Verse 9.21

Verse 9.21: after enjoying the spacious Heavenly world, as their merit gets exhausted, re-enter the region of mortals. Thus those who routine-wise (anu) have betaken themselves unto the Pathvay of the Threefold Lore—cherishing desires—earn (only) the going-up and the coming-down. (328)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

No sooner does the stock of merit sink and dry up than the glory of Indra’s majesty fades and those souls of sacrificial followers descend into the Mortal world. The plight of these men of sacrificial faith is indeed no less pitiable than the lot of vicious man, who, when he has squandered his money on concubines, is not allowed even to tap their door. These men are thus lost to My everlasting Presence, since they are led astray into the path of yearning for heavenly enjoyment: Vain indeed is their ascent into the immortal region, for they come back to the mortal world in the end. And long and laborious is the road to this mortal world, wending through the den of mother’s womb for nine months to hatch the mortal tenement into a birth in a cycle of births and deaths. One chances upon a treasure in a dream which is nought on waking up: So ephemeral is the heavenly bliss enjoyed by these Knowers of Vedic sacrifice. Even the masters of Vedic lore, Oh Arjuna, not realising Me, have lived a life, that is as vain and hollow as the chaff without the grain.

Therefore without Me, the supreme unity, the path of Rituals taught by the three Vedas is unavailing. Now know ye naught but Me; so shalt thou dwell in eternal bliss.