When we speak about Krishna's relationship with His devotees, we are not talking about some temporary relationship that is simply manifest for some time and then His devotees die. No, there is no death for the living entity. There is no death for Krishna’s servants. Their relationships are eternal. But when the living entity forgets that relationship and he falls into material consciousness, he becomes absorbed with the reflection of this eternal relationship. He starts chasing after the reflection but it is not reality. It is like jumping into a lake to pick apples from the reflection from the apple tree.
June 15, 1996, Nikolaev