Reaching the Spiritual Planets

The Yo-Yo of the Universe

This podcast is a discourse on the Bhagavad Gītā verse 8.16. ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino ’rjuna mām upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate “From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kuntī, never takes birth again.”

The Highest Perfection of Life

This is a discourse on the Bhagavad Gītā verse 8.15. mām upetya punar janma duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ “After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogīs in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.”

Changing Bodies

This is a discourse on Bhagavad Gītā 2.13 dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati “As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.”

Always remembering Krishna without Deviation

This podcast explains the Bhagavad Gītā verse 8.13. The chapter is called ‘Attaining the Supreme’. “For one who always remembers Me without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of Pṛthā, because of his constant engagement in devotional service.” (BG 8.13) https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/8/14/

Reaching the Spiritual Planets

“After being situated in this yoga practice and vibrating the sacred syllable oṁ, the supreme combination of letters, if one thinks of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and quits his body, he will certainly reach the spiritual planets.” (Bhagavad Gītā 8.13)