CH 7, Verse 23

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Chapter 7

Verse 23

 

Antavat tu phalam teshhaa.n tad bhavaty alpa-medhasaam

/

devaan deva-yajo yaanti mad-bhaktaa yaanti maam api //

 

 

But the fruit (which accrues) to those men of small

intellect is limited. Worshippers of Gods (Devas) go

to Gods. My devotees come to Me verily.

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 75

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

Compiled by: Swami Dattananda

Bhaktimala, January 2000

 

"But the fruit (which accrues) to those men of small

intellect is limited. Worshippers of Gods (Devas) go

to Gods. My devotees come to Me verily."

 

Those who worship the Gods or Devas lack wisdom. They

are people with little intelligence. Their worship of

the Gods is aimed at achieving worldly prosperity,

wealth, power or status, which are all temporary and

finite by nature. A man of wisdom will not think of

these temporary benefits. He seeks the eternal and the

imperishable. He devotes himself to the worship of the

Supreme Lord in order to attain true knowledge and

realization and by dint of his sincere efforts

(Sadhana,) he attains the Lord, whereas the other

devotees who worship Gods reach only the Gods, who can

only give them some earthly pleasures, which are

short-lived and a source of pain and sorrow. But he

who attains supreme Lord gets eternal Bliss and

eternal Peace.

 

 

 

 

 

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