Krishna-Arjuna relationship

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Hare Krishna,

The consummation of the Jivatman on the Paramatman has been construed in the

Upanishads.The same principle is explained through the relationship that existed

between Sri Krishna and Arjuna.They were inseparable chums.Time and again Arjuna

had a difficulty to overcome.He was also in need of something to enrich his

earthly life.On all such occasions Achutha came to his rescue.In fact He seemed

indispensable to Arjuna in all matters of importance.Arjuna got his guidance in

education,enthusing in play.support in contests and protection while drudging in

exile.In all such situations Sri Krishna was the friend,philosopher and guide of

Arjuna.He had given away his sister Subhadra in marriage to his friend.Finally

when the great war broke out He chose to play the charioteer to His chum.It was

on this momentous occasion that He imparted to His friend His supreme teaching

immortalised as Bhagawat Gita.A great help than this could not have been

rendered.The relationship between the individual

soul and the Cosmic reality has thus been personified.Through countless births

and deaths the former is a ward to the latter.Till the time when the Lord

decided to remove the delusion of Arjuna he had enough of worldly enjoyment and

experience.When the time came the Lord undertook to carry the Divine Light unto

him.

 

Of the five brothers Sri Krishna chose Arjuna in particular for his

disciple.Why?There was a significance in this act of His.If waging the war was

the main issue there was Bhima ever thirsting for it.He was only awaiting

sanction from Yudhishtra.If he had been called to duty he would have plunged

headlong into it.On the other hand if the issue was the vindication of

righteousness,there was Yudhishtra the very embodiment of it,who could have been

made the main defender.But neither of them was chosen by the Lord.Arjuna the

archer was deliberately selected for this purpose.Animal impetuosity was still

dominant in Bhima.Such a man was not quite a fit agent for the practice of

Yoga.He would neither enquire into yoga nor translate it into action.On the

other side,a person of Yudhishtras calibre was already fairly well established

in yoga.He could well have been called a yogi.Any further enlightenment carried

to him would have been a superfluity.But Arjunas attainments stood somewhere

between these two extremes.He had definitely outgrown animal propensities.At

the same time he had not yet entered the domain that was divine.Only the

ordinary human elements were predominant in him.In a normal man both virtue and

vice are found intermingled in varying degrees.To eschew the lingering vice and

to get well drilled in the growing virtue is the purpose of life.Arjuna

represnted the normal man.To a person of his type the message of Gita was bound

to prove most fruitful.Any person with normal human traits is competent both to

study and to put into practice ,the teachings of Gita.

So to inculcate the understanding of His teachings of the various aspects of

life leading ultimately to Bliss the Lord preferred Arjuna as His tool to impart

His great teachings in the form of Gita.

 

Salutations to that Muralikrishna.the Indweller of all.

 

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