tasmād vairānubandhena

Because of the bodily conception of life, the conditioned soul thinks that when the body is annihilated the living being is annihilated. Because of having no false identity, the supreme controller, identifying himself as Paramātmā, different from matter and the jīva, the Lord as a punisher, does not have a concept of being a killer or being killed.

Just as an ignorant person bound in the body thinks he has been killed when the body is killed, so the Supreme Lord with no material body, identifying himself as Kṛṣṇa, cannot think of violence, since he has no false identity, since he is simply Paramātmā (kaivalyāt). The meaning is this. For all jīvas there is a body which is not ātmā and an ātmā. If Kṛṣṇa were to have a body and ātmā, then he would also have false identity like the jīvas. But Kṛṣṇa’s body is not different from Kṛṣṇa. Paramātmā, arising from Kṛṣṇa’s svarūpa, identifies himself as Kṛṣṇa, and is made completely of Kṛṣṇa. He also identifies as the antaryāmī (akhilātmanaḥ), a portion of the Lord, but does not identify himself as the jīva’s body or the jīva, which do not arise from the svarūpa of the Lord. He is different (parasya) from the jīva and anything made of māyā. Because of not identifying with things not arising from the Lord’s svarūpa, how can he hate anything, and who will hate him? Identifying himself as Paramātmā in the body which is also Paramātmā, whom will he hate and who, knowing him as Paramātmā, will hate him? Does the Lord harm persons like Śiśupāla who hate him? He punishes them for their own benefit (dama-kartuh), since he is the friend of all beings.

 

|| 7.1.26 ||