A TIME LIVE, DIE, BE REBORN, NOT TO BE REBORN.

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Salutations to Thakur, Guru, and Ma!

 

 

 

It is a spring morning in 1924. M. and the bhaktas are on the roof of the

Morton School in Calcutta. M. reads out from the Gita, on this Dol Yatra Day,

and explains different passages from Chapter VIII.

 

 

 

M. (to the bhaktas)--"One attains that which one remembers at the time of one's

death. That is why one has to practice so that one may remember God's name at

the time of death. (8 :7)--that is, one should do one's duties and along with

it remember 'Me", that is God. One must remember Him first and then attend to

his work and remember His name during the work. When the work is over let one

remember 'Me' with his whole mind.

 

That's why Thakur said : 'The jug has to be scrubbed every day'--the yoga of

practice. If one breathes one's last while thinking upon the Resplendent One

who is beyond the darkness of ignorance, that is God, one attains Him. One

should, therefor, prepare oneself for it before departing from the body.

 

Let one dissolve the senses into the mind--these are all the doors through which

the idea of form, taste, smell, etc. enters the mind. The mind should be united

with the Playful Lord of the heart, Sri Bhagavan; and let the prana, the life

energy, be fixed here on the forehead (he places his finger on the kapal, the

spot betwen the eyebrows) at the time of death.

 

Says Sri Bhagavan : 'He who meditates on Me alone sees God. He who gives up his

body repeating My name has not to be born again in this world. Excepting him,

all have to be reborn, all from the denizens of the Brahmanlok to those of all

the other worlds. But he who attains Me has not to be reborn.'

 

Hear now, O Arjuna, about the time at which one dies to be reborn, also the time

when one dies never to return. The six months of the northern path of the sun

are such that he who dies during them does not have to return. In the six

months of the southern passage of the sun, during the dark fortnight, if the

yogi dies he will have to return, that is, be reborn.

 

When this happens that will happen--all this has been told, but what is the way

out? This also has been explained. Become a yogi. He who doesn't long for

pleasures of the world, not even of heaven, is a yogi. The yogi has but one

goal : God. His mind goes in no other direction. If his inclination evolves

this way, the yogi can never go astray. Heaven and all are trite in his eyes.

Such a yogi attains to the Abode of Narayana."

 

 

 

Satchitananda

 

Kathy

 

 

 

(M.-THE APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST. Vol. IV. 57-8)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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