When you see that there is nothing beyond these manifestations of nature in all activities and that the Supreme Lord is transcendental to all the three, then you can know my spiritual nature.
When the embodied being is able to transcend these three levels, he can become free from birth, death, old age and their distresses and can enjoy nectar even in this life.
Arjuna inquired: "O my Lord, by what symptoms is one known who is transcendental to those levels? What is his behaviour? And how does he transcend the levels of nature?
The Lord said: "He who does not hate illumination, attachment and delusion when they are present, nor longs for them when they disappear; who is seated like one unconcerned, being situated beyond these material reactions of the modes of nature, who remains firm, knowing that the modes alone are active; who regards alike pleasure and pain, and looks a clod, a stone and a piece of gold with an equal eye; who is wise and holds praise and blame to be the same; who is unchanged in honour and dishonour, who treats friend and foe alike, who has abandoned all fruitive undertakings-such a man is said to have transcended the modes of nature.
One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumstance, at once transcends the material levels and thus comes to the level of Brahman.
And I am the basis of the impersonal Brahman, which is the constitutional position of ultimate happiness, and which is immortal, imperishable and eternal." | |