Understanding Shri KRshNa LeelA
Hare KRshNa
May this auspicious ekAdashI be the right time to post this thread.
Many people do not understand Shri KRshNa, and that is understandable since the world that surrounds us creates notions in the mind.
This thread will take questions raised by people on Shri BhagavAn’s LeelA during His time on earth.
1. I am equal to all, I envy no one, however, those who worship Me with Love are a friend in Me and I am in them.
QN: So does this mean it is possible and necessary to bribe your KRshNa for favours?
ANS: Just think, why would the Supreme interfere or bother you if you don’t want to be bothered, or have anything to do with Him?
Do you want His shelter? He will give it to you.
Do you want freedom to find your own way in the world? He gives you that freedom. So, you are asking for this freedom and independence which He gave you and now complain that He takes bribes from devotees in the form of worship, devotion, request for shelter (Ashray)…?
The truth is He does not interfere with karma of beings. Read VishNusahasranAma.
2. Why did Shri KRshNa kill the dhobi (washerman) in MathurA who refused to give clothes to Him and the Gopas?
ANS. Do not judge pastimes of the Supreme timeless being from the short-term tiny earthly tunnel. Who was this dhobi? We don’t know that. KRshNa knew. He knows and remembers each jIva, their evolution and past births. He knows one drop of ocean from another. Remember that those who got killed at the hands of the Lord attained mukti (they were liberated instantly). It was their greatest fortune. So this was some transaction between KAnhA and the dhobi. Rebelling against and attacking the Supreme Lord directly results in such plights. Another example was ShishupAl except he was granted 99 chances. And KaMsa, chANur, all the demons who attacked Him, RAvaN, Dantavakra, ….
From the angle of rasa ( mellow of relationship ) with the Supreme Lord. There are the favourable mellows – dAsya (servitude), sakhya (friendship), vAtsalya (parent-child), mAdhurya (lover-beloved), then there are friendly rasas like veer ras (competitive),
And also rasa such as anger, hatred towards the Supreme.
All asura (demons) who meditated on the Supreme Lord in hatred, fear, jealousy, etc. attained Him eventually. We do not want to attain Him with such negative rasa.
3. Why did Shri KRshNa visit Kubja’s house?
KRshNa knew who KubjA was in past lives, and her appearing face to face in front of Him was in itself a turning point for ending her kArmic bondage and getting liberated. Thus Shri KRshNa called her ‘sundarI’ (beautiful) and made her feel so good about herself that she was shocked and puzzled, since all she had received thus far in life was mockery and being called “ugly”, the hunchback. KRshNa taught her that He only looked at the AtmA within. With tears of joy and love (in whatever capacity she could feel), Kubja offered Him the sandlewood paste she was carrying for KaMsa. This was a gesture of fearlessness that was instilled in her by the karuNAsAgar (Ocean of Mercy and compassion) called Shri KRshNa. ("come what may, may KaMsa kill me for this I don’t care"). This was unknowingly a form of surrender from Kubja.
Kubja did not know any better, so she did not ask for residence in VaikunTha with Him, or moksha (liberation) from birth and death. Instead she made a prayer that this Handsome Prince who appears to be hers for eons, should visit her home. She did not know KRshNa is God, but knew He was God for her. KRshNa merely fulfilled her wish like He as NArAyaNa fulfils the wishes of all beings in trailokya (the three worlds).
Similarly, the Gopis could not go on living in the mundane world without KRshNa so on THEIR BEHEST, on THEIR REQUEST, He gave them His association and very gently took away any left-over worldly attachments, ignorance, pride, and turned them into shining gold.
Ask any devotee – they will tell you life without KRshNa is like being a fish out of water. It is very true. Like suffocation. You drag your life somehow. Because your real support, shelter, base is the Lord, and that is what you need.
Understand that Shri KrshNa, Shriman NArAyaNa never ever gets entangled in the world and the beings in it. He is their caretaker, and the gentle Lord always fulfills wishes. He is the Source, the Nourisher, the Maintainer, the Only True Friend of ALL beings, not just KubjA! Moreover His X-Ray vision sees only the AtmA within.
One should never look at the Supreme Lord of the Universe with disgust, with colored glasses, and use their tiny brains to judge His actions or LeelA, or worse -- make assumptions, fill in the blanks, draw conclusions, based on their conditioning.
This is why Shri KRshNa says …
avajAnti mAm mudhA manushim tanumAshritam… (fools who see My human-like form deride Me, not knowing My true nature)
In GopAL TApanIya Upanishad, the Gopis visit DurvAs muni who instructs them, if the Yamuna floods and you cannot cross over to the other side, just say “If Shri KRshNa is a bramhachAri, Yamuna Rani will part ways to let us cross”
Although initially puzzled, the Gopis obeyed, and YamunA waters receded, thus proving that Shri KRshNa is a BramhachArI – always situated in His True Self, True Highest State.
he KRshNA karuNA sindho, dina bandho, jagat-pate, gopesha, gopikA-kAnta, rAdhA-kAnta namostute
Last edited by smaranam; 03 November 2014 at 10:44 PM.
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