BHAGAVAD-GITA 7:29

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 7:29

 

jara-marana-moksaya

mam asritya yatanti ye

te brahma tad viduh krtsnam

adhyatmam karma cakhilam

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

jara--from old age; marana--and death; moksaya--for the purpose of

liberation; mam--Me; asritya--taking shelter of; yatanti--endeavor;

ye--all those who; te--such persons; brahma--Brahman; tat--actually

that; viduh--they know; krtsnam--everything;

adhyatmam--transcendental; karma--activities; ca--also;

akhilam--entirely.

 

TRANSLATION

 

Intelligent persons who are endeavoring for liberation from old age

and death take refuge in Me in devotional service. They are actually

Brahman because they entirely know everything about transcendental

activities.

 

PURPORT

 

Birth, death, old age and diseases affect this material body, but not

the spiritual body. There is no birth, death, old age and disease for

the spiritual body, so one who attains a spiritual body, becomes one

of the associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and engages in

eternal devotional service is really liberated. Aham brahmasmi: I am

spirit. It is said that one should understand that he is Brahman,

spirit soul. This Brahman conception of life is also in devotional

service, as described in this verse. The pure devotees are

transcendentally situated on the Brahman platform, and they know

everything about transcendental activities.

 

Four kinds of impure devotees who engage themselves in the

transcendental service of the Lord achieve their respective goals, and

by the grace of the Supreme Lord, when they are fully Krsna conscious,

they actually enjoy spiritual association with the Supreme Lord. But

those who are worshipers of demigods never reach the Supreme Lord in

His supreme planet. Even the less intelligent Brahman-realized persons

cannot reach the supreme planet of Krsna known as Goloka Vrndavana.

Only persons who perform activities in Krsna consciousness (mam

asritya) are actually entitled to be called Brahman, because they are

actually endeavoring to reach the Krsna planet. Such persons have no

misgivings about Krsna, and thus they are factually Brahman.

 

Those who are engaged in worshiping the form or arca of the Lord, or

who are engaged in meditation on the Lord simply for liberation from

material bondage, also know, by the grace of the Lord, the purports of

Brahman, adhibhuta, etc., as explained by the Lord in the next

chapter.

 

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