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BHAGWAN SRI KRISHNA AND SRI RAMCHANDRA'S RAJAYOGA

Lord Krishna whose birthday we are celebrating today is one of the greatest personalities who ever came into being. Some vested interests try to brush his existence as a myth and all the episodes and stories about his life, which keep everyone in this country in awe, and ecstasy as only fiction. It must be made clear that other religious institutions tried to make fun of the life of the Lord and some even now continue to do so. Be that it may. We have a hoary tradition and no one can simply ignore it unless one wishes to live in his ignorance which grants him certain amount of happiness if not bliss! No part of Indian culture and its art forms - may be drama, dance, music or literature etc., is uninfluenced by this great personality.

Historically Sri Krishna belonged to Vrsni clan of the Satvata sect of the Yadavas. There is ample evidence of the historicity of Lord Krishna. The Chandogya Upanishad refers to Krishna, devakiputra, the son of Devaki and speaks of him as the pupil of Ghora Angirasa. Sage Angirasa is priest of Sun God according to Kausitaki Brahmana. It is just possible that Lord Krishna himself composed hymn 74 of the 8th mandala of Rg. Veda as he is called in Kausitaki Brahmana as Krishna Angirasa. Ghora Angirasa after interpreting the meaning of sacrifice and making out that the true payment for the priests is the practice of austerity, charity, uprightness, non-violence explained to Krishna the son of Devaki that at the final hour one should take refuge in the three thoughts. 1. That the self is indestructible, 2. it is achyuta and 3.the self is the very essence or Prana. It is not our intention here on this happy occasion to recount various stories about the Lord.

How can we identify a historical individual with the Supreme God? The representation of an individual as identical with the Universal Self is familiar to our thought. In the Upanishads, we are informed that the fully awakened soul which apprehends the true relation to the Absolute sees that it is essentially one with the latter and declares itself to be so. Lord Krishna himself says in the Bhagavad Gita "Delivered from passion, fear and anger absorbed in Me, taking refuge in Me, many purified by the austerity of wisdom have attained to My state of being." It may not be difficult for us to see the similarity between the teachings of the Lord Krishna and our beloved Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj.

I bring to your kind notice that Lord Krishna is the Head of our Samsthan - the Institute, it does not matter much. For all that is there in spiritual life, He is the Head. The purposes for the descent of the Avatar are entirely different from those of the descent of the Special Personality. There is also some confusion in the minds of some people that the mergence that is talked of, is a total mergence. This will be remembered by all of us here and you will try to be in the thought of the Master, in whom Krishna is expressing himself as on date. All the powers of Lord Krishna are vested with him and perhaps something more if you have read this in "Towards Infinity" properly. You will then understand that not only the power of Sudarshana Chakra is there, but something more is also there with which we have nothing to do. All powers we have nothing to do with at all. We are here to be submissive all the time.

I must also inform you that Krishnastami was being celebrated and continued to be celebrated by the Master as late as even 1981 when I was with him. That it was not a formal function is a fact after 1968 or 1969. Peculiar reasons were given that people may identify Krishna with Hindu religion and that we need not get into this controversy. This is inspite of the fact that ISKCON has been able to propagate the Sri Krishna Consciousness in its own way according to its direction. The main point to note is, it is something universal and it has nothing to do with any religion. Krishna himself transcended all religious barriers. If you kindly think over, from his childhood, the phenomenon of lifting Govardhanagiri itself, is an act against the ritual to be performed to Indra or Varuna for rain, and he said that it is better to worship the mountains which have the trees and in turn give the rain. Some sort of a scientific approach and He said that we need not bother about these functionaries. It does not mean that he was trying to throw away all religion on that day. I am not here to argue on all that but I only try to tell you that he was not for it. So, if you look at it from an entirely different angle, you will find that even the principle of Pranahuti, Babuji says, was something that was practiced by Lord Krishna and afterwards somehow, the theory of Love has taken over and Bhakti has taken over. Now, we say that we got into a state of absorption, deep absorption, enjoyment etc. These words we are using instead of thinking about the grace of the Master or the love of the Master in having given us the benefit of his company. We talk about ourselves only. So, we are here to think about our Master and our Master alone. We do not, even for a single moment, think about Lord Krishna in the sense of having access to him or giving more importance to him as a Superior Being. For us, the Master is all. If we go through the pages from 140 to 150 or so, of the autobiography of Ram Chandra; Part II, Volume 3, there you will find the seeds for the article of Bhagavad Gita (By Revered Babuji Maharaj in "Silence Speaks") and how he had communion with Lord Krishna at that time. I appeal to you again to kindly remember the sloka of Bhagavad Gita which was given in our Patrika which is published quarterly. "Madchitta, Madgatah Pranah Bodhayanti Parasparam". The idea behind it is that we shall all share the thought of the Master again and again so that our faith gets confirmed, more than anything else. We are all trying to remember our roots - call it home, call it Master, call it Lord Krishna, call it whatever you like - that is the root. The root has to be known and Lord Krishna was definitely one, meant for it and you will find that the Special Personality that is our Babuji Maharaj Himself shares this with Lord Krishna to a large extent. We have no reason to think about Lord Krishna in exclusion to that of our Master Babuji Maharaj. Don't try to commit this mistake. When Dr. K.C Varadachari tried to differentiate between them, Babuji Maharaj, in his greatness and kindness, told him that "I am ashamed that I have to bring this to your notice". This was mainly because Dr. K.C Varadachari belonged to earlier generations. Fortunately we do not belong to that generation and we do not get confused with the goal of life with other things etc that are described elsewhere. It is for consideration that on Krishnastami or even Babuji's birthday or Lalaji's birthday, in the afternoon, we do not generally meditate. The two times meditation given to us by the Master is an abridgement of the three meditations that are required according to the Sandhya. Those of you who read the Commandment Number 1 of Babuji Maharaj's commentary will understand that there are three timings for doing meditation and in the afternoon, it is impossible for the modern person to do so and therefore it was abridged like this. Now that we have found some time to gather and to share our thoughts, I think we may have a Satsang around 12:00 noon so that we also take advantage of the timing and see the Glory of the Master who is now shining bright over the sky. This we should do on all these three sacred occasions.

The slokas that are there in Bhagavad Gita, they are around 700 - some add a few more and some people delete a few. The number of slokas given for Dhritarashtra and Sanjaya; Dhritarashtra puts some questions and Sanjaya answers them; there are around 110 or 120. So you have to minus that from the total number. Why I am telling all this is, Babuji talks about the duration taken for delivering the Bhagavad Gita and the counter argument you will find that some other person gives is this. It is not 700 and odd but 700 minus 120. All this is not going to make the point of Babuji less important. I am only trying to tell you what are the arguments that can be advanced, insisting that they were told in so many slokas. It is not only Arjuna who asked Lord Krishna to take the chariot inside, afterwards Dharma Raja goes and offers his pranams to all the great people on the other side - Uncles, relatives, gurus to seek their blessings. One more thing that we should remember is - on one side Bhishma Pitamah was fighting and the other side his