CH 6, Verse 41

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Chapter 6

Verse 41

 

Praapya punya-kritaa.n lokaan ushhitvaa shaashvateeh

Samaah /

shucheenaa.n shreemataa.n gehe

yoga-bhrashhto'bhijaayate //

 

The man who has fallen from the path of yoga attains

to the worlds of the righteous and having lived there

many years, is born in the house of the pure and the

prosperous.

 

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 64

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

 

"The man who has fallen from the path of yoga attains

to the worlds of the righteous and having lived there

many years, is born in the house of the pure and the

prosperous."

 

Our life is not what begins at birth and terminates at

death. Life begins with one’s coming in to this world

and after living the life in different bodies one

after another ends with the attainment of the state of

Brahman. Therefore, irrespective of the thought of

getting the fruit in this life or not, one should

perform good deeds for one’s elevation. Even if the

present body falls off while doing a good work, the

soul gets another body and the previous life’s

impressions of the work done remains unchanged with

it. Hence there is no loss to mourn.

 

There are three kinds of bodies - the gross, the

subtle and the causal. The gross body is the visible

body made up of bones and flesh and endowed with the

instruments of sensation like the eye and the ear. It

is this body that perishes at death. The subtle body

is mainly constituted of the mind and its impressions.

The third body is the causal body, in which all the

impressions of the mind and its powers remain

contracted in a seed-form, which is the cause of one’s

future birth.

 

The soul along with the subtle and causal bodies

transmigrates with a new body in its next embodiment.

This trans-migratory involvement ceases only when the

soul gets salvation. Then, the subtle and causal

bodies also perish.

 

Any action, whether good or evil, that is done by a

man remains in his mind in the form of impressions and

in his causal body in the form of a seed. These

impressions decide his future birth. Therefore if a

Yogi of good deeds dies before the attainment of

spiritual perfection, by the sheer force of the good

impressions (samskaras) of his mind, he goes to the

worlds of the righteous. After enjoying in those

heavenly worlds for many, many years, he is reborn in

a pure and prosperous home, where he finds the

requisite environment, which helps him to make his

further progress in the spiritual path quite easy.

Right from his birth in that house, he hears the daily

prayers and worship of gods done by his parents. He

watches their good conduct and their selflessness and

kindness towards all creatures. As he has with him the

yogic background of his previous life, he finds it

easy to imitate the good behavior and conduct of his

parents. On account of the righteous surroundings the

latent impressions of his mind are reawakened and he

is inclined to proceed further along the path of

God-realization.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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