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(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

 

Despite the transcendental qualities of Lord Krishna's body, its full bliss and knowledge, there are many so-called scholars and commentators of Bhagavad gita who deride Krishna as an ordinary man. The scholar may be born an extraordinary man due to his previous good work, but this conception of Sri Krishna is due to a poor fund of knowledge. Therefore he is called mudha, for only foolish persons consider Krishna to be an ordinary human being because they do not know the confidential activities of the Supreme Lord and His different energies.They do not know that Krishna's body is a symbol of complete knowledge and bliss, that He is the proprietor of everything that be and that He can award liberation to anyone. Because they do not know that Krishna has so many transcendental qualifications, they deride Him. In Bhagavad gita 9.11, Lord Krishna states.

avajaananti maam mudhaa
maanusim tanum aasritam
param bhaavam ajaananto
mama bhuta-mahesvaram
Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be.

Srila Prabhupad explains foolish persons, however, cannot conceive that the Personality of Godhead, Krishna, appearing just like an ordinary man, can be the controller of all the atoms and of the gigantic manifestation of the universal form. He can control the infinite and the finite simultaneously and that He can remain aloof from them. Although the foolish cannot imagine how Krishna, who appears just like a human being, can control the infinite and the finite, those who are pure devotees accept this, for they know that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore they completely surrender unto Him and engage in Krishna consciousness, devotional service of the Lord.

Fortunately, our Maharaj, His Holiness Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj, on his recent short visit to Abu Dhabi gave his blessings to the assembled devotees. He mentioned that one requires unlimited patience to create favorable circumstances to liberate oneself from material sense gratification. Breathing keeps our body alive but Bhagavad gita keeps our soul alive. We should never be merciful to our self but merciful to all other living entities. We have wasted so many lives already, why to add one more. There are only two consciousnesses: namely degree consciousness and Krishna consciousness. Materially opulent men always have to add a degree to his name to introduce himself while on the other hand Krishna need not introduce himself, just a glance of His and people fall at his lotus feet to pay obeisances. Uddhava was such a great devotee that he clearly knew that Krishna is the source of every thing where as we are not attracted to supreme absolute truth and are attracted by three modes of material nature. We must realize this before it is too late. We have to come out of the material ‘gutter’ as soon as possible and also try to help the others out to bring them to Krishna consciousness.

Isopanishad states:
om purnam adah purnam idam
purnaat purnam udacyate
purnasya purnam aadaaya
purnam evaavasisyate
The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.

All facilities are given to the small complete units (namely the living beings) to enable them to realize the Complete Whole. All forms of incompleteness are experienced due to incomplete knowledge of the Complete Whole. The human form of life is a complete manifestation of the consciousness of the living being, and it is obtained after evolving through 8,400,000 species of life in the cycle of birth and death. If in this human life of full consciousness the living entity does not realize his completeness in relation to the Complete Whole, he loses the chance to realize his completeness and is again put into the evolutionary cycle by the law of material nature.

I humbly pray to the Supreme Lord and our Guru Maharaja that I may remain progressively fixed in Krishna consciousness.

Chant,

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna

Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama

Hare Hare

and be happy.

 

 

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