Bhagavad-Gita As It Is Chapter 4

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Bhagavad-Gita As It IsChapter 4

• Text 4-8
• Mystry of Lords
• birth and activities

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Text 4

• arjuna uväca
• aparaà bhavato janma
• paraà janma vivasvataù
• katham etad vijänéyäà
• tvam ädau proktavän iti
• Arjuna said The sun-god Vivasvän is senior by
  birth to You. How am I to understand that in the
  beginning You instructed this science to him?

• Krsna and Arjuna were friends of equal age and
  125 years old while on the battlefield of
  Kuruksetra.
• Sun god Vivasvan is very senior by birth.
• Arjunas question for people in general.
• Krsnas statements most authoritative.

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• çré-bhagavän uväca
• bahüni me vyatétäni
• janmäni tava cärjuna
• täny ahaà veda sarväëi
• na tvaà vettha parantapa
• The Personality of Godhead said Many, many
  births both you and I have passed. I can remember
  all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of the
  enemy!

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God is one without a second

• advaitam acyutam anädim ananta-rüpam
• ädyaà puräëa-puruñaà nava-yauvanaà ca
• vedeñu durlabham adurlabham ätma-bhaktau
• govindam ädi-puruñaà tam ahaà bhajämi
• "I worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
  Govinda Kåñëa, who is the original
  personabsolute, infallible, without beginning.
  Although expanded into unlimited forms, He is
  still the same original, the oldest, and the
  person always appearing as a fresh youth. Such
  eternal, blissful, all-knowing forms of the Lord
  are usually not understood by even the best Vedic
  scholars, but they are always manifest to pure,
  unalloyed devotees."

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Innumerable incarnations of Krsna

• rämädi-mürtiñu kalä-niyamena tiñöhan
• nänävatäram akarod bhuvaneñu kintu
• kåñëaù svayaà samabhavat paramaù pumän yo
• govindam ädi-puruñaà tam ahaà bhajämi
• "I worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
  Govinda Kåñëa, who is always situated in
  various incarnations such as Räma, Nåsiàha and
  many subincarnations as well, but who is the
  original Personality of Godhead known as Kåñëa,
  and who incarnates personally also."

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Difference between Lord and living being

• Lord incarnates with His devotees.
• Lord remembers everything but devotees not,
  however great they may be.
• Achyuta never forgets Himself.
• Lord never changes His body and thus never
  forgets, but living entity changes body.
• Thus Lords position different from living being.

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• ajo 'pi sann avyayätmä
• bhütänäm éçvaro 'pi san
• prakåtià sväm adhiñöhäya
• sambhavämy ätma-mäyayä
• Although I am unborn and My transcendental body
  never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of
  all living entities, I still appear in every
  millennium in My original transcendental form.

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Lords transcendental form

• Remembering capacity.
• Krsnas appearance in His own form never changes
  the form.
• But still Lord of universe.
• Never grows old in body or intelligence.
• His appearance like Suns appearance.
• His appearance is His causeless mercy on living
  beings, so that they can meditate on
  transcendental form of Lord.

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• yadä yadä hi dharmasya glänir bhavati bhärata
• abhyutthänam adharmasya tadätmänaà såjämy aham
• pariträëäya sädhünäà vinäçäya ca duñkåtäm
• dharma-saàsthäpanärthäya sambhavämi yuge yuge
• Whenever and wherever there is a decline in
  religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and
  a predominant rise of irreligionat that time I
  descend Myself. To deliver the pious and to
  annihilate the miscreants, as well as to
  reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself
  appear, millennium after millennium.

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Purpose of Lords incarnation

• såjämi means that the Lord manifests Himself as
  He is.
• Only the Lord can manufacture a system of
  religion. dharmaà tu säkñäd bhagavat-praëétam
• each and every avatära, or incarnation of the
  Lord, has a particular mission,
• Mission - to lead people to God consciousness and
  obedience to the principles of religion.
• It is not a fact that the Lord appears only on
  Indian soil. He can manifest Himself anywhere and
  everywhere, and whenever He desires to appear.
• Different religion principles - higher and lower
  mathematics.

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Purpose definition of Incarnation.

• Incarnation to destroy miscreants 4 kinds.
• But mainly to protect devotees, like Prahlad or
  Devaki Vasudev.
• "The avatära, or incarnation of Godhead, descends
  from the kingdom of God for material
  manifestation. And the particular form of the
  Personality of Godhead who so descends is called
  an incarnation, or avatära. Such incarnations are
  situated in the spiritual world, the kingdom of
  God. When they descend to the material creation,
  they assume the name avatära."

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Different type of incarnations incarnation in
Kali Yuga.

• There are various kinds of avatäras, such as
  puruñävatäras, guëävatäras, lélävatäras,
  çakty-äveça avatäras, manvantara-avatäras and
  yugävatärasall appearing on schedule.
• Incarnation in Kali-Yuga as well Lord
  Chaitanya.
• Lord Chaitanya annihilates the evil tendencies
  through sankirtan movement, rather than killing
  miscreants.