Understanding God's divine nature through reason and devotion grants permanent liberation from material rebirth.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture — June 11, 1968, Montreal 680611LE-MONTREAL [31:15 Minutes] Prabhupāda: [break] ...do, whatever he eats, everything, then he becomes perfect. Perfect. Simply by understanding God perfectly... Not perfectly; preliminarily.
Nobody can understand God perfectly. That is not possible. That is not in our capacity. God is so great, we are so small.
But to our small understanding whatever we can know, that are described in different kinds of scripture, and Bhagavad-gītā is also another description of the truth, Absolute Truth. So here Kṛṣṇa says that anyone who understands this Absolute Truth or the activity or the purpose or the appearance, disappearance about God, what is God, what are His activities... Just like we have got our activities, we have got our identification, similarly, God has got His identification, His activity, His form, everything. Now one has to understand what is that. It is called divyam.
Divyam means it is not like this material thing. It is spiritual. So that is a spiritual science. So the result will be that janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvataḥ [Bg. 4.9]. [One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.] Tattvataḥ means truth, scientifically. Two plus two equal to four.
This is called tattvataḥ, truth. Similarly, anyone who understands the science of God, then the result will be tyaktvā deham. By quitting this body... We have to quit, leave this body, that is a fact.
You'll also not remain in this body, I'll not also remain in this body. But before quitting this body, before leaving this body, if we can simply understand what is God... Doesn't matter whatever you are doing. You remain occupied in your duties, you remain what you are.
It doesn't matter. Simply try to understand what is God and what are His activities. Then you'll become liberated. So much facility is offered. And the Bhagavad-gītā is there.