Janamashtmi !

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Janamashtmi (12th Aug,01) the Birthday of

Krishna, the divine lover, the eternal father and a Sakhaa

(soulmate) in all births !<br><br> I can not hold myself

re-telling the story of Krishna's

love.<br><br>*******************************************************************\

********************************<br>Krishna was going to Mathura to meet kansa

(his maternal

uncle) who had earlier tried to Kill Krishna on many

occasions but failed. When people of Mathura came to know

about the arrival of shri krishna, they gathered on the

roads to have a glimpse of their loving Bal

gopal.<br><br>When Krishna was passing from the streets of Mathura,

people were spellbound to see his loving face. There

were hundreds of young women who had come all prepared

laden with ornaments and wearing their best dresses.

They were whishpering ..oh! May Krishna see us and

fall in love with us. Krishna was watching them

lovingly and his eyes when met with their eyes, gave them

trembles of ecstasy.<br><br>In the crowd also stood one

woman who was hunchback with no beauty on the face. She

wore simple clothes as she was quite poor. She had

also heard of Krishna coming to Mathura and had come

prepared to show her love to Krishna by applying

sandal-wood paste on his body. Seeing so many beautiful and

well decorated noble girls, her heart sank. She was

standing hopelessly behind the crowd crying over her bad

luck and thinking," Oh why Krishna will love a woman

like me? I am not beautiful I even have a hunch....

amongst all those beauties of Mathura, i am nothing but a

piece of shame....Oh my krishna at least see towards me

once."<br><br>Suddenly she saw Krishna standing before her and asking

lovingly " Beloved will you not apply sandalwood paste on

my body" She was shocked with surprise and with

trembling hands applied fragrant paste on Krishna's

forehead and arms. Her eyes were shedding tears... her

voice was choked...she could not believe what brought

Krishna to a useless woman like her. Krishna smiled and

said," Now I will kiss you as a price for your service"

and he held her by face,but due to hunch she could

not stand erect. Krishna put his feet over her feet

and gave her body a jerk and her hunch vanished. She

could not even thank Krishna for his love, and he had

gone ....and our heroine stood shocked dumb and crying

in SPIRITUAL ECSTASY.<br><br>What was it that

brought Krishna to the hunchback?<br><br>Let us not worry

about our bad karma, nor for the present faults nor for

the luck or gods or anything.....let pure and pious

love for HIM awaken in our heart...let us cry for

HIM.....let us make him the sole purpose of our life and HE

will be there !! He will not care for our knowledge of

books, nor for the ornaments of our degrees of knowledge

nor will he be impressed with the numbers of books we

read. He will measure the love and piousness in us and

respond. <br><br>Hare Krishna.....Hari Bol.