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Maximum Happiness to the Maximum Number of People for the Maximum Time

CHINMAYA MISSION BOSTON

The Holy Geeta – The Divine Song

Chapter 8 April, 2015

Chapter 8 – The Imperishable Brahman

• What is Brahman?

• Who attains Brahman?

• Cosmology – Creation and destruction of Universe


Arjuna asks – “O Supreme Person

• What is meant by Brahman?• What is Adhyatma?• What is Karma?• What is Adhibuta?• What is Adhidhaiva?• What is Adhiyajna?• How is he situated in the body?• What happens to you at the time of death?” [1-2]


• Brahman

• Adhyatma

• Karma

• Adhibuta

• Adhidaiva

• Adhiyagna

• Supreme Imperishable

• Nature of Individual Self

• That action which brings about the birth and growth of things

• Fallible existence

• Supreme existence

• Lord of sacrifice within the body


At the time of death, a person who relinquishes his body, remembering me alone, attains my nature. Of this there is no doubt. [5]

Whatever state of being a person remembers at the time of relinquishing the body, that state he will attain, being absorbed in its thought. [6]

Therefore, remember me at all times and fight. With your mind and intellect fixed on me, you shall come to me without doubt. [7]

A person who fixes his mind in yoga practice, without deviation, meditating on the divine Supreme Person, attains him. [8]


Reaching me, these greatest souls never again experience birth in this temporal abode of misery for they have attained ultimate perfection [15]

Chapter 8 – Story of Jada Bharata (Srimad Bhagavatam – Fifth Canto)

Chapter 8 – Story of Jada Bharata (Srimad Bhagavatam – Fifth Canto)

Chapter 8 – Story of Ajamila (Srimad Bhagavatam – Sixth Canto)


Those who know that the day of Brahma lasts for 1000 yugas, and that is night lasts for a 1000 yugas, know what day and night are [17]

With the arrival of the day of Brahma all things come forth from the unmanifest state; with the arrival of Brahma’s night they are reabsorbed into that known as the unmanifest state [18]

Having come into being, O Partha, the multitude of creatures is helplessly reabsorbed with the arrival of Brahma’s night, and they again come into being with the arrival of his day [19]


However, higher than this unmanifest is another eternal unmanifest, which does not perish, when created things perish [20]


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Those who know Brahma and depart during fire, light, day, the bright lunar fortnight, and the six months of the Sun’s northern solstice go to Brahman [24]

The Yogi who departs during smoke, night, the dark lunar fortnight, and the Sun’s six month southern solstice attains the lunar light and returns [25]

These two well known paths of this world, that of light (without attachment) and that of darkness (with attachment) are considered primeval. By one, one does not return, by the other one returns [26]

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