When you analyze that characteristic right, then a medical man has to accept, "Yes, this is pure drug." Similarly, everything you have to accept by the symptoms, by the characteristic. So if you see that this man dying as a Vaiṣṇava or as a brāhmin, sattva-sthā, then he is going to Vaikuṇṭha or higher planetary system, Brahmaloka, Tapaloka, Janaloka or Maharloka. It is not difficult.
So ūrdhvaṁ gacchanti sattva-sthā (BG 14.18). You have to see and you have to know what is sattva-guṇa, what is rajo-guṇa, what is tamo-guṇa, what is mixed guṇa. If you are learned, then you can foretell that, "This man is going there." This indication is there in the Bhagavad-gītā. Just like Kṛṣṇa says, yānti deva-vratā devān (BG 9.25). If you know that this man was performing this worship of such-and-such demigod, then he is going to such demigod.
- yānti deva-vratā devān
- pitṟn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ
- (BG 9.25)
Those who are fond of . . . addicted to karma-kāṇḍa, tarpaṇa, pitṛ-tarpaṇa, they will go to the Pitṛlokas. But how you can say, "Whatever you do, that is all right. You can go to God"? This is nonsense. Where you get this idea that whatever you do, whatever you worship, you ultimately reaches God? No.
It is clearly stated:
- yānti deva-vratā devān
- pitṟn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ
- bhūtejyā yānti bhūtāni
- mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām
- (BG 9.25)
"Those who are My devotees, they will come to Me." How you can say that worshiping the demigods, you can go to the kingdom of God? No. These are ignorance.
And in other places it is said, Bhagavad-gītā:
- kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ
- prapadyante 'nya-devatāḥ
- (BG 7.20)
Those who are worshipers of demigods, they are hṛta-jñānāḥ. Hṛta-jñānāḥ has been commented by Viśvanātha Cakravartī as naṣṭa-buddhayaḥ. Naṣṭa-buddhayaḥ: one whose intelligence is lost. They are addicted to the worship of demigods. Antavat tu phalaṁ teṣāṁ (BG 7.23). "Well, we get some profit by worshiping demigods." That is all right, but antavat tu phalaṁ teṣāṁ: how long you will enjoy that profit? Tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām: they are meant for less-intelligent class of men.