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CHAPTER 8. HE ALONE WINS WHO DOES NOT WANT TO WIN
Ordinarily, after death, one’s mind does not undergo a change, only the body changes. Except the
body, nothing of one’s subtle form changes with death. But a death at the hands of a person like
Krishna is in itself a great phenomenon, because it happens in the presence of a catalytic agent.
If you die in the presence of such a being, his vibes will go with your subtle body. And with the
removal of the gross body, which was an impediment in the way of your meeting with Krishna, and
with the assimilation of Krishna’s vibes by your subtle body, your meeting with Krishna will be much
facilitated. And that meet Ing will yield extraordinary results for you.
Such a meeting with Krishna is available to Arjuna in a very normal way, because Arjuna is quite
capable of getting out of his body. In deep love everyone is capable of taking such a jump, but it is
Impossible if you are in a state of deep enmity. In a state of enmity your body becomes a strong
prison for you; you can never walk out of it. This is the difference between love and hate. If you and
I are in love with each other, we can walk out of our bodies and meet and mingle in a space where
subtle bodies meet. But if we are enemies, we will be like prisoners in our bodies, we can never
walk out of them and enter the space where two lovers meet. In the case of enmity we can meet
each other only on the physical level and not beyond it. But in love we can transcend our bodies.
It is not necessary for Krishna to kill Arjuna with a view to transforming him, because Arjuna is full of
love. But if someone is full of hate, it becomes necessary to give him a change of body so that he
can be in a position to be transformed. His physical prison has to be demolished so that he comes
out of it. Then he will be in the same space in which Arjuna is as a lover of Krishna. It is necessary
in the case of the wicked. and it is an act of compassion on the part of Krishna. Krishna is equally
compassionate with both the good and the wicked. Whether one is good or wicked does not make
any difference in the compassion of Krishna.
But as I told you earlier, it is something that will go beyond your understanding. So don’t try to
understand it, just hear it and forget it.
Question 6
QUESTIONER ONE OF MARSHAL MC LUHAN’S MAXIMS SAYS: THE MEDIUM IS THE
MESSAGE. SOME CRITIC SUBSTITUTED ”THE MASSAGE” FOR ”THE MESSAGE” AND THUS
GAVE AN ALTOGETHER NEW MEANING TO THE MAXIM. IN THE SAME WAY CAN WE CALL
KRISHNA’S FLUTE A BEING’S LOVING CALL TO GOD? THEN I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS
THE MEANING OF KRISHNA BLOWING HIS CONCH, PANCHJANYA, ON THE BATTLEFIELD
OF KURUKSHETRA. AND IS IT SOMETHING SYMBOLIC THAT HE CARRIES HIS FLUTE AND
A WEAPON LIKE THE SUDAR SHANCHAKRA TOGETHER? THERE IS A SHLOKA, A STANZA
IN THE BHAGWAD’S CHAPTER ON MAHARAAS, WHICH DESCRIBES KRISHNA’S PLAY WITH
THE GOPIS IN THESE WORDS: YATHA ABHRAKA SWAPRATIBIMBA VIBHRAMAH – AS IF THE
CHILD IS PLAYING WITH HIS OWN SHADOW. WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING MEANING OF THIS
METAPHOR? AND A MYSTIC HAS SAID THAT ”LIVING BEING’S EGO IS GOD’S FOOD ” IS THIS
THE REASON THAT KRISHNA SUDDENLY DISAPPEARS, FROM THE MIDST OF THE DANCING
GOPIS IN MAHARAAS?
Marshal McLuhan is a great thinker, and his statement that ”The medium is the message” is highly
significant. He came out with something which is quite new. Before McLuhan it was thought that the
medium and his message were separate things. It was thought that although the message comes
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