BHAGAVAD-GITA 6:39

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 6:39

 

etan me samsayam krsna

chettum arhasy asesatah

tvad-anyah samsayasyasya

chetta na hy upapadyate

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

etat--this is; me--my; samsayam--doubt; krsna--O Krsna; chettum--to

dispel; arhasi--You are requested; asesatah--completely; tvat--than

You; anyah--other; samsayasya--of the doubt; asya--this;

chetta--remover; na--never; hi--certainly; upapadyate--is to be found.

 

TRANSLATION

 

This is my doubt, O Krsna, and I ask You to dispel it completely. But

for You, no one is to be found who can destroy this doubt.

 

PURPORT

 

Krsna is the perfect knower of past, present and future. In the

beginning of the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord said that all living entities

existed individually in the past, they exist now in the present, and

they continue to retain individual identity in the future, even after

liberation from the material entanglement. So He has already cleared

up the question of the future of the individual living entity. Now,

Arjuna wants to know of the future of the unsuccessful

transcendentalist. No one is equal to or above Krsna, and certainly

the so-called great sages and philosophers who are at the mercy of

material nature cannot equal Him. Therefore the verdict of Krsna is

the final and complete answer to all doubts, because He knows past,

present and future perfectly--but no one knows Him. Krsna and Krsna

conscious devotees alone can know what is what.

 

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