“janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti so ‘rjuna: One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.” (Bg. 4.9)
The mission for which Krsna appears is here further explained. When He comes with some mission, there are some activities. Of course there are some philosophers who do not believe that God comes as an incarnation. They say, “Why should God come to this rotten world?” But from Bhagavad-gita we understand otherwise. We should always remember that we read Bhagavad-gita as scripture, and whatever is spoken in Bhagavad-gita must be accepted, otherwise there is no reason in reading it.
In Gita Krsna says that He has come as an incarnation with a mission, and along with His mission there are some activities. We can see, for example, that Krsna is active as chariot-driver for Arjuna and engages in so many activities on the battlefield of Kuruksetra. just as when there is war one person or nation may side with another person or nation and show partiality, Lord Krsna on the battlefield shows some partiality and sides with Arjuna. Actually Krsna is not partial to anyone, but externally it appears that He is partial. This partiality, however, should not be accepted in the ordinary sense.
In this verse Krsna also points out that His descent into the material world is transcendental. The word divyam means transcendental. His activities are not in any way ordinary. Even today, in India, at the end of August the people are accustomed to celebrating Krsna’s birthday, regardless of sect, just as in the Western world Jesus Christ’s birthday is celebrated at Christmas.
Krsna’s birthday is called Janmastami, and in this verse Krsna uses the word janma in referring to “My birth.” Because there is birth, there are some activities. Krsna’s birth and activities are transcendental, which means they are not like ordinary births and activities. One may ask how it is that His activities are transcendental. He is born, He takes part in a battle with Arjuna, he has a father by the name of Vasudeva and a mother Devaki and a family–what can be considered transcendental?
Krsna says, evam yo vetti tattvatah–we must know of His birth and activities in truth. When one knows of Krsna’s birth and activities in truth, the result is: tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti so ‘rjuna–when he leaves this material body, he is not born again but goes directly to Krsna.
This means that he becomes a liberated soul. He goes to the eternal spiritual world and attains his constitutional position full of bliss, knowledge and eternality. All this can be obtained simply by knowing in truth the transcendental nature of Krsna’s birth and activities.”
On the Way to Krsna, Chapter Two, “The Way of Chanting and Knowing Krsna”
pamho agtACBSP,SRILA JAGANATH DAS BABAJI,SRILA RASIKANANDA THAKUR TIROBHAVA MAHOTSAVA KI JAI
Thank you for helping this kalo sudra society to become more krsna consciousness through all these wonderful articles through this good spiritual satsanga website. It’s enough to study the pastimes of SRI KRSNA to understand how rotten is this world including all the false egos of the all degraded citizens who got catch very badly by the polluted influences of kali chela in this most auspicious kali yuga of the first appearance of the most merciful avatara SRI GAURANGA MAHAPRABHU.
All the categories of mental speculators can’t understand how god is already situated in all the rotten and not rotten worlds, therefore HE don’t need to come here in this sense because HE is already everywhere adantara stham paramanu cayantara stham, and in the same way HE is nowhere I mean nobody know HIM as it is, HE is the most mystical supreme personality of godhead unborn therefore none can size HIM neither can see HIM without bhakti, because the devotion to SRI KRSNA is the only way to burn all the karma, karmani nirdahati kintu ca bhakti bhajan.
We can know who we really are and where we are going only through bhakti paresanu bhavo viraktir anyatra ca only when all our enemies are completely destroyed by increasing our bhakti activities which make the pukka sadhaka able to understand the transcendental appearance and disappearance of the supreme personality of godhead SRI KRSNA BHAGAVAT by escaping to the dangerous poisoned ocean of ignorance through the cycle of birth and death in this rotten material world.
SRILA PRABHUPADA also used to say it’s enough to accept SRI KRSNA as it is by meditating on HIS sublime life through HIS living vani seva to understand who HE really IS, but a lot of uncivilized citizens including many so called devotees in the guise of murders of the self do not accept HIM as it is, neither they use the factor time to get out from their double jail, therefore they need to wait to get more sukrti pious activities to get out from this rotten world, false ego etc.
Through bhakti to janma karma ca me divyan to the transcendental avirbhava and tirobhava of SRI GOPAL BARAJA the greatest personality of godhead which looks like if HE appears and disappears, but that is due to to our imperfect senses because SRI KRSNA is well know as SRI VASUDEVA VISUDDHA SATTVAM, the abode of all the universes rotten and not rotten the purest, and HE can be reached only through pure bhakti yoga devotion, which can be transfered in our hearts by studying the sublime pastimes of SRI KRSNA with HIS pure devotees.
It may take kalpas, many ages, to understand the transcendental activities of the supreme personality of godhead because HE is supreme therefore the process can be slow sometimes, but we are happy to do a step a day by taking maha maya away. Just look around to see how many living entities are living in a situation which is worse then animals in this age. Therefore we are glad to progress daily through our brahma muhurta sadhana bhakti by the causeless mercy of SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA
agtSP ys haribol