Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 18-21 from the Ninth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 9 Verse 18:

गतिर्भर्ता प्रभुः साक्षी निवासः शरणं सुहृत् ।

प्रभवः प्रलयः स्थानं निधानं बीजमव्ययम् ॥ ९-१८॥

gatirbhartā prabhuḥ sākṣī nivāsaḥ śaraṇaṃ suhṛt

prabhavaḥ pralayaḥ sthānaṃ nidhānaṃ bījamavyayam

🔴 I am the Goal, the Supporter, the Lord, the Witness, the Abode, the Shelter, the Friend, the Origin, the Dissolution, the Foundation, the Treasure-house and the Seed Imperishable.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 9 Verse 19:

तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाम्युत्सृजामि च ।

अमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च सदसच्चाहमर्जुन ॥ ९-१९॥

tapāmyahamahaṃ varṣaṃ nigṛhṇāmyutsṛjāmi ca

amṛtaṃ caiva mṛtyuśca sadasaccāhamarjuna

🔴 (As Sun) I give heat; I withhold and send forth the rain; I am Immortality and also death, both Existence and Non-existence, O Arjuna.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 9 Verse 20:

त्रैविद्या मां सोमपाः पूतपापा

यज्ञैरिष्ट्वा स्वर्गतिं प्रार्थयन्ते ।

ते पुण्यमासाद्य सुरेन्द्रलोक-

मश्नन्ति दिव्यान्दिवि देवभोगान् ॥ ९-२०॥

traividyā māṃ somapāḥ pūtapāpā

yajñairiṣṭvā svargatiṃ prārthayante

te puṇyamāsādya surendraloka-

maśnanti divyāndivi devabhogān

🔴 The Knowers of the three VEDAS, the drinkers of SOMA , purified from sin, worshipping Me by sacrifices, pray for the way to heaven; they reach the holy world of the Lord-of-the-gods and enjoy in heaven the Divine pleasures of the gods.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 9 Verse 21:

ते तं भुक्त्वा स्वर्गलोकं विशालं

क्षीणे पुण्ये मर्त्यलोकं विशन्ति ।

एवं त्रयीधर्ममनुप्रपन्ना

गतागतं कामकामा लभन्ते ॥ ९-२१॥

te taṃ bhuktvā svargalokaṃ viśālaṃ

kṣīṇe puṇye martyalokaṃ viśanti

evaṃ trayīdharmamanuprapannā

gatāgataṃ kāmakāmā labhante

🔴 They, having enjoyed the vast heaven-world, when their merits are exhausted, enter the world-of-the-mortals; thus abiding by the injunctions of the three (VEDAS) , desiring (objects of) desires, they attain to the state of going-and-returning (SAMSARA) .

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