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CHAPTER 6. NUDITY AND CLOTHING SHOULD GO TOGETHER
Krishna is like a symbol of this sublime unity and harmony. And I say such a Krishna happened,
really happened. Whatever arguments the historian may produce, I will throw them into the trash.
Psychologists may come up with their jargon, but I will tell them, ”You have gone mad; you cannot
understand Krishna. You only know how to analyze and understand human mind in its fragments;
you don’t know how to integrate, to synthesize and Know the togetherness, the integrity of mind.”
It is true that Freud has investigated the mind of man, and very few people know as much about
anger as Freud does. But if somebody treads on his toes, he will immediately lose his temper. He
does not know when non-anger turns into anger, in spite of all his work on anger. Hardly anyone
else knows as much about mental disorders, but there are streaks of insanity in his own personality.
Its potential is there; he can go insane any moment. There have been moments in his life when he
himself behaves like a mental case. So I don’t attach any importance to what the psychologists say
about Krishna, because Krishna has transcended the mind, gone beyond mind.
Krishna has transcended the mind; he has gone beyond mind. And he has attained to that integrity
which is the integrity of the soul, which is altogether capable of being in every mind, in every kind of
mind. Therefore I will talk about Krishna as one person, as a single individual.
Question 3
QUESTIONER: DO YOU TAKE THE GEETA AS THE AUTHENTIC VOICE OF KRISHNA?
You ask if I take the GEETA to be the authentic voice of Krishna. If a person like Krishna has
happened then the GEETA has to be authentic. It is not relevant if Krishna said it or not, what is
relevant is that if a person like Krishna says something, he will only say something like the GEETA.
Even if the GEETA is taken to be written by Vyasa, and not delivered by Krishna, it does not make
a difference. A Vyasa cannot write the GEETA without a Krishna being there. Even if it is taken
to have been said by Vyasa and not by Krishna, it is the GEETA that he spoke, and it remains the
same.
It is immaterial whether Krishna, Vyasa or some xyz is the author of the GEETA. Authorship is not
important, what is important is the GEETA itself. It has not appeared from the blue; someone must
have authored it. But to find his name is not important, because the GEETA is enough unto itself.
Who wrote it makes no difference whatsoever.
I see it from the very opposite side. I wouldn’t pose the question whether or not the GEETA is the
authentic voice of Krishna, rather I would ask if the GEETA is authentic or not. And I say to you that
the GEETA is, that it is authentic, and that it is enough evidence of Krishna’s being there. I see the
whole thing like this: the GEETA is, the GEETA is spoken, the GEETA is written, the GEETA is in
existence, and that it cannot be in existence without a Krishna. Someone is needed to say it or write
it; who he is is not that important. There must be a consciousness, an intelligence to have given
birth to the GEETA, to have brought it into being.
The existence of the river Ganges is proof enough that its source, the Gangotri, has to be
somewhere. The Gangotri is not the proof for the existence of the Ganges; rather, the Ganges
is the proof for the existence of the Gangotri. If the Ganges is, we can say there must be a Gangotri,
a mother to it. So if the GEETA is there, then there must be a Krishna to author it. So I would like to
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