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TEXT 25 yanti deva-vrata devan
SYNONYMS  yanti--achieve;
deva-vratah--worshipers of demigods; devan--to demigods;
pitrn--to ancestors; yanti--go; pitr-vratah--worshipers
of the ancestors; bhutani--to ghosts and spirits; yanti--go;
bhuta-ijyah--worshipers of ghosts and spirits; yanti--go;
mat--My; yajinah--devotees; api--also; mam--unto
Me.
TRANSLATION Those who
worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those who worship
ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; those who worship
ancestors go to the ancestors; and those who worship Me will live with
Me.
PURPORT If anyone has
any desire to go to the moon, the sun, or any other planet, one can attain
the desired destination by following specific Vedic principles recommended
for that purpose. These are vividly described in the fruitive activities
portion of the Vedas, technically known as darsa-paurnamasi,
which recommends a specific worship of demigods situated on different heavenly
planets. Similarly, one can attain the Pita planets by performing a specific
yajna. Similarly, one can go to many ghostly planets and become
a Yaksa, Raksa or Pisaca. Pisaca worship is called "black arts" or "black
magic." There are many men who practice this black art, and they think
that it is spiritualism, but such activities are completely materialistic.
Similarly, a pure devotee, who worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead
only, achieves the planets of Vaikuntha and Krsnaloka without a doubt.
It is very easy to understand through this important verse that if by simply
worshiping the demigods one can achieve the heavenly planets, or by worshiping
the pita achieve the pita planets, or by practicing the black
arts achieve the ghostly planets, why can the pure devotee not achieve
the planet of Krsna or Visnu? Unfortunately many people have no information
of these sublime planets where Krsna and Visnu live, and because they do
not know of them they fall down. Even the impersonalists fall down from
the brahmajyoti. This Krsna consciousness movement is therefore
distributing sublime information to the entire human society to the effect
that simply by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra one can become perfect
in this life and go back home, back to Godhead.
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