Murari Das Blog

He says that He is God. He claims that there is nothing superior to Him. He claims that He is the source of all spiritual and material worlds, He claims that everything emanates from Him. He claims that He is the seed-giving father of all who take birth in the material world and that material nature is working under His direction. He claims that He is time. He claims that no being - moving or non moving - can exist without Him. He claims that He pervades the entire universe in His unmanifest form. He claims that He is the basis of the brahman, He claims that He has always existed and always will. He claims His body is transcendental and never deteriorates. He claims that fools cannot understand His transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be. Krishna claims to know everything that has happened in the past, all that is happening in the present, and all things that are yet to come. He also knows all living entities; but Him no one knows. Everything is within Him and He is wi...

First let us be clear that ‘I’ refers to a person.  This is not complicated and is how people refer to themselves. It is straightforward grammar. I refers to me. My and mine refers to things that belong to me. When I, me, my and mine, are used in speech, a person is involved, and the person is referring to themselves and their possessions. Brahman is not a person. I repeat, Brahman is not a person. Krishna is a person. As we read through Mahabharata we become acquainted with the person Krishna. He is a major character in the great history Mahabharata and, just before the battle commences, He speaks with Arjuna. That’s what people do. They talk to one another. That conversation is called Bhagavad Gita. It is a conversation between two people, Krishna and Arjuna, and Krishna repeatedly says I, me, my and mine. What Krishna says in that conversation is, frankly speaking, stunning. He reveals that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the highest Truth and there is nothing an...