Bhagavad Gita Chapter 9 Verse 25

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Chapter 9. The Most Confidential Knowledge

TEXT 25
yanti deva-vrata devan
pitrn yanti pitr-vratah
bhutani yanti bhutejya
yanti mad-yajino 'pi mam

SYNONYMS
yanti--achieve; deva-vratah--worshipers of demigods; devan--to
demigods; pitrn--to ancestors; yanti--go; pitr-vratah--worshipers of
the ancestors; bhutani--to ghosts and spirits; yanti--go; bhuta-ijyah--
worshipers of ghosts and spirits; yanti--go; mat--My; yajinah--
devotees; api--also; mam--unto Me.

TRANSLATION
Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods;
those who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such
beings; those who worship ancestors go to the ancestors; and those who
worship Me will live with Me.

EXPLANATION
If anyone has any desire to go to the moon, the sun, or any other
planet, one can attain the desired destination by following specific
Vedic principles recommended for that purpose. These are vividly
described in the fruitive activities portion of the Vedas, technically
known as darsa-paurnamasi, which recommends a specific worship of
demigods situated on different heavenly planets. Similarly, one can
attain the Pita planets by performing a specific yajna. Similarly, one
can go to many ghostly planets and become a Yaksa, Raksa or Pisaca.
Pisaca worship is called "black arts" or "black magic." There are many
men who practice this black art, and they think that it is
spiritualism, but such activities are completely materialistic.
Similarly, a pure devotee, who worships the Supreme Personality of
Godhead only, achieves the planets of Vaikuntha and Krsnaloka without
a doubt. It is very easy to understand through this important verse
that if by simply worshiping the demigods one can achieve the heavenly
planets, or by worshiping the pita achieve the pita planets, or by
practicing the black arts achieve the ghostly planets, why can the
pure devotee not achieve the planet of Krsna or Visnu? Unfortunately
many people have no information of these sublime planets where Krsna
and Visnu live, and because they do not know of them they fall down.
Even the impersonalists fall down from the brahmajyoti. This Krsna
consciousness movement is therefore distributing sublime information
to the entire human society to the effect that simply by chanting the
Hare Krsna mantra one can become perfect in this life and go back
home, back to Godhead.

Following is a quotation by Swami Gaurangapada:
"It is a our own mind - not our enemy or our foe that lures us into
sin and self-destruction."

Please chant Nityananda, Gauranga and Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, and
live in the presence of Lord Krishna.