As Krishna, the supreme power reaches out

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As Krishna, the supreme power reaches out

 

The essence of Hindu spirituality has been elaborated in three scriptures. The

Upanishads present the absolute wisdom revealed to seers. Reasoned wisdom has

been elaborated in the Brahmasutras. The Bhagavad Gita elaborates on how to live

in a way that is conducive to attaining salvation through wisdom.

Krishna’s advice to Arjuna at Kurukshetra -- on the battlefield --

encapsulates the essence of wise living that will enable one to remain balanced

and peaceful while executing one’s responsibilities in this world and

eventually help one to attain great spiritual heights. The miraculous life of

Sri Krishna, the incarnation of the Absolute, embodies the joyful manifestation

of the omnipotence and omniscience in human form. This significant dualism of

the divine drama with human undertones creates a multilevel appeal and a grand

spiritual metaphor of Krishna Leela, conveying spiritual truth with poetic

beauty.

In the life of Krishna we find the consummation of our ideal for worldly life.

He neither followed nor advocated life-negating renunciation. At the same time

he did not show any attachment to mundane life. The dialectics of worldly life

with happiness and sorrow was on his fingertips; so clinging to anything worldly

was absolutely alien to his nature. He played perfectly the role of a naughty

child, a playful youth, statesman par excellence, a benevolent king, an intimate

friend, a beloved husband and above all as an embodiment of wisdom with utmost

objectivity -- despite being anchored in his true being as an incarnation of the

Absolute. That is why his prescription for the malady called life is to maintain

non-attachment to anything and everything under all circumstances. He

exemplified the practice of the same through his own life.

Knowing that the eighth son of his sister Devaki will vanquish him, King Kansa

imprisons Krishna’s parents. Yet his sister (Krishna’s mother) Devaki

conceives and when she delivers the child Kansa is unable to kill Baby Krishna.

Through divine intervention, the baby is taken away and another is sent in its

place, the Goddess Maya. The Rive Yamuna parts its waters and makes way for

Vasudeva to carry Baby Krishna out to safety.

The dance of the interplay of spirit and nature manifested in annihilation of

Putana, Bakasura or Kaliya by child Krishna heralds the victory of good over

evil. In the same way mother Yashoda was shown the entire cosmos in the small

mouth of the child. Yet the naughty playfulness of the child added an eternal

human element to the manifestation of divine incarnation. This dualism has made

Krishna so human and lovable and yet so divine and mysterious.

The irresistible attraction of the melody of his enchanting flute and the divine

magnetism of cosmic vibration like centripetal power had maddening impact on

all. Consciousness at the root of creation is all pervading and it attracts the

diffused states of mind for ultimate peace and solace from the pangs of

delusion.

That is precisely why in the Gita Krishna advises Arjuna to do his duty --

knowing fully well that the result will be in the hands of the Almighty.

Practice of detachment to the world and maintenance of perfect equanimity under

all circumstances with absolute surrender to the will of God are the best

course. Thus he prescribed yoga, the art of right action as the way for

unification with the eternal self.

 

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