Do we actually get liberation immediately after death ?

Dear Swamiji and Devotees,

Nityananda ! Gauraanga ! Hare Krishna !

In the purport of Srimad Bhagavatam of Canto 10, chapter 1, text 23 the  following has been stated-

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gita (4.9) the Lord says, tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mameti:  after giving up the material body, the devotee of the Lord returns home, back to  Godhead. This means that the devotee is first transferred to the particular  universe where the Lord is at that time staying to exhibit His pastimes. There  are innumerable universes, and the Lord is appearing in one of these universes  at every moment. Therefore His pastimes are called nitya-lila, eternal pastimes.  The Lord's appearance as a child in the house of Devaki takes place continuously  in one universe after another. Therefore, the devotee is first transferred to  that particular universe where the pastimes of the Lord are
current. As  stated in Bhagavad-gita, even if a devotee does not complete the course of  devotional service, he enjoys the happiness of the heavenly planets, where the  most pious people dwell, and then takes birth in the house of a suci or sriman,  a pious brahmana or a wealthy vaisya (sucinam srimatam gehe yogabhrasto  'bhijayate). Thus a pure devotee, even if unable to execute devotional service  completely, is transferred to the upper planetary system, where pious people  reside. From there, if his devotional service is complete, such a devotee
is  transferred to the place where the Lord's pastimes are going on. Herein it is  said, sambhavantu sura-striyah. Sura-stri, the women of the heavenly planets,  were thus ordered to appear in the Yadu dynasty in Vrndavana to enrich the  pastimes of Lord Krsna. These sura-stri, when further trained to live with  Krsna, would be transferred to the original Goloka Vrndavana. During Lord  Krsna's pastimes within this world, the sura-stri were to appear in different  ways in different families to give pleasure to the Lord, just so that they would  be fully trained before going to the eternal Goloka Vrndavana. With the  association of Lord Krsna, either at Dvaraka-puri, Mathura-puri or Vrndavana,  they would certainly return home, back to Godhead. Among the sura-stri, the  women of the heavenly planets, there are many devotees, such as the mother of  the Upendra incarnation of Krsna. It was such devoted women who were called for  in this connection.

Here it has been stated that after death a person is first transfered to another material planet where Lord Krishna's past times are going on before he can go to Goloka Vrindavan. Does this mean that we don't get liberation immediately after death and we first have to go to the material world where Lord Krishna's past times are going on ? Similarly does this also mean that after death we don't immediately goto Goloka Navadvipa as we first might have to go to a material planet where Lord Nitaai and Lord Gaura's pasttimes are going on ? It also been stated that we directly don't go to the spiritual planet because our training for serving the supreme Lord is yet not over and we have to become more perfect in the Lord's association in the material world.

Sincerely,
Mihir.

 

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