BHAGWAN Shri Krishna is a great combination of Yog and art. Yog and art both become similar when art comes in Yog. He is a symbol of perfection. Even today we can see child Krishna playing in everybody’s courtyard, and growing in each mother’s lap. The mother feels that the child sitting in her lap is none other than Krishna – Kanahiya.
The childhood of Krishna is an inheritance for every mother. The glimpse of perfection is seen even in the childhood of Krishna. If there is enthusiasm, wonder and innocence in his childhood, there is naughtiness also. If we see the rigidity in him, he would ask his mother to give him the moon. When the mother said from where she should bring the moon, he told her to bring it from the sky. Pull it by raising your hand. Mother asked what he would do with it, Krishna said that he would play with it.
He is not seen stuck anywhere. Krishna is dynamic. He does not stop at any place. He does not stop and look behind. Taking birth from the womb of Ma Devki he pleased her and then he left as Devkinandan from there. When he went to Yashodha, he became Yashodanandan. He brought her too so much of fame.
Gops and Gopikas, who were willing to sacrifice their lives for him, were left behind and he went away leaving them behind crying and wailing. He did not stop with them and went away. This is the strange journey of his life. The place where he was born, he did not stay there, and then where was brought up there too he did not stop. He did not stop with his own playmates.
He even left Mathura, Vrindavan, and Gokul and went away from there. Even where his chariot was moving frequently – between Hastinapur and Indraprastha, a situation came when he shifted to Dwarka to establish his kingdom there. Later he did not stop there too. He laid down his life like an ordinary person and brought an end to his play on this earth.
- Krishna Makes the World Free from Slavery:
Having the sight of Shri Krishna means to get free from slavery, and to get the world free from slavery, to awaken ourselves and to awaken others too, to uplift ourselves and to uplift others, making good to ourselves as well as making good to the world, having the feeling of goodness to self and always having feeling of goodness to the world as well. Krishna told Arjuna that he should not run away from the battle, as the battle was already raging inside him. How could he go against his own nature! If the fire leaves its nature, it would not remain as fire.
Krishna Inspires You Always:
If you are awakened, nobody could challenge you. Even if someone could challenge you, nobody could defeat you. So to keep the internal fire burning you have to make some efforts. Our fire generally extinguishes every day. The flames which should go upward do come down some time. There is a need to put fuel in the fire every day to keep the flames up and the fire burning. Satsang is not needed for a single day but it is needed every day. Inspiration is not needed for a day but needed every day. The pot of love is needed every day not sometimes. Then only you could rise.
God has given us life but the art of living is to be learnt. So to learn the art of living, the guru is needed in life. If one has Guru like Shri Krishna, one would get peace and sure success in life. The most important and biggest achievement of Arjuna is that he is having a Sadguru like Shri Krishna. He did not make any mistake in choosing. If one makes mistake in choosing he would go on committing mistakes the whole life. Duryodhana preferred majority, he concentrated on numbers but Arjuna preferred quality. Even if there is a majority of foolish people, it has no value but when one gets even one knowledgeable person, it is valuable.
- Krishna is for the Dharma:
Arjuna showed discretion in choosing. Krishna told Arjuna that he was having the whole army and he was free to opt for it. And then said that on the other side he was alone and also said that he would not even fight. It is true that God is with us but he would not come to accompany us in our fight because he is without any weapon but is it not enough that he is driving the chariot of Arjuna. Duryodhana opted for the army, while Arjuna opted for Lord Krishna. And then, look, when God takes charge of you, God can take hold of you and lead you to victory.
It is also true that God could drive your chariot. But for this you have to belong to him, you should be devoted to him. You have to say that whether he would do anything or not but he would drive the chariot of my wisdom. God may help me reach there, where I have to reach.
- Krishna Leads You Always:
Arjuna was not wrong about anything because the father of discretion and Bhagwan Shri Krishna himself was driving his chariot. He already knew all the ways and the difficulties to be faced on his way. In the first chapter of Gita, it is Vishad Yog. Its meaning is clear that your melancholy may become your depression; Yog becomes the medium of meeting God. This is the real art of living.
Bhagwan Krishna has transformed the melancholy in pleasure and depression in happiness. Therefore, Krishna is the greatest combination of Yog and art.
