CHAPTER TEN
The Path of Perfection
mām upetya punar janma duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ
“After attaining Me, the great souls, who are  yogīs  in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.” (Bg. 8.15)
This material world is certified by its very creator, the Supreme Lord, as  duḥkhālayam , which means “the place of miseries.” Since this is the case, how can we possibly make it comfortable by so-called scientific advancement?  Duḥkha  means “misery” or “suffering,” and real suffering is birth, old age, disease, and death. We have set these problems aside because we cannot solve them; therefore scientists concentrate on atomic bombs and spaceships. Why can’t they solve these important problems that are always causing us to suffer? Obviously, they haven’t the power to do so.
But in this verse, Śrī Kṛṣṇa gives the solution:  mām upetya punar janma . That is, “If one attains My platform, he does not come back again to this place of misery.” Unfortunately, in the mode of ignorance, people cannot understand that they are in a
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