Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 9
Bhutani yanti bhutejya:- Persons possessing the mode of ignorance (darkness), worship the spirits and ghosts, to fulfil their worldly desires. They worship spirits at night, on the cremation ground with meat, wine and incantations etc. The maximum benefit they can get is that those evil-spirits, can fulfil their worldly desires. But after death, they go to the spirits i.e., become evil-spirits. Those, who worship other gods, manes and spirits etc., for worldly pleasures and prosperity, have to go to hell or to follow, the cycle of birth and death in eighty-four lac forms of lives. In human birth, by having affinity of love with God, they could be a source of bliss to Him. But being engrossed in cheap worldly desires, they adore petty gods, manes and evil-spirits, and thereby get entangled in a vicious circle. Therefore, they should devote themselves only to God, very cautiously. If they worship the Lord, they can attain Him. Or if they worship others regarding them as manifestation of the Lord, without a desire for the fruit of worship, they can attain Him. Regarding them, as separate from the Lord, and having a desire for fruit, these are the two causes of downfall.
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References
- ↑ If a devotee regards an evil-spirit as the manifestation of God, the evil-spirit attains emancipation and the devotee has a vision of Gad. Once the devotee, Namadeva saw an evil-spirit of a very big size. Ntmadeva prayed to it by regarding it as his favourite deity with the result that the evil-spirit attained emancipation and God revealed Himself to him.