Based on Bhagavad Gita : Love: Concealed yet Revealed Before the unequivocal finale, the message of love is both concealed and revealed. It is concealed because Krishna lovingly accommodates those not yet ready to love Him by delineating other paths for their gradual spiritual growth. All souls in this world have come here due to their envy of the Lord (7.27), due to their desire to enjoy like Him instead of with Him in the spiritual world. Indeed, Krishna states explicitly (9.1) that he reveals the most secret essence of the Gita – its message of love – to Arjuna primarily because he is non-envious. If Krishna reveals His opulences to envious souls, that revelation will only increase their envy and make it more difficult for them to return back to Him. So He accommodates them by seeming to offer other paths that will make them slowly detached from material enjoyment and eventually able to become attracted to Him by hearing His glories. But, for those who are open-minded and willing to give up envy and accept the path of devotion – made easy by associating with His devotees, Krishna also reveals the supremacy of the path of love. He does so not only at the end, but also in the ninth and twelfth chapters as well as in several other places (2.61, 3.30, 11.54, 12.6-7, and 13.18). Ultimately,Krishnais longing for our love – because he knows that is the only way we can become fully and eternally happy. Srila Prabhupada makes this secret of the Gita open in his preface itself, “By the spell of illusion one tries to be happy by serving his personal sense gratification in different forms which will never make him happy. Instead of satisfying his own personal material senses, he has to satisfy the senses of the Lord. That is the highest perfection of life. The Lord wants this, and He demands it. One has to understand this central point of Bhagavad-gita. OurKrishnaconsciousness movement is teaching the whole world this central point” Krishna advocates, not sectarian religious belief, but universal spiritual love. He not only teaches this love, but also demonstrates it. He happily accepts the menial role of a charioteer to assist His devotee Arjuna in the battle. The unique nature of the spiritual master-servant relationship is that just as the devotee serves Krishna,Krishna also serves the devotee. Srila Prabhupada points out that this relationship is completely different from its exploitative mundane counterpart and is “the most intimate form of intimacy.” The culmination of this divine love is revealed in the Vrindavan pastimes, whereKrishnahappily takes a subordinate or intimate role to reciprocate love with his servitors. Thus Kurukshetra does indeed point to Vrindavana. The Kurukshetra message, its battlefield backdrop notwithstanding, is essentially a gospel of pure spiritual love. And the Vrindavana pastimes, their pastoral romantic context notwithstanding, are a demonstration of that gospel. Thus, the two seemingly discordant aspects of Krishna’s personality, as seen in his philosophical message and his pastoral pastimes comprise a concordant progression that heralds us to a dizzyingly lofty love that is founded on the solid ground of perennial truth. Hare Krishna ... Jay Jagannath ... Chant these names with love and you will feel the ecstasy: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare ...
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 03:17:22 +0000
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