Krishna, Guru Of All Gurus

Krishna, Guru Of All Gurus

Janmashtami is the blessed and adorable day of the advent of Bhagwan Sri Krishna, incarnation of Vishnu, considered as Jagatguru -­ teacher of all teachers ­`Krishnam vande jagadguru'. As human beings, we tend to observe and evaluate every thing from the viewpoint of the human species only. We judge even God from our point of view. “Where is the goodness of God,“ we ask, “when He has created a world of evil ­ tempests, tornadoes, earthquakes, sufferings, drought and flood? What kind of God has created this world? God could have created milk and honey instead of the plain waters of the Ganga...This is how we think.

Krishna Avatara, is a symbolic representation of the way God works. Nobody can know how God works, and whatever idea we may have of this, it is not appreciable to us because He devastates our ideas of propriety, ethicality, necessity, human-ness, and social values. Everything is upside down. God is nothing but the total topsy-turvy operation of the human way of thinking. It is a Shirshasana of man's consciousness that is required to understand what God is. We should not stand on the footstool of our consciousness, but on the brain of our consciousness.

God's thought is universal thought, whereas our thought is social thought, family and community thought, national, political thought, army, police thought, court-case thought, and any other thoughts we have in our minds.

There is always something that we grab and something that we exclude in our perception, which is the opposite of God's way of inclusiveness. There is nothing that God can exclude from His thought, whereas in a human being, it is impossible not to exclude something. We seem to be the opposite of God in our way of thinking. We cannot grab the whole world into our comprehension at any time. Our way of thinking is only of our family , office, salary, community , relations, our property , and whatever else belongs to us.

We are not concerned with that which does not belong to us; so, to whom does the other thing belong? It is not our concern.

Inclusiveness is the nature of God's operation; exclusiveness is the nature of the human way of thinking. God is nothing but total thought.

Suffice it to say that Sri Krishna is considered as the ray of the Absolute, something like total comprehensiveness and infinite capacity, omnipotent in behaviour, with nothing impossible. He can set right anything in one minute, and if the necessity arises, he can dismantle the whole parliament of the cosmos and take up the reins in his own hands, which he did sometimes in his own career. Rules and regulations did he follow, but he could break any rule if the necessity arose, just as we can do anything to our own body for the sake of its sustenance.

Another example before us is Jesus Christ.

All that he said is beyond the comprehension of the world. He toppled existing laws, and broke the norm; he brought a divine law, what is known as his Sermon on the Mount, like a counterpart of the Bhagwad Gita teachings.

Great men think alike, and there is no such thing as an Eastern God-man or a Western God-man. Krishna and Jesus Christ were neither men nor women. They were androgynous perfections, standing for the word of the Almighty , who Himself is neither man nor woman.

Om Namah Shivay