Recently I had fortune to Visit holy Dwarka and Bhalka Tirth, Lord Krishna has performed most His pastimes during youth in Dwarka and Bhalka is a place from where Lord Krishna departed for His original abode, Vaikuntha. At this Bhalka tirth I just overheard the conversation between the guide who was showing various places to tourists, in introduction he said, "This is place where Krishna died 5000 years before, He was killed by hunter named Jara". I said, what? How can God die? How He can be killed by ordinary hunter? Such a wrong information this foolish guide was giving, which will eventually spread to society. This situation arises only when one avoids to read Scriptures and depends on unauthorized sources to get knowledge.
In Srimad Bhagavatam Sukdev Goswami clearly describes the pastime of Lord's disappearance from this mortal world. To avoid the confusion and doubt of the people he gives several incidences stating Krishna as the controller of everything including death. He compares Lord Krishna as perfect actor, who after display of drama perfectly winds up everything and gets ready for next drama. End of drama doesn't mean end of actor. Just like Sun, when sun disappears from our eyes that doesn't mean sun is dead but it means sun has appeared somewhere else. Sukdev Maharaj continues, "Lord Kṛṣṇa brought the son of His guru back from the planet of the lord of death in the boy’s selfsame body, and as the ultimate giver of protection He saved you also when you were burned by the brahmāstra of Aśvatthāmā. He conquered in battle even Lord Śiva, who deals death to the agents of death, and He sent the hunter Jarā directly to Vaikuṇṭha in his human body. How could such a personality be unable to protect His own Self?". In fact whoever reads this particular description he attains immortality by grace of Lord. It's commonsense to understand that one who can give immortality to someone how can he be mortal? But problem is commonsense is not so common in this age.
In fact Lord Himself has instructed in Gita(BG 2.12-2.29) several times that, you are not this body but you are eternal soul, body is destructible but soul is imperishable, For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
The Bhagavad Gita, especially the 2nd chapter, Sankhyayoga, teaches and convinces us that we don't die, then how can we ever imagine that God dies? For the soul death is actually myth, death doesn't exists for soul what to say of supersoul. So let's not be mislead by false propagators but read the most authentic and bonafide scriptures recommended by our Aacharyas and learn proper knowledge to burn other's misconceptions about the God, Lord Krishna.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
In Srimad Bhagavatam Sukdev Goswami clearly describes the pastime of Lord's disappearance from this mortal world. To avoid the confusion and doubt of the people he gives several incidences stating Krishna as the controller of everything including death. He compares Lord Krishna as perfect actor, who after display of drama perfectly winds up everything and gets ready for next drama. End of drama doesn't mean end of actor. Just like Sun, when sun disappears from our eyes that doesn't mean sun is dead but it means sun has appeared somewhere else. Sukdev Maharaj continues, "Lord Kṛṣṇa brought the son of His guru back from the planet of the lord of death in the boy’s selfsame body, and as the ultimate giver of protection He saved you also when you were burned by the brahmāstra of Aśvatthāmā. He conquered in battle even Lord Śiva, who deals death to the agents of death, and He sent the hunter Jarā directly to Vaikuṇṭha in his human body. How could such a personality be unable to protect His own Self?". In fact whoever reads this particular description he attains immortality by grace of Lord. It's commonsense to understand that one who can give immortality to someone how can he be mortal? But problem is commonsense is not so common in this age.
In fact Lord Himself has instructed in Gita(BG 2.12-2.29) several times that, you are not this body but you are eternal soul, body is destructible but soul is imperishable, For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
The Bhagavad Gita, especially the 2nd chapter, Sankhyayoga, teaches and convinces us that we don't die, then how can we ever imagine that God dies? For the soul death is actually myth, death doesn't exists for soul what to say of supersoul. So let's not be mislead by false propagators but read the most authentic and bonafide scriptures recommended by our Aacharyas and learn proper knowledge to burn other's misconceptions about the God, Lord Krishna.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
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