Krishna's story-telling by Swami

[Guest guest]

Sai Ram

 

Krishna once told Arjuna that he can enter Vrajamandala (the region where

the Gopas and Gopees lived),only after mastering his emotions and impulses and

his tendency to yield to the senses. One day Naaradha happened to land on the

sands of the Yamuna river-bed in the Vrajamandala. He was surprised at the deep

silence that pervaded the place. The water flowed without a murmur; not a wave

splashed; not a single twig, leaf or petal moved, lest it should disturb the

calm. Even the insect seemed to be aware of the need to respect the silence and

remained still: its wings were at rest. The groves on the banks were as pictures

on canvas. Naaradha saw a woman, shining as a star, lost in meditation; he

was amazed at the halo of splendour around her crown. Naaradha wondered whether

he could reach that depth of experience any time in his career. His presence

awakened her and when accosted, she revealed her identity. She was

Brahma-Vidhya-dhevatha (the Goddess of the Science of the awareness of

Reality), the truth that jnaana reveals! Naaradha's amazement was doubled by

this revelation. "What need have you to meditate? Why this intense dhyaana

(meditation), that has silenced all Nature around you? What are you meditating

on?" he asked. She declared, "I crave the supreme joy of contemplating on the

Lotus Feet of Krishna; I meditate on them, making myself a gopee, who has

surrendered to Him." Such is the sweetness derivable through that

contemplation, that bhakthi (devotion). (Excerpts from, Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol.

8. "Hopping on one leg," Chapter 3).

 

Namaste - Reet