The Gita according to Gandhi 276

The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

DISCOURCE 6 41. Fallen from yoga, a man attains the worlds of righteous souls, and having dwelt there for numberless years is then born in a house of pure and gentle blood. 42. Or he may even be born into a family of yogins, though such birth as this is all too rare in this world. 43. There, O Kurunandana, he discovers the intellectual stage he had reached in previous birth, and thence he stretches forward again towards perfection. 44. By virtue of that previous practice he is borne on, whether he will it or not, even he with a desire to know yoga passes beyond the Vedic ritual. 45. But the yogi who perseveres in his striving, cleansed of sin, perfected through many births, reaches the highest state.