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Bhagavad Gita · 8.15 · Path of the Eternal God·15 of 28

मामुपेत्य पुनर्जन्म दुःखालयमशाश्वतम्नाप्नुवन्ति महात्मानः संसिद्धिं परमां गताः

mām upetya punar janma duḥkhālayam aśhāśhvatam

nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ sansiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ

Sanskrit recitation

The path of light · 8.14–8.22 · Teaching

Translation

Having attained Me, these great souls do not take birth again here—a place of pain and impermanence—but have reached the highest perfection of liberation.

Meaning

Birth is the home of pain or seat of sorrow arising from the body. Study the Garbhopanishad. There the nature of pain, i.e., how the child is confined in the womb, and how it is pressed during its passage along the vaginal canal and the neck of the womb or uterus, is described. Further it is much affected by the PrasutiVayu (the vital air which is responsible for the delivery of the child).Mahatmas (great souls) are free from Rajas and Tamas.Having attained Me This denotes KramaMukti or gradual liberation. The devotees who pass along the Devayana through the force of their Upasana, attain to Brahmaloka (the world of Brahma the Creator) or Satyaloka (the world of truth, the highest of the seven worlds) and there enjoy all the divine wealth and glory of the Lord and then attain to Kaivalya Moksha (final liberation) through the knowledge of Brahman, along with Brahma during the cosmic dissolution.Mahatmas or great souls who have attained Moksha do not come again to birth. Those who have not attained Me, take birth again in this world.

After Swami Sivananda

The path of light· 8.14–8.22

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
na
never
mām
me
janma
birth
upetya
having attained
punaḥ
again
gatāḥ
having achieved
paramām
highest
sansiddhim
perfection
āpnuvanti
attain
aśhāśhvatam
temporary
duḥkha-ālayam
place full of miseries
mahā-ātmānaḥ
the great souls

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