Krishna is the visualization of the Âtmâ

[SubhaSrini]

Krishna is the visualization of the Âtmâ

The Krishna whose advent you should celebrate, is not the cowherd boy who charmed the village folk with His flute, but, the Krishna, the indefinable, inscrutable, divine principle that is born in the navel of the body (Mathurâ) as the product of the energy (Devakî), that is then transported to the mouth (Gokulam) and fostered by the tongue (Yas'odâ) as its source of sweetness.

Krishna is the visualization of the âtmâ that the repetition of the name grants; the vision that was gained by Yas'odâ. You must foster that Krishna on your tongue; when he dances on it the poison of the tongue will be rejected completely, without harming any one, as happened when as a child He danced on the hoods of the serpent Kâliya.




Yas'odâ traces Krishna to the place He hides in, by the footprints He leaves, when He has broken the curdpot, which she was churning. This is a symbolic story to illustrate how the Lord breaks our identification with the body and leads us on to Himself, by signs and signals that He provides all-round us.

These signs are ever present in the nature around each one of us, in the beauty of the rising sun, the ecstasy of the rainbow, the melody of the birds, the lotus- spangled surface of lakes, the silence of snow-crowned peaks - in fact, since god is rasa, sweetness, ecstasy, all nature, which is but Himself in action, is sweet and ecstatic.

With or without form, it is ananda. Welcome it into the heart as Râma - He who is joy and grants joy, or as Krishna - He who draws you by means of the joy He imparts - and, live all your moments with it, offering your dhyana, your puja, your japa. That will open the doors of jñâna and of liberation.

This is the mark of the wise, while those who are otherwise wander in the wilderness, filling their moments with meaningless trifles, toys and gew-gaws.



Purusha: the male principle; the Absolute Truth in its original form (mahâ-purusha). The lord as the purusha assumed the original form of the material world with her sixteen principles of material action

- The original person, the incorporeal godhead.
- (as cause and effect), The mind, the elements, false ego, the guna's, the senses, the Universal form or appearance (virath-rûpa) with the moving and nonmoving living entities and the complete independence all together.
- The living being, the person as the enjoyer.
- Krishna as the Supreme Enjoyer.
- Vishnu as the first avatâra (purusha-avatâra).
Yudhishthhira: the eldest of the Pândava-brothers who after the great war of Mahâbhârata ascended the throne as the victor.
Vairagya: detachment.
Bhakti: devotion, devotional service to Lord Krishna, love of God.
Moha: delusion caused by false identification, infatuation.


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