Text 12] Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart 139
“The worshipers of demigods reach the respective planets of the demi-
gods, 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-gita 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 devasta-
tion, 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 con-
viction 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-gitd also, but
the Bhagavad-gita 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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