गोविन्द भाष्य (श्रील बलदेव विद्याभूषण - अचिन्त्यभेदाभेद वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

brahma-prāpto virajo 'bhūd vimṛtyur
anyo 'py evaṁ yo vidadhyātmam eva
"Learning from Yamarāja the truth of transcendental knowledge and yoga
practice, Naciketa attained the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He became free of
the contamination of material life. He became free from death. Anyone else who
truly knows the Supreme Personality of Godhead also becomes like Naciketa."
This text shows that transcendental knowledge can be manifested in one
lifetime. Sometimes, however, a person strives for transcendental knowledge but
attains it only in another lifetime. An example of this is seen in Bṛhad-āraṇyaka
Upaniṣad (1.4.10). When the obstacles are not great and the endeavor is very
powerful, one can attain transcendental knowledge in one lifetime. Naciketa and
the king of Sauvīra are examples of this. But when the obstacles are very powerful,
then transcendental knowledge may have to wait for another birth, even though
one may have performed great yajñas and austerities, given charity, and developed
peacefulness, self-control, and a host of other virtues. This is confirmed in the
following words of Bhagavad-gītā (6.37-45):
"Arjuna said: O Kṛṣṇa, what is the destination of the unsuccessful
transcendentalist, who in the beginning takes to the process of self-realization with
faith but who later desists due to worldly-mindedness and thus does not attain
perfection in mysticism?*
"O mighty-armed Kṛṣṇa, does not such a man, who is bewildered from the path
of transcendence, fall away from both spiritual and material success and perish like
a riven cloud, with no position in any sphere?*
"This is my doubt, O Kṛṣṇa, and I ask You to dispel it completely. But for You,
no one is to be found who can destroy this doubt.*
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Son of Pṛthā, a transcendentalist
engaged in auspicious activities does not meet with destruction either in this world
or in the spiritual world. One who does good, My friend, is never overcome by
evil.*
"The unsuccessful yogī, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of
the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family
of rich aristocracy.*
"Or (if unsuccessful after long practice of yoga) he takes his birth in a family of
transcendentalists who are surely great in wisdom. Certainly, such a birth is rare in
this world.*
"On taking such a birth, he revives the divine consciousness of his previous life,
and he tries to make further progress in order to achieve complete success, O son
of Kuru.*
"By virtue of the divine consciousness of his previous life, he automatically
becomes attracted to the yogic principles, even without seeing them. Such an
inquisitive transcendentalist stands always above the ritualistic principles of the
scriptures.*
"And when the yogī engages himself with sincere endeavor in making further