The Killer and the Killed
Ubautau na vijaneethaha Nayam Hanti Nahanyate
The one who thinks he is the killer and the one who thinks he is going to be killed, do not know the truth. In reality, there is no killer and there is no one killed.
This can sound like a joke to all those who are being wounded or killed in a war or to all those who are sent to prison by courts, after they commit a murder - where there is no doubt someone who kills and someone who is killed.
But what Krishna says is far from a joke. He is talking of the essence of the killer and the killed. Today science also tells us that we are bunches of protons, neutrons, electrons, particles, quarks and neutrinos spinniong in space. We are neither man, woman, animal or plants, but differing wavelengtyhs of energy. The consciousness that you have and the consciousness that I have and that which a plant or animal has, is like a big playfield, where we - the energies are playing the game. This consciousness is neither the killer, nor the killed.
- Swahilya Shambhavi.
