Chapter 7: Knowledge of the AbsoluteTEXT 19Lord Krishna said : After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.

Who Surrenders Unto Krishna

There are four classes of men functioning in the three material modes of nature. (Goodness,Passion and Ignorance)Those who are purely in the mode of goodness are called brāhmaṇas(Intellectuals)(Scholars,Priests,Teachers).Those who are purely in the mode of passion are called kṣatriyas(Administrators)(Rulers,Warriors).Those who are in the modes of both passion and ignorance are called vaiśyas(mercantile class)(Agriculturalists,Merchants).Those who are completely in ignorance are called śūdras.(service or labour class)

4 Classes Of Men

Chapter 7 Text 13Lord Krishna said"Deluded by the three modes [goodness, passion and ignorance], the whole world does not know Me who am above the modes and inexhaustible"The whole world is enchanted by three modes of material nature. Those who are bewildered by these three modes cannot understand that transcendental to this material nature is the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa.In this material world everyone is under the influence of these three modes and is thus bewildered. By nature living entities have particular types of body and particular types of psychic and biological activities accordingly.

3 Modes Of Material Nature

Chapter 7 : Knowledge of the Absolute Text 15Lord Krishna said : Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the atheistic nature of demons, do not surrender unto Me.

Who Don't Surrender To Krishna

The capitalist serves the family,and the family serves the state in the terms of the eternal capacity of the eternal living being. In this way we can see that no living being is exempt from rendering service to other living beings,and therefore we can safely conclude that service is the constant companion of the living being and that the rendering of service is the eternal religion of the living being.Yet man professes to belong to a particular type of faith with reference to a particular time and circumstance and thus claims to be a Hindu,Muslim,Christian, Buddhist or an adherent of any sect.

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Such designations are non–sanātana-dharma. A Hindu may change his faith to become a Muslim, or a Muslim may change his faith to become a Hindu, or a Christian may change his faith and so on. But in all circumstances the change of religious faith does not affect the eternal occupation of rendering service to others. The Hindu, Muslim or Christian in all circumstances is a servant of someone. Thus, to profess a particular type of faith is not to profess one’s sanātana-dharma. The rendering of service is sanātana-dharma. Factually we are related to the Supreme Lord in service.

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Out of the 8,400,000 different species of living beings, there are 400,000 human forms. 900,000 varieties of material bodies in the water, 2,000,000 vegetable bodies, 1,100,000 worms and reptiles, 1,000,000 forms of birds, 3,000,000 different bodies of beasts forms. Altogether there are 8,400,000 varieties of bodies in different planets of the universe, and the living entity is traveling by so many transmigrations according to different modes of enjoying spirit within himself.

8.4 Million Species In Material Universe

Kṛṣṇa is providing	for	us	here, and	He	will	also provide	for	us	there.	So	we	should	know that	our	happiness	is	 in returning home,	back	to Godhead,	where	we	can	eat, drink and	be	merry	in Kṛṣṇa’s company.

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Chapter 13 Nature,the enjoyer and consciousness.Lord Krishna said : Renunciation of the objects of sense gratification,absence of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; nonattachment to children, wife, home and the rest,and evenmindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events;constant and unalloyed devotion to Me,resorting to solitary places, detachment from the general mass of people;accepting the importance of self-realization,and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth-all these I thus declare to be knowledge,and what is contrary to these is ignorance.

What Is Knowledge ?

Although krishna has unlimited opulences, 6 of them are primary which are strength,fame,wealth,knowledge,beauty and renunciation.Krishna has all these opulences in fullness. Even a common man has some of these opulences in minute quantity but no man has any of opulence in fullness.

6 Primary Opulences Of Krishna 

Chapter 2 Text 13 Lord Krishna said : As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.

What happens after DEATH ?  

Under these circumstances,we can see that one friend serves another friend, the mother serves the son,the wife serves the husband, the husband serves the wife and so on.If we go on searching in this spirit,it will be seen that there is no exception in the society of living beings to the activity of service. The politician presents his manifesto for the public to convince them of his capacity for service.The voters therefore give the politician their valuable votes,thinking that he will render valuable service to society. The shopkeeper serves the customer,and the artisan serves the capitalist.

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Chapter 9 : The Most Confidential Knowledge Text 10Lord Krishna Said : This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.

Who controls Nature ? 

Chapter 2 Text 14Lord Krishna said : The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

How  To Be Equipoised In Both Happiness And Distress . 

The	easiest	way	to go to the	Vaikuṇṭha lokas is: Simply try	to understand	Kṛṣṇa.	Why does He come? What are	His activities? Where	does	He	come	from?	Why	does	He	come in the	form	of a	human	being? We only have to	try	to	understand this and study Kṛṣṇa as	He	explains	Himself in	Bhagavad-gītā.	What	is	the	difficulty? God personally explains Himself as	He	is,and if	we	accept	Bhagavad-gītā	as it	is, we	shall	no longer have to transmigrate.We	shall	no	longer have to endure birth and death,for we	can	attain our spiritual	bodies made of eternity-knowledge-bliss, and live happily in Kṛṣṇa’s	family.

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Bhagavad Gita 8.20–21 Supreme Lord Krishna said“There	is	another	nature,	which	is	eternal	and	is	transcendental to this manifested and	unmanifested	matter.	It	is	supreme	and is never annihilated.	When	all	in	this world	is	annihilated,	that	part remains as	it	is. That	supreme	abode	is	called unmanifested	and	infallible,	and it	is	the	supreme	destination.	When	one	goes there,	he never comes	back.	That	is	My supreme	abode.”Everything	is	present in Vaikuṇṭha loka.	There	we	can	have	an eternal,blissful life	full of knowledge(sac-cid-ānanda).It	is	not	compulsory for us to rot in this material world.

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Chapter 5 :Karma-yoga- Action in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Text 29Lord Krishna said : I am the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, one who knows me attains peace from the pangs of material miseries.

Who Is Krishna ?

The Supreme Lord is the supreme enjoyer, and we living entities are His servitors. We are created for His enjoyment, and if we participate in that eternal enjoyment with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we become happy. We cannot become happy otherwise. It is not possible to be happy independently, just as no one part of the body can be happy without cooperating with the stomach. It is not possible for the living entity to be happy without rendering transcendental loving service unto the Supreme Lord.

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Chapter 8 Verse 6 Lord Krishna saidWhatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.The cumulative effect of the thoughts and actions of one's life influences one's thoughts at the moment of death; therefore the actions of this life determine one's future state of being.If one is transcendentally absorbed in Krsna's service,then his next body will be transcendental (spiritual), not physical.Therefore the chanting of Hare Krsna is the best process for successfully changing one's state of being to transcendental life.

How One Gets Next Body At Death

Constitutional position of the living being is the rendering of service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If we analyze this statement, we can easily see that every living being is constantly engaged in rendering service to another living being. A living being serves other living beings in various capacities. By doing so, the living entity enjoys life. The lower animals serve human beings as servants serve their master. A serves B master, B serves C master, and C serves D master and so on.

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