Monday, December 12, 2011

"Do you know the meaning of the word Krishna!!

"Do you know the meaning of the word Krishna!!
One who attracts everybody and everything towards him is Krishna. Krishna means most attractive. Irresistible attraction that one cannot resist at all, that much attraction!

The whole Bhagvatam is about how Krishna was so attractive and mesmerizing.
When he would go in the chariot and when he would pass by, people would just stand like statues stari...ng at him. Even after his chariot would go away people would just keep their eyes open and keep staring. Someone would comes and ask, ‘what are you staring at?’ The gopi says, ‘no doubt he went but he also took my sight with him. My attention also has gone with him.’

That is the seer, the scenery and the scene; everything becoming one.
There are many stories in the Srimad Bhagvatam.
One gopi was doing their makeup and she did makeup on one eye and then she heard he is coming, and she just left everything and ran out to the street to have a glimpse of him. There are so many stories to indicate that the Divine is extremely attractive. This is so that the little attractions that the mind hankers on to are freed and that is why he is called Mohana. Mohana means one who appeals to the heart, enchanting and endearing.

So the bondage of love with knowledge is different than the bondage that hankers for pleasure. Hankering for pleasure creates a certain type of bondage which results in a lot of pain. But the taste of love hooks you on to the infinity, to the Divinity and intoxicates you. That with the knowledge brings stability in life.
Life without emotion is so dry; emotion is needed. The emotion is either for the temporal or ephemeral or for the permanent; the permanent joy and the permanent bliss." Sri Sri

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