Chapter 8: Akshara Brahma Yoga – Comprehending the Imperishable Reality: Verse 16
आब्रह्मभुवनाल्लोका: पुनरावर्तिनोऽर्जुन ।
मामुपेत्य तु कौन्तेय पुनर्जन्म न विद्यते ॥
ābrahma-bhuvanāl-lokā:
punarāvartino’rjuna
mām-upetya tu kaunteya
punar-janma na vidyate – 8.16
All the worlds, O Arjuna, from Brahma-loka downwards, are terminable and repetitive. (None of them has anything final or absolute to offer.) If, on the other hand, one gets to Me, he will no more have any re-birth. (It ensures absolute redemption.)
Chapter 8: Akshara Brahma Yoga – Comprehending the Imperishable Reality - Verse 16
Ma Gurupriya
Krishna further defines the highest perfection the spiritual seeker attains. First section of Vedas, dealing with praises and rituals, speaks greatly of a variety of worlds, superior to earth, the human world. Brahm¡, the Creator, and his world, the highest imaginable, top the list!
Krishna categorically denounces all these, on the ground that they are subject to termination, like the terrestrial world itself. However much one may imagine and yearn for them, hearing the alluring descriptions of Vedas, it is a fact that one gets there on the strength of the merit the rituals he has performed for a short while have given him. It has a beginning and an end, as the entitling rituals themselves have. So, life in heavens is endful, and the fall thereupon is calamitous. The fate to follow is repetitive. How can one’s discretion allow such a downfall?
