||Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya||

Chapter – 92 –  The practice of meditation/Bhakti Yoga – 5

Devahoothi speaks “Oh! child, If we could not elevate our soul in an above-said manner, what would be our afterlife?”

Kapila Vasudeva continues “ Oh! Mother, we are all fastened by our Karma and Time.  Therefore, do not humiliate anyone; treat everyone with kindness and humility.  Oh! Mother, living beings are superior to non-living things, and humans are the fortunate ones.  There are four Varnas such as Bhramin who are born from the face of supreme Lord, Kshatriya who are born from the arms of supreme Lord, and Vaishya and Shudra are born from the thighs and legs respectively.  Oh! Mother, I shall narrate the supremacy of the twice-born in a prescribed order,  the Bhramin/twice-born who has profound knowledge of Veda and Vedanta, a  twice – born  who has a thorough knowledge of Veda and its meaning, a twice-born who has the capabilities to remove the misconception of others, and finally twice-born who  performs his own duties and responsibilities to elevate his soul and achieve  serenity of  mind, is considered as the supreme.  Oh! Mother, practice your day with prayers to supreme Lord for good intellect to interact with the people in a pleasing manner, do not hurt anyone with words, action or mind, and pray for the ability to accept all those happenings in your life as the grace of Lord.   Oh! Mother, we are bound by the powerful shackle of Time, like the wind which has the power to overturn the cluster of clouds.  Oh! Mother, an ignorant chase after accumulating wealth with the hope that it would provide them bliss, without the knowledge that ‘Time’ has the skill to overturn their hopes and heave them to extreme distress.  Oh! Mother, an ignorant would consider the body as the instrument to seek pleasure in the possession and finds happiness in people who are  surrounded by them,  they keep greater attachment on their beloved ones, possessions and wealth, and arrives in a wrong perception that there is nothing in the world could provide happiness other than the material well-being, like a dog seeking pleasure in biting bones that causes bleeding its teeth, and swallowing its own blood with  a wrong notion that it has derived from the bone and takes great taste in it. An ignorant one is completely besieged by the illusion/Maya of supreme Lord; thus grown completely attached to the material world and remains distressed,  spends life seeking short-term pleasures without the knowledge that all the living and non-living things are bound by the ‘Time’, it has to expire at a certain point of time, like the wind takes away the fragrance of the flower.  Therefore, we should strive to elevate our soul to the supreme Lord who is beyond ‘Time’.  An ignorant one would keep regretting and mourning over bad fortune, keeping all the attention in the material world, gradually the windpipe would get filled with mucus, that causes blockage in the air passage creates extreme difficulty to inhale and exhale, and ultimately leave the mortal coil.  The ignorant people make their life hell on the Earth would attain the same after death too.  The intellectuals make their life heaven on the Earth would attain the same afterlife too.”

Devahoothi spoke “Oh! Child kindly explains the life after death.”