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Ä-brahma-bhuvanÄl lokÄḥ
punar Ävartino 'rjuna
mÄm upetya tu kaunteya
punar janma na vidyate

101 times this text was mentioned in purports to other texts: Iso(1) , LBG(31) , LSB(35) , SB(21) , TLKS(13)

 Ä-brahma-bhuvanÄt - up to the Brahmaloka planet; lokÄḥ - the planetary systems; punaḥ - again; Ävartinaḥ - returning; arjuna - O Arjuna; mÄm - unto Me; upetya - arriving; tu - but; kaunteya - O son of KuntÄ«; punaḥ janma - rebirth; na - never; vidyate - takes place.


Text

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.

Purport

All kinds of yogÄ«s – karma, jñÄna, haá¹­ha, etc. – eventually have to attain devotional perfection in bhakti-yoga, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, before they can go to Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental abode and never return. Those who attain the highest material planets, the planets of the demigods, are again subjected to repeated birth and death. As persons on earth are elevated to higher planets, people on higher planets such as Brahmaloka, Candraloka and Indraloka fall down to earth. The practice of sacriï¬ce called pañcÄgni-vidyÄ, recommended in the ChÄndogya Upaniá¹£ad, enables one to achieve Brahmaloka, but if, on Brahmaloka, one does not cultivate Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then he must return to earth. Those who progress in Kṛṣṇa consciousness on the higher planets are gradually elevated to higher and higher planets and at the time of universal devastation are transferred to the eternal spiritual kingdom. Baladeva VidyÄbhÅ«á¹£aṇa, in his commentary on Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ, quotes this verse:

brahmaá¹‡Ä saha te sarve
samprÄpte pratisañcare
parasyÄnte ká¹›tÄtmÄnaḥ
praviśanti paraṠpadam

“When there is devastation of this material universe, BrahmÄ and his devotees, who are constantly engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, are all transferred to the spiritual universe and to speciï¬c spiritual planets according to their desires.â€