How IT works for me— my perspective- concept of God — Krishna
Recently was introduced to the great philosopher Jidu Krishnamurthy and his discourses. Frankly speaking, Why did I call him great, maybe because whatever he was speaking he made sense partly, but not fully, and they all left me intrigued me to continue my research more. He triggered intrigue in me, he was not giving absolute statements for me to just gulp down and digest. But such nuggets need careful chewing and slow digestion for real assimilation. Have a habit of equating everything with eating, that's the dearest activity so easier to understand the analogy I guess.
In one of the discourses he was asked about God's existence and his realization here — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-HfV5YsxY0/?igsh=MWF4MWY4OWRuYjg4Yg==
See we mostly refer to him as “His”, which itself shows that it is “MAN”-made concept. There are in Hindu mythology a plethora of her gods too, but holding subsidiary roles to the main three He gods. Once more an indication of who created these concepts, which openly tells us we have been conditioned to believe who rules the world or is the whole cosmos! what a boastful claim that is. Anyways illusions can be however boasty as they can be, to the creator's convenience and fancy. I am sure there would be a planet on which superior beings sit and move a dice and things change up side down for us here. And we believe otherwise.
Anyways, growing up years there was three holy trinities to refer to for reference as guiding lights. Didn’t know I could look at gang girl. They were hidden away in oblivion, or they thought I would definitely get to them, when it was the right time. I lost a chance to have a wholesome experience I guess from the beginning avoiding the girl gang. What I had were Lords Shiva, Bhrama, and Krishna. By gut instinct, somehow gravitated toward Krishna, I have a tattoo of the name on my nape too, to cement my alliances with him. Have a habit of initiating anything with his chant, so in most of my books, his invocation would be there in the first page.
As per Shastras, his character is called Chanchal — the fickle, volatile, and playful. I loved that in him, contrary to the moody Shiva and every stoic Bhrama. Yes, we need all of them in sync for the cosmos to be what it is, as per the Puranas. However volatile he was, he used to get his work done, which appealed to me. Infusing playfulness to everything is his forte. Maybe because of the environment in which I grew up I placed a lot of emphasis on serious pursuits and a no-nonsense take on life. But his stories induced that playfulness needed. I used to devour, Amar Chitra Katha, a famous comic in those times for such stories. I could have read Bhagavat Gita, Puranas, Vedas or such. As it is constituted, they are written in a way, you need to have specially acquired knowledge to understand what is written in them in a language which is not used anymore. So to understand them first learn the language, which I did, Sanksrit, and then needed special instructions to understand it even at the superficial level. Just a way in which it is written so that the gem is revealed only to a select few, who work for it and it could be kept in wraps with certain self-proclaimed high castes. So if there are any inaccuracies in my understanding of these forces, my excuse is that my sources were limited and I did my best learning Sanskrit, and deciphering the slokas to my best.
Now, as even Sr Jidu says, it's a concept created by us, so we can assume it is anything that we want it to be. So for me in my growing years, Krishna was a good reference point as he was
- relatable — he walked among us, he was born among us and loved and played with people like us, got punished by his mother, did mischief to play-mates, said certain things to certain people to solve their problems in amicable ways, and even died as one of us.
he has the Bhagavad Gita to his credit, I am not sure of much of the content fully though, it is supposed to have everything needed for our functioning in a normal life. The most common of them being about your duty-Dharma, which he reemphasized to a failed warrior Arjuna. Krishna was trying his best to cheer him up to fight, with those nuggets. Wasn't it too much to hear in that intense setting of a war? Anyways Krishna worked his magic and Arjuna fought and won as the myth says after he recited the Gita to him. He knew how to getthe work done.
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदाऽऽत्मानं सृजाम्यहम्।।4.7।। Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself on earth. This is what he assures Arjuna, just an assurance that you do your duty, as an eternal force I am there to be around to facilitate. But you do yours, I do mine. He never told I am there do you chill. That is cool of him.
He took avatars that too 1, and move over the James Cameron classic, the omnipresent shape changer was him. He evolved from Matsya(fish); Kurma(Boar); Varaha(amphibian); Narasimha(man-animal combination); Vamana(ascetic); Parashurama(warrior); Rama(ruler); Krishna(negotiator); Buddha(saint) ; and Kalki (Terminator). If you see maybe documentation is a bit amiss, we missed the one-celled avatar, before the fish, must have been left undocumented, I guess. As he was one cell, there was no one to document, lets take it that way.
As you clearly can see there is a pattern of evolution here he followed. He evolved from being a water born, to saint or monk, as per the situation demanded with the earth's evolution. So growth was part of his journey. So relatable isn't it?
As we all call the universal force to be the eternal energy, which is omnipresent across times, he was there as a facilitator all through. He took care of the needs of the hour, being that negotiato for people who were warring during the Mahabharata times or being the peace-perpetuating Budha, when the world was in chaos or being the Varaha, when the two competing groups, needed a peg to churn the ocean out for their eternal liquid. The people then used to go behind these pleasure-inducing liquids from those times. We are all products of those times. Much needed addition it is.
Now the fun part of his, he managed almost 16,108 wives, isn’t he Badaas? Should I say more about his superior time management and people management skills? You add 2 women to a mix, you can see the fun, so here we talking about multitudes of them. How was jealousy managed among the women? I don't even want to think how did he shuttle between them and remembered their names and their preferences. he might have taken help from good went planners and organisers to manage it all. But impressive.
His looks, he is always depicted as tall dark, and handsome. In contrary to greying Bharma and ever-rueful Shiva. So of course looks do matter.
Would that be enough to complete my ode to him and how I understand him?
I am sure this is very very superficial, more to go in this journey. When the eternal force would be understood with utmost freedom in mind.
