The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-12-8.

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Chapter 12: The Entry of the Soul into the Supreme Being

Part-8.

"Kavim puranam anusasitaram anor aniyamsam anusmared yah, sarvasya dhataram achintya-rupam aditya-varnam tamasah parastat."

A glorious description of the Supreme Being, shining like the sun beyond the darkness of ignorance.

If such meditations would be possible at the last moment, as the result of our devout life that we have led in this sojourn on earth, the attainment of God is certain.

There is no doubt about this.

If that is not to be attained, if there is any obstacle, if for some reason or the other it has not become possible for an individual to retain the thought of God, because it is not possible for everyone to retain the thought of God at the moment of passing—what happens to such a person? Such a person will be involved in the lower planes of existence, from which there is a reversion into the level from which one has risen.

There is temporality infecting every layer of the cosmos.

There is only one timeless existence, the supreme Absolute, and whoever finds it difficult to reach this state of timeless eternity, which is God-Being, finds himself in the process of time.

"Abrahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino’rjuna, mam upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate : "

One may reach any plane of existence, even if it be higher than the earthly one—that cannot be regarded as the salvation of the soul.

Wherever there is a compulsion exerted upon us by a procession of powers or forces, where the evolutionary urge pulls and pushes us in the direction in which it moves, we remain not a master of ourself.

One who is not a master of himself is not an independent person, and one who is not independent has not attained freedom, and freedom is salvation.

So whoever is involved in the process of the universe cannot be regarded as a liberated spirit.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....



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