Bhagavan Shree Krishna

Who is “Bhagavan Shree Krishna”?

   Nobody knows who this supreme Lord paramatma shree Krishna is ! The Lord only is saying that nobody can ever know him, especially, when He is presented in human form, avatara purusha !“Just because I have donned the human form the fools do not know Me.” Neither these fools know the Unborn and the Indestructible Paramatman Shree Krishna, nor do they know the great hero born of the ‘Power of the Sacred Word’ (mantra shakti) of Indra called Arjuna ! The supreme Lord has the power of ‘tirodhana’ and thereby may assume any form simultaneously and appear or disappear, as and when, and wherever it pleases Him. The reason behind this statement “Nobody can ever know Me” is very simple. The Lord, says, “He only exists and none, besides Him”. Further, He, the Lord, is not somebody, something or some subject that be seen, known or understood! Bhagavan is the unborn, eternal, immortal Power, force, energy behind all creations. He is the unmanifest maha purusha, the seed that propagates the entire universe in different names, forms and functions, in His own manifest forms. It is like the one invisible potent seed that creates a tree which becomes a forest! So also the manifest forms of jiva that replicate in the same way, on the same principle. This is stated in “Everything we see is Krishna”. Chapter II explicitly states that all that exists is Krishna only. 

  The ‘Gitopadesha’, as revealed to the First ever self-manifest person (manas) svayambhuva manu, the first self-manifest (svayambhu) makes it clear that the human beings now reading these lines never existed at that time! The Gita, as the para vidya, knowledge supreme, pertaining to Creation, sustenance, development, and dissolution dates back to at least 4.56 billion years when the Sun, Vivasvan, was just born. The Earth as a planet of the solar system and the Moon as its satellite, came later! So, where were the humans at that time! Even the Sun as a star, svayambh manu Vivasvan was not yet there when the supreme Lord only existed as Aditya, now Shree Krishna! 

The first six manvantaras that have gone by are: 1. the svayambhu, 2. svarochisha, 3. Uttama, 4. taapasa, 5. raivata, and 6. chakshusha. The present manvantara is the seventh known as the vaivasvata. The next seven manvantaras to follow are: 1. surya savarni, 2. Daksha savarni, 3. brahma savarni, 4. dharmasavarni, 5. rudra savarni, 6. deva savarni, and 7. the indra savarni manvanatras. Incidentally, all these manus are nothing but stars having their own saptarshis, devi-devata, physical powers or elemental gods, or deities called Shakti! Each cycle lasts for 4, 320,000 years!

    We, the human beings, reading the Gitopadesha today, in the kaliyuga (First quarter/prathama charana or paada) of the chatur-yuga (the other three being kurta or satya, treat, and dvapara), the last phase of the Seventh manvantara called the Vaivasvata manvantara) should be careful in understanding what the Lord Shree Krishna is speaking about His divine plan of Creation and the paraphernalia of all that is to come to the Sun, just when He was appearing in the Heavens! The Sun, at the head of the solar system, is to run the entire creation, sustenance, development, and dissolution as His own manifest form as Vishnu, Surya Narayana! This is the divine plan of the Gita. These are the words of the Lord- Bhagavan uvacha.

    The supreme Lord holds the key and the jiva works according to the dictates of the Lord. Finally, as a Yogacharya, the Lord helps the jiva to realize its true nature and merge in Him.