Dhyana Gita 3: Nature of the Self

1. Stay and departure:
   
   
   
   1. I am Myself assuming the form of the Self in this world, with a single spark of Mine [15(7)].
      
   2. The stay and departure of the Self is directly visualized by the wise sages and the yogis [15(8-11)].
      
   
   
   
2. Memory of past births: You don't remember the past births while I do [4(5)].
   
   
3. Death is a mere change:
   
   
   
   1. Like childhood, youth and old-age death also is a change in the body [2(11-13)].
      
   2. The soul abandons the old bodies and puts on new ones [2(22)].
      
   
   
   
4. Thought determines the future:
   
   
   
   1. He who meditates on God with undivided mind as a result of constant practise, at the time of death, reaches the form Divine [8(8-10), 8(12,13)].
      
   2. The last thoughts decide the next birth [8(6)].
      
   
   
   
5. Non-return:
   
   
   
   1. There is no further worldly existence for those who are solely attached and devoted to God [5(17)].
      
   2. The sages who attain My likeness as a result of this superior wisdom, are not caught in the whirl of creation and dissolution [14(2)].
      
   3. None can return to this miserable worldly existence when once they merge in Me [8(15)].
      
   4. He who remains in this state of God-realization at the time of death alone attains Divine-bliss [2(72)].
      
   
   
   
6. Perfection through many lives: He who has faith but cannot put forth requisite effort, can attain perfection by taking right birth [6(37,38), 6(40-45)].
   

Om Tat Sat!