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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

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