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CHAPTER 5. FOLLOW NO ONE BUT YOURSELF
the village about this great event. And I am in a hurry, I don’t want to delay, because I am not sure
that if I miss this hour I will have it again.”
Yudhisthira then said to Bhima, ”Wait a moment; I made a mistake. He alone can make such a
promise who has attained to supreme freedom. Call the beggar back so I can give him something
right now. Tomorrow is really unknown.”
Krishna’s promise is not confined to a day or two, it covers the whole of infinity. He says, ”l will come
whenever religion will decline.” No prisoner can make such a promise. Put a person in a prison and
then ask him to give you an assurance he will come to you tomorrow if the need be. He cannot give
such an assurance. An assurance like this can be made only in a state of absolute freedom. Only
freedom which is utterly uninhibited can do so.
So remember, Krishna’s birth is not dependent on any conditions; it is an act of supreme intelligence,
utterly uninhibited, free, sovereign. This difference needs to be clearly understood. It is evident from
this promise that Krishna is not bound by time and its conditions. He is not subject to any laws, like
the law of causation. He is free; he is freedom itself. And this promise is a promise of freedom.
But it is difficult to understand the language of freedom, because we don’t know what freedom is.
We are in bondage, we are inhibited and conditioned. So when Krishna says something it seems to
be paradoxical, and we find ourselves in difficulty. We think that Krishna is bound by some laws, by
rules and regulations, to visit us from time to time. Water is subject to the law that it has to turn into
steam when heated to the boiling point. But if someday water says it can turn into heat even at a
ninety-degree temperature, you can take it that it has become free, that now it is not subject to a law.
The assurance that Krishna makes in the GEETA arises from an awareness of utter independence,
where every vestige of dependence has been destroyed. Such a pledge is the flowering of freedom
and ecstasy.
No, a man like Krishna does not come here because of you. He comes on his own. He is not bound
like us. He is free. He is freedom itself.
Question 3
QUESTIONER: WHAT DOES KRISHNA MEAN WHEN HE SAYS IN THE GEETA, ”I WILL COME
INTO BEING FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF
THE WICKED”?
”Protection of the righteous and destruction of the wicked” – both these phrases mean the same.
But it is necessary to understand how the wicked are destroyed. How are the wicked finished? Are
they destroyed by killing?
Killing does not destroy the wicked. Krishna knows very well that nothing is killed by killing. The only
way to finish a wicked person is to help transform him into a righteous person, into a sage. Killing
will never finish him, it will only result in a change of body for him. Killing will not make a difference,
he will continue to be wicked in his next life. The wicked can come to an end only if they are helped
to become righteous. There is no other way.
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