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!!

Few more words about krishna

Krishna cannot be explained in words although words will help us to find out more about him but not actual krishna. He is not just a person, he is a state, a process, not just an idol but a energy which lets the idol alive.
Krishna is the only God or person which covers all the aspects of life. He has lived life to fullest terms and accepting all colors. He does not chooses a single aspect and he is not a follower of a particular principle but he says that everything present seen and unseen is a part of life and is existing with a purpose behind it. Krishna is not seen running away from any part of life. He accepts everything with a lovely pink smile on his lips. No other legend is found accepting all facets with equal love and respect. Hence Krishna is unique in his own way. He does not discards war, neither disagrees with arguments. For him, nothing is ill or evil. Everything serves a purpose.

All the incidents in his life are indicating towards his way of perceiving life. Krishna is a thief stealing butter from the mudpots, he is a fighter standing against all the evil powers, a life saver picking up the Govardhan mountain on his finger, a philosopher explaining gems of life to Arjuna and udhava, a lover spreading his blessings to the gopis and the mankind, a musician spellbouding all the humans, animals through his magnetic flute,a warrior leading the Mahabharata, a great son which frees his mother and father from the kansa's prison...

The incident in Bhagvata Geeta when krishna was explaining the Arjuna why to fight and not to run away point towards a very immortal and divine principal of life. He is neither in favour of the war nor in favour of the peace. He says, when you have tried all your ways to stop the war, in order to save mankind but if still war is unavoidable, then running away is not correct. Accept it with pride. Accept it with Full grace. He is the simplest of all and complicated enough when required. He is beyond the TWO - phenomenon.