Questions on Lord Krishna- To Mukund

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Dear Mukund,

 

You wrote-

 

"I think there was a real person named Krishna who was an incarnation of God and

the stories we hear about him are true, even though the stories about 16,000

wives and 10 children with each wife seem a bit absurd."

 

I agree that its absurd for a human being to achieve that but Shri Krishna is

God, the cause of all causes and all the planetary systems are situated in the

region of His ankle.So what is His difficulty? I remember a nice allegory that

i would like to present-

 

Once Shri Narada was with Sri Vishnu and they were in discussion about the

advancement of His devotees and who would qualify to reach Him first. They saw

two apparent devotees on earth and one of them was a very pious brahmin, who

kept all the regulated vows and was very learned in scriptures. The other

devotee was a poor illietrate cobbler, who was sitting under a Banyan tree and

mending shoes. Sage Narada enquired from the Lord as to who among these will

reach Him first.The Lord replied that the cobbler was more qualified.The Lord

replied that Sage Narada will find out why if he goes and talks to each of

them, and since they are devotees they will definitely ask about what the Lord

was upto and when they do the answer should be " He is trying to pass an

elephant through the eye of a needle".

Sage Narada descends to the earth and first meets the pious Brahmana. The moment

the Brahamana sees the Sage he offers him all respects and enquires " what was

the Lord doing when you were with Him". The sage gives a reply that the Lord

was passing an elephant through the eye of a needle. The brahmana looked at

the sage and said that it was absurd, as its an impossiblity.

After that the sage goes to the cobbler and the same sequence takes place and

when the cobbler is related the story, he becomes very happy and in a very

devotional mood says," what is impossible for the Supreme Lord when He can keep

this huge banyan tree in this small fruit".

So its all about faith and thats not easy to develop.But a little faith can

carry us a long way in this birth.That was just my two bits to this thread.

 

Hare Krishna

 

Sudharsan

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