इह चेदशकद्बोद्धुं
प्राक्षरीरस्य विस्रसः ।
ततः सर्गेषुलोकेषु
शरीरत्वाय कल्पते॥ ४
EHA CHEDASHAKAD BODHUM
PRAK SHARIRASHY VISRASAH|
TATAH SARGESHU LOKESHU
SHARIRTATVAY KALPATE ||4
IF HE 'KNOWS' (BRAHMAN) BEFORE THE DEATH OF THE
PHYSICAL BODY -HE IS LIBERATED (FROM BONDAGE OF THIS WORLD)
IF NOT THEN HE HAS TO 'TAKE' A PHYSICAL BODY AGAIN
IN THE WORLD OF CREATION||4
This is the Shloka in which there are 2 different things that we are told . One is that there is a goal in this life which is to KNOW BRAHMAN. The goal of life is not to make more money and become rich and leave lots of money for children and grandchildren. The goal is not to do charity or find out new methods or invention for comfort of physical body But the goal is to KNOW BRAHMAN. This does not mean that one should leave everything and take SANYAS. or not do our job or do the duty - teacher doctor , engineer or accountant or soldier etc . All these things must be done and so is helping poor and sick . But that will not stop the cycle of death and birth. But unless one KNOWS - COMPREHEND the real nature or the Brahman, one will not end the cycle of birth and cycle.
So, the first one is that it's possible to KNOW the Brahman in this life and then we are liberated The second point is related to first. We are told that there is rebirth and there is only one way to end it . So we have reincarnation of physical body. When one does not KNOW the Brahman, then one has end of reincarnation
Know the Brahman before you die and you will be not reborn or will be liberated and if you don't then you will be born again in different physical body.
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