Lord Sri Krishna said – Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor Arjuna, nor all the kings in the battlefield; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.
The Lord clearly stated that He Himself, His associate Arjuna and all the kings who were assembled on the battlefield were eternally individual beings. It is not that they did not exist as individuals in the past, and it is not that they will not remain eternal persons in future. Hence there was no cause for lamentation for anyone.
As confirmed by the Vedas, the Lord is eternally the maintainer of every individual living entities both in their conditioned as well as in their liberated situations. Hence this principle is applicable for every individual. Lord Krishna as the Supreme authority does not support the theory that after liberation the individual soul, separated by the covering of maya or illusion, merges into the impersonal Brahman and loses its individual existence.
Lord Krishna’s statement is authoritative because He is no ordinary personality. He is beyond the four common defects of human frailty – to commit mistakes, to be under illusion, propensity to cheat and be cheated and to have imperfect senses. The conclusion that soul is individual and eternal is confirmed by great acaryas like Sri Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya and others.
A devotee can understand the mysticism of Bhagavad-gita because he accepts Lord Krishna. A non-devotee envies the very existence of the Lord and his understanding of Gita is like licking a bottle of honey, without actually getting the taste of honey. Just like one can have a taste of honey once one opens the bottle, similarly one can understand Bhagavad-gita if one accepts Lord Krishna as Supreme and eternal and all souls as His fragmental parts and individually eternal.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
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