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am Death, and yet am I Immortality. I am Being and yet am I Non-Being. I am
the One beyond both.
“Those learned in the three Vedas, offering many sacrifices, drinking the
sacred Soma juice at the end of the sacrifice, and thus seeking purification,
according to the ancient rites—in reality pray to Me beseeching me to point
out the Way to Heaven. And thus gain they their desired Heavenly Realm,
and partake of the celestial foods, and enter into the divine enjoyments.
“But, when they have partaken of the heavenly feasts, and the divine
enjoyments, and have entered into the pleasures of that vast Heaven-world,
and have thus exhausted the reward for their good deeds, virtues, and
worship—then are they carried back by the Law, to re-birth in this plane of
sorrow which we call the earth. They have followed the finite and transitory
road, and have received the finite and transitory reward. Following the
precepts of the Vedas, and becoming good worshippers and observers
of forms, they come to desire these rewards—and their desires blossom
into the fruit of realization, each according to its kind. Transitory and finite
desires blossom into finite rewards
“But, he who holdeth Me constantly in mind and serveth no other will be
brought through safely; for him I perform the sacrifice and ceremonies. He
is mine own!
“But, again, remember, O Prince, that even those who worship other gods,
worship Me, though they realize it not. If they be full of love and faith, I
accept it as intended for Me, and give to such their reward according to
their merit and desires. But although all such worship Me, and are rewarded
accordingly, yet because of their lack of knowledge of Me in my Essence,
they must in due time relinquish Heaven, and return again to earth in rebirth.
“Each goeth to that which he worshipeth, according to his degree of
spiritual comprehension. Those who worship personal gods, or angels, go
to dwell with personal gods and angels; those who worship ancestors, go to
dwell with the ancestors; those who worship spirits, go to the land of spirits.