brahma brahmavido janAH🔗

Kṛṣṇa says brahma brahmavido janāḥ. He means that if we have always lived with our attention focused towards higher consciousness, we will travel in that path and disappear into Brahman. We will become enlightened.

So be very clear, these conditions are not chronological. They are psychological. Bhīśma waited until his mind settled, until he felt completely peaceful, till he was able to forgive and complete with everybody and himself, and till he was able to reach conscious awareness. Then he entered enlightenment.

Next, Kṛṣṇa says that the person who passes away from this world during smoke, the night, the fortnight of the waning moon or those six months when the Sun travels in the south, referred to as Dakṣināyaṇaṁ, reaches the Moon but comes back again. Again, this is psychological. They can't say that in these six months nobody can become enlightened. They can't say, 'During the six months of dakṣināyaṇaṁ, the Enlightenment gates are locked, no entry. Only at uttarāyaṇaṁ time, the gates are open. Come at that time.' No! They can't say, 'Dakṣināyaṇaṁ time is non-working hours and only uttarāyaṇaṁ time is working hours.' There are no working hours for enlightenment. It is purely because of the conscious choice of one's being.