And he is so one with the cosmic dance there is no way for “I” and “thou” to exist in that space. Kabir’s son dances with a few plants in a small forest, but Krishna dances with the whole universe: he dances with its stars, with its men and women, with its trees and flowers and even its thistles. Krishna, like Kamal, is engrossed in a dance, the cosmic dance. It can be ordered via internet Krishna Dances with the whole Universe The Book KRISHNA, the Man and His Philosophy has become rare. Arjuna would have immediately retorted, “What are you saying? Why on earth should I surrender to you?” Arjuna would have really been hurt, but he was not. And Arjuna would have been hurt if Krishna’s “I” were as petty as yours. Hence he has the courage to tell Arjuna, “Give up everything else and come to my feet.” If it were the same “I” as yours – a prisoner of the body – it would be impossible for him to say a thing like this. When you say “I” it means the one imprisoned inside your body, but when Krishna says it he means that which permeates the whole cosmos. The difficulty is that Krishna has to use the same linguistic “I” as you do, but there is a tremendous difference in connotation between his “I” and yours. And what he says in this siddha state, in this ultimate state of mind, may seem to you to be egoistic, but it is not. He is a siddha, an adept, an accomplished performer of all life’s arts.
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