Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 347

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Knowledge of the Absolute
Chapter 7: Verse-29

jarä-marana-moksäya mäm äsritya yatanti ye
te brahma tad viduh krtsnam adhyätmam karma cäkhilam[1]

TRANSLATION

Intelligent persons who are endeavoring for liberation from old age and death take refuge in Me in devotional service. They are actually Brahman because they entirely know everything about transcendental activities.

PURPORT

Birth, death, old age and diseases affect this material body, but not the spiritual body. There is no birth, death, old age and disease for the spiritual body, so one who attains a spiritual body, becomes one of the associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and engages in eternal devotional service is really liberated. Aham brahmäsmi: I am spirit. It is said that one should understand that he is Brahman, spirit soul. This Brahman conception of life is also in devotional service, as described in this verse. The pure devotees are transcendentally situated on the Brahman platform, and they know everything about transcendental activities. Four kinds of impure devotees who engage themselves in the transcendental service of the Lord achieve their respective goals, and by the grace of the Supreme Lord, when they are fully krsna conscious, they actually enjoy spiritual association with the Supreme Lord. But those who are worshipers of demigods never reach the Supreme Lord in His supreme planet. Even the less intelligent Brahman-realized persons cannot reach the supreme planet of krsna known as Goloka Vrndävana. Only persons who perform activities in krsna consciousness (mäm äsritya) are actually entitled to be called Brahman, because they are actually endeavoring to reach the krsna planet. Such persons have no misgivings about Krsna, and thus they are factually Brahman. Those who are engaged in worshiping the form or arcä of the Lord, or who are engaged in meditation on the Lord simply for liberation from material bondage, also know, by the grace of the Lord, the purports of Brahman, adhibhüta, etc., as explained by the Lord in the next chapter.



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References

  1. jarä=from old age; marana=and death; moksäya=for the purpose of
    liberation; mäm=Me; äsritya=taking shelter of; yatanti=endeavor; ye=all those who; te=such persons; brahma=Brahman; tat=actually that;
    viduh=they know; krtsnam=everything; adhyätmam=transcendental; karma=activities; ca=also; akhilam=entirely.

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