The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-12.12.
Chapter 12: The Entry of the Soul into the Supreme Being
Part-12.
Also there is no fear of coming back in respect of those souls who have unselfishly meditated or performed upasana, even with the acceptance of the transcendentalness of God.
The whole difficulty arises on account of this peculiar thought in our minds, namely, the transcendentalness of God, the other-worldliness of God and the immensity of God as contradistinguished from the finitude of the individual who performs the worship or devotion.
This difficulty is overcome in the coming chapters—in the tenth and eleventh especially, about which we will speak later on.
The departure of the soul is the main subject of the eighth chapter, and the eighth chapter does not tell us that it is possible to attain God in this life, because it does not want to tell us everything at the same time.
It wants to go stage by stage, taking us by the hand from one level to the other without frightening us in any manner.
The soul’s departure is immediately decided when there is disassociation of consciousness from the material body, and in a way we may say it is decided even now.
Swami Krishnananda
To be continued ....
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