We can’t immigrate to the spiritual world – we have to be invited there – Gita 8.15

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we can’t immigrate to the spiritual world, we have to be invited there actually, nowadays the world becoming smaller, many people immigrate from one country to another and some people just come into the borders of another country the illegal immigrants, they call them as undocumented workers and they just find a way to sneak into that country and they stay there and eventually they become naturalized citizens, because they have been there for many years, eventually they are accepted as citizens of that country so, sometimes this usually happens when the people come from a poorer country and they want to go to a country that is relatively more progressive and wealthier however, amidst such a situation, it’s important to understand that the parallels of this with our going to the spiritual world limit, then it’s true that the material world is a distressful place and naturally we would like to go to the joyful place so it is said this material world is Krishna talks about this in the Bhagavad Gita that 8.15 he contrasts the two worlds that this world is and everybody should desire to get out of this distressful place and go to that eternal kingdom, which is which is free from anxiety, which is permeated with the divine joy and those who devote themselves to Krishna they attain that abode however, the spiritual world is not a place where we can immigrate to of course we can’t illegally immigrate, that means somehow we sneak into the spiritual world and then we become naturalized and stay over there the spiritual world is actually an arena of consciousness and without cultivating the right consciousness we cannot go there so we cannot go illegally, even when we have to go there legally, we can’t ourselves immigrate there we have to be invited there so sometimes people make an application to immigrate to a particular country and then that country has its own procedures and based on its procedures it may approve their request for immigration and then we can go in but in some cases the country which may invite, oh you can come in when they get the invitation letter then their entry is definitely guaranteed, because the country itself still wants us to be there similarly for us we do apply how do we apply? we apply for the spiritual world by applying ourselves to the spiritual way of life when we focus on practicing bhakti yoga as described in the Bhagavad Gita by this we are applying to Krishna in 9.34 in the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says manmana bhava mad-bhakto madhyaji mam namaskuru mam evaiśyasi dvaivam ātmānam atparāyanaḥ it is when we become devoted to Krishna we think about Him, we worship Him we offer our homage to Him then with our whole being devoted to Him we attract His grace and when we attract His grace then He takes us to the spiritual world that is further illustrated by Krishna in 12.6 and 7 when He says so He says it is I who deliver them from the cycle of birth and death it is we do our part in fixing the mind in Krishna we do our part by becoming devoted wholeheartedly to Krishna but it is He who elevates and liberates us by His supreme grace He will soon do that so Krishna is compassionate the spiritual world is our eternal home and He wants us to be there as soon as possible but it is we can’t get crash into it we have to be invited there and we can petition for the invitation through our diligence diligent execution of devotion then when we attract the Lord’s grace He invites us and thus we attain the abode of eternal peace and eternal joy thank you Hare Krishna