Guest guest Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 The examination of all these scriptures shows how Gita is an excellent way of teaching the spiritual knowledge and how its preacher Lord Krishna is a full expression of the Lord (Pari-poorna avatara). Whenever we remember Lord Krishna, three defects appear, which attack our faith on Him. Defects of others are clearly seen by the minds of human beings. These three defects are (1) stealing the butter (2) doing mischief along with the boys (3) dancing with the maidens in the Brindavanam. Even other religions find fault in these points. People are not analysing the back ground of the Lord and criticise due to their limited views. These maidens were sages in the previous birth. They prayed the Lord for full salvation. Salvation means liberation of oneself from the worldly bonds. There are three strongest bonds, which are like steel chains (Eeshanas) and they are the bonds with money, children and husband or wife. They are the strongest attractions and full salvation means liberation from these three strongest bonds. The Lord was stealing the butter, which was their hard earned money and thus the bond with money was cut. The bond with their children was also cut because their children were attracted by the Lord only and were not following their parents. Their bonds with their husbands were also cut because the Lord attracted them in the dance. The reason for the destruction of these bonds was the formation of the new bond with the Lord and there was no other reason. This is the path of Nivrutti. When Nivrutti is absent at least pravrutti should be maintained in which these three bonds must remain but should not have over attractions. Pravrutti is maintaining the worldly bonds with reasonable and limited attractions and removing the blind attractions. If these bonds are destroyed by any other reason, it is not only useless but also injustice. They will be punished in the hell for such injustice. People some times leave these bonds and think that they have achieved the spiritual progress and this is not correct. Even a stone is not having any worldly bonds and that is not spiritual progress. The stone is not having bond with Lord also. The destruction of these worldly bonds should be a consequence of the formation of the new bond with the Lord. At least the destruction of the worldly bonds must assist the growth of the new bond with the Lord (Ananyah, Satatayuktanam—Gita ). Krishna did all this in Brindavam only where the sages were born as maidens. When He left Brindavanam He never repeated this anywhere because no other soul except those sages requested Him for such full salvation. Since the sages in Brindavanam got full salvation, He never returned back. Had He done this with the lust, He should have repeated this elsewhere also or at least He should have returned back to Brindavanam to do the same. The maidens became mad after the Lord because in Nivrutti nothing and none can stand before the eyes of the devotee except the Lord in the human form (Natat Samah—Veda) (Machchittah—Gita). Once a lady was worshipping Jesus by applying a costly scent to Him. A disciple of Jesus criticised this and stated that the cost of the scent would have been spent for feeding the beggars. Jesus condemned the disciple and accepted her service. The reason for such personal service is that she is in the path of Nivrutti. She desires only the Lord and is not interested in the social service. The followers of Nivrutti will even leave the justice for the sake of the Lord(Sarvadharman—Gita). Such souls reach the permanent divine abode of the Lord. One can not compare Jesus with a rich man who is also enjoying a similar service. The rich man is not God and he has to please the Lord. The final goal is not his selfish pleasure. In the case of Jesus there is no other God whom he should please. The service done to Jesus protected that lady in this world as well as in the upper world. But the service done to the rich man can not protect anybody. Once a rich man approached Jesus and asked for his future duty in order to enter the Heaven. Jesus told him that he should give away all his money to the beggars. Jesus did not ask him to bring costly scent to be applied to Him. The rich man belongs to the level of pravrutti and is interested in his personal upliftment and personal enjoyment in the heaven. He is not interested in Lord Jesus. Thus the Pravritti and Nivrutti should be differentiated. The ignorant people who are unaware of this difference will mistake Jesus to be fond of the application of the scent by the tender hand of a beautiful lady. Dan Brown in his book "Da Vinci Code" writes that Jesus married a lady called "Mary Magdelene" and also had a child. Krishna and Mohammad had several wives. Buddha was also married. Sankara was a bachelor but Sankara required the knowledge of sex education for the sake of a debate and received the sexual experience practically for the sake of that debate. Therefore it is immaterial weather the Lord in human form is married or not. Some souls love the Lord through such bond. The Lord just reflects back in the same way to please His devotees (Ye yatha mam –Gita). The Lord is the fire of knowledge and any stick will be burnt to ashes. When the Lord comes in the human form, He plays with all the qualities existing in the universe. All the qualities are created by Him only (Yechaiva Sattvikah—Gita) for His divine play meant for the entertainment. Even Satan was created by the Lord. In a cinema the role of villain also exists and the actor of that role is also paid. Any quality that is used for the entertainment and pleasure of the Lord is good and sacred. Any quality that is turned towards selfish pleasure and these worldly bonds is bad and impure. The ultimate aim of this universe is only His entertainment. Even Satan is sacred since he is playing his role sincerely by testing the firm faith of the devotees. You must hate his attraction for diverting you from the Lord but not the Satan. Jesus told that you should hate the sin but not the sinner. The Lord is beyond qualities because the qualities consist of the subtle body (Gunateetah—Gita). These qualities are tools of His divine play and He is not the subtle body. Therefore He is not the qualities and is untouched by them. A human being is the subtle body and is controlled by the qualities. He is a tool to the game played by the qualities (Nanyam Gunebhyah—Gita). The Lord uses the bad qualities as His mask so that the undeserving devotees do not approach Him for any favour. He is also using these bad qualities to test the firm faith of the sincere devotees. Apart from these two uses, Lord Krishna used these bad qualities to give full salvation to the sages in the Brindavanam. No human being can understand the Human incarnation. Every human being easily misunderstands the Lord in human form. Krishna loved Radha extensively. He married her secretly. But He left her within two years and never returned back even to see her. Moreover He married several girls and was living happily with them. This is the climax of the bad qualities. He tested Radha for her jealousy but Radha was never jealous and never uttered a single word against the Lord. In fact she became mad for the Lord and died remembering Him always. The climax of bad qualities was used by the Lord to test the climax of the devotion of Radha. The test is not for His knowledge as He knows the truth but the Lord wants to exhibit the height of the devotion of Radha to this world as an ideal to be followed by devotees. His Holiness Shri Datta Swami website address: http://www.universal-spirituality.org e-mail address: swami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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