On the Occasion of Sri Krishna Janamashtami
A special post in the series: "All Music is Only the Sound of His Laughter"
Three Beautiful Aphorisms by Sri Aurobindo
Three Beautiful Songs by Pandit Jasraj, Ustad Rashid Khan and Lata Mangeshkar
Radha-Krishna, Rajput school; Source: Google Images
There are four very great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindavun and the colloquy with Arjuna on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindavun created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanised Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.
Yet it is said that none of these four events ever happened.
God has so arranged life that the world is the soul's husband; Krishna its divine paramour. We owe a debt of service to the world and are bound to it by a law, a compelling opinion, and a common experience of pain and pleasure, but our heart's worship and our free and secret joy are for our Lover.
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The seeker after divine knowledge finds in the description of Krishna stealing the robes of the Gopis one of the deepest parables of God's ways with the soul, the devotee a perfect rendering in divine act of his heart's mystic experiences, the prurient and the Puritan (two faces of one temperament) only a lustful story. Men bring what they have in themselves and see it reflected in the Scripture.
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