INTRODUCTION
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Kṛṣṇa is just thirty-two years old when He makes these statements! Physically His body is only thirty-two years old. But He says, 'I gave this imperishable knowledge to Sūrya, the Sun god—imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam (4.1).'
With logic, you cannot understand this statement. With ordinary logic, which you use in your daily life, you cannot make any meaning out of this statement. The truth is not new. It is eternal; neither new nor old. Eternal means it is beyond time and space.
When you are in completion, anything you create stands for eternity. It is immortal and eternal. For a religion or any civilization to be alive, three things are important. First, the knowledge and the science of lifestyle, Upaniṣad — what is birth, what is death, why life, what is the purpose of life — the answer to all questions of living and leaving. Second, the buildings — architecture and arts. And third, the language.
All these three are made out of the magnetic field of completion in sanātana- dharma. That is why these three things can never be destroyed, no matter how much anyone tries. The architectural wonders and monuments created out of completion, and the linguistic monument and wonder, Saṁskṛtaṁ born out of completion — these can never be destroyed.
