Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation

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prayatnād yatamānas tu yogī saṁśuddha-kilbiṣaḥ | aneka-janma-saṁsiddhas tato yāti parāṁ gatim ||45||
And endeavoring with perseverence, the yogi is fully cleansed of impurities, consummating his multiple births and attaining the supreme destination.
Notes: Inquiry into past births or states of existence is a matter of common curiosity. Our particular present state is the outcome of two intertwined inheritances — the genetic and the psychic continuums of existence. In here, there is a neither need for, nor benefit from a misguided fantastical pursuit for the discovery of the specifics of hypothetical past lives. Whatever the heritage and fruits of our past states of existence may be, some latent and some active, they are present in our current state of existence. Here alone — as the extant living being, the sum total of all that ever was — are these potentials operational. They are progressively accessed, harnessed, refined, and fulfilled through the persistent practice of purification and unification.