Akshara Brahma Yoga

What happens at the moment of death. The imperishable Brahman. The path of light and the path of smoke.

All 28 verses below.

Verses

• 8.1Clear seeing starts by asking what each word truly means.
• 8.2Real understanding begins by asking what remains when life is ending.
• 8.3What lasts, what you are, and what you do are not the same.
• 8.4The changing world, the cosmic order, and the inner witness are not separate.
• 8.5The last remembered presence shapes the next state of being.
• 8.6The end follows the state you have trained.
• 8.7Action and remembrance can happen together without conflict.
• 8.8What the mind has practiced most will claim you at the end.
• 8.9Hold the ungraspable source in mind, not the passing form.
• 8.10Steady devotion carries awareness beyond the body's final threshold.
• 8.11The imperishable is reached by giving up desire, not by feeding it.
• 8.12Mastery of the senses and mind prepares one for the final passage.
• 8.13Final remembrance can carry consciousness beyond the body.
• 8.14Constant remembrance makes the divine easy to reach.
• 8.15True arrival ends the need to come back.
• 8.16Even the highest attainments return, but union with Krishna does not.
• 8.17Cosmic time reveals how small ordinary urgency is.
• 8.18Everything formed returns to the unmanifest in time.
• 8.19All formed things return and rise again under nature’s compulsion.
• 8.20What is deepest in reality cannot be destroyed by any ending.
• 8.21The highest arrival is beyond return.
• 8.22Undivided devotion reaches the one presence that holds all beings.
• 8.23Not every departure leads the same way; some paths return you, others do not.
• 8.24The final passage opens for those who know the supreme reality.
• 8.25Some routes only delay return; they do not end the cycle.
• 8.26Some choices free you from the cycle; others send you back into it.
• 8.27Understanding the two paths keeps the mind unshaken.
• 8.28Knowing the way beyond rewards leads to the highest home.