Cast Into Suffering (16.17-16.20)🔗

Kṛṣṇa has said in other verses that He will receive anyone with compassion and liberate them. Here He says He will cast them aside into suffering. How do we reconcile these two positions?

Both positions are true! After all, every word that an Enlightened Master utters is true. It is our understanding that needs to evolve.

Kṛṣṇa is compassion Incarnate. Anyone who surrenders to Him is liberated. That is the absolute truth. When we surrender to Kṛṣṇa, our surrender must be total. There can be nothing between Him and us. Then, He surely liberates us.

Here, He talks about people who feel no need to surrender to Him. They are so full of ego, that they feel He is their competitor. He says He will cast them into the material world. Even Kṛṣṇa cannot change it, because He has given us the power to decide whether we want to be 'me' or 'You' focused: asuri, demonic or daivik, Divine.

The feeling of 'you' and the absence of 'me' dissolve the idea of 'I' as identity. This 'you' is the foundation of surrender. The courage to move from 'me' to 'You' is the courage to trust, love and surrender. When that happens, there is nothing else but Him. We become Kṛṣṇa. When we are one with the Universe, one with Kṛṣṇa, we have reached eternal bliss, Nityānanda.