A person who believes the knowledge imparted by God and follows it can attain liberation either while living or after leaving the body.
A person who destroys his ignorance completely and attains wisdom, the all-pervading supreme power called God, will attain liberation even while living. He will be completely freed from stress, diseases, old age and death and become immortal. He will attain liberation from the cycle of death and birth and live in the same body forever.
Having crossed over these three attributes arising from the body, the dweller in the body is completely freed from birth, death, old age and sorrow and attains immortality. Chapter 14:20
A person who follows the path of wisdom revealed by God, but fails to attain perfection in it, will attain liberation on leaving the body provided he is steadfast in the path of wisdom at the time of leaving. He will become one with God and attain liberation from further births.
And he who goes away having become freed from the body thinking of Me [wisdom] alone in the end, attains My Bhava[wisdom]; there is no doubt about this. Chapter 8:5
Whatever Bhavas [wisdom or ignorance] one remembers at the end while leaving the body, to those alone one goes, O Kauntey, being constantly absorbed in those Bhavas. Chapter 8:6
Therefore, at all times remember Me [wisdom] and fight. With the mind and intellect absorbed in Me, you shall without doubt come to Me alone. Chapter 8:7
With the mind united by the practice of Yog, not going to any other side, O Parth, one goes to the supreme resplendent being [wisdom and light]. Chapter 8:8
Those who do not believe in the words of God and do not follow the path of God, called righteousness, fail to reach or attain wisdom (God) either while living or after death. They take constant births in different bodies and remain subject to sorrow, old age and death in each birth:
Men devoid of faith in this righteousness [knowledge of God and wisdom], not attaining Me [wisdom], O Arjun, revolve in the path of the world of death. Chapter 9:3
If Sattva [purity] predominates when the embodied being meets with death, he attains the pure worlds of the knowers of the highest. Chapter 14:14
If Rajas [passion] predominates when he dies, he is born among those attached to action. And meeting death when Tamas [delusion] predominates, he takes birth in the wombs of the deluded. Chapter 14:15
The various paths of devotion other than the path of God constitute ignorance, not wisdom. Through these paths, a person may attain other powers, but he cannot attain wisdom.
Those deprived of Gyan [wisdom], worship other gods with various desires, resorting to different disciplines according to their own nature. Chapter 7:20
But the fruit obtained by those of small intelligence does not last. The worshippers of the gods go to the gods, likewise My devotees reach Me [wisdom]. Chapter 7:23
The person who worships the Supreme God or wisdom by the path of wisdom laid down by God attains liberation.
At last after many births, one who has attained Gyan [wisdom] reaches Me, realising that All is Vasudev [supreme reality]. Such a great soul is very difficult to find. Chapter 7:19
The person who believes that God is wisdom and that it is possible to become free from death and attain eternal life by attaining this wisdom will be said to be wise.
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