{"id":7107,"date":"2012-10-16T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoverursupersoul.com\/2012\/10\/krishna-is-individual-and-we-are-individuals\/"},"modified":"2012-10-16T01:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T01:09:00","slug":"krishna-is-individual-and-we-are-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/krishna-is-individual-and-we-are-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Krishna is individual and we are individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Many people have misconception that after performing certain type of meditation he\/she can become God by merging into God. However none of the revealed scriptures support this argument. In fact <b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">we are always individual and we will always remain so<\/b>.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;\">Nowhere <\/span>in Bhagavad \u2013 gita it is said that Arjuna wanted to merge with Lord Krishna. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Bhagavad \u2013 gita clearly says that the Supreme Lord is individual and the living entities are individuals.<\/b> <\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cNever was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be\u201d (Bhagavad \u2013 Gita 2.12)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Srila Prabhupada explains: \u201cThe Lord says clearly that He Himself, Arjuna and all the kings who are assembled on the battlefield are eternally individual beings and that the Lord is eternally the maintainer of the individual living entities both in their conditioned and in their liberated situations. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme individual person, and Arjuna, the Lord&#8217;s eternal associate, and all the kings assembled there are individual eternal persons. It is not that they did not exist as individuals in the past, and it is not that they will not remain eternal persons<b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">. Their individuality existed in the past, and their individuality will continue in the future without interruption.<\/b> Therefore, there is no cause for lamentation for anyone.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">In Bhagavad \u2013 Gita 18.65 Lord Krishna says, \u201cAlways think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend\u201d:- <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;<\/span>(Bhagavad \u2013 Gita 18.65)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The <b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">plurality of the individual soul and of the Lord is an eternal fact which is confirmed by all the revealed scriptures. <o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have misconception that after performing certain type of meditation he\/she can become God by merging into God. However none of the revealed scriptures support this argument. 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