Some facts and figures on The Bhagavat Gita.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada


1. The Living beings are eternal parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord Shri Krishna. (Bg. 15.7) (Bg. 14.3) (Bg. 2.17—30)

2. The living being is born of the internal potency of the Lord. (Bg. 7.25) (Bg. 7.12—19)

3. The material world is born of the external energy of the Lord. (Bg. 7.4—11) (Bg. 10.19—42) (Bg. 9.10) (Bg. 9.4)

4. In the material world there are innumerable globes and planets and there are different grades of living being. The highest planet in the material world is the Brahmaloka which is also as much perishable as this planet although life in the Brahmaloka is by crores and crores of years of our calculation. (Bg. 8.16—19)

5. Beyond this material world there is the spiritual sky which is never annihilated even after the destruction of all the material universes. (Bg. 8.20—22) (Bg. 8.15—?) (Bg. 15.3—4)

6. That spiritual sky is self illuminated and there is no nid of the sun or the moon. (Bg. 15.6)

7. That spiritual sky is different from this sky and that is the abode of the Lord. (Bg. 8.21—22)

8. There are living being also in that spiritual sky who live along with God and the living being who is now engaged within the material world may also go there after leaving this material body provided he trains himself up as the pure devoti of the Lord. (Bg. 14.26) (Bg. 8.11)

9. No body can enter in that spiritual realm who has no perfect knowledge of the Lord and one can know the Lord only by the process of Bhaktiyoga. (Bg. 11.55) (Bg. 18.55) (Bg. 7.3)

10. Materialistic living beings who are rotting in this material atmosphere and suffering from material pangs, specifically the pains of birth, the pains of death, the pains of old age and the pains of diseases, can get complete relief from all these as soon as they are able to enter into the spiritual kingdom of the Lord. (Bg. 11.21—32)

11. Lord Shri Krishna is the primeval Lord and everything has emanated from Him. (Bg. 10.8) (Bg. 11.18—20) (Bg. 11.51—52)

12 He manifests in thri features namely as the impersonal Brahman which pervades everything both material and spiritual. As super soul He enters every thing and every particles and thus maintains the existence. But at the ultimate issue He is a Person and His Personality supercedes all other personalities.

13. The demigods like Brahma etc are as much part and parcel living entities as we are but they are invested with more power and deputed as different predominant factors in different planets.

14. But no body is equal or greater than the Lord.

15. Men with ordinary merit worships the demigods and the benefit derived from such worshipful activities are temporary. For permanent result one must fully surrender unto the Supreme Lord.

16. The worshippers of the demigods go to the respective planets predominated by such demigods but one who worships the Lord goes back to Godhead for eternal life, bliss and knowledge. That is the highest perfection of life.

17. The Bhagavat Gita advises every one to attain this highest perfection of life i.e. to go Back to Godhead by practising the process of Bhaktiyoga and the Lord advises also to His devotis to preach this cult everywhere. No body is dearer to Him than one who preaches the message of the Bhagavat Gita.