INTRODUCTION
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Those who know the supreme Divine attain that Supreme by passing away from the world during the influence of Agni, the fire-god, during light or at an auspicious moment of the day, also during the fortnight of the waxing moon or during the six months that the sun travels in the north, referred to as uttarāyaṇam.
Understand, these are not chronological calendars. If it were a chronological calendar, then at uttarāyaṇam time, all of us can commit suicide and be done with it, that’s all! But that is not what is meant here. All these things have metaphorical meanings. When He says uttarāyaṇam, Kṛṣṇa means when our mind is totally balanced and when we are not agitated.
In the Mahābhārat war it is said that Bhīśma Pitāmaḥ waits for uttarāyaṇam to leave the body. Don't think he waited for January. He waited until his mind settled down from the agitations and incompletions, and he establishes himself in the space of completion.
He had fallen in battle and was lying down on a bed made of arrows. He must have felt agitated. He must have felt, 'My grandson, whom I taught everything, for whom I did everything, did this to me.' He would have been disturbed. So he waited until the agitation settled down. That is what is meant by the words, 'he was waiting for uttarāyaṇam.'
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