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
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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