Do we need to come to the stage of ruchi to go BTG? If we chant but don’t remember Krishna at the time of death, will we go back to him?

Question from Ravikant Ramu you said in earlier lecture that smaran will come when we are at the ruchi stage but Krishna also said that if we remember him at the time of death then we will come back to him so is it that if we not attain ruchi but if we just chant the holy name at the time of death will we go back to Krishna or will we have to take birth again so actually being a body is not a game that depends on mathematical precision it’s not that we have to get things technically right ultimately Krishna is and Krishna wants us to return back to him so if we have a sincere desire to love and serve Krishna and to return back to him Krishna will take that into account and he will help us to return back to him so when I said about me needing to be at the stage of prema at the stage of ruchi that was from a technical point of view I was not talking about smarana I was talking about smriti smaran is something which we try to do when we are trying to contemplate ourselves smriti is when Krishna gives a revelation by way sort of waves of remembrance sweep over us 1,2,3,4 many different thoughts about Krishna they start going through our mind rapidly we find sometimes that we have to concentrate and struggle to fix our mind on Krishna sometimes and sometimes the mind gets fixed on Krishna automatically spontaneously even in our stage it happens occasionally so that is what we are referring to in that case of smaran and smriti so Krishna says in the padma purana we also quote that revelation by Krishna’s own will spontaneously that smriti will come to us now beyond that it is also important to denounce that this smriti is not something that is essential for our spiritual advancement actually what is essential is our endeavour and our endeavour to produce a purification which will happen by Krishna’s grace and Krishna’s grace will come even when we are not having smriti so it is not that we have to have smriti to go back to Krishna we should purify our desires and our desire to love Krishna should be greater than all our other desires that has happened then we will return back to Krishna whatever be our other situations in life they don’t matter so much what matters is that we desire to love Krishna so if we chant Krishna’s names and we are not remembering Krishna then it is not a mechanical thing whether I chant Krishna’s name or not whether by that time I have purified my desires adequately so that my love for Krishna or my desire to be with Krishna is more than my desire for other things and if that is there we will go back to Krishna if that is not there then depending on what other desires are remaining and how best they can be dealt with whether they have to be built and then purified or they can be just injected and purified there are two ways to purify get rid of our desires and what needs to be done Krishna knows best and accordingly will guide us to a future destination so as sadhakas we should not worry too much about things that are not in our hands what is in Krishna’s hands is actually in the safest hands so we should worry primarily about what is in our hands and what is in our hands is using Krishna consistently and consciously during our practice of sadhana bhakti and if we keep doing that we can be assured that whatever things are beyond our control whatever way they turn out and say death comes to us when we are unprepared, when we are not remembering Krishna when we are only softly chanting Krishna’s name or whatever these things do not matter because Krishna is not here when Krishna is Arjuna’s sadhana bhakti it is a matter of heart Krishna is Bhavagrahi so it is not that we have to technically get things right and that is done near the end of the 8th chapter 8th chapter talks about devyan and viprayan there are two ways of departing from the world which depend on precise timings and other technical details Krishna says he says the devotee does not have to worry about both these things which is fast the devotee can just fix stay connected in yoga later on he will recommend bhakti yoga as the best yoga so that way if the devotee stays fixed in bhakti yoga that will take the devotee across so if we are cultivating Krishna consciousness sincerely throughout our life Krishna will guide us if our desire for Krishna is strong enough stronger than other desires we will go back to Krishna otherwise we will go to some other place where our progressive master is Krishna we will continue in another set of circumstances we don’t have to worry about technical details or about things that are not in our control if we do our part Krishna will definitely do his part and take us back to him as quickly as possible as is possible with our conditioning and purification that is required we get free from those limitations