Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7 - Jnana Vignana Yoga - Sloka 29

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission

Why are people devoid of knowledge and devotion? Their case is analysed:

The Discerning and the Non-discerning 27-30

1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 7 - Jnana Vignana Yoga - Sloka 29

Jara marana mokshaya mam shritya yatanti ye I

Te brahm tat vidhuh krutsnam adhyatmam karma cha akhilam II sloka 29

जरा मरण मोक्षाय माम श्रित्य यतन्ति ये ।ते ब्रह्म् तत् विधुः कृत्स्नं अध्यात्मं कर्म च अखिलं ।। श्लोक २९

Those who take refuge in me and strive for deliverance from decay and death, they realise in full that Brahman, the individual self and all karma.

The mind of a man may take its own time to be delivered from the delusion of the pairs of opposites. But there are two other factors  in life that are ever staring at him. Decay and death are the two factors unwanted by him; but he can never escape from their clutches. To loose one's hard earned vigour and to become a prey to death - are these the end of human life? To do deeds of rarity, to achieve the impossible and then to quit the world as if in banishment - Is the reward of life on earth? Death drives man to the necessity of raising questions of this type. It does not  allow him to be dormant. It gives him rude knocks and wakes him up to realities with which he is not acquainted. When the right enquiries are made, the sadhaka comes to know of the truths of Brahman, himself and karma. 

When a man wants to eat fruit, he discards its shell, and seeds and helps himself to its pulp. But when he wants to purchase that fruit or make a study of it, he has to take into account the shell, seeds, the pulp and all the contents of the fruit. Very much like this, the seeker of God negates the world and goes to him.  But after god-realisation he concludes that it is Brahman that puts on an appearance of the universe and the beings in it

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahmasa