This life creates one’s next life

Of course, one’s thoughts during the course of one’s life accumulate to influence one’s thoughts at the moment of death, so this life creates one’s next life. If in one’s present life one lives in the mode of goodness and always thinks of Krishna, it is possible for one to remember Krishna at the end of one’s life.

– Srila Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita As It Is 8.6 purport