Chapter 4 verse 9
“He who thus knows, in true light, my divine birth and
action, having abandoned the body, he is not born again; he comes to Me”
The devotion towards an avatara (divine incarnation) from
another person who is living in that same yuga or age has to be total.
Otherwise the experience of the Self does not happen. This is what Lord means
when he says “in true light knowing my divinity”. There were people in Krishna’s
time who thought of him as a great person but only a few knew him for who he
was such as Bheesma. In recent times Shirdi Sai Baba and Satya Sai Baba come to
mind as avatars who a few recognized them as divine when they were in their
avatar and even now not a big part of the world population worship them. One
needs divine grace to be invited to the fold of the divine. When one exhibits
that kind of devotion, they become eligible for not having another birth on
earth. I have seen people interpret this saying as that if you think of the
divine at some auspicious moments, you can be rid of the cycle of birth and
death. The laws of karma do not work like that. One has to exhaust all your
inherent vasana by living in the present and doing all actions as an offering to
the divine. This will help you recognize divinity in not just Krishna but in
all beings. When we reach that stage, there is nothing else to be done or
achieved in this world!
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