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If you prepare yourself as the karmis do, to be elevated to the higher planetary system - Svargaloka, Janaloka, Maharloka, Tapoloka, Brahmaloka - that is very good

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"If you prepare yourself as the karmīs do, to be elevated to the higher planetary system—Svargaloka, Janaloka, Maharloka, Tapoloka, Brahmaloka—that is very good"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

If you prepare yourself as the karmīs do, to be elevated to the higher planetary system—Svargaloka, Janaloka, Maharloka, Tapoloka, Brahmaloka—that is very good. But Kṛṣṇa says, ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino 'rjuna (BG 8.16). Even if you go to the Brahmaloka, there is no guarantee. You have to come back here again. Kṣīṇe puṇye punar martya-lokaṁ viśanti (BG 9.21). These are the statement of Bhagavad-gītā. We should study Bhagavad-gītā very nicely, we can understand. But mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām (BG 9.25): if you prepare your life to become a perfect pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa, then you go to Kṛṣṇa. What is the difference between going to the Brahmaloka and Kṛṣṇaloka? If you go to Kṛṣṇaloka, yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama (BG 15.6), then you haven't got to return again to accept another material body. You go to Kṛṣṇa means you go with your spiritual body. No more material body.

Sādhus, they can understand that this life is preparation for next life. So that is also described in the Bhagavad-gītā:

yānti deva-vratā devān
pitṟn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ
bhūtāni yānti bhūtejyā
mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām
(BG 9.25)

If you prepare yourself as the karmīs do, to be elevated to the higher planetary system—Svargaloka, Janaloka, Maharloka, Tapoloka, Brahmaloka—that is very good. But Kṛṣṇa says, ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino 'rjuna (BG 8.16). Even if you go to the Brahmaloka, there is no guarantee. You have to come back here again. Kṣīṇe puṇye punar martya-lokaṁ viśanti (BG 9.21).

These are the statement of Bhagavad-gītā. We should study Bhagavad-gītā very nicely, we can understand. But mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām (BG 9.25): if you prepare your life to become a perfect pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa, then you go to Kṛṣṇa. What is the difference between going to the Brahmaloka and Kṛṣṇaloka? If you go to Kṛṣṇaloka, yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama (BG 15.6), then you haven't got to return again to accept another material body. You go to Kṛṣṇa means you go with your spiritual body. No more material body. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya (BG 4.9).

So we should cultivate knowledge in that way that, "I am prepared for the next life." So somebody is preparing for the next life to go to the heavenly planet, and somebody is going to the Pitṛlokas. Somebody wants to remain within this world as human being or even animals. Because if we contact with the modes of ignorance, then adho gacchanti tāmasāḥ (BG 14.18). These are the rules of prakṛti. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ (BG 3.27). Guṇaiḥ karmāṇi. As you are associating with the particular type of the modes of material nature, you are preparing your next life. But these foolish persons, they do not know what is next life, whether there is birth. Ignorance. Mūḍha. They have been described as mūḍha.

Page Title:If you prepare yourself as the karmis do, to be elevated to the higher planetary system - Svargaloka, Janaloka, Maharloka, Tapoloka, Brahmaloka - that is very good
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-05-01, 08:20:45
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1