Bhagavad Gita 8.16
ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino ‘rjuna
mām upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate
From the topmost domain down to the lowest below,
All are places of rebirth and relentless woe.
But those who attain me, the imperishable supreme,
Return no more to this distressful dream.
My dear Lord, help me appreciate that no destination apart from you has any enduring value, no matter how much it is romanticized by my mind or glamorized by the world.
Due to such inner and outer exaggeration of alternatives to you, I end up confronted and confounded by the complexity of the countless choices dangled before me. By the clarity of your teachings, you, O Supreme Spiritual Master, cut through all this complexity, reducing it to one essential choice: Do I want you, or do I want something else?
Bless me, O merciful Lord, so that I can analyze and realize the emptiness and indeed the deceptiveness of everything that looks good but takes me away from you, who are the supreme good—perfectly and perennially. Grant me the strength of conviction that you and you alone are the supremely desirable.
Most importantly, O Almighty Lord, let this philosophical conviction herald a practical transformation of desire—both by my conscious endeavor and by your grace, which often acts subconsciously. May my desires thus become revised and refined so that they drive me toward you—without delusion, without distraction, without deceleration.
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08.16 From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kuntī, never takes birth again.
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