BHAGAVAD-GITA 9:25

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 9:25

 

yanti deva-vrata devan

pitrn yanti pitr-vratah

bhutani yanti bhuteiya

yanti mad-yajino 'pi mam

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

yanti--go; deva-vratah--worshipers of demigods; devan--to the

demigods; pitrn--to the ancestors; yanti--go; pitr-vratah--worshipers

of ancestors; bhutani--to the ghosts and spirits; yanti--go;

bhuta-ijyah--worshipers of ghosts and spirits; yanti--go; mat--My;

yajinah--devotees; api--but; mam--unto Me.

 

TRANSLATION

 

Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods;

those who worship the ancestors go to the ancestors; those who worship

ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; and those who

worship Me will live with Me.

 

PURPORT

 

If one has any desire to go to the moon, the sun or any other planet,

one can attain the desired destination by following specific Vedic

principles recommended for that purpose, such as the process

technically known as darsa-paurnamasi. These are vividly described in

the fruitive activities portion of the Vedas, which recommends a

specific worship of demigods situated on different heavenly planets.

Similarly, one can attain the Pita planets by performing a specific

yajna. Similarly, one can go to many ghostly planets and become a

Yaksa, Raksa or Pisaca. Pisaca worship is called "black arts" or

"black magic." There are many men who practice this black art, and

they think that it is spiritualism, but such activities are completely

materialistic. Similarly, a pure devotee, who worships the Supreme

Personality of Godhead only, achieves the planets of Vaikuntha and

Krsnaloka without a doubt. It is very easy to understand through this

important verse that if by simply worshiping the demigods one can

achieve the heavenly planets, or by worshiping the Pitas achieve the

Pita planets, or by practicing the black arts achieve the ghostly

planets, why can the pure devotee not achieve the planet of Krsna or

Visnu? Unfortunately many people have no information of these sublime

planets where Krsna and Visnu live, and because they do not know of

them they fall down. Even the impersonalists fall down from the

brahmajyoti. The Krsna consciousness movement is therefore

distributing sublime information to the entire human society to the

effect that by simply chanting the Hare Krsna mantra one can become

perfect in this life and go back home, back to Godhead.

 

Copyright 1983 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with

permission.