From Chapter Four: "Transcendental Knowledge"

Here Lord Krsna personally describes His own transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord and His purpose in coming to the material world.

The Supreme Lord said:

Through many births we both have passed
Without a start or end;
I can remember all of them,
But you cannot, My friend.

Arjuna, My friend, you too were there,
But in another form;
You have forgotten this because
You died and were reborn.

But Arjuna, I am never born,
And neither do I wane,
I am the Lord of all creation-
By My own will I came.

I have no need to come to earth;
I have no duty here.
For these reasons nonetheless
In each age I appear:

When irreligion dominates
And religion's in decline,
And the world situation
Follows no scriptural line,

When no one else but I could do
The thing that must be done-
Establish the parampara-
It is then that I come.

I annihilate the miscreants
And save the holy men,
I preach the Bhagavad-gita
And there is peace again.

My birth and My activities,
Are not material, you see,
One who understands this at death
Comes back at once to Me.

(to be continued)