Who is the Lord Krishna?
Krishna is usually regarded as the
eight incarnation of lord Vishnu and was born in the Dvarpara Yuga as the
"dark one". Lord Krishna is the embodiment of love and divine joy,
that destroys all pain and sin. He is the protector of sacred utterances and
cows. Krishna is an instigator of all forms of knowledge and born to establish
the religion of love.
Little Krishna
Krishna was born as the 8th
child of Devaki, sister of the cruel demon king Kamsa. The sage Narada had
predicted that Kamsa would be killed by his nephew, so the king killed Devaki's
first six children. The 7th, Balarama escaped and the 8th
, Krishna, was secretly exchanged for a cowherds daughter.
The demon king Kansa send many demons
to kill Krishna, but all were defeated. Among them were the whirlwind demon
Trinavata, Vatasura disguised as a calf, the enormous crane Bakasura, Aghasura
the demon snake and the monstrous horse Keshisura. Lord Krishna also mastered
the five-headed demon snake Kaliya, to stop mastered the five-headed demon
snake Kaliya, to stop it from poisoning the holy river Yamuna and send it back
to the ocean. He jumped on the snake from a big Kadamba tree and then defeated
him by dancing on his heads.
Krishna was brought up in a cowherds
family and loved to play te flute to entertain the other cowherds, the
milkmaids, and the cows. As a child, Krishna had great love for his
foster-mother Yashoda and their relationship stands as a great exemple for the
love between a mother and her child. Krishna also became very famous for
teasing the milkmaids of Vrindavan as well as Yashoda. He and his friends would
steal milk and butter, let the cows go free at milking time, hide the clothes
of bathing girls or even break the ater pots the milkmaids were carrying on
their heads. Little Krishna was not just teasing purely for the fun of it. He
wanted to destroy the ignorance of his devotees, trenching them not to be
attached to matter and forms and only focus on him. As such, Lord Krishna is
the deity of Hasya or Humor and a messenger of peace.
Krishna, Radha and Leela
Radha and Krishna are the divine
couple that rules love, romance and the aesthetic sense. Radha was foremost
among the milkmaids of Vrindavan, as the incarnation of Lakshmi, Vishnu's
spouse and Krishna's obvious favorite.
Love and devotion may also find
beautiful expression in the relationship between overs. In India, women often
see their husbands as Krishna, while men see their wives as Radha, the beloved.
When men become gods and women goddesses, then we do not see the imperfections,
and see only perfection, divinity. Surrender and serving each other are the
keys to any good relationship, which becomes a rehearsal of surrender to the
universe and the divine.
While Krishna's love was truly
universal, Radha sometimes expressed feelings of jealousy. Like it is shown in
the painting here, one day Radha became jealous of Lord Krishna' flute, because
it was allowed to touch his lips and because he would breath his prana into it.
Thus she took it from Krishna and then did not want to return it. Some thus see
the relationship between Krishna and Radha as the love between god and man,
between self and ego.
One moonlit night, Krishna multiplied
his body into many to dance with all the milkmaids and fulfill their desire for
union with him. The love between Krishna and the milkmaids represents the
divine play (Leela) between reality (consciousness) and illusion (form),
purusha (soul) and prakriti (primordial nature), divinity and humanity. The maidens dance around
Krishna as electrons dance around the nucleus of every atom, and as body
molecules and energies dance around the soul of every being.
The wisdom Teachings of Harish Johari on the Mahabharata
Lord Krishna was only eight years old
when he left Vrindavan and his beloved Radha to study in the ashram of the
saint Sandeepani. Therefore everything
that happened between Krishna and Radha or Krishna and the milkmaids took place
when they were children. They were all very conscious of being incarnations of
divine beings and saints. Whatever happened between them can only have been
very romantic and spiritual. A lot of it was child. Play.
Krishna and Bhakti in the Mahabharata
After Krishna killed Kansa, he became
king. In the great Mahabharata epic, Krishna spoke memorable words on the
essence of Bhakti Yoga or the yoga of pure spiritual devotion. During the
battle of Kurukshetra, Lord Krishna revealed to Arjuna the essence of Bhakti
Yoga, of love for God which is love. This revelation is found in the famous
Hindu scripture called the Bhagavad Gita. The Deity is the beloved and the
devotee is the lover. When the Bhakta is blessed by divine grace he feels
undivided union and non-dual consciousness.
Bhakti Yoga is regarded as the most
direct method to merge in cosmic consciousness. Food, sex, sleep, attachments,
responsibilities – all are no longer important in Bhakti Yoga : only worship
is. Paintings and sculptures of deities are an essential part of the Hindu
worship known as Puja. In temples or home shrines, one finds images of many
gods and goddesses that are worshipped on a daily basis, decorated with flowers
and offered food and incense, such as this Krishna statue.
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Meaning ofOm Namo Bhagvate Vasudevaya
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'Om Namo Bhagvate Vasudevaya' is a
mantra of Hindu God Krishna or Vishnu. This eight syllable mantra is known as a
Mukti (liberation) mantra and a spiritual formula for attaining freedom. This
can be chanted like Gayatri Mantra. This is the principal mantra of the Indian
scripture "Srimad Bhagavatam." This mantra an be found in Vishnu
Purana. Some people chant tis a as Kirtan too and Bhajan too.
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya means
"Om, I bow to Lord Vasudeva or Lord Krishna."
Om - Refers to the Supreme Infinite Spirit or
person. Om represents the Shabda Brahman.
Namo
- Salutation, worship, a common
spoken valediction or salutation originating from the Indian subcontinent.
Bhagvate - God
in Sanskrit, someone who is considered God (or equally powerful, merciful),
Bhagavate is one who is becoming divine.
Vasudevaya - Name
of Krishna, Krishna is also known as Vasudeva (Krishna), because he was the son
of Vasudeva. In Gita Arjuna has called Krishna by the name Vasudeva multiple
times.
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya means
"prostration to Krishna" or "surrender to Krishna." Krishna
himself asked his devotees to completely surrender to him.
Krishna also proclaimed
"Everybody should recite "Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya" mantra
daily whenever possible so that I will stand by them. I respond to the call of
the heart immediately and invariably. See me in your duties. I am committed to
those who are committed to their duties. Believe in putting faith in me and
make me your own."
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