Refusal of the RETURN
…the adventurer must still return with
his life-transmuting trophy.
But the responsibility has been
frequently refused. Even the
Buddha, after his
triumph, doubted whether the message of realization could be
communicated, and saints are reported to have passed away while in the supernal
ecstasy. Numerous indeed are the
heroes fabled to have taken up residence forever in the blessed isle of the
unaging Goddess of Immortal Being.
Vishnu, the Lord of the World, had
become incarnate in the person of a beautiful youth named Krsna (Krishna), who
having saved the