Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 37

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Contents of the Gita Summarized Chapter 2: Verse-2 The Sanskrit word bhagavän is explained by the great authority Paräsara Muni, the father of Vyäsadeva. The Supreme Personality who possesses all riches, all strength, all fame, all beauty, all knowledge and all renunciation is called Bhagavän. There are many persons who are very rich, very powerful, very beautiful, very famous, very learned, and very much detached, but no one can claim that he possesses all riches, all strength, etc., entirely. Only krsna can claim this because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No living entity, including Brahmä, Lord Siva, or Näräyana, can possess opulences as fully as Krsna. Therefore it is concluded in the Brahma-saàhitä by Lord Brahmä himself that Lordkrsnais the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No one is equal to or above Him. He is the primeval Lord, or Bhagavän, known as Govinda, and He is the supreme cause of all causes: Isvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-änanda-vigrahah anädir ädir govindah sarva-kärana-käranam “There are many personalities possessing the qualities of Bhagavän, butkrsnais the supreme because none can excel Him. He is the Supreme Person, and His body is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. He is the primeval Lord Govinda and the cause of all causes.” In the Bhägavatam also there is a list of many incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, butkrsnais described as the original Personality of Godhead, from whom many, many incarnations and Personalities of Godhead expand: ete camsa-kalähpumsah krsnas tu bhagavän svayam indräri-vyäkulamlokam mrdayanti yuge yuge “All the lists of the incarnations of Godhead submitted herewith are either plenary expansions or parts of the plenary expansions of the Supreme Godhead, butkrsnais the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.” Therefore,krsna is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, the source of both the Super soul and the impersonal Brahman. In the presence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Arjuna’s lamentation for his kinsmen is certainly unbecoming, and therefore.krsna expressed His surprise with the word kutaù, “wherefrom.” Such impurities were never expected from a person belonging to the civilized class of men known as Äryans. The word Äryan is applicable to persons who know the value of life and have a civilization based on spiritual realization. Persons who are led by the material conception of life do not know that the aim of life is realization of the Absolute Truth, Visnu, or Bhagavän, and they are captivated by the external features of the material world, and therefore they do not know what liberation is. Persons who have no knowledge of liberation from material bondage are called non-Äryans. Although Arjuna was a ksatriya, he was deviating from his prescribed duties by declining to fight. This act of cowardice is described as befitting the non-Äryans. Such deviation from duty does not help one in the progress of spiritual life, nor does it even give one the opportunity to become famous in this world. Lord krsna did not approve of the so-called compassion of Arjuna for his kinsmen.