Let's make things better

Lets all work together to define and create a better place of living in this world. Do you all think, day by day the world is becoming a boring and stale place to live?

All those who have the same perspective as mine to create world a better place, are requested to drop in their ideas to me directly. Let’s get things straight from there.

He who sees Me everywhere and all Me, I am not lost to him, nor is he lost to Me

This is again a very important verse from the sixth chapter of the Mahapurana, The Geeta.

Krishna is talking about “Yoga of Self-control” in this (sixth) chapter. The biggest control is the self control; to control and cease the mind from wandering here and there. The mind is very delicate and utmost powerful. It is fooling around you since centuries. Though you being the Master, are serving as a slave to your mind. You immediately follow what your mind says. Have you thought about not listening to your mind and giving orders to it instead? The day you start getting control on your mind, you initiate your first step towards spirituality. Spirituality is nothing but living in the correct way, to be simple and to understand oneself. Being simple is being spiritual; nothing less nothing more. People all over the world do all sorts of absurd and nonsensical activities in the name of spirituality. This is due to ignorance and lack of understanding. There is nothing to be borrowed or to be achieved. All is within you. This is not easy to understand. You yourself have the most unique and countless collections of powers, gems, energies within you. The only thing is to accept yourself as you are. Discontinue the identification process with the world. Accept your nature and your emotions as it is. This leads to being simple. This is the whole process. Nothing else is needed.

In the above verse, Krishna is talking about devotion and offering yourself completely to him. The day you start believing Krishna from full heart and accept himself as the charioteer of your life, as he was for Arjuna in Mahabharata, you will conquer the final purpose of this world. He will take care of your life onwards.

Krishna says “He who sees me everywhere and all me, I am not lost to him, nor he is lost to Me.” This means that if you trust him and let him lead your life, he will do the rest for you. Dedicate all your breaths, karmas (actions), struggles to him. Seeing him everywhere means believing that he is omnipresent. Understanding that, he is everywhere. All comes, survives and ends in him. He is the only start, he is the process and he is the only end. Those who perceive and live by the above thought will never lose him nor is he lost to them. He is present everywhere for them. Krishna is responsible for all the actions of his bhaktas (disciples). See him everywhere and you will find him everywhere!!

….Those who worship me, come to me

This is a verse from the ninth chapter of the famous Mahapurana, the Geeta. The verse is as follows:

Those who worship gods, go to gods,
Those who worship ancestors, go to ancestors,
Those who worship elements, reach to elements,
Those who worship me, come to me.

Krishna says, “Those who worship me, come to me.” The meaning of the verse is simple yet valuable.

Worshiper finally reaches the worshipped. Worshiper gets dissolved in the worshipped. The meaning is: Be careful while selecting your friends, inmates. This world is a reflection of your rays; the light emitted from your heart. This world is a mirror. It has everything and still nothing. All that you see around yourself is nothing but the echo of your feelings, talks and actions. You can see what you want to; you can reach where you want to. If you aim for mountains, you can conquer them, if you demand valleys, you can explore them. The world is colourless, flavourless. It is you, who puts the flavour in. This is the reason why all the communities are fascinated by different rituals. Africans feel shaved head as a symbol of beauty. Indians feel hair add beauty to your persona. It’s neither actually. Your illusion from thousands of years makes you feel so. Different people are interested in different activities. If activities had pleasure in them, why would everybody not be interested in similar things!

So Krishna says, be careful while selecting your goals. Be thoughtful while deciding your mates. Ultimately, it is your decisions, actions and choices, which define your destiny. Worshipping Krishna does not mean speaking his name aloud one hundred and eight times everyday, but understanding him, loving him and walking on the path craved by him. This will lead you towards him. Those walking towards him will finally find him!!

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.

Black suffices all colors

How many of you know Krishna was black, I mean, had a dark complexion? Has anybody ever given a thought about it?

Black is the color of Depth. Black is the color of the Sea. All the colors in this world originate from white and end in black. Black and white define the two ends of the color line; like two shores of a sea. Black is one extreme and white is another.

Fill some water in a glass or a bucket. Try to find the color of the water. Any answers? White Or Transparent? Both are correct. Then fill some water in a tank, and then in bigger tank and onwards. Do you notice any difference in the color? Well, the color doesn’t change. But as we add more and more depth to the level of water, the color shade slide towards darkness. If you check out the water in a sea or a river, it appears dark. That’s how it is. Well some will say that water in the sea or river appears blue; true. But that blue is the reflection of the Sky in the water. Presume, there is no sky, or if you are looking at the color of the sea during night, then most of them will agree. It appears completely dark, totally black.

Black relates to two major entities; Depth and Veil or Mask. Let’s talk about how black relates to veil. Black is the color of covering, masking. It covers everything. You can hide anything and everything in black. A beautiful metaphor exists in relation to the sea and the darkness. Sea also acts like a veil or cover. Everything can be stored and hidden in sea. There is no limit to its length, breadth and depth. It seems to be touching horizons.

Associating Krishna with black color has some actual meaning behind it. Whosoever has associated Krishna with the black color has done the right job. Krishna’s beauty is eternal and deep. The smile that you can see on his face is not just existent on his face, it is coming from his heart, it is enrooted still deeper and comes from his soul. His expressions and emotions are coming from his soul. Every word or expression coming from Krishna is not trivial; it has real immeasurable depth associated with it. Due to this reason, Krishna’s face appears dark. Hence, Krishna is called Sanwara. If you look at your expressions with an unbiased view, you will find that most of your expressions are momentary, depthless and hollow. They don’t have any life in them. You laugh because you want to show somebody that you are laughing. You cry because you feel that crying out will make you feel lighter against some incident. Try to feel your feelings. See if there is any soul breathing in them or not. Soul less body is a dead body. It’s a graveyard here. We are all trying to become good actors. We never show what we feel. We always show something else. Be realistic, learn to breathe. That will make you simple. You are currently very complicated. Learn to live and live to learn. Both are equally important!!

Krishna belongs to this world

The title might seem confusing for many people but it is true. Krishna belongs to this world. Even though it seems simple, it has a real depth associated with it. And it is very important to understand where “this world” is pointing to. Belonging to this world doesn’t mean he was born here, which is true also. Belonging to this world means, he is the only Man who suggests and indicates towards what can be called the BEST way of living in this world and exploiting your full potentials. He utilizes all his skills; uses them at the right place and at the right time. He really knows how to react for every thing happening or might happen in your life if you are surviving in this world. Only he has answers to all the questions possible here. He keeps silent sometimes, provides perfect answers when queried. He signifies perfect man and perfect way of living. Some might feel that they are also living the right way. But I want to tell you something, Krishna is not just a person’s name. Krishna signifies a process of being realistic, perfect and correct. When you live the right way, then you have reached the state called Krishna. You have to embrace Krishna’s soul and his way of living to be perfect. No other way to do it. Being perfect and correct means being Krishna. No other human, devil, legend or God, living or dead is as perfect as Krishna. He is just perfect. Everybody has something, but then something is missing. You don’t find anything missing in Krishna.

One more thing to realize is that Krishna is of here and now. Krishna is not telling you that god exists somewhere far and you need to do meditation and yoga or hang yourself upside down or do starving for 10 years, nothing like that. He is saying that you are god. You are born with that sort of energy. Open your eyes. How long will you keep yourself in dark? He is throwing light on your face to wake you up. He says, if you have doubts, look at me. Live like I am. I am not a Teacher and you are not my disciple. I am an example for you. I am illustration to the right way of living. I am here only for you. Wake up. It has been long time, since you are ignoring yourself. He is of full relevance to this world. You cannot see that you can’t see. You can only see what is available. You can only hear what is present and audible. Krishna says, don’t look here and there. Don’t try to find other worlds. Don’t follow mystical statements to trust what you cannot see, feel or hear. This is the right place. You are here for a purpose. Live the best way. Live the way I want you to live. He is of full relevance means; what is the meaning of “Relevance”. Relevance means in full connection with the subject, nothing crap and unrelated to the topic. So he is completely relevant to this world. All his actions, all his sayings are in relation to this world. He is singing the music tuned to you and your world. He is working in your spirit. He is craving a path for you to walk on. You won’t find anything in Krishna, which was not required. Any such activity or what ever he has done here was all what needed and not an inch further. His life is full blossomed, like a garden in the spring, like Full Moon. You can see all the colors in him. You see all facets of life in him. He lives it to the fullest extent. He shows all what is possible for you, we humans. He had not come here for some of his personal purpose or for his own sake. He was here for us. Only and only for humans. To wake you up, to show you what is possible. To show you, what universal and never ending energy you are born with. He was here to shake you, why are you happy with the crap. Big oceans of love, huge gardens of fragrance are waiting for you!! Try and follow him. Realize Krishna.