The Bible says, “Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

And whosoever
liveth and believeth in Me shall never die."

”The Guru Granth Sahib says, “One who has knowledge of God depends on God alone. Such knower of
God never dies.” And the Bhagavad Gita says, “Having crossed over the three attributes arising from the
body, the dweller in the body is completely freed from birth, death, old age and sorrow and attains
immortality.”

Though all these holy texts have been read over and over again by us for thousands of years, we could
not get to the real sense of the words contained in them. We could not ever imagine that the terms like
‘have eternal life’ or ‘never die’ appearing in the Bible and Guru Granth Sahib; or ‘completely free from
sorrow, old age and death’ spoken by the Prophets literally mean living forever and not dying.

The Gita reveals that when we engage in actions with mind on their fruit, it gives rise to attachment, that in
turn gives rise to desire, desire leads to anger, anger to delusion, delusion to confusion of memory and
confusion of memory leads to loss of intellect. When the intellect is lost, we perish. Since, we are eternal
beings, we leave the worn-out bodies and take birth in the new bodies. It may thus be seen that the
ultimate cause of our death is loss of intellect; but the primal cause of death is performance of actions
with eye on the fruits of action.

The Gita also reveals that the actions are performed by the attributes of nature, and not by the beings.
But, the beings who are deluded by the ego, think, ‘I am the doer’. This attaches them to the attributes
and result in their constant birth in good and evil wombs.

The sage Vashisht imparted the same gyan to Lord Ram in the following words: ‘You are not the doer of
any action here, O Ram; so why do you assume doership? When One alone exists, who does what, and
how? Do not become inactive either; for, what is gained by doing nothing? What has to be done, has to
be done. Therefore, rest in the Self. Even while doing all actions natural to you, if you stay unattached,
you are truly the non-doer. On the other hand, if you are doing nothing and are attached to that non-
doership, you become the doer!’
The only change that is required to take place for our achievement of immortality is a change in our
thoughts. We have to perform actions without contemplating upon their fruits and by mentally renouncing
the actions to God, thinking that God is performing the actions. Just as we become bound to our actions
by thinking that we are the doers, we get freed from the bonds of actions by thinking that we are not the
doers.

This sacrifice of the ‘doership’ or the mental renouncement of actions to God has been declared the
highest Yog in the Gita. Not to be confused with Yoga or physical postures, the path of Yog described in
The Gita is very easy to practice and does not require any change in one’s actions or life style or daily
routine. Becoming free from attachment and desire does not at all mean abstaining from sense objects or
their enjoyments. Lord Krishna says that a person who abstains from the objects or enjoyments but keeps
desiring them is an unintelligent who eventually loses his intellect and perishes. As against this, the
person who enjoys all the objects but does not have desire and yearning for them will not perish but have
eternal life. To practice yog, one has to bring change in one’s thoughts only and mentally renounce all
fruits and actions to God.

If we sincerely fathom the import of Krishna's words, we can not only become free from sorrow, diseases
and old-age, but also from death and can continue to live in the same body forever. The simple
renouncement of all actions to God while performing the actions is the greatest secret science rendered in
The Gita, that can free us from sorrows, diseases, old age and death.

This science, called Yog in the Bhagavad Gita, does not ask us to make any changes in our lifestyle or
actions. All we need to do is to change our thoughts, as advised by Lord Krishna in the Gita. This
wonderful science of thoughts has been unfolded in this path-breaking book that promises to change lives
and help us attain immortality.

Lord Krishna has clearly stated in the Gita that man can be free from old age and death and live forever in
eternal peace and happiness. “A person who believes the words of God and follows His wisdom will be
freed from stress, worries, diseases and ageing and live forever with inner peace and happiness,” says
Verma. He elaborates that the failure to understand and follow the words of God is the singular cause of
unrest, disunity and suffering in the world. Verma explains in his book that the all-pervading God is
wisdom that can be attained by every person, while remaining engaged in his or her day-to-day actions.
On gaining wisdom, he/she will attain immortality and become a supreme being.
You Are God unfolds the wisdom of God lying hidden in the Gita and gives answers to man’s eternal
question: Who am I? Quoting the words of Lord Krishna, Verma says that the same self or wisdom,
namely, the all-pervading God, embodies all bodies. All beings are forms of God or, simply put, they are
God. The ego or a sense of I-ness in us deludes us and we fail to realise that we are God, not ‘I’ or
man/woman. A person who understands and practises the science of Yog and changes his or her
thoughts as advised by Lord Krishna, will realise that he or she is God, not ‘I’. Having attained this
wisdom, he/she will be freed from sorrow, diseases, ageing and death and will become immortal.