No Loss or Diminution

All material accomplishments are finished at time of death. You can't take it with you. The pharaohs in Egypt wore buried with their worldly belongings (including their wives and servants), yet thousands of years later their bodies were dug up and all the worldly belongings were still there (unless grave robbers had taken them). We come to this world naked and leave in the same way, regardless of what we have acquired in this lifetime: prestige, money, family, education, etc.

Devotional service performed in this lifetime is never lost, for one becomes 1% Krishna conscious in this lifetime, he will take up devotional service from this point in the next. Krishna informs us that in Krishna consciousness there is no loss or diminution, and that a little Krishna conscious-less will protect one from the most dangerous situation - losing the facility of having a human body in the next life.l A devotee who leaves his body after a little devotional service goes to the heavenly planets, and thereafter takes birth in a well-to-do family. During this birth he gets further opportunities to progress in devotional service.2 A devotee who leaves his body after a great deal of devotional service takes birth in a family of transcendentalists where he is immediately engaged in devotional service and is able to perfect his Krishna consciousness.3 Of course, a devotee who leaves this world after perfecting his devotional service, never comes back to this world again, but attains Krishna's eternal abode, Goloka Vrindavana.
1. Bhagavad-gita 2.40
2. Bhagavad-gita 6.41
3. Bhagavad-gita 6.42