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Anyone Who Continues To Practise Devotion While Having Firm Faith In God Will See Their Hearts Purify And Saintly Virtues Develop Swiftly
क्षिप्रं भवति धर्मात्मा शश्वच्छान्तिं निगच्छति |
कौन्तेय प्रतिजानीहि न मे भक्त: प्रणश्यति || 9.31||
kṣhipraṁ bhavati dharmātmā śhaśhvach-chhāntiṁ nigachchhati
kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśhyati|| 9.31||
Shloka Translation
BG – Ch. 9- Ver. 31:
He instantly becomes righteous and achieves eternal peace. Declare, O Kaunteya, that my devotee will never perish.
Explanation
Shree Krishna adds that if anyone continues the practise of devoted devotion while maintaining unwavering confidence in God, their hearts will become pure and saintly virtues would emerge quickly.
God’s divine virtues originate from Him. He is absolutely honest, caring, loving, merciful, and so forth. We are all naturally drawn to these holy attributes since we are His minuscule components. However, the process of becoming virtuous remains an enigma.
Character flaws cannot be completely and permanently removed without mental purity. Without engaging in devotion to God, sincerity, nonviolence, and other moral traits cannot be gained.” These attributes emerge when the mind is cleansed, yet cleansing the mind is impossible without connecting it to the all-pure God. “They shall never come to ruin,” He promises His bhaktas (devotees).
Verse & what we can learn
The time it takes to snap your fingers is the same amount of time it takes to make a commitment, to resolve to devote oneself to Ishvara. Ishvara ensures that such a person becomes virtuous and achieves everlasting bliss and peace when this occurs.
We will never enjoy long-term contentment as long as we have yearning for earthly things. However, because we are functioning as agents of Ishvara, our notions of doership and enjoyership are dissolved when we execute activities in worship of Ishvara. Desires are immediately abolished when doership and enjoyership are dissolved, resulting in eternal peace and enjoyment.
It’s possible that we’ll work in the spirit of worship for a while, but then revert to our old desire-driven behaviours. Ishvara will ensure that we do not fall, that we do not perish, as long as we have made a promise to devotion. The devotee must be the one to make the decision, not Ishvara. Ishvara may break a commitment he makes to himself, but he will never break a promise made by his devotee.
To acquire knowledge and to implement that knowledge in life one needs to be mentally and physically active and healthy and for that daily meditation is a great tool.
There are various types of meditation like Buddhist meditation, heartfulness meditation, mindfulness meditation, meditation for stress, and each meditation benefits are countless. There are also numerous meditation techniques for beginners which help in practicing daily meditation so go ahead and start your journey towards a peaceful and balanced life.
A person who has the tendency to commit wrongdoing can also become a devotee. What other types of people can become devotees? This Shri Krishna tells Arjuna in the next shloka
Let’s learn to live with “The Gita” via Meditation Affinity…