If we actually understand Kṛṣṇa in truth, then, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti, then we are liberated. But because you do not know, tyaktvā, Kṛṣṇa in truth, therefore you are asking this question. Kṛṣṇa exists, Arjuna exists.
- aparaṁ bhavato janma
- paraṁ janma vivasvataḥ
- katham etad vijānīyāṁ
- tvam ādau proktavān iti
- (BG 4.4)
So everything is answered. If people would study Bhagavad-gītā . . . but they do not study as it is; they study according to their whims. Therefore we are presenting Bhagavad-gītā as it is, as it is.
Kṛṣṇa . . . if ordinary human being or living entity, he does not die, he is ever-existing—and every living entity is part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa—how there can be death of Kṛṣṇa or birth of Kṛṣṇa? If the part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa they are na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20), how Kṛṣṇa can die and again take birth? Therefore janma karma me divyam. These are all transcendental subject matters. One has to know from the right source; then these questions will be answered.
Kṛṣṇa is always there. Kṛṣṇa is not within the time limit— five thousand years or this years or that years. No. Just like for us today is 8th February, 1973 . . . '74—but not for the sun. Our days are changing; the sun is brilliant always. There is no darkness, there is no night. Is it not? Is it not a fact? So where is the past, present, future for the sun? Past, present, future for you, not for the sun. Our date has changed, eh, from 7th February to 8th February, but the sun is not changing dates. Is it not? So if the sun, the creation of Kṛṣṇa, is not changing date, how Kṛṣṇa can change His date? We require little common sense. Sun is one of the creation of Kṛṣṇa. The sun is not changing date, so how Kṛṣṇa can change? Because we change date, therefore we are asking about Kṛṣṇa like that, because we are thinking that Kṛṣṇa may be like us. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam (BG 9.11): "The mūḍhās think of Me just like I am one of them." For us five thousand years is very great, long years, duration of time, but for Kṛṣṇa five millions of years, trillions of years—because He has no past, present or future. Kṛṣṇa has no past, present. Vedāhaṁ samatītāni (BG 7.26): He knows past, present—everything.