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TEXT 26 vedaham samatitani
SYNONYMS  veda--know;
aham--I; sama--equally; a titani--past; vartamanani--present;
ca--and; arjuna--O Arjuna; bhavisyani--future; ca--also;
bhutani--living entities; mam--Me; tu--but; veda--knows;
na--not; kascana--anyone.
TRANSLATION O Arjuna,
as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, I know everything that has happened
in the past, all that is happening in the present, and all things that
are yet to come. I also know all living entities; but Me no one knows.
PURPORT Here the question
of personality and impersonality is clearly stated. If Krsna, the form
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is considered by the impersonalists
to be maya, to be material, then He would, like the living entity,
change His body and forget everything in His past life. Anyone with a material
body cannot remember his past life, nor can he foretell his future life,
nor can he predict the outcome of his present life; therefore he cannot
know what is happening in past, present and future. Unless one is liberated
from material contamination, he cannot know past, present and future.
Unlike the
ordinary human being, Lord Krsna clearly says that He completely knows
what happened in the past, what is happening in the present, and what will
happen in the future. In the Fourth Chapter we have seen that Lord Krsna
remembers instructing Vivasvan, the sun-god, millions of years ago. Krsna
knows every living entity because He is situated in every living being's
heart as the Supreme Soul. But despite His presence in every living entity
as Supersoul and His presence beyond the material sky, as the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, the less intelligent cannot realize Him as the Supreme Person.
Certainly the transcendental body of Sri Krsna is not perishable. He is
just like the sun, and maya is like the cloud. In the material world
we can see that there is the sun and that there are clouds and different
stars and planets. The clouds may cover all these in the sky temporarily,
but this covering is only apparent to our limited vision. The sun, moon
and stars are not actually covered. Similarly, maya cannot cover
the Supreme Lord. By His internal potency He is not manifest to the less
intelligent class of men. As it is stated in the third verse of this chapter,
out of millions and millions of men, some try to become perfect in this
human form of life, and out of thousands and thousands of such perfected
men, hardly one can understand what Lord Krsna is. Even if one is perfected
by realization of impersonal Brahman or localized Paramatma, he cannot
possibly understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, without
being in Krsna consciousness.
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