He has all!

Krishna is covering all the aspects and all the forms of life. He has disguised himself in all the human forms possible. He has all in him and although he is so empty. Emptiness does not hinder his completeness. His life has all the examples that prove his different roles, different faces. He has shown up everything possible in his life. If you start reviewing Krishna’s life, starting from his childhood, you will find everything possible. He has enjoyed all the facets, lived in all the emotions, involved in all kinds of acts, disguised in all the roles. He is a God, a human, a teacher, a dancer, a musician, a thief, a crook, a player, a student, a warrior, a charioteer, a flee, a mischief, a great son, a great lover, a villager, a prince, an idol god for numerous saints (bhaktas) and all and all.

He is stealing butter from mud pots of gokul huts amusing all the villagers. His mother Yashoda is trying to catch and punish him every time he does that. The biggest and the most powerful God; the father of the universe is crying and running away when his mother is running to catch him; what an irony!! He is killing all the devils and demons, relieving all the humans from their ill acts. He is spell bounding the cows, Gopis (cow-herd girls) and all the humans and getting a name of “Gopi Krishna”. He is playing ‘Maharaas’, the famous night of love and dance, and makes his love immortal in the world; Gita Govinda is also a process towards immortalizing krishna’s love activities. He is fighting with weighty body-builders Chanura, Mushtika in the kingdom of cruel king Kansa at the age of 17. He portrays an ideal son’s duties freeing his parents from Kansa’s prison. He is the charioteer of Prince Arjuna’s chariot and leading the Mahabharat, the biggest battle in the history of Bharata (India). He is also narrating the most intellectual portfolio; the father of all the religious epics, the Geeta purana. The Geeta itself is a big epic to be explained in several upcoming articles. He is explaining the doctrines for life to Vidura. He is the king of Dwarka and hence called “Dwarkadheesha”, adding to the list of his more than a thousand names. He lifts the huge Govardhana parvat (mountain) and saves the residents of gokul village from the rage of the lord Indra.

He defines and acts on all the perspectives of life. He is a master. He has all in him. One more point to be understood in this context is that he is worshipped in pieces. Does it seem surprising? It might be to many of them. Let me elaborate more. Since he has everything, his talks are unequivocal, indefinite. He supports some argument some time, may defend some other point under some other circumstances. Like Buddha or Mahaveera or even Lord Rama, his words are not direct and directional. Mahaveera is favoring tyaga (relinquishment and abandonment), Buddha is favoring dhyana (Meditation), Lord Rama is favoring principles. Krishna doesn’t favour anything. He is neither an atheist nor a theist. He is beyond the two; hence he is a trickster and creates any appearance required. All this creates confusion for Krishna lovers. Hence they see their own likes in him. He is loved and worshipped in different ways. Some have chosen Mahabharata, some have chosen Bhagvata, and some prefer Geeta. Surdas loves his childhood, his flute, his childhood musings, on the other hand Jaidev loves his enchanting love and sensual expressions and composes an great immortal epic on that; Geeta Govinda. Somebody offers him flowers, some body offers him makkhan-mishri (mixture of butter and sugar), some offer him blood; following his warrior principles. People all over the world have seen and absorbed him in their own ways. This is although an injustice to Krishna. Krishna should be absorbed fully and in the way he is; humans are still unworthy to accept him as he is. That’s why he is for the future. You need his soul to understand him!!

Krishna VS Freud

More or less this is a related perspective rather a “Versus” one. Sigmund Freud, as the world calls him, the “the father of psychoanalysis", was a medical expert and psychiatrist from Germany. Sigmund Freud, physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and father of psychoanalysis, is generally recognized as one of the most influential and authoritative thinkers of the twentieth century.

Those who know about Freud, might be surprised to see his name coming up with Krishna. But that is the point, this article is presented.

We all are suppressing ourselves. We are not breathing; we are behaving like dead bodies. Day by day, we are becoming mechanical robots, who can work for 24 cross 7 but cannot think, breathe, feel or sense. Those who are left alive are getting dull and dull everyday having unbearable pressures from our system. Our system presses us to behave like robots. Suppression was one major hidden area in which Freud leaves an exceptional imprint by his dedicated and remarkable work. He is known for his experiments, research and writings in the field of suppression. Freud says, Suppression should be thrown out of us. Suppression and Repression towards life creates more and more complicated humans. Freud also explained the cause and meaning of Dreams. Dreams, which he called the "royal road to the unconscious," provided the best access to our unconscious life and the best illustration of its "logic," which was different from the logic of conscious thought. Freud developed his first topology of the psyche in The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) in which he proposed the argument that the unconscious exists and described a method for gaining access to it.

Let’s see how Freud relates to Krishna. Krishna, as we now know (I hope), is the perfect man and lives his life in a super perfect and correct manner. He is not suppressing anything, neither otherwise. Crossing the boundary of suppression is one important gem to be learned from Krishna. Freud also acts as a fighter against suppression and provides all the necessary evidences. He is helping Krishna in fighting against suppression. He is trying to eradicate this enrooted disease of choosing few things and repelling few things. He is walking on one important principle shown by Krishna. It is very disappointing to see that Freud is not accepted with pride, though he is helping the humanity in an area which requires enormous courage and bravery. Freud is like a Bomb which explodes on the society and destroys all the causes of suppression. People started to think in this sector only after Freud’s theories. Though Krishna is saying lot more things, but let us also welcome Freud with the same respect and pride and try to explore his theories and understand them.

Even if 15% of the world gets free of suppression then Freud has done his job.