Verses 18.63–18.66🔗

What powerful words! Only the Divine can speak these words of absolute authority. ‘Always think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. This is the way you will come to Me without fail. I promise this because you are My great bhakta (devotee) and very dear to Me.’ man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yāji māṁ namaskuru I mām ev’aiṣyasi satyaṁ te pratijāne priyo’si me II 18.65 Now He comes to the ultimate teaching. This is the essence of all His teachings, the quintessence of Bhagavad Gītā. He wakes up Arjuna with this verse and puts him into Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the Eternal Mokṣa Sannyāsa Yogaḥ Drop Everything And Surrender 1313 consciousness or Enlightenment.

Kṛṣṇa showers Himself on Arjuna, waking him up to the experience of the Whole. sarvadharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja I ahaṁ tvāṁ sarvapāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ II 18.66 He says, ‘Give up everything, whatever you know as dharma, the rules and regulations of the outer life and of the inner life. Drop everything that you know and surrender unto Me. I shall liberate you from everything. Do not fear.’ Kṛṣṇa gives him abhaya, complete protection. He liberates Arjuna with these words. He gives the ultimate experience to Arjuna. With this verse, Kṛṣṇa makes Arjuna drop everything and liberates him. He gives him a conscious experience of the ocean. He asks Arjuna to drop his ideas about being a separate bubble, relax and realize the truth.

Even the idea of the ocean or of God are simply our ideas. Kṛṣṇa makes Arjuna drop those ideas and makes him explode into Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the eternal consciousness. Now Kṛṣṇa enters into the actual experience. Kṛṣṇa liberates Arjuna and gives him the ultimate experience permanently. We cannot call him Arjuna any longer because he has become Kṛṣṇa. He has achieved Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Now only Kṛṣṇa exists. As long as Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna existed, there were two entities. But now that they have become one, neither exists. There is no name for it. It is only energy. Forget about dharma, the codes of conduct laid down by religions, and turn to Me.

I shall be your savior, says Kṛṣṇa. Do not misunderstand, misquote and misuse these words. You will do yourself the greatest disservice. The Divine does not care whether you are good or evil. The Divine does not care whether you are a saint or sinner. A saint and a sinner, a celibate monk and a prostitute have equal chances of reaching the Divine. This is the truth. Of course, when you come close to the Divine, the energy transforms you. Negativities will be dissolved. Root patterns will be completed. They will be burnt and you will be pure as you were at birth. Religion is the creation of men. Spirituality is the creation of enlightened Masters who live in the energy of the Divine with total completion.

Kṛṣṇa, Śiva, Buddha, Mahāvira and Jesus are Enlightened Masters. They related to no religion. The followers who interpreted them to the best or worst of their understanding created religions. The followers established dharma, the codes of righteous conduct. No God or Master is interested in coming down to tell you how you should behave. They tell you to be in the space of completion and that will put you on the right path to live advaita, the space of non-duality. Thus, Kṛṣṇa says with absolute conviction and authority: Forget all codes of conduct, give up all religions and come to Me with completion. This is your enlightenment. Śrī Kṛṣṇa is triguṇa rahita: beyond the attributes of nature and kārmic influence.

Merging with Him, surrendering to Him takes you beyond all kārmic bondages. If you understand this verse and act accordingly, you will be liberated. That is Kṛṣṇa’s promise. Take a few moments now to pray to Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, the universal Kṛṣṇa, who showered enlightenment on Arjuna and gave him the ultimate experience. Pray that He may shower the same experience on us or give us a glimpse of the ultimate Truth. Take a few moments to pray. Please close your eyes and pray intensely to Him. Do not think that He is unavailable now. He is always available to everybody on planet Earth. He may not have the body, but He is available in the form of energy.

The deities in the temples are called arcāvatār. That means ‘incarnation of the Divine’. He is available to us all the time, whenever we call Him. Close your eyes and pray intensely to Him to shower us with the same experience He showered on Arjuna. Relax in silence and listen to the words of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Without A Doubt, He Comes Back To Me