KRISHNA DECLARES DIVINITY!
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All this while, Kṛṣṇa was only
playing the role of ācārya
(teacher,) intellectually enriching
Arjuna of the truth and giving
him knowledge. For the first
time, He opens up. He declares
the truth about His nature.
He shows the divinity of His
nature. This is the point where
Kṛṣṇa starts to speak the ultimate
truth as it is.
Till then, He was a little shy to open up to Arjuna!
When a disciple is not ready, you can’t open up, you can’t tell the truth. Now, the disciple is ready. So Kṛṣṇa opens up. He says, although I am unborn and my transcendental body never deteriorates and although I am the Lord of all living entities, I still appear in every millennium in my original transcendental form. Three things we need to understand here.
First He says, ‘I am unborn, ajopi. I never take birth. I am the ultimate Parabrahma. I am the ultimate energy.’ I don’t think anyone else has declared it so clearly. Here, Kṛṣṇa straightaway declares the truth. ‘I am God, bhūtānām īsvaro’pi san,’ He says.
KRISHNA DECLARES
That which never takes birth
can never die; only that which
takes birth can die.
Here Kṛṣṇa declares,
I never take birth
and I never die.
I am the Lord of all living
entities—
ajo'pi sann avyayātmā bhūtānām īsvaro'pi san.
MASTERS ARE ALWAYS
AVAILABLE
Q: ‘Swamiji, can dead Masters teach us like Paramahamsa Yogananda, Mahavatar Babaji etc.? If I pray to them, can they show me the path?’
A: Dead masters are not dead as you think. When they are alive, their presence had a body. When they are dead, their presence has no body, that’s all. Having a body or not having a body is in no way going to affect their presence. They are eternally alive and available to you. All you need to do is just turn towards them. When normal human beings die, the soul leaves the body. In the case of masters, they leave the body! The very wording is different. So having a body or not having a body is in no way connected to their presence. They are available to the planet always, to the whole of humanity.
It is very difficult to understand Masters. With integrity and authenticity, if you reach out, even if they don't have the body, you will be able to relate, connect, and talk to them. When you don't have integrity and authenticity, even with a living Master you will miss him. He says, ‘I am the Lord of all the entities. But I still happen in every millennium in my original transcendental form; using my own māyā (Illusion).
Because of my māya, I assume the body and incarnate Myself, sambhavāmy ātma-māyayā.’ Kṛṣṇa means that He happens on the planet Earth again and again in so many forms to guide and enrich the people. Ordinary human beings are in the clutches of māyā or illusion due to which they take birth. But Kṛṣṇa has māyā itself under His control and takes birth due to His own wish! But again and again we miss Him. That is why we are here again and again! Again and again we miss them. That is why again and again He has to happen on planet Earth to lift us, to show us the way, to enrich us with Enlightenment.
Sambhavaami Yuge Yuge
Whenever there is a decline in
individual consciousness, when-ever
the collective unconsciousness
increases, to establish the
righteousness of the eternal
consciousness, the science of eternal
bliss, dharma saṁsthāpanārthāya, I
Myself appear, millennium after
millennium—sambhavāmi yuge yuge.
He keeps the generation of
enlightened Masters open for the
future, the possibility of
enlightenment open for the future
generations on planet Earth.
He keeps the whole science open for
the future. Only a courageous being
like Kṛṣṇa can declare this truth;
sambhavāmi yuge yuge.
