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sridatta1 · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 652 Location: india

The celebration of Krishnashtami by cooking special food items and sweets is primary level of school education. Some celebrate this by singing songs and dancing. In this the personality of Krishna is remembered and the pleasure derived is temporary. This can be compared to the college education. The real celebration of this festival, which belongs to university level, is the analysis of Gita, which is the divine knowledge of the Lord who came down in human form. The central diamond of the chain of Gita is “MANUSHIM TANUMASRITAM”, which means that the Lord comes in human form. Krishna not only mentioned this concept of human incarnation but also emphasized again and again that He is the Lord in the human form. Throughout Gita Lord Krishna told Arjuna to worship Him only. When Krishna told that nobody could even imagine Him (Mam tu Veda Na Kaschana). It means that the Parabrahman is speaking through the human body. Vedas say that the knowledge about Parabrahman that is obtained so far is that it can never be known (Yasyamatam Tasyamatam—Veda).

Lord Krishna clearly stated that the soul is a part of creation and it is the modification of His Paraprakruti or Parasakti or Maya. His Maya is modified as this creation and maintains the creation (Yayedam Dharyate—Gita). Thus He is not the soul, which is a part of the creation. In the second chapter He said that the soul is permanent with reference to the gross body. By this statement people have misunderstood that the soul is eternal and so it is Parabrahman. People have slipped here in not noting the permanency of soul with respect temporary gross body (Hanyamane Sarire—Gita). Lord Krishna created the souls again when the Prajapati (A representative of Brahma) stole His friends along with the cows. If the soul is eternal, it’s duplicate cannot be created with the same characteristics. If the soul comes under the category of Prakruti, the Lord is denoted by the word Purusha (Prakritim Purusham—Gita). If you call the soul as Purusha the Lord is denoted by the word Purushottama (Yasmat Ksharat—Gita). The Maya is the direct cause of the creation but Parabrahman being the cause of Maya is the indirect cause of creation. Thus both the statements are given in Gita. Parabrahman says that He is maintaining the creation (Mayi Sarvamidam—Gita). It is also said that the Maya maintains the creation (Dharyate Jagat—Gita). Parabrahman maintains Maya and the Maya maintains the creation. The mind is based on the dreamer and the dream is based on mind. Thus the ultimate substratum is Parabrahman or Lord only.

Gita says that the Lord is the Sun among the planets (Jyotisham Ravihi—Gita). At the same time it says that the Sun cannot shine before the Lord (Na Tat Bhasayate—Gita) (Natatra Suryah—Veda). The point here is that the Lord is the Head of this world as the Sun is the head of the planets. This is a representative model (Pratika). This does not mean that the Lord is Sun (Nedam Tat—Veda). Gita says that the Lord maintains the creation but is not in the creation (Bhuta Bhrut—Gita). This statement is supported by Veda (Neti Neti—Veda). The Lord says that people who worship inert object will be born as inert objects and the people who worship the human incarnation will be born as human beings (Bhutejyah, Yanti Mat Yajanah—Gita). This does not mean that one should not worship the statues at the primary level. It means that one should not sit with the statues only throughout his lifetime. The form of the statue indicates the human form only. With the help of the finger of a person you are seeing the flower. The finger is useful in the beginning but once the flower is seen there is no need of the finger. The worship of the statues, which are in human form, is only a training to reduce the repulsion to the human form of the Lord.

Krishna stopped the sacrifice for the Deity Indra. He also asked the wives of the sages to give Him the food that is prepared to be offered to the fire alter. This shows that He is not for burning the ghee and food in the fire. He told that He was hungry and ate the food to be sacrificed. By this He showed the real sacrifice to be done. The fire of hunger is the Deity Vaishvanara to whom the food should be sacrificed (Aham Vaiswanaro Bhutva—Gita).

Krishna is recognized as Lord in human form through His special divine knowledge called as Gita. The identity card for the Lord is this special divine knowledge called as ‘Prajnanam’ (‘Prajnanam Brahma’-Veda) (‘Jnaneetvatmaiva, Vedaischasarvaih’-Gita). Miracles are not identity marks of the Lord since they are like the removable jewels, which can be donated to others also. Demons got these supernatural powers from the Lord by rigid penance and so performed these miracles. The word Prajnanam means the special divine knowledge, which cannot be explained by anybody other than the Lord. This Prajnanam is like the yellow thread around the neck of a married lady, which can never be removed and can never be donated to others. Thus even this Prajnanam is not the inherent characteristic of the Lord and it is also an associated jewel. But it is inseparable and hence can be treated as the inherent characteristic of the Lord and therefore can be useful to catch the Lord. By this you have not directly touched the Lord and therefore the Lord remains unimaginable and is not touched by words, mind, intelligence and logic (‘Yatovachah, Manasasaha, Yobuddheh, Naishatarkena’---Veda) (‘Mamtuvedana’---Gita). Knowledge, love and bliss are the characteristics of awareness or the life energy associated with nervous system.

The life energy produced by the respiratory system exists in plants, which do not have knowledge, love and bliss. But the same life energy associated with nervous system becomes awareness, which is present in animals, birds and human beings. The life energy is like the electricity produced from a turbine, which is like the respiratory system. This electricity enters a bulb and is converted into light. Thus the life energy produced from respiratory system is converted into awareness when it enters the bulb, which is the nervous system. Therefore knowledge, love and bliss, which are the characteristics of the awareness, exist even in birds, animals and all the human beings. All these are items of the creation and not the Creator at all. Therefore no human being is Creator. When the Creator comes down after entering into a human form, He is recognized by the Prajnanam. Jnanam is the knowledge of a scholar that can be repeated by another scholar. But Prajnanam is the special divine knowledge, which cannot be repeated by any scholar except the Lord. All the living beings including the Human Incarnation have the common identity card, which is the awareness. All the identity cards have the same colour, which is love and the same shine, which is the bliss. Jnanam is the name of a scholar printed on this identity card. This name is also common for all the scholars. But Prajnanam is the name that is printed on the identity card of the Lord and this name cannot be found on any other identity card. Awareness is also indicated by the word Brahman. Brahman means the greatest. Awareness is greatest among the items of the creation. Veda is greatest among the scriptures and therefore is also called as Brahman.

Brahman also means the Lord who is greater than the greatest awareness and therefore the absolute greatest. Whenever the word Brahman comes, you should not always take it in the sense of the Lord only. You have to take the sense of the word according to the context. Therefore the word Parabrahman is constantly used for the Lord. This word means the Lord who is greater than Brahman. Similarly the word Atman means the human body or human being. The human being is a part of the human body itself. The human body is a composite of three components, which are the casual body or pure awareness, the subtle body, which is made of the waves of pure awareness called qualities, and finally the external gross body made of five elements. The word Atman is sometimes referred to the casual body and sometimes to the casual body along with the subtle body. The casual body is like standstill water and the subtle body is like water waves. Sometimes the word Atman denotes the external gross body also as you can find in the Sanskrit dictionary. Therefore the word Atman can totally denote the human body or human being. These three bodies are items of creation only and not of the creator. They are imaginable items. The unimaginable creator enters these three bodies in the case of the Human Incarnation and He is the fourth item. He pervades all these three bodies like the current entering a wire, which is made of three metals alloyed together. The three bodies are also integrated together and are called as human being or human body. Such Human Incarnation is different from other ordinary human beings, which are like wires without current. Such Human Incarnation is also referred by the word Atman. Therefore unless you take the sense of the word based on the context, confusion will arise. The words like space (Akasa), air (Prana) etc. also mean the Lord in certain places of context and this is clearly discussed in Brahmasutras.

Gita is the special spiritual knowledge, which can be told by the Lord only. Gita is Prajnanam and not simple Jnanam. It stands as the special identity card of the Lord. Gita establishes the justice in this world and simultaneously shows the path for the individual liberation. The former path of justice is called as Pravrutti and the latter path of the individual liberation is called as Nivrutti. Both these fields must be clearly understood and must be isolated clearly demarcated (Pravruttimcha Nivruttimcha---Gita). In both the individual aspect and the social aspect exist (Lokasangrahamevapi—Gita). In Pravrutti one has to practice the justice at the individual level and propagate the justice at the social level for the peace of the world. In Nivrutti also, one has to uplift at the individual level and uplift others at the social level. In both the fields the Lord is pleased but the pleasure of the Lord in Nivrutti is infinite. In both the fields, the obstruction for the success is also the same, which are the side attraction and that is the attraction towards these worldly bonds. When the excess attraction in these worldly bonds is reduced, one succeeds in Pravrutti. When these worldly bonds are completely destroyed due to the intensive attraction present in the new bond formed with the Lord, one succeeds in Nivrutti. In Pravrutti the attraction towards the Lord is not required and here only the knowledge of the unreality of these worldly bonds is only required. By such knowledge even if the worldly bonds are not cut completely, atleast the bonds become weak. In Pravrutti there is no need of the complete destruction of these worldly bonds. But in Nivrutti the complete destruction of these worldly bonds is essential, but the cause for this destruction should be the new bond formed with the Lord (Eka bhaktih---Gita). In fact the bond with the Lord alone can destroy these worldly bonds. The knowledge of the unreality of these bonds can only weaken these bonds and cannot completely destroy them. Therefore the Lord is personally required in Nivrutti for the formation of such a new bond. The Lord in human form is the best for the real and complete formation of such a new bond as the case of Gopikas with Lord Krishna.

It is the climax of ignorance to think that the spiritual knowledge is unrelated to the present worldly affairs. People think that the spiritual knowledge is always related to the upper world only and this shows their ignorance. The Lord is simultaneous ruler of this world as well as the upper world. The Lord can grant any materialistic boon in this world and also can give simultaneously the protection in the upper world. The Lord is also involved in the social problems of this world because He is ultimately governing this society also. There is His government underlying in the present human government as the foundation. The present human government is like the castle seen above the ground. But the government of the Lord is like the hidden foundation present inside the ground. Jesus always referred this government of the Lord. Lord Krishna also exhibited the existence of this invisible government of the Lord by showing the vision of His cosmic form (Viswaroopam). Arjuna decided to withdraw from the war and thereby he thought that his grandfather Bishma and the teacher Drona would escape from death. By this Dharmaraja will not become the king. Both the punishment of the evil and protection of justice were withdrawn by Arjuna. The actual petitioner was withdrawing from his own case. Then in such case Krishna, the advocate of Arjuna need not worry. Arjuna thought that he brought Krishna as his helper in his own case. If the petitioner withdraws his own case, the court accepts and leaves the case in the present human government. But the ultimate government will not accept it. Even if the petitioner does not file his case, the case is registered in the court of the ultimate divine government. Therefore Krishna turned the tables diagonally opposite. In His exhibited Viswaroopam, Krishna showed that He Himself was killing the evil opponents called as Kauravas. This picture proved that Krishna is the petitioner and Arjuna was His helper. The petitioner will do his work even in the absence of the helper. You may think that the kingdom belongs to Pandavas for, which the war was taking place and therefore Arjuna should be the real petitioner and war must be his work. You will misunderstand like this as long as you think Krishna as an ordinary human being. But Krishna was Lord in human form and the entire creation was His kingdom. Therefore the society present on this tiny earth is also a small part of His kingdom. Every living being is under the rule of His divine government and therefore any affair of the individual or the society is His subject only. Arjuna understood the meaning of this vision and that his grandfather and teacher cannot live even if he withdraws from the war. Therefore he thought that it would be better to follow the instruction of the Lord and kill them so that atleast he will please the Lord.

The absence of realization of the existence of this underlying invisible divine government of the Lord, which was preached by Jesus again and again as kingdom of heaven and which was exhibited by Krishna through the divine vision, is responsible for all the present burning problems at the individual level as well as at the gross level of the society. The human government is neglecting to propagate the awareness regarding the existence of this divine government. In fact the divine government also rules the human government. Perhaps the human government is feeling about the loss of its prestige by propagating the presence of this ultimate divine government. The awareness of the concept of this ultimate government of the Lord can be propagated through education at the primary level. But the government especially in India feels shy to introduce the spiritual knowledge in the education due to the so-called secularism. Secularism really means that the same medicine is present in every cup and you can take the medicine present in all the cups with equal liking. Secularism also means that you can take the medicine from any cup and respect other cups with equality. But the present secularism has ended in a horrible sense by which the medicine is not taken at all from a single cup or all cups. Such sense is misunderstood or misinterpreted secularism. Mahatma Gandhi prayed Eeshwara and Allah equally and that is the real secularism. But in the present secularism you neither pray Eeshwara nor Allah nor both with equality. Instead of such pseudo secularism, it is better not to have secularism at all. Let us like one cup only and take the medicine from that cup. It is better that India remains as a Hindu country and follow the spiritual knowledge of Hinduism sincerely. In the present false secularism, India neither takes the spiritual knowledge from Hinduism nor from any other religion. The government feels shy in uttering even the word God, which is above all the religions like the medicine, which is not related with any cup.

In the judiciary system also, the emphasis that the Lord is the supreme judge is also not given. The statue of justice present in the court is covering its eyes with a piece of cloth and opening its ears. This indicates that the court has not seen the truth but renders the judgement based on hearing the witness. This clearly educates the people that the judgement can be mislead by producing false witness. The statue indicates the human judicial government with limitations. In the olden days, every temple was also used as a court. The statue in the temple is with open eyes and open ears, which indicate that the Lord is seeing everything and knows the truth. The third eye on the forehead of Lord Shiva indicates that the Lord Himself is the executive power in implementing the judicial punishment. In the olden days, both the parties would present their arguments in front of the statue of God. Then both the parties were left free. Within a month, the criminal side receives severe punishment from the God. By this the judge was recognizing the criminal. In this process, the involvement of God in the judiciary system was from top to bottom. Atleast now let the statue of human justice be replaced with the statues of all religions to protect the secularism. Let the court be made the temple. Let the divine ultimate government be fully exhibited. The Lord who is the supreme judge knows the truth without any witness (Sarvatokshisiromukham--- Gita).

Even in the concept of economic equilibrium of the society, the spiritual knowledge gives the permanent solution. Capitalism is one extreme end and Naxalism is another extreme end. In between these two lie the socialism and communism. Capitalism grows industries by the help of a few rich people and by this several poor people earn their livelihood. Naxalism takes away the concentrated wealth of this few rich people and distributes it among the poor people by force. Socialism and communism try to achieve the same result of Naxalism without force. But these systems have not given permanent solutions. Duryodhana robbed the wealth of Pandavas. Dharmaraja requested Duryodhana to give atleast a little kingdom and he was like the socialism. The other Pandavas threatened Duryodhana regarding the consequences of war like communism. Draupadi was highly emotional to kill Duryodhana on the spot like a Naxalist. But all these were controlled and guided by Lord Krishna who is the Lord in human form. When Krishna went to Kauravas, He requested like socialism, threatened like communism and showed His readiness to kill them through the vision of Viswaroopam like Naxalism. Therefore the decision of the ultimate divine government is final and when the right time comes the Lord Himself will become the Naxalist. In such case the present Naxalists are not necessary like Arjuna. Therefore all the people should act under the guidance of a spiritual preacher like Lord Krishna. In fact Lord Krishna is the real capitalist who is the actual owner of this entire creation. Thus the spiritual knowledge can alone bring the real solution since the Lord is the ultimate authority. Dhrutarashtra who represents the human government supported Duryodhana. But Lord Krishna who was the ultimate government destroyed still Duryodhana. The capitalist tries to find out new ways to hide his wealth, when his wealth is forcibly taken away. Some times the capitalists are discouraged and do not apply their talent to grow the industrialisation. All these paths fail because they beat around the bush. The spiritual knowledge directly hits the bird in the bush. The spiritual knowledge emphasises the unreality of these worldly bonds. These family members were not related in the previous births and will not be related in the future births. Therefore these family bonds are present in this birth only and therefore they are temporary. Any thing that is temporary is always unreal (Yadanityam tat krutakam—Sankara), (Nasato—Gita). The dramatic bond, which is unreal before and after the drama is also unreal during the drama. All the human beings, weather they are your family members or outsiders are having the only relationship with you that is that they are your co-actors. You are cheating an outsider and rob his wealth for the sake of your family members.

Both outsiders and the family members are equally related to you as the co-actors only. Why do you cheat one co-actor and favour another co-actor and earn sin? Your family members will not share your sin. They have not asked you to steal the wealth of others and feed them by it. This was the answer given by the family members of Valmiki, who was a robber. One day he tried to rob the sage Narada. Narada told him to go to his family members and put this question. Lord Krishna started Gita with the analysis of self. All the family members are related to this gross body only in which the blood flows. The self, He referred in the second chapter of the Gita relates to the casual body along with its subtle body. When you fix the word “I” to the casual body along with the subtle body, all the relationships with the gross body vanish. The Lord compared the gross body to the external garment. This again reveals the unreality of the dramatic bonds that exist with these family members. Such divine spiritual knowledge can only transform the rich people and the solution for economic equilibrium becomes permanent. If you appeal a rich man to follow the economic justice without removing his blind family attractions, it is like reducing the temperature by applying ice on the body without killing the bacteria, which are responsible for the fever. Even the realisation of the unreality of these family bonds cannot make him active to continue with his work so that the poor people can be fed. He may become inactive because the ultimate goal is not clear even if he finds all the human beings equally related. The concept of existence of God and that He is pleased when you work actively with a broad view treating all the human beings equal should exist. Thus by following the path of justice and rejecting the injustice one can please the Lord. Pleasing the Lord gives the encouragement. Without this concept the practice of justice becomes dry and useless. This may gradually lead to the practice of injustice also. Thus the kingdom of atheists without God finally ends in the injustice. The atheist will not recognise the underlying divine government. He only accepts the visible human government that established courts and police as executive system for implementing the punishments given by court. Now the atheist will think that if he can mislead the court by false witness and intellectual advocates, he need not fear for the injustice, which gives more enjoyment by accumulation of wealth. He does not fear for God or hell. He fears only for courts and police and knows how to manage them. At present the pseudo secularism is almost like atheism. In atheism you deny the God and in pseudo secularism you forget the God. Both are one and the same as far as the final effect is concerned. The atheist often argues to show the hell and heaven but I ask him one question, “Have you shown me the entire space of this cosmos and it’s boundaries to show the absence of the hell and heaven”? Of course my question also ends with 50% probability for both existence and non-existence of the hell. But if you practice the path of justice there is no harm to you even if the hell is absent. But if there is hell and if you do not follow the path of justice you are harmed severely (Nanyadasteeti—Gita).

Thus the present system of pseudo secularism or atheism is a total failure because the divine government is not recognised properly. Even when we conduct the Independence Day celebrations we are neglecting the recognition of the help of the Lord in achieving the independence. Mahatma Gandhi achieved the independence with the grace of Lord Rama and he was always chanting that divine name. Remembering the fighters for independence without the Lord is like praising the Pandavas for the victory in the war without mentioning the name of Lord Krishna. When Jesus was mentioning about the kingdom of God, a fighter for the independence of the Jews from Roman-rule misunderstood that the new kingdom meant the independence of Jews.

He approached Jesus for the assistance in such fight. Jesus clarified him and the new kingdom was meant for the revelation of the invisible divine kingdom. When that ultimate government sanctions, anything happens in this world. Thus in every walk of life, the Lord is neglected and forgotten. People think that praising the Lord is an individual activity and not a public activity. The divine atmosphere is not created in the public offices so that people forget God in the public places where their activities are important. Remembering God at the home only is not affecting their activities because in the home, they become inactive and take rest. Thus you have to extend the spiritual atmosphere in every inch of the earth to remind the government of God that is functioning everywhere and always. I was very much pleased to find the printed statement on the dollar note, which says, “In God, we trust”. On the currency notes, the familiar pictures of God should be printed, which remind the divine administration. The pictures of the heads of human government and other natural scenes should be avoided.

It is the duty of the human government to propagate the spiritual knowledge in the public starting from a child, which alone can control the sins like robbing the money of others, corruption, nepotism etc. The blind liking for family members, relatives, caste, religion, sex, and nationality are responsible for various present social problems. The blind love to the family members is responsible for stealing the wealth of others and corruption. The blind love for the relatives is responsible for the nepotism. The blind love for the caste and sex is responsible for electing the undeserving people into the government. The blind love for religion is responsible for criticizing the other religions and sometimes killing the people of other religions in mass. The blind love for the nation is responsible for the wars in the National boundaries.

If one realizes the spiritual knowledge and finds that all the living beings are like brothers and sisters only and that one God alone is the divine father and that all this Earth is one nation under the rule of the God, all these problems vanish. Krishna was just witnessing the mutual killing of His relatives in which even His sons and grandsons were killed. He protected the Pandavas from the brutal killing by Asvatthama though they were not his sons and grandsons. His protection was based on their merit. He made the son of Sandeepani alive though he was not of His caste. He did not give life to Abhimanyu who was his own nephew. He gave immense wealth to Sudama who is not related to Him and does not belong to His caste. He took away all the wealth and killed Duryodhana though he was his relative. The favour of the Lord was based on merit and the punishment was based on the crime only. All the above bonds were unreal and dramatic in His eyes.

I repeat again and again that the government should take all the efforts to propagate the spiritual knowledge at every level and in every corner. Any activity in the public office should be done in the divine atmosphere. All the places of public activities must be converted into temples. If secularism is followed, let the temples have statues of all religions. Every citizen should feel that the omnipresent and omnipotent Lord watches his or her activity. If funds are required to propagate such spiritual knowledge, let the funds of the temples be used for such propagation. The temple funds should be spent for such purpose to bring the constant awareness of the Lord and His all-pervading power that controls each and every activity of the creation. Such programs can be done only under the headship of the religious saints who are well aware of the spiritual knowledge.

The officials of the government cannot effectively do such program unless they are well-versed scholars of spiritual knowledge (Jnaninah tattvadarsinah--- Gita) (Brahmanah sammarsimah---Veda). The government officials without any spiritual knowledge will use the funds for public facilities, which should be done only by the revenue collected. The money of God should be spent only for bringing the awareness of God and His rule everywhere. The funds are meant for the propagation of spiritual knowledge and devotion. Any misuse for other than this divine purpose is the greatest sin and the Lord will punish the government. Religious priests manage the funds of the Vatican church and the government is not putting its finger in it. They are managed for propagating the spiritual knowledge and devotion. By this the Lord is pleased and the western countries are blessed with all comforts. India should learn this aspect from the west.

When the government is forgetting its duty to propagate the spiritual knowledge and devotion, the responsibility falls finally on the underlying ultimate government for which the Lord is the head. Therefore the Lord comes down in human form to propagate this spiritual knowledge and devotion.

The Lord also collects some tax from you for His mission. He has already given some facilities like human birth, longevity, health, wealth etc. The human government is collecting the tax without caring for your problems. But the Lord asks for the tax from all of you, which is the time, energy or work and money, which you are wasting in illusory entertainments. You can do the sacrifice of your work (karma sanyasa) or sacrifice of fruit of work (karma phalatyaga) or both according to your convenience. The liberated souls sacrifice fully, which is impossible for all and such liberated souls are blessed by the Lord to be His constant associates, which is the permanent result. The former case is Pravrutti and the latter case is Nivrutti. One should keep Nivrutti as ultimate aim. Pravrutti is like scoring the pass mark in the examination.

Nivrutti is like achieving the rare gold medal from the university. The teacher who aims that all the students should atleast pass should not advice the pass marks as the goal. He will advise the achievement of the gold medal as the goal of every student. Lord Krishna was such excellent teacher who taught about Nivrutti only throughout Gita. In the beginning of the Gita Lord Krishna stated that he came to establish justice or Pravrutti on this earth (Dharma samstapanarthaya—Gita). This is like a teacher stating that his aim is to see that all the students in his section should pass the examination. In that case the teacher should stress on the pass and similarly Krishna should have stressed on the path of justice.

Had Krishna done this, Gita should have become another scripture of ethics like Manu Smruti containing all the rules of justice like a legal constitution. But Krishna emphasised on the path of salvation from the worldly bonds and devotion to the Lord (Nivrutti) for achieving the establishment of justice (Pravrutti). The teacher is fixing the achievement of gold medal to every student so that every student by putting such hectic effort will atleast pass. If you put pass mark as the goal, then every student puts least effort and may fail. If the destruction of bonds is put as the goal atleast the bonds will become weak. This is the excellent tactic of Lord Krishna in putting the higher goal to achieve the lower goal.

In Bible, Jesus also adopted this tactic and He desired that His dearest disciple should hate the family bonds including the bond with his life. Hating means that one should see his family members as his enemies. When such extreme goal is fixed atleast the blind attraction in the family bonds is reduced. In fact these family members were really your enemies in your previous birth. Since you have robbed their wealth, they have come to you to get back their money with interest.

This principle of justice is forcing you to earn the money and by such force, you are doing the sins and get punished. When you rob the wealth of somebody by force, you have to not only pay it with interest but also should be punished. Thus your blind love on your family members is responsible for your sins and the consequent punishment. Mohammed does not mention Nivrutti in his scripture because He claimed himself as messenger of God only. Nivrutti means loving and serving the Lord in person. For that God in human form is essential. But Islam believes only formless God and therefore it is not possible to love and serve the God directly. Therefore the path of Nivrutti has no place in Islam. Pravrutti itself pleases the Lord and such pleasing the Lord is ultimate in Islam.

In Hinduism, Christianity and Islam the ultimate enquiry and the punishment of sinner in the hell are common aspects. Gita introduces the teacher and fixes the gold medal as the ultimate goal for achieving atleast a total pass. Bible mentions the existence of teacher in the class and explains both the goals (passing and gold medal) separately. Quran also introduces the teacher to the class but shows the single goal of passing the examination. The scripture of Buddhism does not introduce the teacher and emphasizes on passing the examination and to pass the examination by self-reading. But the Buddhists must realize that the teacher is Buddha Himself, since they surrender to Buddha (‘Buddham sharanam”). The scripture of Jainism is similar to the scripture of Buddhism but the Jains should know that the teacher is Mahavir Jain Himself. The Jains also salute the liberated souls who are the top devotees. God pervades all over the human body in the case of Human Incarnation. But God dwells in the hearts of top devotees also and thus salutations to liberated souls are salutations to the Lord. All these are Human Incarnations and are represented by the word Teacher here.

The examination of all these scriptures shows how Gita is an excellent way of teaching the spiritual knowledge and how its preacher Lord Krishna is a full expression of the Lord (Pari-poorna avatara).

Whenever we remember Lord Krishna, three defects appear, which attack our faith on Him. Defects of others are clearly seen by the minds of human beings. These three defects are (1) stealing the butter (2) doing mischief along with the boys (3) dancing with the maidens in the Brindavanam. Even other religions find fault in these points. People are not analysing the background of the Lord and criticise due to their limited views. These maidens were sages in the previous birth. They prayed the Lord for full salvation. Salvation means liberation of oneself from the worldly bonds. There are three strongest bonds, which are like steel chains (Eeshanas) and they are the bonds with money, children and husband or wife. They are the strongest attractions and full salvation means liberation from these three strongest bonds. The Lord was stealing the butter, which was their hard earned money and thus the bond with money was cut.

The bond with their children was also cut because their children were attracted by the Lord only and were not following their parents. Their bonds with their husbands were also cut because the Lord attracted them in the dance. The reason for the destruction of these bonds was the formation of the new bond with the Lord and there was no other reason. This is the path of Nivrutti. When Nivrutti is absent atleast Pravrutti should be maintained in which these three bonds must remain but should not have over attractions. Pravrutti is maintaining the worldly bonds with reasonable and limited attractions and removing the blind attractions. If these bonds are destroyed by any other reason, it is not only useless but also injustice.

They will be punished in the hell for such injustice. People some times leave these bonds and think that they have achieved the spiritual progress and this is not correct. Even a stone is not having any worldly bonds and that is not spiritual progress. The stone is not having bond with Lord also. The destruction of these worldly bonds should be a consequence of the formation of the new bond with the Lord. Atleast the destruction of the worldly bonds must assist the growth of the new bond with the Lord (Ananyah, Satatayuktanam—Gita).

Krishna did all this in Brindavanam only where the sages were born as maidens. When He left Brindavanam He never repeated this anywhere because no other soul except those sages requested Him for such full salvation. Since the sages in Brindavanam got full salvation, He never returned back. Had He done this with the lust, He should have repeated this elsewhere also or atleast He should have returned to Brindavanam to do the same. The maidens became mad after the Lord because in Nivrutti nothing and none can stand before the eyes of the devotee except the Lord in the human form (Natat Samah—Veda) (Machchittah—Gita).

Once a lady was worshipping Jesus by applying a costly scent to Him. A disciple of Jesus criticised this and stated that the cost of the scent would have been spent for feeding the beggars. Jesus condemned the disciple and accepted her service. The reason for such personal service is that she is in the path of Nivrutti. She desires only the Lord and is not interested in the social service. The followers of Nivrutti will even leave the justice for the sake of the Lord (Sarvadharman—Gita). Such souls reach the permanent divine abode of the Lord. One cannot compare Jesus with a rich man who is also enjoying a similar service.

The rich man is not God and he has to please the Lord. The final goal is not his selfish pleasure. In the case of Jesus there is no other God whom he should please. The service done to Jesus protected that lady in this world as well as in the upper world. But the service done to the rich man cannot protect anybody. Once a rich man approached Jesus and asked for his future duty in order to enter the Heaven. Jesus told him that he should give away all his money to the beggars. Jesus did not ask him to bring costly scent to be applied to Him. The rich man belongs to the level of Pravrutti and is interested in his personal upliftment and personal enjoyment in the heaven. He is not interested in Lord Jesus. Thus the Pravrutti and Nivrutti should be differentiated. The ignorant people who are unaware of this difference will mistake Jesus to be fond of the application of the scent by the tender hand of a beautiful lady.

Dan Brown in his book “Da Vinci Code” writes that Jesus married a lady called “Mary Magdelene” and also had a child. Krishna and Mohammad had several wives. Buddha was also married. Sankara was a bachelor but Sankara required the knowledge of sex education for the sake of a debate and received the sexual experience practically for the sake of that debate. Therefore it is immaterial weather the Lord in human form is married or not. Some souls love the Lord through such bond. The Lord just reflects back in the same way to please His devotees (Ye yatha mam –Gita).

The Lord is the fire of knowledge and any stick will be burnt to ashes. When the Lord comes in the human form, He plays with all the qualities existing in the universe. He created all the qualities only (Yechaiva Sattvikah—Gita) for His divine play meant for the entertainment. The Lord created even Satan. In a cinema the role of villain also exists and the actor of that role is also paid. Any quality that is used for the entertainment and pleasure of the Lord is good and sacred. Any quality that is turned towards selfish pleasure and these worldly bonds is bad and impure. The ultimate aim of this universe is only His entertainment.

Even Satan is sacred since he is playing his role sincerely by testing the firm faith of the devotees. You must hate his attraction for diverting you from the Lord but not the Satan. Jesus told that you should hate the sin but not the sinner. The Lord is beyond qualities because the qualities consist of the subtle body (Gunateetah—Gita). These qualities are tools of His divine play and He is not the subtle body. Therefore He is not the qualities and is untouched by them. A human being is the subtle body and is controlled by the qualities. He is a tool to the game played by the qualities (Nanyam Gunebhyah—Gita).

The Lord uses the bad qualities as His mask so that the undeserving devotees do not approach Him for any favour. He is also using these bad qualities to test the firm faith of the sincere devotees. Apart from these two uses, Lord Krishna used these bad qualities to give full salvation to the sages in the Brindavanam. No human being can understand the Human incarnation. Every human being easily misunderstands the Lord in human form. Krishna loved Radha extensively. He married her secretly. But He left her within two years and never returned back even to see her. Moreover He married several girls and was living happily with them. This is the climax of the bad qualities. He tested Radha for her jealousy but Radha was never jealous and never uttered a single word against the Lord. In fact she became mad for the Lord and died remembering Him always. The climax of bad qualities was used by the Lord to test the climax of devotion of Radha. The test is not for His knowledge as He knows the truth but the Lord wants to exhibit the height of the devotion of Radha to this world as an ideal to be followed by devotees.

You can find Jesus in Krishna while preaching the Gita. You can find Mohammed in Krishna while fighting with the evil forces. You can find Jesus in Mohammed while the latter was preaching Quran. You can find Mohammed also in Jesus when Jesus states that He will throw the evil people into the fire of permanent Hell. Buddha also was a kind teacher but He also stated that people with desires would suffer with continuous misery in this world. The kindness and cruelty are the two hands of the teacher (Paritranaya, Vinasayacha—Gita). Eeshwara is the Lord present in this huge cosmos. Krishna is the Lord present in a small human body. The Lord in both is one and the same. The size of the reflected object remains one and the same in two mirrors of different sizes. The two mirrors are qualitatively same but differ quantitatively. Similarly, the cosmos and the human body differ quantitatively but are similar qualitatively. The components of both cosmos and human body are common which are the five elements and the four ‘Antahkaranams’. The Antahkaranams are Manas (Mind), Buddhi (Intelligence), Chittam (Memory) and Ahankara (Egoism). The activities of these four are called as qualities. Therefore all the qualities present in the cosmos must exist in the human body of human incarnation. All these qualities can be categorized under three headings, which are represented by the three divine forms. All good qualities called as Sattvam represent Vishnu. Some bad qualities like jealousy are called as Rajas, which represent Brahma. The remaining bad qualities like egoism called as Tamas represent Siva. Lord Krishna showed His body as the cosmos in his Viswaroopam. Each of these three qualities exists always with the association of the other two qualities, which may be quantitatively small. This means that in a particular context one of these three is expressed and the other two are hidden. Hidden means not absent. They exist without expression. Therefore every human incarnation is a true representative of the cosmos containing all the three qualities in equal proportion. This is the meaning of Lord Datta having the three faces of Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. Datta means the unimaginable God donated to the devotees through a visible human body. The six hands of Datta represent the six modifications of the human body, which are existence, birth, growth, change, reduction and death. Therefore the word Datta means any human incarnation with the association of the three qualities and the human body following all the rules of the nature. But people expect Datta to be a peculiar form with three heads and six hands to be placed in an exhibition. A scholar will grasp the inner meaning of the pictorial representation. An ignorant person catches the picture only. The Lord is compared to the sun who removes the ignorance-darkness by his light –knowledge. The ignorant person thinks that the sun is the Lord. The Lord is compared to the fire that burns all the doubts with His flash of knowledge. The ignorant person worships the fire as God! Thus Datta means the human form with single head and two hands into which the Lord entered.

Infact there is a pictorial representation of Datta with a single head and two hands also. These three qualities mix in different proportions and form the thirty three crores of deities, which are shown in the vision of Viswaroopam. This again represents the various qualities or feelings, which are generated by the combination of these three qualities. The devotees of Vishnu say that Vishnu alone is the God due to His good qualities. But anger is the quality of Rajas and how do you justify Lord Narasimha with full Rajas? Shirdi Sai used to scold horribly whenever he became angry. Therefore you should not judge the Lord by His qualities, which are only the three colours of his shirt (Subtle body). Only His subtle body or the shirt contains the three colours, which cannot touch the colourless Lord. One should be very careful about the Maya, which consists of these three qualities. You should not loose your grip on the Lord by the exhibition of His Maya.

The Maya is generated from the Lord like the electricity from the generator. By analysing the structure of electricity, you cannot get any information about the structure of the generator. The creation is a modification of Maya. By analysing the creation, you can catch Maya because the phase before modification can be easily achieved by analysing the phase after modification. The electricity is modified into light. By analysing the light, you can get the structure of electricity. Therefore you can touch Maya through the analysis of the creation. Maya is called as Parasakti or awareness, which creates, maintains and destroys the creation. But when you analyse the Maya it’s source called Brahman (More precisely called as Parabrahman) cannot be touched (Brahma Puchcham) (Mayadhyakshena—Gita). Therefore Brahma, Vishnu and Siva are nothing but the three divine forms created by Maya while the universe is created, maintained and destroyed. The human body, which represents the cosmos, must also contain these three divine forms in terms of these three qualities. The various combinations of these three qualities represent millions of feelings, which stand for the millions of Deities. The source of Maya called as the Lord or Brahman or Parabrahman enters into a human body. If the human body is energetic form, the gross body is made of one element only called as Agni or Energy. If the human body is on the earth, it is made of five elements. The Viswaroopam with several divine heads or Lord Datta with three heads and six hands can be energetic body only because in the energetic form only such peculiarities are possible.

Krishna is the gross body made of five elements. The energetic body belongs to the upper world and when the human beings go to the upper worlds with energetic bodies, then only they can see such divine energetic forms. But on the earth such peculiarities are not possible in the human bodies. Krishna had always one face and two hands. Arjuna wanted to see the divine energetic form of the upper worlds with this human body. Lord Krishna said that it is impossible to see that divine energetic form with these earthern eyes because these eyes will become blind by such radiation. Therefore the Lord gave the energetic eyes, which anybody can get when the energetic body is obtained after death.

This is the explanation of the highest divine vision given by Krishna during the preaching of Gita. All this creation is withdrawn into Maya and Maya is withdrawn into the Lord. This is like the cinema on the screen is withdrawn into the film and the film is withdrawn and hidden in the box. The cinema or the film is not destroyed. Both are again projected whenever the Lord wanted entertainment (Visrujami Punahpunah—Gita). But once upon a time even before the production of the film, neither the film nor the cinema existed. This state is referred to the pure monism of Brahman (Ekaki, Ekameva—Veda) (Mattah Parataram—Gita). If the Lord wishes, He can destroy the film and show you that earliest stage. But He need not prove it to you and for that He need not destroy the film like a fool. This hidden state of the film is called “Avyaktam” (Dhata Yatha purvam—Veda) (Avyaktadini—Gita). Therefore the Maya (Film) is hidden (Avyaktam) for some time and is exhibited (Vyaktam) for some time. The Lord is permanently Avyakta (Hidden) because He is always unimaginable. Thus the Avyakta (hidden state) is temporary with respect to Maya and is permanent with respect to the Lord. Such hidden Lord becomes exhibited in energetic forms for the sake of the souls present in the upper worlds. The same Lord is exhibited to the human beings on this earth in the form of human body (Manushim Tanu Masritam—Gita). This is the God in Flesh in Christianity.

How can you argue that the Lord cannot come down in the human form? If He is incapable of doing so, He cannot be omnipotent. You need not argue that though the Lord is capable, there is no necessity of such human form. You may not have that necessity. Are you the only human being on this whole earth? Have you taken the opinion of all the human beings to say like this? There are several devotees who belong to Nivrutti and desire for the Lord in human form to see (Darsanam), to touch (Sparsanam), to hear the knowledge and clarify their doubts (Sambhashanam) and to live along with the Lord (Sahavasa) for achieving these three for a long time. The main purpose is preaching the divine knowledge and clarify the doubts. The statues or photos or energetic forms or space can not preach the knowledge and that is against the universal observation (perception). Preaching of the knowledge by the human forms of the Lord like Krishna, Jesus etc is observed universally and accepted perception. Such universal observation is according to the rules of the nature. When something is possible through a simple way by following the rules of the nature, is it not foolish to do the same simple thing in the complicated way violating the rules of the nature? When water is available in plenty from the tap, what is the necessity of producing water by forcing Hydrogen and Oxygen to react with the help of an electric arc? To show the production of the water by this reaction, this experiment can be performed once but not every time whenever water is required. To show the super power of the Lord a statue or a photo or the energetic form or even formless space may talk once. But to preach the spiritual knowledge continuously, the Lord need not talk continuously through statues or photos or energetic forms or space. Some devotee might have experienced such super power in some place and in some time. Such experience is not supported by simultaneous universal observation. When you are seeing the moon in the sky, others are also observing the same moon simultaneously. This is required to authorise any experience. When this authorisation is absent, your experience may be true or might have been due to some psychological disorder. The existence of such psychic experience is also observed in this world. Therefore we cannot isolate the possibility of these two cases in your experience. Therefore there is a necessity for the human form of the Lord and since the Lord is omnipotent, He is coming down in the human form. There cannot be any further argument on this point. I know you are worried that the Lord is modified into the human body and thus the unchangeable Lord has to be changed. Do not worry about this point, because the Lord is never modified into the human body. He only entered into the human body. The word “Asritam” in the verse of Gita “Manushim tanumasritam” means the entry of the Lord into the human body and not the modification of the Lord as a human body. Lord Krishna in Gita clarified this in the verse “Avyaktam Vyaktimapannam”.

When a person says that God sent him as messenger and that He has brought the message of the Lord, again the same problem appears. When God is giving the message to that person, nobody has seen it. That person is the single witness. Now the leftover alternative to believe that the knowledge was given by the Lord only is that we have to test the knowledge. Had we seen the transfer of the knowledge from God to that person with our eyes, we need not test that knowledge. It must have been definitely the divine knowledge. If we have to believe a statement of that person without the simultaneous universal perception, then we have to believe even a fraud person who utters the same statement. If you give us a piece of metal and say that is Gold, since God gave it, we cannot believe it. Either we must have seen the God giving it to you or we must analyse the metal. Moreover the knowledge is not like the piece of metal, which will not change by transfer. When a teacher explains a concept to somebody and asks him to deliver it to his students, it cannot be transferred as it is. The transfer of knowledge consists of not only the concept but also the explanation. The concept might have been transferred but any body other than that original teacher cannot do the same way of explanation of the concept by which the concept pierces into the heart. Therefore to propagate the divine knowledge the Lord Himself comes down in a human form. Arjuna said the same in Gita “Tvadanyah” which means that except the Lord nobody can preach the divine knowledge and clarify the spiritual doubts.

Veda says that the Lord alone knows about Himself (Brahmavit Brahmaiva). Gita says that nobody other than the Lord can know the Lord. Some people misinterpret this Vedic statement as that he who knows Brahman becomes Brahman. But this interpretation contradicts Gita because Gita says that nobody other than the Brahman can know Brahman. The conclusion of this is that the Lord alone can preach about the Lord or Himself. Therefore from this point of view also the Lord has to come down in the human form to preach about Himself. When the Lord preaches, He preaches the concept very clearly. Then you will naturally detect the preacher as the Lord Himself. This is inevitable with any human incarnation. Now you cannot tolerate this because you misunderstand Him that He indirectly ended in Himself. You will think that He is the biggest cheater. You will be the happiest person if His divine knowledge concludes that you are the Lord in the human form. Then you will praise such knowledge.

The advaita scholar solves this problem of your egoism and jealousy by saying that He and yourself are the Lord. It is a compromise in the spiritual business. Unfortunately Lord Krishna did not know such norms of the business. Throughout the Gita He repeatedly emphasized that He alone is the Lord in the human form and He preached very clearly about the Lord. He did not say even once that Arjuna was Brahman like the Advaita scholar. He asked Arjuna to salute Him, to meditate upon Him and to serve Him (Manmanabhava—Gita). If Arjuna was Brahman, Brahman cannot salute Brahman. If you have any doubt about the preacher to be the Lord, you can analyse His knowledge. First you must see whether He is quoting the scriptures as a support while introducing the concepts. Then you must apply the faculty of your analysis and see whether His interpretations are logical. When you are satisfied with His divine knowledge in all angles and if such knowledge indicates Him as Lord you must accept Him. If you are unable to do this you are covered by jealousy and egoism. Sankara says that the knowledge to identify Brahman (Brahmajnana) should be heard only after purifying your mind from egoism and jealousy. Arjuna surrendered to Krishna by falling on His feet without any trace of egoism and jealousy. Therefore Arjuna, the receiving medium is very congenial for Krishna to say that He was the Lord. Except on this one occasion, Krishna never told anybody that He was the Lord. Throughout His life He was behaving as a human being only and acting according to the role. This is the state of Advaita of Sankara in which the human being in the human incarnation identifies with the Lord. It is like the wire identifying with the current. Wherever you touch the live wire, the shock is received because the current and the wire are inseparable. When the Lord enters the human body, which is a composite of the three bodies, since all the three bodies are integrated, they are identified with the Lord. When the current is flowing in a wire, which is an alloy of three metals each metal is charged and identified with the current. Similarly when the Lord enters the human body, the Atman (Casual Body), the Jeeva (the subtle body) and Deha (external gross body)—all the three are identified with the Lord. Therefore the Jeeva speaks that he is Eeswara (Lord).

When a deserving devotee like Arjuna was seen, Jesus also told that He and His father are one and the same. When Jesus saw a devotee who was slightly affected by jealousy and egoism, Jesus came down by one step saying that He was the son of the God. The word son is indicating that He is different from the God but the same spirit is present in both like the same blood in the father and the son. This means that He is different and smaller than the God but at the same time has the same essence. It is like the relationship between the mighty ocean and the tiny water drop. The father is major and the son is minor component. They resemble qualitatively but differ quantitatively. This is the Visishta advaita of Ramanuja. When Jesus met a devotee who is fully bacterialised by jealousy and egoism He told that He was the humble messenger of God. This is the Dvaita of Madhva. Therefore the human incarnation will declare its level based on the level of the receiver. Mohammad told that He is the messenger of the Lord. Thus there is a gradual degradation of spiritual obedience and the gradual growth of jealousy and egoism. Jesus stands as a transition bridge between the Advaita of Krishna and Dvaita of Mohammad.

Buddha introduced the social service in which you have to serve the humanity like the servant. This is a training course given to serve the human form in general so that in course of time you will serve the human form of the Lord. Lord Krishna also emphasised such training in Gita. The service should be without any desire according to Buddha and this is the Nishkama Karma Yoga taught by Krishna in Gita. When you are trained in doing such selfless service to the humanity, you will naturally do the same selfless service to the Lord in human form also. The selfless service is indicated by the word Dharma. The humanity is indicated by the word Sangha. The Lord in the human form is indicated by the word Buddha. The words Dharma and Sangha indicate the training to serve the humanity without any selfishness. The word Buddha denotes to serve the human incarnation after this training in the same way. This is the essence of the three statements “Buddham, Dharmam, Sangham Saranam Gachchami”. Sankara also formulated this training in order to remove the repulsion to the human form. He asked to serve all the human beings treating each human being as Brahman. He included yourself also as Brahman so that you will not have egoism and jealousy to the humanity. When the training is over and the repulsion to the human form ceased the ripened souls served Him as the human incarnation of Sankara. To such disciples only He told “Sivah Kevaloham” which means that Sankara Himself alone is Lord Siva.

Krishna is not mentioned in the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu because in His place Balarama was mentioned. He was said to be the fullest incarnation (Paripurnatamah Sakshaat). Lord Vishnu indicates only one quality that is Sattvam. Lord Krishna exhibited all the three qualities that is Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas. He showed Sattvam and attracted the devotees. At the same time He showed Rajas and Tamas and repelled the devotees. He is the incarnation of Datta who is the form of the three qualities in equilibrium indicated by the three full faces. When the devotees run away by the exhibition of the bad qualities, he laughed at them calling them as ignorant fools. He says “Tribhirgunamayaih—“, which means, “This fool is not understanding that I am beyond these three qualities and that I am untouched by any quality. Any soul in this world is the composite of these three qualities only in different proportions and therefore cannot cross the influence of these three qualities”. Krishna asked Dharmaraja to tell a lie but Dharmaraja refused. Dharmaraja was taken to the hell for not following the Lord. The Lord told that one should even cross the justice because whatever pleases Him is the justice. Krishna appeared as a liar in this scene. He appeared as a thief in steeling the butter. He appeared fond of girls when He danced in Brindavanam. He appeared as the protector of justice in the Kurukshetra war. He appeared as the top most divine preacher while preaching Gita. This multi dimensional personality of Lord Krishna shows that He is the creator who is totally untouched by these items of creation. The cosmos is His playground and the human beings are the audience of the play and all the qualities are the tools of His divine game. we must constantly remember that the play ground, audience, co-players and the tools of the game are just His imagination and that He is deriving the entertainment from His imaginary world. The word Krishna is derived from the verb Krish, which means that He attracts His devotees towards Him. Rama means the Lord who entertains Himself. Krishna means the Lord who wants to give the same entertainment to His close devotees. For this purpose He attracts His devotees towards Himself. He likes to enjoy this divine game along with His close devotees. It is just like some body goes to see a picture along with His family members. He says that one in millions can only recognise Him (Kaschit Mam—Gita). This means that a few liberated souls who are always associated with Him in the upper world come down into this world as His devotees and those few devotees can only recognise Him. Therefore all His life history on this earth is the divine drama played by Him along with His troop.

This discourse is the divine butter, which is being offered as prasadam (offering) to the devotees of the Lord, which removes egoism to form the basis for receiving the eternal grace of the Lord. The butter which you are taking as prasadam, is increasing the fat in your body. This raises the egoism and cholesterol brings serious illness only. Today you are breaking the pot containing butter, which is hanging up at far height. Do you know the inner meaning of this? Lord Krishna used to break the pot containing the butter. The maidens were storing the butter, which is in excess left over. They wanted that the Lord should not take this excess butter. Infact they themselves should offer this to the Lord. The reason is that this entire world is the wealth of the Lord. You can take whatever you need. But you are taking it in excess and storing for generations together. The Lord does not permit taking more wealth and therefore you are considered as a thief (Stenaevasah, Yavanartha Udapane—Gita) (Maagrudhah, KasyasvisDhanam—Veda).

The maidens used to take that excess butter to the city of Madhura and purchase some luxurious ornaments. The Lord broke such pots and the butter in it falls on the soil and goes waste. Therefore when you store the money for luxuries and for the future generations without offering it to the Lord in human form like Krishna, it will become waste by the will of the Lord. Either it will be stolen or it will go to hospitals or it will be lost by the undeserving future generations.