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Re: Shri Krisha's Death
>In article <4di8b9$fop@babbage.ece.uc.edu> p.i.shankar@twi.tudelft.nl
>(Prewien Shankar) writes:
>> ok, now here is my real question: how come Shri Krishna DIED ? I mean,
>> he told/tells us he was never born and will never die, [...]
>Krishna never died, nor have I, nor have you, nor has anyone
>ever born or died. The self is not created and has no birth
>or death; the body that envelops the self merely undergoes
>changes which the self experiences.
>Krishna, being the Supreme Self, simply left the body that
>he had taken while upon this earth. That is the only meaning
>of ``death'' in his context.
I understand now..thank you & others who replied so quickly :-)
So, this episode was when Gods/Half-Gods/Demons/Devils were on earth
in human form / in a human body...
Prewien.
P.S. Any recommendations as to which Mahabarat I should read, or aren't
there that much translations ? (Did bhaktivedanta tranlate/explain one?)
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