Death of devotees and of the sinful

Foolish people may say that “You devotees, you are dying, and the sinful
men, or non-devotees, they are also dying. So where is the difference?” No,
there is difference. Those who are very, very sinful, they cry, because they
see horrible scenes at the time of death, and he is going to accept some
type of body… But those who are pious, those who are devotees, they are
dying without any anxiety. This has been described by the example: just like
a cat catches its cub and catches the mouse. The cat has caught the mouse in
the mouth and the cub also in the mouth, but there are difference of
catching. The cub is feeling pleasure, “My mother is carrying me.” And the
mouse is feeling death knell, “Oh, now I am going to die.” This is the
difference. So although a devotee is dying and nondevotee is dying, there is
difference of feeling at the time of death. Don’t consider that both of them
are dying in the same process. The process may be same, but the situation is
different.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 2.13 — London, August 19, 1973