvation.
The yogic
situation is that of detachment from all sensual engagements. Closing
all the doors of the senses and fixing the mind on the heart and the
life air at the top of the head, one establishes himself in yoga.
After being situated in this yoga practice and vibrating the sacred
syllable om, the supreme combination of letters, if one thinks of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead and quits his body, he will certainly
reach the spiritual planets.
For one who remembers Me
without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of Prtha, because of his
constant engagement in devotional service.
After attaining
Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never return to this
temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained
the highest perfection.
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