Monday, July 15, 2024

God is still incarnate. Not

      "When [the fisherman] had gone to heaven, the lord [Kṛṣṇa (?)], yoking himself to the Self which is Brahman, imperishable, beyond thought, identical with Vāsudeva, without imperfection, unborn, immortal, the measureless Viṣṇu, the Self of all, having gone beyond the three guṇas, abandoned his human body."

     Viṣṇu Purāṇa 5.37.1-76, as trans. Classical Hindu mythology:  a reader in the Sanskrit Purāṇas, ed. & trans. Cornelia Dimmitt & J. A. B. van Buitenen (Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1978), 146.

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