![]() ![]() It was with you before your birth and it will be with you after your birth, because it is you, your essential being. Krishna is right when he says, nainam chhindanti shastrani - “No weapon can even touch me”…nainam dahati pravaka - “And neither can the fire burn me.” He is not talking about the body, the brain, the self - they will all be destroyed - but there is something in you indestructible, immortal, eternal. – Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy, Chapter #1 In the long line of such sages it is Krishna alone who comes dancing, singing and laughing. By and large, the chief characteristic of a religious person has been that he is somber, serious and sad-looking - like one vanquished in the battle of life, like a renegade from life. The most important reason is that Krishna is the sole great man in our whole history who reached the absolute height and depth of religion, and yet he is not at all serious and sad, not in tears. Only in some future time will we be able to understand him and appreciate his virtues. He is still beyond man’s understanding he continues to puzzle and battle us. ![]() Man has yet to grow to that height where he can be a contemporary of Krishna’s. ![]() Firstly, his uniqueness lies in the fact that although Krishna happened in the ancient past he belongs to the future, is really of the future. Krishna is utterly incomparable, he is so unique. ![]()
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