Now, it is certain that a jiva takes a physical body repeatedly, death after death unless it seeks divine intervention to stop this! The supreme Lord Bhagavan Shree Krishna has clearly, emphatically, unmistakably, stated (BG. Ch. V. Verses 17, 25-27) that a certain category of people who strive for this state of emancipation and such persons are narrated in many of the verses.
Contemplate on the following: "Those wise men (tad buddhaya) whose intellect is absorbed in 'That' whose self is That (tad Atmanan nishtha) who are steadfast in That who have That as their supreme goal (tat parayanah) their dirt having been removed by Knowledge of the Self (jnyana nirdhuta kalmashah) they attain the state of no-return to this mortal world (gachhantya punravruttim).
However, the conditions laid down for this emancipation of the embodied soul are not easy to follow for those who indulge in worldly sensuous life dayin and day out! One has to withdraw from the sensuous phenomenal transient objective world. First, and foremost, a spiritual aspirant looking for emancipation must restrain his habitually out-going senses. The eyes, the ears, the nose and all the sense organs have this out-going tendency the moment the person gets out of sleep. Each sense organ has a hundred or thousand attractions in the external world and it is very difficult to withdraw them and fix them on the inner self. This is beautifully shown in the picture where the Lord is driving the horse-driven chariot of Arjuna. The Horses are the senses and the strings are the pulling force. Unless a person of the stature of the Lord Shree Krishna, it is difficult control the chariot (the jiva) characterized by Arjuna. So we need divine intervention.
But, once vairagya dawns and the jiva turns to knowledge of the self and realizes it, Yoginam brahma bhavati sarathi |
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