Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 15
Appendix:—We are fragments of God—`mamaivamso jivaloke' (Gita 1517). Therefore the Lord's Abode is also our abode. This is the reason that having attained that Abode, there is no return to this world. So long as we don't attain that Abode, we like a passenger, will go on wandering in several wombs and in several worlds and will not he able to stay anywhere. Even if we reach the Abode of Brahma, the highest plane of existence, we have to retum—`abrahmabhuvanallokah punaravattino'rjuna' (Gita 8/16). The reason is that the entire universe is a foreign land, not our own land; it is the abode of others, not ours. Our roaming and going astray will come to an end only, when we reach our Real Abode.
The Lord in the path of knowledge has declared the state from which there is no return—'gacchantyapunaravrttim jnananirdhutakalmasah' (Gita 5/17), but in the path of devotion there is attainment of God's Supreme Abode—this is the speciality of devotion. In the Abode of God, love is specially relished.
The Supreme Goal can neither be illumined by 'adhibhautika light' (sun, moon etc.) nor by 'adhidaivika light' (eye, mind, intellect and speech etc.,). The reason is that it is Self-effulgent. In it there is no distinction between the illuminator and the illumined.
In 'gatva' there is 'gati', not 'pravrtti' because the fragment naturally moves towards the whole, in it there is no 'pravrtti'. 'Pravrtti' is intentionally done while 'gati' is spontaneous and automatic.
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