THE GREAT GITA

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Bhagavad-gita specifies true faith .

 

Great authorities like Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnusvami, Lord Caitanya,

Sankaracarya, and so many others have accepted Bhagavad-gita as the supreme

principle of religious faith and Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

There is no doubt about it.

 

In the West also Bhagavad-gita is accepted as Song of God, and many great

scholars and philosophers in the West have read it and commented upon it.

 

Despite acceptance by the scholars and acaryas, there are faithless persons who

do not accept Bhagavad-gita . They do not accept it

at all as authority, for they think that it is some sentimental

exaggeration by a man known as Krsna. Thus Krsna states in the above quoted

verse that those who reject Bhagavadgita as authority cannot have any connection

with Him, and because they have no relation to Him, they remain in the cycle of

birth and death:

 

Aprapya mam nivartante mrtyu-samsara-vartmani.

 

Being subjected to samsara, the cycle of birth and death, does not guarantee

that one will necessarily get a similar facility for understanding Bhagavad-gita

in the next life. One may not

necessarily be born again as a human being, or in America, or in India, or even

on this planet. There is no certainty; it all depends on our work. On the path

of birth and death we take our birth, remain for some time, enjoy or suffer,

then again give up this body and enter into the womb of a mother, either human

being or animal, then prepare another body to come out and begin our work again.

This is called mrtyu-samsara-vartmani. If one wants to avoid this path, he must

take to Krsna consciousness.

 

When Yudhisthira Maharaja was asked, " What is the most wonderful thing in the

world? " he replied, " The most wonderful thing is that every day, every moment,

people are dying,and yet everyone thinks that death will not come for him. "

Every minute and every second we experience that living entities are going to

the temple of death. Men, insects, animals, birds--everyone is going. This

world, therefore, is called mrtyuloka--the planet of death. Every day there

are obituaries, and if we bother to go to the cemetery or crematorium

grounds we can validate them. Yet everyone is thinking, " Somehow

or other I'll live. " Everyone is subject to the law of death, yet no one takes

it seriously. This is illusion. Thinking we will live forever, we go on doing

whatever we like, feeling that we will never be held responsible. This is a very

risky life, and it is the densest part of illusion.

 

We should become very serious and understand that death is waiting. We have

heard the expression, " as sure as death. " This means that in

this world death is the most certain thing; no one can avoid it. When

death comes, no longer will our puffedup philosophy or advanced degrees help us.

At that time our stout and strong body and our

intelligence--which don't care for anything--are vanquished. At that time the

fragmental portion (jivatma) comes under the dictation of material nature,and

prakrti (nature) gives us the type of body for which we are fit. If we want to

take this risk, we can avoid Krsna; if we don't want to take it, Krsna will come

to help us.

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