He is not grasped by the eye, nor by speech, nor by the other gods, nor by austerity or works. When one's being is purified by the clarity of knowledge, then, meditating, one sees him who is without parts.
न चक्षुषा गृह्यते नापि वाचा नान्यैर्देवैस्तपसा कर्मणा वा । ज्ञानप्रसादेन विशुद्धसत्त्व- स्ततस्तु तं पश्यते निष्कलं ध्यायमानः ॥ ८॥
One who truly understands my divine birth and action in this way is not reborn on leaving the body, but comes to me, Arjuna.
जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यमेवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः | त्यक्त्वा देहं पुनर्जन्म नैति मामेति सोऽर्जुन ||४-९||
Only knowledge of God can grant immortality.
Whoever is ignorant of himself is yet more ignorant of other things; and inasmuch as a man is bound to know God, he must first know himself, in order that by rightly perceiving his own temporality he may recognize the eternity of God.
If the soul is to know God, it must know Him outside time and place, since God is neither in this or that, but One and above them.
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