Saturday, August 22, 2020

Srimad Bhagavat Gita commentary chapter 8 verses 9-10

 Chapter 8 verse 9-10 

God is Omniscient, the most ancient one, the Controller, subtler than the subtlest, the Support of all, and the possessor of an inconceivable divine form; He is brighter than the sun, and beyond all darkness of ignorance. One who at the time of death, with unmoving mind attained by the practice of Yog, fixes the prāṇ (life airs) between the eyebrows, and steadily remembers the Divine Lord with great devotion, certainly attains Him.” 

Meditation upon the lord is a way to reach Him. What form does one meditate upon Him. There are 8 qualities enumerated in this verse-Omniscient form, the endless form-no beginning and no end, Lord of the Universe, subtler than the subtlest form, protector and giver of all things in nature, inconceivable form, brightness infinitesimally greater than the sun, beyond the ignorance which clouds the Universe through maya. This maya created by Him does not affect Him. Any of these 8 qualities can be meditated upon or praying to the Ultimate, Supreme and realizing that He is the one and only one is appropriate. When this stage of meditativeness is reached, the life energy get to the anahatha chakra-between the eyebrows and the life energy-prana is able to leave this body from the sahasrara-center of the head in straight line from the center of the spinal chord-sushumna channel. That’s why it is said in the scriptures that person who leaves his prana from the body from the sahasrara doesn’t come back for another life. He is rid of this cycle of birth and death.

 

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