THE HOLY GITA
CHAPTER NUMBER 09
RAJAVIDYA RAJAGUHYA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF THE SOVEREIGN SCIENCE AND SOVEREIGN SECRET:
VERSE NUMBER 31
Text in Transliteration:
Kshipram bhavati dharmaatmaa sasvacchaantim nigacchati
Kaunteya pratijaaneehi na me bhaktah pranasati
Sanskrit words and phrases and their meaning:
Kshipram = soon; bhavati = (he) becomes; dharmaatmaa = righteous; sasvat = eternal; saantim = peace; nigacchati = attains to; kaunteya = O son of Kunti; pratijaaneehi = know; na = not; me = my; bhaktah: = devotee; pranasyati = is destroyed;
Text in English:
Soon does he become a man of righteousness and obtains lasting peace. O Kaunteya, know for certain that My devotee never perishes.
COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:
Many a sinner has within the span of a single life-time after conversion changed into the divine. The oldest case known to us is that of the Valmiki. An illustrious recent convert is Girish Chandra Ghose who after contacting Sri Ramakrishna changed quickly from profligacy to purity.
The Pandava brothers themselves bear testimony to the fact that the devotees of the Lord never get lost. All the five of them had unflinching devotion to Sri Krishna. They lost their empire; they were exposed to many dangers; untold trials and tribulations came upon them; the life of long exile in the forest was painful. But they did not falter in their faith in God. Adversity only increased their love of the Lord. They were blessed in the end with sreyas, the best in life.
The case of the mediocre is taken into account in the next stanza.
COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:
Once we place ourselves in the hands of the Divine, we cannot fall into utter darkness.
Cp. Rama’s statement: “To him who seeks My protection even once and requests help of Me saying ‘I am yours’ I shall give him fearlessness from all beings. This is My resolve.”
COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI SIVANANDA:
Listen, this is the truth, O Arjuna; you may proclaim that My devotee who has sincere devotion to Me, who has offered his inner soul to Me never perishes.
Comments by the blogger:
O, son of Kunti means any ordinary and average person born of the womb of a woman can turn to me after a stint as a sinner. And any ordinary average person once turned to me shall never perish. There has been a set up in Nature. Even a sinner, or doer of actions that has distanced him from the Lord and the chance of redeeming himself, once turn to me for help and shows undistracted devotion as per the earlier verse, shall never perish. Turning to the Lord for a sinner is not so very easy. And once that happens, the erstwhile sinner is very much devoted to the Lord. And he is repentant. And he always thinks in terms of his having been a sinner. He would be very careful. For example, the minor boy who had pierced the body of Nirbhaya with a sharp instrument; actually he has been released and rehabilitated. This has been done in a way that nobody knows his whereabouts. Let’s take his case for example and assume him having really turned to God, then he would rue the act of raping and killing the wonderful girl. Till the life is left in him he will be like this. Always rueing the way he had acted and how escaped the noose. And if his repentance is real and genuine and not bogus and external only, then there is a real chance for his spiritual rehabilitation. He shall not perish.
The Lord of the Gita has made some promises in the course of his discourse for the whole humanity. Whenever there is an increase of Adharma and decrease of Dharma, to punish the wicked and save the good, He will come to the earth’s plane at every Age.
Here He proclaims that His devotee is never destroyed.
If Nirbhaya’s killer can hope for such protection from the Lord, how much more a chance we stand for our emancipation. These two verses make our faith in God redoubtable.
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