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low. He has no father, no wife, no sons, no one near or dfstant, no
body, no birth, no Karma. For the protection of Sadhus he mani-
fests himself in different births at his o\vn pleasure. Though void of
all Gunas, he seeks them at pleasure for the purpose of creation. As
a stationary body appears to be moving, so Atma appears to be work-
ing, though Chitta is the worker. Krishna is not your son only. But
he is of all the sons, the self, father, mother and fsvara. Nothing
exists in reality but Krishna."
Excited were the effusions of the Gopis, on seeing Uddhava.
(They may be interesting to the general reader but to the student
the message delivered by Uddhava is the only necessary portion at
this stage of the story. The reader is therefore referred to other
translations for those highly poetical effusions.)
Uddhava informed the Gopis that he was the secret messenger of
Krishna. He then delivered the following message from Bhagavan:
"You have no separation from me, for I am all-pervading. As the
five elements earth, water, air, fire and ether enter into the composi-
tion of all beings, so I underlie Manas, Prana, the Bhutas and the
Indriyas, as also the Gunas themselves. I create, preserve and des-
troy self in self by self. By my MAya, I become the Bhutas, the
Indriyas and the Gunas. But Atma is pure, it is all consciousness
(Jnana), separate, unconnected with the Gunas. It is only by the
mental states of wakefulness, dream and dreamless sleep that egois-
tic perceptions are caused in Atma. (The objects of perception in
one state appear to be unreal in another state.) The objects of
dream perception appear to be unreal to the awakened man. The
mind (beingj the common factor in all the three states) perceives these
(unreal) objects of the senses and it underlies the senses themselves.
Sleeplessly therefore control the mind. This is the final reach of the
Vedas, of Yoga, and of Sankhya, of relinquishment, of Tapas, of the
control of senses, and of Truth itself. This is the ocean into which
all rivers fall.
That I, though pleasing to your eyes, remain away from you is
because I want you constantly to meditate on me, for such medita-
tion will attract your mind more towards me. The mind of women
does not dwell so much upon the lover, near at hand, dearest though
he be, as it dwells upon a distant lover, being full of him.
By devoting your whole mind to me, free from all other
thoughts, and by constantly meditating on me you shall forthwith
attain me. Even those girls that remained at Vraja and could not
join the Rasa attained me by meditating on My powers." The
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