Dear
All,
After
witnessing all that Sri Krishna reveals to Arjuna after gracing him with
divine vision, Arjuna says:
Verse
31
Aakhyaahi me ko bhavaanugraroopo
Namo’stu te devavara praseeda;
Vijnaatumicchaami bhavantamaadyam
Na hi prajaanaami tava pravrittim.
Tell me, who Thou art, so
fierce in form. Salutations to Thee, O God Supreme! Have mercy; I desire to
know Thee, the original Being. I know not indeed Thy doing.
Ᾱkhyāhi me ko bhavān ugrarūpo (11.31): “Who are
You? I cannot understand. I thought this is Krishna, my friend, but I am seeing
something here that I cannot recognize.
Would You kindly tell me who You are? O Mighty Being, are You Krishna? I cannot see Krishna here; I see something else.
I would like to know who this is that is standing before me and
with this Universal Form (formless form)?
Namostu te: “Prostrations to you. In humble submission I plead
Thee to tell me who You are.”
Devavara prasīda, vijñātum icchāmi bhavantam ādyaṁ: “O God of gods, I would like to know Your beginning, Your
middle and Your end—who You are. I cannot know what it is that is in front of
me, from where it has come, how it is sustained, and what its intention is.”
Verse
32
Sri Bhagavaan Uvaacha:
Kaalo’smi lokakshayakrit pravriddho
Lokaan samaahartumiha pravrittah;
Rite’pi twaam na bhavishyanti sarve
Ye’wasthitaah pratyaneekeshu yodhaah.
The Blessed Lord said:
I am the mighty
world-destroying Time, now engaged in destroying the worlds. Even without thee,
none of the warriors arrayed in the hostile armies shall live.
Therefore,
stand up and obtain fame. Conquer the enemies and enjoy the unrivalled kingdom.
Verily, they have already been slain by Me; be thou a mere instrument, O
Arjuna!
Kālo’smi lokakṣayakṛt pravṛddho (11.32): “I am the
all-destroying Time.” The very Spirit of Time is speaking. “I am here in this
form for the destruction of the world through this war that is going to take
place, to see that everything is put an end to.” The avatar of Sri Krishna was for the destruction of all evil and wickedness in the world, and in that Universal Form he did it in one instant—in a timeless instantaneity, as it were.
Kālo’smi lokakṣayakṛt pravṛddho lokān
samāhartum iha pravṛttaḥ: “I am here to withdraw everything into Myself. Even if you do
not raise a finger, the Kauravas are not going to survive”.
Ṛte’pi tvāṁ na bhaviṣyanti sarve
ye’vasthitāḥ pratyanīkeṣu yodhāḥ: “None in
this entire army is going to survive. You may say that you will not take up
arms. You have your own flimsy arguments not to do anything and keep quiet.
Even if you don’t do anything.
But they shall not survive whether you take up arms or not,
because their destruction has been already predetermined.
They have been doomed by My will (due to their wicked acts). So
why do you consider yourself as a great instrument in bloodshed? You are
nothing of the kind.
They have already gone to the other world, and you are under the
impression that you are going to do something which is not very pleasant.
Therefore, wake up! Do not be weak-hearted. I have already done
the work that you are expected to do. Why are you unnecessarily talking to Me?”
Krishna
clearly says, "EVEN WITHOUT YOU" none of the warriors manning the
secular folly of sheer materialism shall survive the war of the imminent
cultural upheaval.
Many of us sometimes
think, what will happen if I stop working one day? (We think like this
with respect to our family, our work-place and even in Sai Organization, If I
don't do that, then how it is going to be done, no one else is there to do
what I can do). We have to be sure that God has his own ways and He makes
sure whatever is required is done through someone or the other.
Lest we attach undue
importance to our actions and puff up our ego, Sri Krishna gives us a lesson in
humility. He reveals that ultimately, it is he who is running the show.
If He wants to do
something, He will do it with whatever means available, even if it means
generating a thought in one person or in a million people.
It does not mean that we
leave all actions, believing that He will do whatever is required on his own
and we are nothing.
We must renounce, but
not renounce the action, but renounce the expectation out of the actions
with a firm conviction that HIS WILL BE DONE.
Love
