Text 12] Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart
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“The worshipers of demigods reach the respective planets of the demigods, and the worshipers of forefathers reach the planets of the forefathers. The gross materialist remains in the different material planets, but the devotees of the Lord reach the kingdom of God.” (Bg. 9.25)
We also have information from the  Bhagavad-gītā  that all the planets within the material world, including the Brahmaloka, are but temporarily situated, and after a fixed period they are all annihilated. Therefore the demigods and their followers are all annihilated at the period of devastation, but one who reaches the kingdom of God gets a permanent share in eternal life. That is the verdict of Vedic literature. The worshipers of the demigods have one facility more than the unbelievers due to their conviction of the Vedic version by which they can get information of the benefit of worshiping the Supreme Lord in the association of the devotees of the Lord. The gross materialist, however, without any faith in the Vedic version, remains eternally in darkness, driven by a false conviction on the basis of imperfect experimental knowledge, or the so-called material science, which can never reach into the realm of transcendental knowledge.
Therefore unless they come in contact with a transcendentalist like the pure devotee of the Lord, the attempts of the gross materialists or the worshipers of the temporary demigods are simply a waste of energy. Only by the grace of the divine personalities, the pure devotees of the Lord, can one achieve pure devotion, which is the highest perfection of human life. Only a pure devotee of the Lord can show one the right way of progressive life. Otherwise both the materialistic way of life, without any information of God or the demigods, and the life engaged in the worship of demigods in pursuit of temporary material enjoyments, are all different phases of phantasmagoria. They are nicely explained in the  Bhagavad-gītā  also, but the  Bhagavad-gītā  can be understood in the association of pure devotees only, and not by the interpretations of politicians or dry philosophical speculators.
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श्रान् यदा प्रतिनिवृत्तगुणोर्मिचक्र-
मात्मप्रसाद उत यत्र गुणेष्वसङ्गः ।
कैवल्यसम्मतपथस्त्वथ मक्तियोगः
को निर्वृतो हरिकथासु रति न कुर्यात् ॥१२॥