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 03 Oct 2025

 

Shri RaadhaaKrishna Gita: Chapter-8: The Association of Enquiry About the Incarnation

(Avatāra Vicāra Yogaḥ)


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Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-
[God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

Caturvidhā labhante'tra,
tyāge tu kāmabandhayoḥ।
Bandhāt kāmasya saṃnyāso,
śreyastara iti dhṛvam॥

[There are two items:- i) Fascination to the worldly bonds that exists internally and ii) The worldly bond that exists externally. Based on the sacrifice of these two items, we get four types of devotees:- i) Those, who couldn’t sacrifice both fascinations and bonds, ii) Those, who sacrificed both fascinations and bonds, iii) Those, who sacrificed bonds but not their fascinations and iv) Those, who sacrificed fascinations but not their bonds. Between the sacrifice of these two items, the sacrifice of fascination of the bond is more fruitful than the sacrifice of the bond. This is the truth of sacrifice.]

 

Saṅgo'pi vardhayet kāmam,
vaśiṣṭho Rāmamāha tat।
Muktānāṃ san na nā'mbho,
baḍabāgni śamakṣamam॥

[In the initial stage, the physical presence of the worldly bond makes the fascination to grow further. In the advanced stage of spiritual knowledge, the physical presence of a worldly bond does not increase fascination. Therefore, Sage Vashishtha advised Shri Rama to avoid the physical presence of the worldly bonds in the initial stage. The water can extinguish ordinary fire on the earth, but, even a lot of sea water cannot extinguish the submarine fire (bāḍabāgni) inside the ocean.]

 

Karmānusāriṇī buddhiḥ,
karma buddhyanusāri ca।
Anyonyā śrayatā hetoḥ,
dvayatyāgo hita pradaḥ॥

[The work follows the decision of intelligence. But, intelligence also grows as the experience of the work grows. Both decision and work are mutually dependent on each other. Hence, the best way for the welfare of a soul is to leave both external work and internal intellectual analysis regarding worldly affairs. This means that it is the best to leave the worldly bonds along with their fascinations.]

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Śrī Rādhādevī Uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]

Kṛṣṇemaṃ saṃśayaṃ bhindi,
vimukto pitṛbandhanāt।
Īśvaraṃ pitṛbhāvena,
śraddhā sevābhi rāgataḥ॥

[O Krishna! Please break this doubt of mine. Suppose a devotee is salvated from the worldly bond of father, such devotee can approach God treating God as his father through sincere respect and service.]

 

Pati bandhāt tathā muktā,
Devaṃ śṛṅgāra bhāvadhīḥ।
Vraje ccet taṃ nivṛttisthā,
kathaṃ doṣo puro na saḥ॥

[Similarly, a female devotee relieved from the worldly bond of her husband can approach God treating God as her husband with romantic thoughts. When the first bond is justified, why not this second romantic bond? Already, scholars are telling that this bond with God in the spiritual field (Nivrutti) is not a sin.]

 

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-
[God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

Aye Rādhe! Vimugdhā'si,
pitṛ bhrātṛ padārcitāḥ।
Loke strīpuruṣā bhartṛ –
bhāryā bandhair na ceritāḥ॥

[O Radha! How innocent you are! In the world, any lady calls any man by addressing him as father or brother. Similarly, any man addresses any woman as mother or sister. No lady calls another man as husband except her legally married husband. Similarly, no man calls another woman as wife except his legally married wife.]

 

Ayaṃ dharmaḥ pravṛttistho,
bhūmau sajjana pālitaḥ।
Avatāraśca bhūmistho,
nataḥ pātrocita sthiraḥ॥

[This type of justice exists in the worldly life on the earth, which is followed by people with good conduct and character. Even God in the form of human incarnation is present on this earth and shall follow the good traditions followed by good souls. When an actor enters a drama, he shall follow the stipulated manners of his role strictly.]

 

Kṛṣṇaḥ kiṃ kṛtavān evam,
praśnas tava manobhavaḥ।
Adharmaṃ kiṃ prabhuḥ kuryāt,
iti śaṅkā kuto na te?॥

[Certainly, in this context, the question that what God Krishna did is rising in your mind. But, I am asking you one question, which is that why you are not getting the doubt, which is that “Will the Divine Lord do such injustice?”]

 

Evaṃ jāte saṃśaye te,
sūkṣma viśleṣaṇaṃ bhavet।
Anye śaṅkā vimuktāstu,
rākṣasā daiva nindakāḥ॥

[If such doubt comes to your mind, certainly, you will analyze the activities of God Krishna with very sharp analysis. Others do not get such doubt and become strongly established in their doubts scolding God by becoming atheists and such people are demons.]

 

Bhavat praśne tarka dharmau,
sthitau nātra hi saṃśayaḥ।
Kiṃ tu pravṛtti dharmaś ca,
rakṣaṇīyo'tra nāṭake॥

[In your question, I agree that there is both logic and justice also (The question is that when a devotee breaks his/her worldly bond with father and serves God like his/her father, why not a female devotee breaking her worldly bond with husband serve God like her husband?). In this point, there is no doubt at all. But, in this world-drama, the manners of stage and roles are to be followed and are to be protected.]

 

Patiṃ māṃ Rukmiṇī Rādhā,
samete dharmamārgage।
Naitan nāṭaka bhaṅgāya,
prekṣakā dharma mārgagāḥ॥

[You, Radha, at present, and Rukmini in future, are getting Me as husband through justified path followed by this world-drama. These two marriages are not breaking the firm traditions followed by this world-drama. Therefore, the audience of the cinema of My life history are not spoiled by any type of injustice, which is opposed by them due to their age-old traditional culture.]

 

Yadyapyayana metā tvam,
saṃskāreṇa na hi kṣatā।
Bahvandha saṃpradāyibhyo,
trātuṃ tvāṃ hi labhe rahaḥ॥

[Even though you are married to Ayanaghosha through the ritual of marriage, neither you were touched by him nor he was touched by you and this marriage happened in your childhood. You always loved Me alone and I married you secretly to protect you from the blind followers of the opposing tradition (which is that even a girl married to someone in the childhood also shall not divorce him and shall not marry some other person), who are majority in this society.]

 

Evaṃ bālya vivāheṣu,
dharma ityeva sanmatam।
Na vāgdattā mantra dattā,
mano dattaiva gaṇyate॥

[Like this, justice is decided in the case of child marriages also by the analysis of good scholarship. Even the ethical scriptures say that a girl is not considered to be married even if she is decided as married by her parents through the engagement ritual or by the actual ritual of the marriage. When the girl loves somebody, whom she likes very much, she is considered to be married to him only, even if the engagement or marriage is done for that girl with another person by her elders.]

 

Rukmiṇyapi balāddattā,
śiśupālāya sā girā।
Manmano dānato dharmyā,
Mayā saha palāyitā॥

[Even Rukmini will be forcibly engaged to Śiśupāla by her parents and brother. She is considered married through the words of her parents in the ritual of engagement. But, she gives her mind only to Me and runs away with Me before marriage. Hence, she is perfectly justified.]

 

Nivṛttau dharma tarkābhyām,
dattaṃ Bhagavate manaḥ।
Nirākartuṃ na yogyā yat,
tarpitā'dhyātma coditā॥

[The question asked by you that why a lady surrendered her mind to God shall not be satisfied by God because such sweet devotee is not eligible for rejection by God. If she is encouraged in such bond of romantic love, she will be inspired to progress in her spiritual path. In this argument of your question, there is certainly logic and justice.]

 

Yadi sā kanyakā sādhu,
rājāno bahu vallabhāḥ।
Śataṃ tat pariṇeṣyāmi,
gṛhītaṃ loka dharmataḥ॥

[If such devotee is an unmarried virgin, I can marry her since the ethics says that kings can marry any number of girls. Following this worldly accepted justice, I will marry hundred such virgin unmarried Gopikas in future. Everywhere, the justice followed by the public is very very important.]

 

Pravṛtti dharma bhaṅgaścet,
prekṣakāḥ bhraṣṭa mārgagāḥ।
Māṃ daivaṃ manya mānās te,
māmevānu saranti hi॥

[If I break social justice (Pravrutti) for the sake of devotional justice (Nivrutti), these souls will imitate Me and become spoiled since social justice is easily understood by this public and not devotional justice. Almost all the people in the world are always believing Me as the incarnation of God. People follow even great human leaders. You need not speak about the devotees following God in human form.]

 

Askhalita Brahmacārī,
Brahmokto'haṃ svarūpamut।
Ṛṣīṇāmapi devānām,
priyaḥ parama pūjitaḥ॥

[God Brahma told that I am the only perfect celibate in this creation. It means that I get infinite bliss from Myself since I am internally the infinite ocean of divine bliss. All this knowledge is known to the divine sages and angels. They like Me and always worship Me with unimaginable climax-love.]

 

Advaitānanda tṛpto'ham,
dvaitecchā bheda kevalā।
Svarūpa māyayā yukto,
rame svātmanyahaṃ priyaḥ॥

[I always enjoy Myself due to the above said reason and I am always satisfied with My own infinite bliss. I don’t need any form other than Myself to give this illusory pleasure to Me. But, due to the fascination for a second item, just for the sake of different variety of enjoyment, I wish the presence of a second item (Sa dvitīyamaicchat - Veda). As I told, I cannot get even a trace of happiness from other forms. My desire is only to enjoy the same infinite bliss in a different way, which means that instead of enjoying the bliss alone, I desire to enjoy the same bliss with the help of a second item, which is none other than Myself. My omnipotent power called Mahā Māyā appears as My life partner and I enjoy only with her. Since she is Myself, I am enjoying Myself whether it appears like monism or dualism.]

 

Antastattvena cādvaitam,
bāhya dvaitaṃ yathā naṭaḥ।
Dvipātrābhinayo cāvām,
pātre tveko naṭaḥ paraḥ॥

[We both are one internally (monism) and this monism is represented by the basic actor, who is the single unimaginable God or Parabrahman. A single God-actor can act in two roles simultaneously due to His unimaginable power just like a single film-actor can act simultaneously in two roles in a cinema.]

 

Dharma dvaya madhya pīḍā,
jīva malpaṃ tu bādhate।
Anūhya śaktimantaṃ mām,
sarvajñaṃ kiṃ karoti sā?॥

[When two equally justified opposite arguments appear and crash a soul entangled between both forces, the soul gets crushed since the soul has very little potency and does not have much knowledge. But, the same two opposite forces of arguments having equal potency try to crush God, they utterly fail because God is omnipotent as well as omniscient.]

 

Māyayā tarpayitvā tāḥ,
svarūpaiḥ sṛṣṭa jīvibhiḥ।
Sallakṣyaṃ gamayāmyeva,
śuddhaḥ sāmānya dṛśyapi॥

[I will create some divine human beings having My form and satisfy those devotees of Nivrutti and lead them to their ultimate goal, God. At the same time, I remain perfectly pure. I want to be perfectly pure even in the view of ordinary uneducated people also. An ordinary uneducated person cannot understand the unimaginable power of God and also the scholastic interpretations given in the argument. He/she understands that a thing is done if it is actually done and that a thing is not done if it is actually not done.]

 

Kartā'pyakartā śaktyā syām,
Brahmajñānīti viddṛśi।
Sādhye'pi na tathā kuryām,
pāmarairapi ca stutaḥ॥

[By My omnipotency, I have the capacity to be a non-doer even if I have done a sin. I can satisfy scholars that Brahmacārī or Celibate means he, who is well versed in the divine spiritual knowledge (Brahmaṇi carati Brahma jānāti iti). In these two ways, I can establish Myself as the perfect celibate. But, I will not do like that. I will prove Myself as perfect celibate even in the view of uneducated ordinary people by not at all doing the sin actually.]

 

Avanisthāvatārasya,
sandeśo mama jīvitam।
Vyākhyānaṃ kriyate vidbhiḥ,
tarko'vaśyaṃ śamātmakaḥ॥

[For any human incarnation, His life is His message to devotees. The elaborated commentary of My life, which is the divine message, is always explained by scholars. The audience can understand My message properly, only if they have the shrewd logic power in analysis along with immense patience.]

 

Avirodhena sarveṣām,
bhāvānāṃ yaḥ pravartate।
Brahmajñānī sa vijñeyaḥ,
Brahma tādṛśa karmi hi॥

[A soul, which correlates all the thoughts without any mutual contradiction among them is known as the knower of God (Brahman). The reason is that God also correlates various thoughts and actions, which are contradicting with each other.]

 

Pūrṇa tṛptāśca tā bhaktāḥ,
mama rūpais samāṅgibhiḥ।
Asaktaṃ Paramaṃ Brahma,
naitatra kāpi vañcanā॥

[Such sweet devotees are not at all cheated by God because such sweet devotees are satisfied with the divine human beings created by Me having similar forms like My form. The body, the individual soul, the four internal instruments and the activities of hormones are completely similar between Myself and My forms. God-component (Unimaginable God) is completely detached from this trace of illusory sexual happiness generated by the union of two external physical bodies. Therefore, keeping all these points in view, nobody shall wrongly conclude that the sweet devotees of Nivritti are cheated by God.]

 

Sūkṣma taijasa jīvāste,
mama tejo vapurgatāḥ।
Akāmās tejaso līnāḥ,
Brahmānandānu bhoginaḥ॥

[These sweet devotees get perfect satisfaction in their sweet devotion to God (satisfaction means disappearance of worldly sexual fascination) in this world, go to the upper energetic worlds with subtle energetic bodies and merge with My divine energetic body enjoying the infinite bliss of God. In such devotees, the lust of sweet devotion disappears because the lust provoked by the chemical reactions of materialized hormones does not exist in the energetic bodies. Energy has no matter and no properties of matter.]

 

Parāṃ madhurabhakte stām,
muktiṃ bhūtamayātmakāḥ।
Tejomayīṃ na jānanti,
bhūtānvak copa diśyate॥

[These devotees on earth are made of materialized five elements and are immersed in materialized life and its thoughts only. Hence, they can’t understand salvation, which is beyond this materialistic phase that is integrated with the phase of energy. Hence, even such sweet devotees of Nivrutti living on earth are preached by spiritual preachers about salvation, which is superimposed by the materialistic phase, which alone maintains the attraction towards the divine life in the upper energetic world in the future after getting salvation (arthavāda). The preacher says that the sweet devotee will get romantic life with God in the upper world also after getting salvation after death and this is arthavada or white lie.]

 

Iti Śrī Datta Svāmi viracita Śrī RādhāKṛṣṇa Gītāyāṃ Avatāra Vicāra Yogo Nāma Aṣṭamādhyāyaḥ।

[Like this, in Shri RadhaKrishna Gita, composed by Shri Datta Swami, the eighth chapter called ‘The Association of Enquiry about the Incarnation’ is completed.]


Chapters:

Chapter-1: The Depression-Yoga of Raadhaa

Chapter-2: The Essence of Sainthood-Yoga

Chapter-3: The Analysis of Unimaginable Power-Yoga

Chapter-4: The Analysis of Pravrutti-Nivrutti Yoga

Chapter-5: The Analysis of Raasakeli-Yoga

Chapter-6: The Association of Enquiry Regarding Gender Difference

Chapter-7: Association of Enquiry About Penance

Chapter-8: The Association of Enquiry About the Incarnation

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