What is the destination of people who remember God according to their religious revelation?
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so is it that people who remember God in other traditions will they go to their God or will they have to come back and then they go to Krishna see the characteristic the requirement for attaining Krishna attaining God in his manifestation is that we should love him so different religions are like different universities the point is that whether I go to this university that university the point is whether I get the knowledge that I may do it over there if the knowledge is God then we get graduated from that degree that is we get that particular graduate degree so like that the point is that we are meant to develop love for God so from whichever tradition we want we can develop love for God and there have been exalted saints in the Islamic tradition or the Christian tradition who have developed who have manifested characteristics they have expressed prayers and sentiments of just pure love for God so in principle God is not the monopoly of any tradition God is bigger than the religions that are meant to attain see religions religion is meant for God God is not meant for religion that is the import of go beyond religion to to God to surrender to God so in principle God can be attained through any tradition in practice we have to see how much love for God people of a particular tradition have developed so if somebody from a particular tradition remembers say somebody from Islamic tradition remembers Allah now we have to understand that the remembrance is not simply utterance is not remembrance remembrance is a state of consciousness utterance is simply a verbal verbalization that we say somebody may say that I will just live materialistically throughout my life and at the end of my life or when I have enough enjoyment then I will place a gun in front of my head I say Hare Krishna I will shoot myself will I go to Krishna at that time no because it’s not just the utterance it’s the remembrance and I may think that oh I’ll speak Krishna’s name but if we are attached to only if we have throughout our life enjoyed worldly things then even if we utter somehow manage to utter the word Krishna we’re not going to remember Krishna so we’re not attaining Krishna so in suggested this cannot happen in our own tradition just the utterance of Krishna is not enough for remembrance because remembrance is not simply an activity when Krishna is talking about remember me at the time of death what does he say after that therefore try to cultivate remembrance of me throughout our life so there when he’s talking about recollection it is not simply an action it is actually a disposition our heart has to be disposed towards Krishna and that will happen through lifelong practice so there will be terrorists who are suicide bombers and before they blow up their suicide bomb they may say Allah Akbar they are not going to go to Allah by that they may think that they are doing something great but they’re actually acting in the lowest mode of ignorance they’re killing themselves they’re killing innocent people so it’s not simply an utterance it is actually a disposition of the heart that has to be cultivated so if the disposition of the heart is cultivated whichever tradition one may be one will attain God and if one is not attained that disposition then depending on what conception one has Allah is just a name Krishna is a name of course Krishna is God but if there are different people who may conceive Krishna differently even within the Vedic tradition some people may think of Krishna as a manifestation of impersonal Brahman some people may conceive Krishna as a supreme person they can conceive differently so it’s not so much that Allah as a name is chanted but what is the conception of God that people have some people’s conception of God is simply a projection of their false ego that means what God hates the people whom I hate so I’m Muslim so I hate Hindus or I’m Muslim I hate Jews and then I believe God also hate those people and God has told me to kill those people or whatever so it’s so it’s a it’s a complex thing when you say you should attain Krishna I said I talked about three things over here first is you have to develop love for God and that in the moment of death is not just a one passing memory it’s a disposition of the heart that has to be cultivated and the disposition of the heart you also have to have the right conception of God and depending on each person from various traditions whichever tradition they believe based on what disposition of the heart they have cultivated what conception of God they have according they will get elevated so in principle anybody by loving God can attain God in practice you have to see what is their disposition of the mind what is their conception of the absolute based on that their post-mortem destination will be determined