Krishna

"Your right is only to act intelligently as per the circumstances you face, not on the results of your actions. Do not think that you alone determine your destiny. And don't delude yourself by thinking that your own actions are not caused by force much greater than you yourself" - The Central Message of Krishna's Song: The Bhagvat Gita.

In Krishna, the lover, the charioteer and mastermind of the great war of the Mahabharata, the teacher, and the politician, I see the manifestation of the entire body of Vedic Knowledge. The knowledge that says that we humans ourselves are nothing but biological machines that act on the inputs that we receive through our our eyes, ears, skin, nose, tongue; through the outputs mediums of voice and action. Our minds and intelligence are programmed by our genes, our parents, our friends our teachers, our culture, our media, and many other environmental factors. Our existence is a function of these influences on our body. Our experiences are the evolution of our body from the nothingness of a baby, to the achievement of an adult, and back to the nothingness of an aged person. That is life. Like it or not. That is who we are.

There is no difference between right or wrong, good or evil, energy or matter. They are all reflections of each other. Only those who have eaten the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil see a difference between the two. Those whose minds can see that at the speed of light all matter is actually energy.... or that at some other speed, all energy will be matter.... that everything that we observe is just because we as organisms are evolving and walking through the universe's matter-energy distribution... as a part of it... they can truly see. For them, war or peace, love or hate, God or Devil... nothing makes a difference anymore. That is the ultimate nirvana. The ultimate peace.

Externally there is no difference between one who has attained Nirvana and one who has not. But internally the one who has attained Nirvana is eternally happy and at peace with himself. Internal happiness and peace is the goal of all religions and practices. Therefore, O humans of the world, care not about which religion you were born with or what path you think is right to attain Nirvana. Just know that the ultimate goal of all religions is the state of inner peace called Nirvana and strive to achieve that inner peace and happiness.

That is what I understood from Krishna and his Gita. And that state of Nirvana is what I strive for everyday of my life.