CH 4, Verse 9

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Chapter 4

Verse 9

 

Janma karma cha me divyam evaM yo vetti tattvataH /

tyaktvaa dehaM punar-janma nai'ti maam eti so'rjuna //

 

Whosoever thus knows the truth of My divine birth and

action, after leaving the body is not reborn. He

reaches Me alone, O Arjuna.”

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 30

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

 

“Whosoever thus knows the truth of My divine birth and

action, after leaving the body is not reborn. He

reaches Me alone, O Arjuna.”

 

The birth and action of the Lord are divine. (Janma

karma cha me Divyam.) They cannot be compared with

those of mortal beings. A man’s birth and action are

influenced by Maya. He is totally enslaved by Maya.

But the Lord has control over Maya and He acts in His

own state of supreme purity and perfection. His only

aim is to establish Dharma in the world. It is

Dharma, the principle of virtue, that sustains the

whole world and whenever it is violated the world

order gets destroyed. To protect the world, Dharma is

to be re-established. So all actions of the Lord are

prompted by purity of mind.

 

The man who knows the principle underlying such

actions unites himself with the Lord and has no need

to go through the cycle of birth and death.

Birthlessness should not be considered as a negative

state of emptiness or nothingness. It is the positive

state of purity and perfection. As an ordinary man’s

mind is immersed in his earthly life, it remains

selfish and impure. As such, he cannot conceive a

state of blessedness and purity, which is beyond the

realm of his body, mind and senses. But as he

purifies his mind through spiritual practices, he

attains the blessed state of perfection. He then gets

united with the Lord. He attains the state of

birthlessness, which means the perception of the

oneness of life at all levels, and in all planes of

existence, and the inter-relatedness of all things.

 

’Whoever knows My Divine birth and action reaches Me.’

This statement of the Lord is in accordance with the

Vedic declaration that he who knows Brahman becomes

Brahman. Here knowing of Brahman does not mean an

intellectual grasp of the subject through the study of

the scriptures. It means realization through the

direct experience of the Self, which is beyond the

body, mind and intellect.

 

‘After leaving the body he is not reborn.’ It means

that he who has realized the Lord will have no more

births bound by karma. He is not reborn bound by

karma. Moreover, leaving the body is not a

precondition for the realization of God. Realization

can be attained even when a man is alive in his

present body and he can have all spiritual powers.

But when his body falls, his soul, which has already

been freed from karma, easily merges with the Supreme.

 

 

 

 

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