The Fate of the Unsuccessful Yogi 51

Here, as in many other places throughout the Gita,
Sri Krgna is referred to as Bhagavan. This is another
of the Lord’s innumerable names. Bhagavan indicates
that Krsna is the proprietor of six opulences: He
possesses all beauty, all wealth, all power, all fame,
all knowledge and all renunciation. Living entities
partake of these opulences in finite degrees. One may
be famous in a family, in a town, in a country or on
one planet, but no one is famous throughout the
creation as is Sri Krsna. The leaders of the world
may be famous for a few years only, but Lord Sri
Krsna appeared 5,000 years ago and is still being
worshiped. So one who possesses all six of these opu-
lences in completeness is considered to be God. In
Bhagavad-gita Krsna speaks to Arjuna as the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, and as such it is to be under-
stood that He has complete knowledge. Bhagavad-
gita was imparted to the sun god and to Arjuna by
Krsna, but nowhere is it mentioned that Bhagavad-
gita was imparted to Krsna. Why? Complete knowl-
edge means that He knows everything that is to be
known. This is an attribute of God alone. Being
that Krsna knows everything, Arjuna is putting this
question to Him about the fate of the unsuccessful
yogi. There is no possibility for Arjuna to research
the truth. He simply has to receive the truth from
the complete source, and this is the system of disci-
plic succession. Krsna is complete, and the knowledge
that comes from Krsna is also complete. If Arjuna
receives this complete knowledge and we receive it
from Arjuna as it was spoken to him, then we also
receive complete knowledge. And what is this knowl-

edge? “The Blessed Lord said: Son of Prtha, a
