“What is death but a change of body?” I woke up to a startling message. Śrīla Prabhupāda was suddenly returning from Hrishikesh where he had been trying to recover his health. He was coming today to Vrindavan to leave the world. We soon sat somberly in his room at the feet of our master Due to his health, Śrīla Prabhupāda sat in a chair to the left of where he usually sat cross-legged in front of his desk. It seemed all the residents of the project were there, about thirty at the time. His spoke solemnly. What struck me was not just what he said, but the conviction with which he said it. “If one is to leave world, let him come to Vrindavan. Everything is here, the Yamunā, the white sands of Ramaṇa-reti… but what is death, but a change of body?” He then quoted the Gītā: “As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.” (Bhagavad-gītā…
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