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| [[Category:Eligible]] | | [[Category:Eligible for Liberation|1]] |
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| <div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> | | <div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> |
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| <div class="heading">The person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation. | | <div class="heading">The person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation. |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 2.15|BG 2.15, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O best among men (Arjuna), the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 2.15 (1972)|BG 2.15, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O best among men (Arjuna), the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div class="purport text"><p>Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. In the varṇāśrama institution, the fourth stage of life, namely the renounced order (sannyāsa), is a painstaking situation. But one who is serious about making his life perfect surely adopts the sannyāsa order of life in spite of all difficulties. The difficulties usually arise from having to sever family relationships, to give up the connection of wife and children. But if anyone is able to tolerate such difficulties, surely his path to spiritual realization is complete. Similarly, in Arjuna's discharge of duties as a kṣatriya, he is advised to persevere, even if it is difficult to fight with his family members or similarly beloved persons. Lord Caitanya took sannyāsa at the age of twenty-four, and His dependents, young wife as well as old mother, had no one else to look after them. Yet for a higher cause He took sannyāsa and was steady in the discharge of higher duties. That is the way of achieving liberation from material bondage.</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. In the varṇāśrama institution, the fourth stage of life, namely the renounced order (sannyāsa), is a painstaking situation. But one who is serious about making his life perfect surely adopts the sannyāsa order of life in spite of all difficulties. The difficulties usually arise from having to sever family relationships, to give up the connection of wife and children. But if anyone is able to tolerate such difficulties, surely his path to spiritual realization is complete. Similarly, in Arjuna's discharge of duties as a kṣatriya, he is advised to persevere, even if it is difficult to fight with his family members or similarly beloved persons. Lord Caitanya took sannyāsa at the age of twenty-four, and His dependents, young wife as well as old mother, had no one else to look after them. Yet for a higher cause He took sannyāsa and was steady in the discharge of higher duties. That is the way of achieving liberation from material bondage.</p> |
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| <div class="heading">Such empiric philosophers may assume very important roles in the material world, but they are not necessarily eligible for liberation. | | <div class="heading">Such empiric philosophers may assume very important roles in the material world, but they are not necessarily eligible for liberation. |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Vedic version tat tvam asi is actually applied in this case. Anyone who understands Lord Kṛṣṇa to be the Supreme, or who says unto the Lord "You are the same Supreme Brahman, the Personality of Godhead," is certainly liberated instantly, and consequently his entrance into the transcendental association of the Lord is guaranteed. In other words, such a faithful devotee of the Lord attains perfection, and this is confirmed by the following Vedic assertion:</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Vedic version tat tvam asi is actually applied in this case. Anyone who understands Lord Kṛṣṇa to be the Supreme, or who says unto the Lord "You are the same Supreme Brahman, the Personality of Godhead," is certainly liberated instantly, and consequently his entrance into the transcendental association of the Lord is guaranteed. In other words, such a faithful devotee of the Lord attains perfection, and this is confirmed by the following Vedic assertion:</p> |
| :tam eva viditvāti mṛtyum eti | | :tam eva viditvāti mṛtyum eti |
| :nānyaḥ panthā vidyate 'yanāya | | :nānyaḥ panthā vidyate 'yanāya |
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| :sama-duḥkha-sukhaṁ dhīraṁ | | :sama-duḥkha-sukhaṁ dhīraṁ |
| :so 'mṛtatvāya kalpate | | :so 'mṛtatvāya kalpate |
| <p>"O best among men (Arjuna), the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation." ([[Vanisource:BG 2.15|BG 2.15]])</p> | | <p>"O best among men (Arjuna), the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation." ([[Vanisource:BG 2.15 (1972)|BG 2.15]])</p> |
| <p>Spiritual salvation and liberation from material bondage must be worked out with great caution, otherwise a little discrepancy will cause one to fall down again into material existence. By studying the activities of Mahārāja Bharata, we can learn the art of becoming completely freed from all material attachment. As it will be revealed in later verses, Bharata Mahārāja had to accept the body of a deer due to being overly compassionate for this infant deer. We should be compassionate by raising one from the material platform to the spiritual platform; otherwise at any moment our spiritual advancement may be spoiled, and we may fall down onto the material platform. Mahārāja Bharata's compassion for the deer was the beginning of his falldown into the material world.</p> | | <p>Spiritual salvation and liberation from material bondage must be worked out with great caution, otherwise a little discrepancy will cause one to fall down again into material existence. By studying the activities of Mahārāja Bharata, we can learn the art of becoming completely freed from all material attachment. As it will be revealed in later verses, Bharata Mahārāja had to accept the body of a deer due to being overly compassionate for this infant deer. We should be compassionate by raising one from the material platform to the spiritual platform; otherwise at any moment our spiritual advancement may be spoiled, and we may fall down onto the material platform. Mahārāja Bharata's compassion for the deer was the beginning of his falldown into the material world.</p> |
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| :vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhaḥ | | :vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhaḥ |
| :sthita-dhīr munir ucyate | | :sthita-dhīr munir ucyate |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 2.56|BG 2.56]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 2.56 (1972)|BG 2.56]]) |
| <p>"One who is not disturbed in spite of the threefold miseries, who is not elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind." A devotee should not be aggrieved in an awkward position, nor should he feel extraordinarily happy in material opulence. This is the way of expert management of material life. Because a devotee knows how to manage expertly, he is called jīvan-mukta.</p> | | <p>"One who is not disturbed in spite of the threefold miseries, who is not elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind." A devotee should not be aggrieved in an awkward position, nor should he feel extraordinarily happy in material opulence. This is the way of expert management of material life. Because a devotee knows how to manage expertly, he is called jīvan-mukta.</p> |
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| <div id="CCMadhya2246_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5088" link="CC Madhya 22.46" link_text="CC Madhya 22.46"> | | <div id="CCMadhya2246_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5088" link="CC Madhya 22.46" link_text="CC Madhya 22.46"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.46|CC Madhya 22.46, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"O my Lord! O infallible Supreme Person! When a person wandering throughout the universes becomes eligible for liberation from material existence, he gets an opportunity to associate with devotees. When he associates with devotees, his attraction for You is awakened. You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead—the highest goal of the topmost devotees and the Lord of the universe."</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.46|CC Madhya 22.46, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"O my Lord! O infallible Supreme Person! When a person wandering throughout the universes becomes eligible for liberation from material existence, he gets an opportunity to associate with devotees. When he associates with devotees, his attraction for You is awakened. You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead—the highest goal of the topmost devotees and the Lord of the universe."</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div class="purport text"><p>This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.51.53).</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.51.53).</p> |