Ome, Vasudeva,

sodom, Devam,

Kamsachanurramarthanam,

Devaki, Paramanandandam,

Krishna, Vande, Jagad Gurum.

So today we are going to start a new chapter.

Chapter 9.

This is known as Raja Vidya, Raja Ghiya Yoga.

The yoga of a kingly knowledge, a royal knowledge, and the royal secret.

Raja Vidya, the royal knowledge and Raja Ghiya, the royal secret.

So it sounds good. And it's an extraordinary chapter also. What will happen in this chapter is this.

In the eighth chapter, Sri Krishna gave us a very conventional idea about spirituality.

You know, what we normally think about religion, that there is God and you must have devotion to God.

If a person has worldly desires and devotion to God, by the grace of God, the desires will be

fulfilled in this life or next. But if the person does not have worldly desires and the person

just wants God, loves God, then he will attain to God. How? He gives, he says that at the

point of death, such a one will remain merged in the thought of God, in prayer, in meditation,

absorbed in meditation on God. And after death will attain to God. What does attain to God mean? It means

Ishwar or Saguna Brahman, there is a loka, a plane of existence in which such devoted souls, those who love God, they go to that plane of existence and their experience thereafter is the magnificent and loving presence of God, which is what is called heaven in these religions.

So to put it simply, if you believe in God, you are devoted to God, you will go to

heaven. And then Sri Krishna also pointed out the way to do that, to think of, to be

absorbed in God at the point of death, physical death, is to be to be godly, is to be absorbed in God at the point of death, physical death, is to be godly, is to be devout

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