Chapter 8, Verse 1.
Arjuna
inquired: O my Lord, O Supreme Person, what is Brahman? What is the
self? What are fruitive activities? What is this material manifestation?
And what are the demigods? Please explain this to me.
Chapter 8, Verse 2.
How
does this Lord of sacrifice live in the body, and in which part does He
live, O Madhusudana? And how can those engaged in devotional service
know You at the time of death?
Chapter 8, Verse 3.
The
Supreme Lord said, The indestructible, transcendental living entity is
called Brahman, and his eternal nature is called the self. Action
pertaining to the development of these material bodies is called karma,
or fruitive activities.
Chapter 8, Verse 4.
Physical
nature is known to be endlessly mutable. The universe is the cosmic
form of the Supreme Lord, and I am that Lord represented as the
Supersoul, dwelling in the heart of every embodied being.
Chapter 8, Verse 5.
And whoever, at the time of death, quits his body, remembering Me alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.
Chapter 8, Verse 6.
Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.
Chapter 8, Verse 7.
Therefore,
Arjuna, you should always think of Me in the form of Krsna and at the
same time carry out your prescribed duty of fighting. With your
activities dedicated to Me and your mind and intelligence fixed on Me,
you will attain Me without doubt.
Chapter 8, Verse 8.
He
who meditates on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, his mind
constantly engaged in remembering Me, undeviated from the path, he, O
Partha [Arjuna], is sure to reach Me.
Chapter 8, Verse 9.
One
should meditate upon the Supreme Person as the one who knows
everything, as He who is the oldest, who is the controller, who is
smaller than the smallest, who is the maintainer of everything, who is
beyond all material conception, who is inconceivable, and who is always a
person. He is luminous like the sun and, being transcendental, is
beyond this material nature.
Chapter 8, Verse 10.
One
who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the eyebrows and
in full devotion engages himself in remembering the Supreme Lord, will
certainly attain to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Chapter 8, Verse 11.
Persons
learned in the Vedas, who utter omkara and who are great sages in the
renounced order, enter into Brahman. Desiring such perfection, one
practices celibacy. I shall now explain to you this process by which one
may attain salvation.
Chapter 8, Verse 12.
The
yogic situation is that of detachment from all sensual engagements.
Closing all the doors of the senses and fixing the mind on the heart and
the life air at the top of the head, one establishes himself in yoga.
Chapter 8, Verse 13.
After
being situated in this yoga practice and vibrating the sacred syllable
om, the supreme combination of letters, if one thinks of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead and quits his body, he will certainly reach the
spiritual planets.
Chapter 8, Verse 14.
For
one who remembers Me without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of
Prtha, because of his constant engagement in devotional service.
Chapter 8, Verse 15.
After
attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never return
to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have
attained the highest perfection.
Chapter 8, Verse 16.
From
the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are
places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one
who attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again.
Chapter 8, Verse 17.
By
human calculation, a thousand ages taken together is the duration of
Brahma's one day. And such also is the duration of his night.
Chapter 8, Verse 18.
When
Brahma's day is manifest, this multitude of living entities comes into
being, and at the arrival of Brahma's night they are all annihilated.
Chapter 8, Verse 19.
Again
and again the day comes, and this host of beings is active; and again
the night falls, O Partha, and they are helplessly dissolved.
Chapter 8, Verse 20.
Yet
there is another nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this
manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never
annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as
it is.
Chapter 8, Verse 21.
That
supreme abode is called unmanifested and infallible, and it is the
supreme destination. When one goes there, he never comes back. That is
My supreme abode.
Chapter 8, Verse 22.
The
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than all, is attainable
by unalloyed devotion. Although He is present in His abode, He is
all-pervading, and everything is situated within Him.
Chapter 8, Verse 23.
O
best of the Bharatas, I shall now explain to you the different times at
which, passing away from this world, one does or does not come back.
Chapter 8, Verse 24.
Those
who know the Supreme Brahman pass away from the world during the
influence of the fiery god, in the light, at an auspicious moment,
during the fortnight of the moon and the six months when the sun travels
in the north.
Chapter 8, Verse 25.
The
mystic who passes away from this world during the smoke, the night, the
moonless fortnight, or in the six months when the sun passes to the
south, or who reaches the moon planet, again comes back.
Chapter 8, Verse 26.
According
to the Vedas, there are two ways of passing from this world--one in the
light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come
back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns.
Chapter 8, Verse 27.
The devotees who know these two paths, O Arjuna, are never bewildered. Therefore be always fixed in devotion.
Chapter 8, Verse 28.
A
person who accepts the path of devotional service is not bereft of the
results derived from studying the Vedas, performing austere sacrifices,
giving charity or pursuing philosophical and fruitive activities. At the
end he reaches the supreme abode.
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