Will cover some aspects of it in a talk perhaps, the deeper aspects because the outer details are all generally available all over.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
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Will cover some aspects of it in a talk perhaps, the deeper aspects because the outer details are all generally available all over.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
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As far as I have understood, the idea of Gyangunj, a la Shangri La or a city of immortals somewhere in Tibet or the Himalayan gorges, is either referring to a plane of consciousness, which it most probably is or else a possibility of the future which is yet to be realised. …

The purpose is inbuilt within us as the tree is held back within the seed. So too the soul within is the seed within and its purpose is to realise, express and thereby fulfil the Divine Possibility or the Divine Purpose within it. It happens through a process of unfolding across lives. As we draw closer to the soul the more we feel conscious of …

Sri Krishna himself answers this in the Gita. He is not there as the physical Krishna since He declares Krishna as one of his vibhutis, – ‘I am Krishna among the Vrishnis, Rama among those who have paurush….’.
Nor is he the Atman that is present in all. He declares Himself to be both Kshara and Akshara as the Purushottama, the Avatar.