LOTUS GITA- A PATH TO SALVATION CHAPTER- VIII

CHAPTER-VIII-INDESTRUCTIBLE BRAMHA LIGHT AND DARK PATHS (1-28).


1-7 seven queries regarding Bramha, Karma etcArjuna uvacha
8.1. kim taf brahma kim ahyatmam
kim karma purushottam
dhibhutam cha kim proktam
adhidaivan kim uchyate
8.2. adhigyam katham kah atra
dehe asmin madhusudana
prayan kale cha katham
gyeyah asi niyatatmabhih

Arjuna said:
Krisna! What are Brahma, Adhyatma, Karma (action), Adhibhuta? Who is said Adhidaiva?
Who is Adhiyagya here and how does it lie in the body? How are You recognized at the time of death by those persons who are slave of their inner self?
ShriBhagavan uvacha
8.3.. aksharam brahma parmam
svabhavah adhyatmanam uchyate
bhutabhavodbhavakarah visargah
karma sangyitah


Sri Bhagavan said:
The absolute Indestructible is Brahma; Soul of life (the Jivatma) is called Adhyatma; and the discharge of duty to show the existence of creatures is called Karma (action).
8.4. adhibhutam kshrah bhavah
purushah cha adhidaivatam
adhiyagyah aham eva atra
dehe dehbhritama var
Arjun! All perishable matters are Adhibhuta; the Purusha (Brahma) is Adhidaiva; and in this body I Myself, dwell as the inner witness, am Adhiyagya.
8.5. anantakale cha mama eva
smaran muktva kalevarama
yah prayati sah madbhavam
yati na asti atra sanshayah

One who remembers Me even at the time of death, attains My state; there is no doubt about it.
8.6. yam yam ua api smaran bhanam
tyajati ante kalevaram
tam tam eva eti kaunteya
sada tadbhava bhavitah

Arjuna! Whoever at the time of his death leaves the body remembering whatever object, he attains that object.
8.7. tasmat sarvesu kalesu
mama anusmer yudhya cha
mayi arpitamanobuddhih
mama eva esyasi asanshayam

Arjun! Therefore think of Me at all times and also fight. Mind and reason thus dedicated to Me, you will certainly attain Me.
8-16 Worshiping Shapes, images and qualities and Consequences
8.8. abhyasa yogayuktena chetasa
nanya gamina
paramam purusham divyam
yati partha anuchintayana

Arjuna! One with his mind involved in practice of Yoga without thinking anyone else and is constantly engaged in contemplation of Supreme Devine Purusha, after death attains Him.
8.9. kavim puranam anushasitaram
anadhoh andhiyansam
anusmareta yah sarvasya
dhataram achintyarupam.

One who contemplates such an indescribable shape that knows every thing, eternal Being, the ruler of all, subtler than the subtle, the sustainer of all, beyond ignorance, shining like the sun and full of knowledge;
8.10. pranyankle manasa achalena
bhaktya yuktah yogabalena cha eva
bhruvoh madhe pranam aveshya
samyak sah tam param purusham upaiti divyam

That devoted person in last moment of his life with firm mind and force of yoga establishes his breath between his eyebrows attains that supreme divine Purusha.
8.11. yat aksharam vedavidah vadanti
vishanti yat yatayah vitaragh
yat ichhantah brahmacharyam charanti
tatle padam sangrahena pravakshaye

Wise persons knowing Veda say a term undestructible, the persons renouncing the worldly matters( VEETRAG YATI) get that and the devotees obey the rules of controlling senses of objects that supreme state I shall speak to you in brief.
8.12. sarva dvarani sanyamya
manah hridi niruddha cha
murdhagni adhaya atmanah pranam
asthitah yogadharanam
8.13. aum eti ekaksharam brahma
vyavaharam mama anusmaran
yah prayati tyajan deham she
yati parman gatim

Restraining all the media of perception, and concentrating the mind in the heart, and establishing breath in the brain thus duly remaining steadfast in Yogic concentration such a devotee when leaves the body and departs, reciting the one-syllable of Brahma I,e, “Om”, and remembering Me, attains the salvation.
8.14. ananyachetah satatam yah
mam smarati nityashah
tasya aham sulabhah partha
nityayuktasya yoginah

Arjuna! One who always constantly remembers Me with undivided mind, I am always available for that constant Yogi absorbed in Me.
8.15 mama upetya punarjanma
duhkhalayam ashvashatam
na apruvanti mahatmanah
sansiddhim parmam gatah

Great souls, attaining highest perfection and getting salvation, are no more subjected to rebirths, which is the house of sorrow and transitory by nature.
8.16 abrahmabhuvanat lokah
punravartinah arjuna
mama upetya tu kaunteya
punarjanma na vidhyate

16 Arjuna! All the worlds up to Bramhaloka (the abode of Brahma) are subject of recurrences. But, on attaining salvation there is no rebirth.
17-22 Importance of God element
8.17. sahastrayugaparyantam
ahah yat brahmano viduh
ratrim yugasahatrantam
te ahoratravidah janah

The persons who know Brahma's one day of four parts of his time division, and Brahma's night of four parts of his time division, they alone know the day and night of Bramha.
8.18 avyaktal uyaktayah sarvah
prabhavanti ahragame
ratrayagame praliyante
tatra eva avyaktasangyake

All embodied beings emanate from the Brahma's subtle body at the beginning of Brahma's day and at the beginning of his night, they merge in the same subtle body of Bramha.
8.19. bhutagramah saheva ayam
bhutva bhutva praliyate
hafrayagame avashah partha
prabhavati ahragame
.

Arjuna! All creatures thus born again and again under the compulsion of nature in the day time of Bramha and dissolve at the commencement of His night.
8.20 parah tasmat tu bhavah
anyah avyaktah avyaktat
sanatanah yah sah sarvesu
bhutesu nashyatsu na avinashyati
But different from that Unexpressed ( Subtle body of Bramha), there is yet another eternal Unexpressed supreme Divine substance, which does not perish even though all creatures perish.
8.21 avyatah aksharah iti uktah
tam ahuh parmam gatim
yam prapya na uivartante
tat dham parmam mama

This Unexpressed substance spoken of as the indestructible, the same has been called salvation, attaining which creatures do not return, that is My supreme Abode,
8.22. purushah sah parah partha
bhaktya labhyah tu ananya
yasya antahsthani bhutani
yen sarvam idam tatam

Arjuna! Thet supreme Purusha in whom all creatures reside, and by reason of whom all this world is in existence that supreme Purush is attainable only by exclusive Devotion.
23-28 Paths with light and dark
8.23. yatra kale tu anavritam
avritim cha eva yoginah
prayatah yauti tam kalam
vakshyami bharatarshabhah

Arjuna! I shall now discuss both the paths the stage of departing Yogi when he does not return and the stage of departure when they do return.
8.24. agnih jyotih ahah shuklah
shanmasah uttarayanam
tatra prayatah gachhanti
brahma brahma vidah janah

(Of the two paths) there is a path in which are located God controlling fire and the God presiding over day-time, the presiding God of bright fortnight, and the presiding God of time span of six months of the northward course of the sun, proceeding along it after death, Yogis, who have known Brahma, attain Bramha.
8.25. dhumah ratrih tatha krishnah
shanmasah dakshinayanam
tatra chandramasam jyotih
yogi prapya nivartate

Again, there is a path in which are located the God presiding over smoke, the God presiding over night, the God presiding over the dark fortnight, and the God presiding over six months of the southward course of the sun - such Yogi (devoted to action with a motive), taking to this path after death, attains the luster of the moon and returns.
8.26. shukla krishne gati hi ate
jagatah shashvate mate
ekaya yati anavritim
anyatha avartate punah

Because these two paths , the bright and the dark, are considered to be eternal and related to the worldly creatures. Proceeding through one of them, one attains the salvation from where there is no return; and proceeding by the another, one has to return.
8.27. na etc shriti partha janam
yogi muhyati kaschanah
tasmat sarveshu kaleshu
yogayaktah bhava arjuna


Arjun! Any yogi who knows both the paths never involves in attachment therefore establish yourself at all times in Yoga in the form of equanimity.
8.28. vedesu yagyesu tapalsu cha eva
danesu yat panyaphalam pradistam
atyeti tat sarvam idam viditva
yogi param sthanam upaiti cha adhyam

The devotee Yogi, knowing this subject, what ever the pious gains have been explained in Vedas, sacrifices, austerities and charities transcends all the pious gains and attains the salvation.
The Eighth Chapter of the Science of Bramha and the scripture of yoga in the glorious Upnishad of Shree Mad Bhagvat Gita titled as "The Yoga of the Indestructible Brahma." A dialogue between Shri Krishna and Arjuna finishes here.