Krishna

Prabhupada: So kala, as it is said. Kalaḥ atyagat mahan. Mahan means very powerful, great. You may be very big scientist and very powerful politician, don't care for anything, but you cannot conquer over the mahan, the great, powerful time. Oh, that is not possible. You are independent. You don't care for God. But God will come. You will see. Kalo 'smi. [Bg 11.32] When Krsna showed the gigantic form, virata-mūrti, so Arjuna enquired, "Who are You, Sir?" Because he was dealing with Krsna as friend, but after seeing the virata-rūpa, the gigantic universal form, so he enquired, "Who are You, Sir?" He replied, kalo 'smi: "I am kala, kala. I have appeared to take away all these sinful demons." So Krsna appears still in form of war, big gigantic war, and takes away so many millions of people by one stroke. This is going on. So we should have sense that "We hear from the sastras that we are eternal. Why we are subjugated to these laws of nature, kala? I do not wish to die, I do not wish to suffer, I do not wish to be old man, I do not wish to be diseased, and these things are forced upon me. I have to accept, and still, I am so fool, I am thinking I am independent." Just see. This is called foolishness, rascaldom.    (More...)