"Hey son of Vasudeva! I am aware about all your deeds and who you are. You are on a mission. To resurrect Dharma. Never forget that! Not the Dharma, which runs away from life. But the Dharma that reinforces life with correctness and converts man to God. Your people say that you are God. They are right. Your are God. But, you need to trust yourself. Krishna, You can become God only if you yourself strongly believe that you are God. ......... "
- Translated to English from Chapter 14, Guests of Bhargavaraman, Madhurapuri
(Madhurapuri is Malayalam translation by Shatrughnan of the Original work by K.M. Munshi's second volume about Krishnavataram)
Though there has been many inspiring and thought provoking statements in this marvelous work by Kulapathi I felt this one stands out among many others.
According to Advaita, there is nothing but the Supreme Lord in the Universe. All that we see as Real is not the Real. We feel it as Real because of our ignorance. For example, what a goldsmith sees as only gold, we see it as bangles, necklaces, chains, rings, anklets etc. The truth is that they are nothing but gold. Similarly all the names and forms we see in the Universe is, in its absoluteness, nothing but the Supreme Lord or Consciousness. Keeping this principle in mind, there is no God distinct from me as I, myself , am God. It is my ignorance that veils me from the knowledge of my absolute being.
Now reading what Bhargavaraman (or Sage Parasuram as more popularly known) says to Krishna, who himself is being worshiped world wide as God, Krishna would be God only if he strongly believes that he is God and that would mean he acts as if he is God. This would, in turn, mean that he acts as per Dharma - Dharma, of being in thick of action but still upholding what is correct; Dharma, of not running away from ones duties and trying to attain the Divine who sits somewhere in a distant world judging the actions of the men. If so done by each man, he becomes God.
So who is Krishna that we worship - he is a man like anyone of us but someone who has broken that veil of ignorance, someone who has realized that he is not different from the Universe or any of the material being or thing that we see around. Krishna is of no single religion, he is beyond religion, caste and creed. He epitomizes the realized man, the uncommon but common man who knows what the Absolute Truth of Oneness is
What does this mean to me the common man? If I am GOD then why worship? Worshipping God should not be to get you a job, should not be to get you your girlfriend, it should be ideally a meditation where in you meditate upon this fact that you are one with the World and you are one with God.
Take a step backup and start strongly believing that I am God. Then I am absolved of all my anxiety, my grief, my happiness and I start enjoying the Absolute Peace. It does not absolve me from my duty to perform my actions but it absolves me of the anxiety I would have about the fruits of my action. Since I am one with the World, I have no enemies, I have no competition. All I need to do is travel with the wave of time, performing duties that I am to perform bounded by space and time. As a son, brother, husband, father, employee etc etc and then very soon I fully realize my truth, the Absolute Truth that I am God !!
Aham Brahma Asmi !!!
PS: This dialogue between Sage Parasuram and Krishna is not from Original Mahabharatha or Bhagavatham but an adaptation of the same. But I believe it upholds the essence of the two majors works mentioned above and hence my interpretation of the same
Now reading what Bhargavaraman (or Sage Parasuram as more popularly known) says to Krishna, who himself is being worshiped world wide as God, Krishna would be God only if he strongly believes that he is God and that would mean he acts as if he is God. This would, in turn, mean that he acts as per Dharma - Dharma, of being in thick of action but still upholding what is correct; Dharma, of not running away from ones duties and trying to attain the Divine who sits somewhere in a distant world judging the actions of the men. If so done by each man, he becomes God.
So who is Krishna that we worship - he is a man like anyone of us but someone who has broken that veil of ignorance, someone who has realized that he is not different from the Universe or any of the material being or thing that we see around. Krishna is of no single religion, he is beyond religion, caste and creed. He epitomizes the realized man, the uncommon but common man who knows what the Absolute Truth of Oneness is
What does this mean to me the common man? If I am GOD then why worship? Worshipping God should not be to get you a job, should not be to get you your girlfriend, it should be ideally a meditation where in you meditate upon this fact that you are one with the World and you are one with God.
Take a step backup and start strongly believing that I am God. Then I am absolved of all my anxiety, my grief, my happiness and I start enjoying the Absolute Peace. It does not absolve me from my duty to perform my actions but it absolves me of the anxiety I would have about the fruits of my action. Since I am one with the World, I have no enemies, I have no competition. All I need to do is travel with the wave of time, performing duties that I am to perform bounded by space and time. As a son, brother, husband, father, employee etc etc and then very soon I fully realize my truth, the Absolute Truth that I am God !!
Aham Brahma Asmi !!!
PS: This dialogue between Sage Parasuram and Krishna is not from Original Mahabharatha or Bhagavatham but an adaptation of the same. But I believe it upholds the essence of the two majors works mentioned above and hence my interpretation of the same
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