Gita 14.14 A disposition of knowledge and purity elevates to the destination of the knowledgeable and the pure

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thank you the mode of goodness is prominent if one disuse one’s body at that time then at that time one attains the will attain the destination of the sages the destination of the sages will refer to the higher abode not just the heavenly abodes but the abode like janaloka tapaloka where the sages live amalan pratipadyate those who are pure pratipadyate one will go there so here this in the next verse Krishna is going to talk about the post mortem destination of life within the of the modes that means depending on our consciousness what destination will we attain based on the mode that we are in the topic of death and what happens after death is repeatedly dealt with in the bhagavad gita Krishna talks about where he says that the body is like a dress and just as the body changes in this lifetime it will change at the end of this lifetime also then it also states that it also says where one will go after death broadly speaking in the 8th chapter it talks about 8.5 and 6 that if you remember Krishna you will attain Krishna so that whatever state of being we remember whatever we are remembering at the time of death that will shape our destination in the next life when Krishna has talked about broad contours when he says that if you worship the devatas you will go to the abode of the devatas and when you worship him you will come to him that is 9.25 when he says so those who worship the devatas go to the abode of the devatas those who worship the bhutas go to the abode of the bhutas those who worship the ancestors go to the abode of the ancestors and those who worship me come to me so clearly Krishna has mentioned about death and what happens after death several times now here he is also talking about it and he is talking here from the reference point of the modes these analysis, various analysis of post-mortem destinations they are not they are not exclusive of each other they are overlapping in their scope that means in general when Krishna says that those who worship the devatas go to the devatas so we could say that those who are living relatively in the mode of goodness then they will get elevated now of course worship of the devatas is not just in the mode of goodness there is something more to it also it is in the combined mode of goodness and there is a little passion over there because there is a strong desire for sensual enjoyment but that desire is regulated or it is regulated with goodness to follow the rules and rituals of karma for the worship of devatas when there is substantial amount of goodness in the worship then we go higher than the planet of devatas to the to the planet of the higher being those who know those whose knowledge is beyond ignorance those who are enlightened they are pure the heavenly abodes are places of we could say pious sensuality where as the abodes above the heavens we have sattva loka, jan loka, tapa loka, mahar loka we have swarga loka, bhoga loka like that especially the abodes which are above swarga loka they are considered to be places where the sages delight in austerity delight in pleasures in the mode of goodness in meditation, in philosophical discussion and contemplation in higher level of existence contemplating life’s higher aspects so we see the correlation over here between the disposition and the destination Krishna while describing the characteristics of the mode of goodness he has said that he said that nirmalatvat prakashakam anamayam sukhasangena badhnati jnanasangena canagham so nirmalatvat prakashakam anamayam so it is relatively pure because it gives one knowledge and it frees one from sin it keeps one free from sinful activities and gives knowledge and naturally whatever is mala is that it decreases and here Krishna says uttam vidam lokam amalam so nirmalatvat and amalam the same word is there, mala in its opposite nirmala and amala so the disposition of purity the disposition of purity that is there in the mode of goodness takes one to the abode where people are pure and similarly prakashakam when one is illuminated by knowledge as Krishna mentioned 14.5 and reiterated in 14.11 when he said that sarva-dvaare shuddhe he smin prakasham upajayate jnanam yadatada vidyadvivruddham sattva-mittyutam when he says that all the doors of the senses are illumined with knowledge at that time prakashakam so when they are illumined like this so prakasham is the characteristic of the mode of goodness that is described in both 14.5 and 14.11 and here in 14.14 Krishna states that uttam vidam loka the destination that is attained is of people who are illumined uttam vidam, so tama refers to the mode of ignorance, tama also refers to darkness so uttam vidam, so those whose knowledge is beyond tama beyond darkness those who are in a state of illumination amalantpratipadyate so a disposition of purity and knowledge leads to a destination where the pure and knowledgeable reside thus where we are taken after death is not arbitrary but is reciprocal, we are elevated to a level of reality that corresponds closely that attunes better with our level of consciousness thank you