06 02 lesson-02
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1) Krishna states that he and living entities are eternal but distinct individuals, with Krishna being the supreme lord. Only foolish people think everything is one. 2) Krishna is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, while living entities have limited knowledge and abilities. Those who claim to be God are actually opposite of God. 3) A story is told of a king who foolishly declares everything should have the same price of 1 rupee, leading to absurd consequences before the guru saves his disciple from being hanged. This highlights the danger of the philosophy that everything is one.
06 02 lesson-02
- 1. STANDARD VI CHAPTER 02 WHO AM I You are not this body; you are spirit self The body goes on changing, but the change is never in self Lesson-02 KRISHNA’S SECOND INSTRUCTION: BOTH KRISHNA AND WE ARE ETERNAL. HOWEVER, WE ARE NEVER EQUAL TO KRISHNA, THE GOD. Here, Krishna clearly states that He, the Supreme Lord and we, His atomic parts are separate individuals and will also remain so in the future. Only foolish peoplethink that everything is one and the same. They think that everyone is God. But such foolish statements are neither accepted by scriptures nor by real spiritual teachers. It is just an imagination to feel good about oneself. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GOD AND US? God by definition is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent–that means He knows everything, present everywhere and can do anything. On the otherhand, we
- 2. don’t even know what we ate a week before. What to speak of knowing everything? We can’t remain at one place. What to speak of being present everywhere? And we can’t even lick our elbow. What to speak of being able to do anything? Still there are cheaters in society who declare themselves to be God. But they are actually oppositeof God. Only a person without sound intelligence and discrimination can say that everything is one. But when we accept knowledge from Krishna or His representatives (Guru), we come to right conclusionregarding God and living entities. Real saints who are servants of Krishna give us perfect knowledge and save us from dangerous opinions of bogus saintswho say that we are same as Krishna and everything is one. People with no discriminationsay: everythingis one So there was one guru and his disciple. They used to wander from village to village, country to country, begging and enlightening people. Thus they come to a strange country. The disciple used to beg alms and goes to marketplace for inquiry. He goes to grocery shop and asks how much for a kilo of vegetables. “1 rupee per kilo, sir” Then he goes to a sweetmeat shop and the shopkeeper replies the same. The disciple expresses his surprise: How come both the things have same prize? “Because of the King, sir! He says that because everything is one,
- 3. everything has to have same price. So we have to sell everything for 1 rupee, whatever thing you take in whatever quantity.” Disciple goes to his Guru in a happy mood. “Guruji, this is the best place. We can just beg for 1 rupeeand then we can get ample amount of sweets, because everything sells here for same price by king’s order.”Guru says: “I think the king is crazy. He does not have discrimination. The place where peopledon’t have discrimination of good and bad, small and big, is certainly a dangerous place. Better if we leave immediately.” But the disciple insists and Guru leaves saying: “Soon you are going to be in trouble. Just remember me at that time.” Disciple begs 1 rupee every day and eats lot of sweetmeat and gets really fat. It so happensthat in that village, a villager’s goat dies due to falling of neighbour’s wall. The villager goes to king for justice. King orders: “It is all wall’s mistake. Hang the wall.” Villager argues: “No my lord. The wall is a dead thing. My neighbour should be hanged.” King: “Yes, call the neighbour. Let us hang him.” He then summons the neighbour to court. Neighbour argues: “Wall was mine. But I did not build it. Hang the mason.” King orders: “Let us hang the mason.” Mason says: “I could not build wall properlybecause the tailor poked my one eye while puttingthe thread in his needle. Hang the tailor.”King orders: “Alright! Hang the tailor.”Tailor: “No sir, the
- 4. weaver gave me too long thread. So hang the weaver.” King orders: “Hang the weaver.” Weaver says: “O king, my thread has not poked his eye. It is the needle. So hang the blacksmith.” King orders: “Hang the blacksmith.” Blacksmith says: “Please don’t hang me my lord. I have a family to maintain.” King: “You should have thought about it before making the needle. Now it’s too late. We have to hang you now.” Then the king orders his soldiers to take the measurement of his neck to preparea fitting noose. King declares: “15 days from now, we will hang this blacksmith in public.” Black smith becomes so afraid, that he stops eating food and becomes very thin in 15 days. The king calls all villagers to a ground where they would hang this fellow in public. The soldiers bring the blacksmith to scaffold but as they put the noose around his neck and try to hang him they find out that the noose is too loose. King demands reason. Soldiers say: “We had taken measurement 15 days back. That time he was so fat. Now he is so thin that the noose is not fitting.” The king says: “So many people have gathered. We have to hang somebody. Find a person whose neck is thick enough for the noose and let’s hang him.” The soldiers take his order and come to the disciple who has become very fat now by eating sweetmeats everyday. The soldiers capture him and take him to scaffold.
- 5. Disciple asks: “Why are you taking me?” Soldiers: “Because your neck is fitting in the noose.”Disciple understandsthat these are really the peoplewithout discrimination. He remembers his Guru at this time of difficulty and Guru arrives there. Guru says: “I will save you from these fools. Just follow my plan.”Then Guru whispers his plan in disciple’s ears. King asks: “Why there is so delay?” Guru says: “I am his Guru. Please hang me.” Disciple says: “No. Please hang me.” King: “Why are you two so anxious of getting hanged?” Guru replies: “Astrologically, this is a nice muhurta. Whoever dies at this time becomes an emperor of world next life.” Foolish King orders: “While I am alive, you want to become emperor? Release these two greedy rascals and hang me instead.”And the soldiers hang the foolish king. This way the Guru saves his disciple. MORAL: The philosophyof “Everythingis one, all of us are God” may sound fantasticbut it is very dangerous falsephilosophywhich will lead to disasterin our life. A real Guru never entertainssuch nonsense. Only such Guru can lead us to rightpath of devotion to Krishna and save us from wrong claims. So to say that Krishna and us are at same level or that everything is one is a wrong idea. The fact is that Krishna
- 6. is always the maintainer of living entities (that is all of us) in all situations and both are NOT the same.