Srimad Bhagavadgita-Rahasya OR Karma-Yoga-Sastra -Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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CHAPTER 8
Translation:-(14) O Partha ! whoever, with a feeling that there is none other thatn Me, ever and continually thinks of Me, to that nitya-yukta (that is, perpetually steeped-in-Yoga), (Karma-) Yogin, becoming merged in me, is easy. (15) After having come and become merged in me, that mahatma 9that is noble soul-Trans.), who has attained the highest perfeness and non-permanent. (16) O Arjuna ! there is bound to be a punaravartana 9that is, a return) from even the sphere (to this world sometime or other) ; but, O son of Kunti ! after having become merged in me, there is no re-birth. Description:- [The word 'punaravartan' in the 16th stanza means 'coming back to the earth after one's merit is over'[1]. Even if a man reaches the spheres of Indra, surya, nay, even of the brahman, by such ritual as Yajna, or the worship of the deities, or the recital of the Vedas, yet, as soon as the merit which he had acquired[2] is exhausted, he has to return to this world[3] or at any rate, it becomes necessary for him to fall into the cycle of re-births, after the sphere of the Brahman has ceased to exist ; therefore, all these states are of a lower order ; and as there is no re-birth after the Realisation of the Paramesvara, that state is the highest such is the import of the 16th stanza[4]. In support of the statement that even the sphere of the Brahman is non-permanent, the Blessed Lord now explains how the entire cosmos, including the sphere of the Brahman, is created and destroyed over and over again — ]
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