BHAGAVAD-GITA 14:2

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 14:2

 

idam jnanam upasritya

mama sadharmyam agatah

sarge 'pi nopajayante

pralaye na vyathanti ca

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

idam--this; jnanam--knowledge; upasritya--taking shelter of; mama--My;

sadharmyam--same nature; agatah--having attained; sarge api--even in

the creation; na--never; upajayante--are born; pralaye--in the

annihilation; na--nor; vyathanti--are disturbed; ca--also.

 

TRANSLATION

 

By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the

transcendental nature like My own. Thus established, one is not born

at the time of creation or disturbed at the time of dissolution.

 

PURPORT

 

After acquiring perfect transcendental knowledge, one acquires

qualitative equality with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, becoming

free from the repetition of birth and death. One does not, however,

lose his identity as an individual soul. It is understood from Vedic

literature that the liberated souls who have reached the

transcendental planets of the spiritual sky always look to the lotus

feet of the Supreme Lord, being engaged in His transcendental loving

service. So, even after liberation, the devotees do not lose their

individual identities.

 

Generally, in the material world, whatever knowledge we get is

contaminated by the three modes of material nature. Knowledge which is

not contaminated by the three modes of nature is called transcendental

knowledge. As soon as one is situated in that transcendental

knowledge, he is on the same platform as the Supreme Person. Those who

have no knowledge of the spiritual sky hold that after being freed

from the material activities of the material form, this spiritual

identity becomes formless, without any variegatedness. However, just

as there is material variegatedness in this world, in the spiritual

world there is also variegatedness. Those in ignorance of this think

that spiritual existence is opposed to material variety. But actually,

in the spiritual sky, one attains a spiritual form. There are

spiritual activities, and the spiritual situation is called devotional

life. That atmosphere is said to be uncontaminated, and there one is

equal in quality with the Supreme Lord. To obtain such knowledge, one

must develop all the spiritual qualities. One who thus develops the

spiritual qualities is not affected either by the creation or by the

destruction of the material world.

 

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