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Sree Bhagavan uvaacha

 

The Lord said,

 

40. paarTha naiveha naamuthra vinaaSasthasya vidhyathe

 

      na hi kalyanakrtha kaSchith dhurgathim thaatha gacChathi

 

Oh Arjuna, neither in this world not in the next such a soul gets lost.

 

Here Krishna as the Supreme Self gives the assurance, that none who strives for self redemption ever comes to harm. The what happens to a yogabhrashta, one who has strayed from the path of      Self realisation  and meets his end of life? The answer is given in the next sloka.

 

The above statement is one of the assurances contained in the Gita like `Kountheya prasthijaneehi na m bhakthaH praNasyathi,' (ch.9.31), `ananyaaschithaantho maam,'(ch.9.22) etc. This statement holds good generally for all who do good, whether it is worship, or dhana, giving to and helping others, any austerities and even mentally indulging in such activities. Nothing good done goes waste. This is not a matter of faith alone but could be scientifically verified by the Newton.s laws of motion that says, every action has an equivalent and opposite reaction. Action is karma which creates future karma in the form of results to be experienced.. Good karma brings good results. Since thinking is also karma,  good thoughts create good vibrations which come back to us redoubled. If even the desire motivated karma produces good result, the spiritual karma would definitely bring only good result, in this life or the next. This is explained in the following slokas.

 

41.praapya puNyakrtho lokaan ushithvaa SaasvatheeH samaaH

 

    Sucheenaam Sreemathaam gehe yogabhrashto abhijaayathe

After attaining the meritorious worlds and staying there for considerable time the one who has swerved from his yoga is born in the house of pure-hearted and prosperous.

 

The man who has slipped from yoga goes to the meritorious worlds and stays there for long time and then takes birth in a home of a householder who conform to vedic ordinances and who is affluent. There, due to poorvajanma vaasanas he is drawn towards yoga and when the obstructing vasanaas are weakened he pursues the yogic path.

 

One should remember that the term yogabhrashta applies not to the one who after practicing yoga a little, lapses back to sensuous  life, not able to control his mind, but to the one who practises till the end but unsuccessfully, or is not able to fix his mind at the last moments of his life due to the strong vasnas which overpower him at the time of death.

 

Any individual who is born in an affluent family of pious and honest people but has no interest in worldly pleasures is an example of this kind of yogabhrashta. Even in kaliyuga we have had many examples like the acahryas and saints and saint composers like the Trinity of carnatic music  etc.

 

42.aThavaa yoginaam eva kule bhavathi Dheemathaam

 

     ethath hi dhurlabhatharam loke janma yath eedhrsam

 

Or he is born in the family of yogis with wisdom. But it is very rare to get such birth in this world.

 

43. thathra tham budDhisamyogam labhathe pourvadhehikam

 

     yathathe sa thatho bhooyaH samsidDhou kurunandhana

 

There he gets the perfection of the intellect from where left of in the previous birth and strives again hard to attain salvation.

 

 Depending upon the state up to which he has advanced in yoga he perhaps gets birth in the family of wise yogins though it is rare because this happens only to a near perfect yogin like Jadabharatha  who are very rare.

 

 Being born in the family of yogis he acquires memory of ideas accumulated in his previous birth and strives harder to reach perfection.

           

            The idea is that one need not lose courage and confidence as to whether he will be able to achieve perfection in this life. Whatever we do comes to our aid sooner or later and we start  from where we left. This is because the spiritual vasanaas once acquired never perish and even when one slips back they always come to him at the right time as in the case of Ajamila, who was trained for spiritual life but was tempted to the evil life of lust and crime, but got the wisdom at the right time through the grace of the Lord. So the right time to start is now!

 

 

 



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