Lord Shiva

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In Kali-yuga everyone wanted to worship Krishna, God, and they desired, "He

should fulfill all our desires. Simply by worshipping Krishna or His

incarnations, He will be pleased and satisfy our worldly, material desires."

In this way everyone began to worship - not to please Krishna, but only

because they wished that He would very easily arrange all of their needs.

Therefore Krishna thought, "This is a very dangerous thing." He called

Sankara and told him, "You should tell all the false devotees that, "You are

yourself Brahma. Brahma satyam jaganmitya jiva brahma evanapara. This world

is false. Jiva is Siva, jiva is Brahma, all these souls are Brahma. There is

no need to worship any other God. You are God Himself. You are

Paramabrahma."

 

Sankara told Krishna, "Can you please tell someone else to do this? I am not

qualified to do this service."

 

Krishna replied, "No, you will have to do it. In the whole world I see no

one else qualified to do this."

 

Now Sankara told Narada, "At last, I had to agree with this, and I preached

everywhere, 'You are Brahma, you are Brahma, you are Brahma. The whole world

is false.' Now, I am so much regretting this. Why am I making all these

jivas so offensive? It is an offense, I know. But yet, to carry out the

orders of Krishna, I am doing this. Because Krishna sometimes orders me in

this way, I am not His dear one.

 

"Also, you know that I always wear ashes from the burial grounds, and I

always wear skulls. I have trigunas, three qualities: satya, rajas, and

tamas. All my associates are like bhutas (ghosts) and pisachis (witches). So

actually I am not qualified to be Krishna's dear one."

 

Narada then said, "Prabhu, don't cheat me. I know something. I have heard

that the enemies of Krishna and the Pandavas, or the enemies of any bhaktas,

worship you, and you give them some benediction. But that benediction is not

totally foolproof. There is always some loophole there. Actually you cheat

them to please your Krishna. I know. Whatever you do, you do to please

Krishna. You are the dearest friend of Krishna."

 

 

 

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