INTRODUCTION
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Kṛṣṇa is saguṇa brahman, the physical Cosmos, who showed Himself in this form to Arjuna, in His viśvarūpa, Cosmic form. Kṛṣṇa is nirguṇa brahman as well, the formless consciousness. In both the form and the formless, He is Kṛṣṇa, the Divine consciousness who has all the attributes that He talks about here.
The Divine is imperishable.
It is akṣaram. Everything else in this
material Universe may come and go,
appear and disappear, while the Divine
remains forever.
It is unique and incomparable and cannot be benchmarked against anything, as it is supreme. It is avyaktam, unmanifest and acinytam,
Inconceivable, and therefore cannot be
comprehended by the senses. It
cannot be grasped by thoughts and
mind, which is why one’s mind-body
needs to be transcended to glimpse
the Divine. The Divine resides
everywhere and is omnipresent.
The true devotee sees his Lord
everywhere. Rāmakṛṣṇa describes the
love of a true devotee this way: ‘It is
the love of a chaste wife for her
husband, the attachment of a miser
towards his hoarded wealth, the
craving of a worldly person for sensual
pleasures, all rolled into one and
directed towards the Lord, creating
devotion.’
The true devotee, who follows either
path with completion, with his senses
focused on the Lord, experiences Him
and also experiences the bliss of
enriching humanity. The devotee sees
the Lord in everyone he meets. His
experience of His Lord becomes His
expression of love to all.
Kṛṣṇa’s beloved Rādhā tells the
gopikās (cowherdress who were
around Kṛṣṇa), ‘I don’t know what
has happened to me.
I see Kṛṣṇa in everybody. I feel that
everybody is Kṛṣṇa. I don’t know
what is happening.’ One of the
gopikās answers, ‘You have devotion
as the very black eyeliner in your
eyes!’
It is like this: When you
wear dark glasses
everything appears dark;
when you wear green-
tinted glasses, everything
appears
green. In the same way,
when you have devotion as
your very eyeliner,
whomsoever you see
appears as Kṛṣṇa, appears
divine! Here, Kṛṣṇa says,
the person established in
super consciousness space
of completion and the
person who radiates
devotion and lives for
enriching are the same.
They are not two different
groups.
