Verses

Bhagavad-Gītā 8.16

"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." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/16/

Bhagavad-Gītā 8.17-19

"By human calculation, a thousand ages taken together form the duration of Brahmā’s one day. And such also is the duration of his night." "At the beginning of Brahmā’s day, all living entities become manifest from the unmanifest state, and thereafter, when the night falls, they are merged into the unmanifest again." "Again and again, when Brahmā’s day arrives, all living entities come into being, and with the arrival of Brahmā’s night they are helplessly annihilated." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/17/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/18/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/19/

Bhagavad-Gītā 8.20-21

"Yet there is another unmanifest 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 which the Vedāntists describe as unmanifest and infallible, that which is known as the supreme destination, that place from which, having attained it, one never returns – that is My supreme abode." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/20/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/21/

Bhagavad-Gītā 8.22

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than all, is attainable by unalloyed devotion. Although He is present in His abode, He is all-pervading, and everything is situated within Him." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/22/

Bhagavad-Gītā 8.23-27

"O best of the Bhāratas, I shall now explain to you the different times at which, passing away from this world, the yogī does or does not come back." "Those who know the Supreme Brahman attain that Supreme by passing away from the world during the influence of the fiery god, in the light, at an auspicious moment of the day, during the fortnight of the waxing moon, or during the six months when the sun travels in the north." "The mystic who passes away from this world during the smoke, the night, the fortnight of the waning moon, or the six months when the sun passes to the south reaches the moon planet but again comes back." "According to Vedic opinion, there are two ways of passing from this world – one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns." "Although the devotees know these two paths, O Arjuna, they are never bewildered. Therefore be always fixed in devotion." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/23/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/24/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/25/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/26/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/27/

Bhagavad-Gītā 8.28

"A person who accepts the path of devotional service is not bereft of the results derived from studying the Vedas, performing sacrifices, undergoing austerities, giving charity or pursuing philosophical and fruitive activities. Simply by performing devotional service, he attains all these, and at the end he reaches the supreme eternal abode." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/28/

Bhagavad-Gītā 9.1-2

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, because you are never envious of Me, I shall impart to you this most confidential knowledge and realization, knowing which you shall be relieved of the miseries of material existence." "This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed." https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/1/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/2/

Bhagavad-Gītā 9.3

"Those who are not faithful in this devotional service cannot attain Me, O conqueror of enemies. Therefore they return to the path of birth and death in this material world." https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/3/

Bhagavad-Gītā 9.4-6

"By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them." "And yet everything that is created does not rest in Me. Behold My mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities and although I am everywhere, I am not a part of this cosmic manifestation, for My Self is the very source of creation." "Understand that as the mighty wind, blowing everywhere, rests always in the sky, all created beings rest in Me." https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/4/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/5/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/6/

Bhagavad-Gītā 9.7-9

"O son of Kuntī, at the end of the millennium all material manifestations enter into My nature, and at the beginning of another millennium, by My potency, I create them again." "The whole cosmic order is under Me. Under My will it is automatically manifested again and again, and under My will it is annihilated at the end." "O Dhanañjaya, all this work cannot bind Me. I am ever detached from all these material activities, seated as though neutral." https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/7/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/8/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/9/

Bhagavad-Gītā 9.10

"This material nature, which is one of My energies, is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, producing all moving and nonmoving beings. Under its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again." https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/10/

Bhagavad-Gītā 9.11

"Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be." https://vedy.online/en/bg/9/11/