Text 30] Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Siva 1059
abrahma-bhuvanal lokah
punar avartino ’rjuna
mam upetya tu kaunteya
punar janma na vidyate
“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 Kunti, never takes birth again.” (Bg. 8.16)

Similarly, one is not very safe even if he is promoted to Sivaloka, because
the planet of Sivaloka is marginal. However, if one attains Vaikunthaloka
(mam upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate, Bg. 8.16), he attains
the highest perfection of life and the end of the evolutionary process.
In other words, it is confirmed herein that a person in human society who
has developed consciousness must take to Krsna consciousness in order to
be promoted to Vaikunthaloka, or Krgsnaloka, immediately after leaving
the body. As stated in Bhagavad-gita:

janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah
tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so ‘rjuna
‘One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activi-
ties does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material
world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.” (Bg. 4.9)

A devotee who is fully in Krsna consciousness, who is not attracted by
any other loka, or planet, including Brahmaloka and Sivaloka, is imme-
diately transferred to Krsnaloka (mam eti). That is the highest perfection
of life and the perfection of the evolutionary process.

TEXT 30
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atha bhagavata yiyam
priyah stha bhagavan yatha
na mad bhagavatanam ca
preyan anyo ’sti karhicit
