Posted on: 09 Sep 2018
(Poem of Lord Shri Krishna)
1) Krishno Giridharah kartaa, Gopikaa rushayashchiraat,
Eshanaa tripariikshaa saa, paratra tu satiikrutaah.
[Krishna, who lifted the hill on finger, is on one side. Gopikas are the ancient sages trying to reach God from several births are on other side. Whatever happened between both sides is the examination of the strength of the three strongest worldly bonds with money, issues and life partners called as eshanas, by which their salvation in those bonds is to be known. Stealing the butter preserved for their issues is testing the first two bonds (wealth or butter and issues). Dancing with Gopikas is the test for the third bond (life partner). After leaving Gopikas, He never danced with anybody since elsewhere there were no sages. Even though sixteen thousand daughters of kings loved Him like Gopikas, He only married them and never danced with them. Even before the dance, Krishna lifted the hill as a small boy to prove that He is the God so that others will not imitate Him.]
2) Vibhuuti Jnaana satprema-trilakshanaamalo hi sah,
Triputyaam naasti paapatvam, ucchaistama madho drushah.
[We can easily eliminate Ravana, who also lifted the hill while comparing with Krishna. Miracles, spiritual knowledge and true love are the three signs of God in human form as said by the Veda (Satyakaamah…, Prajnaanam Brahma…, Raso vai sah…). In the first sign, Ravana lifted the hill, but, fell down when God Shiva suppressed the hill by the thumb of His foot. Ravana never spoke spiritual knowledge as Krishna spoke the Gita. There is no any aspiration of fascination in the mind of Krishna for illegal sex since He advised them to go back to their homes, but, they insisted Him. Krishna, Gopikas and the test (the triad called as Triputi) were in the highest level, which means that i) Krishna is the absolute and ultimate God, ii) Gopikas are ancient sages for millions of births doing penance for God and iii) the theft and dance done by Krishna were purely sinless with single motive of examining their success over the three strongest worldly bonds. These three (subject, object and action) are in the highest level of purity, which may look like the lowest sin.]
3) Sarve sammilitaa bandhaah, naama ruupa vimokshatah,
Vaahinyah saagarah prokto, Bhagavat prema kevalam.
[The highest stage, which is the end of entire spiritual effort done during millions of births by sages is that all the worldly bonds of the soul join to become a single bond with God and in this stage all the names and forms of worldly bonds disappear to result in one bond called as the single bond with God (Ekabhaktih… Gita). It is just like all the rivers join and lose their names and forms to result in one mighty lot of water called as sea. This means that the love divided in all the worldly bonds becomes united as one single sea of love present in the one bond with God.]
4) Lingaahantaa chyutaa svaatma-striitvam jnaatam striyo gurum,
Raama bhuutam samaasleshe, tamaicchan tadrutam hi yat.
[All these Gopikas were very ancient sages learning spiritual knowledge from the top most spiritual preacher called as the sage Dattatreyaa, who appeared in the beginning of Tretaa yuga. In the earlier Kruta Yuga, these sages were fully busy in penance for God. When this spiritual journey of the sages was coming to end, they met sage Datta born as Lord Rama. The sages already conquered the strong bonds with money and issues. They also conquered the bonds with their life partners. They also realized that God alone is Purusha (Male) and all the mediated souls are Prakruti (female) since soul is paraaprakruti and body is aparaaprakruti. They realized that the souls considered as males in Prakruti itself are only some females acing in the roles of males in a drama. They got rid of all the ego of gender. Hence, they wanted to become females by their powers of penance and embrace God Rama as their husband. This is not the ignorant homosexual idea since they wanted to really become females and to embrace God. The sages were transformed completely sticking frankly to the ultimate truth.]
5) Kulavidyaa chyutaah kleshaat, striijanmani gurorgiraa,
Te gopyao Yadudattokteh, Krishno Yaadava janmagah.
[The ego of gender disappeared in sages. But, the ego of caste and knowledge are to be tested. Males can reject their bonds with their life-partners very easily, but, there are several difficulties for the females to reject their bonds with their life-partners for the sake of God. Males can also easily reject their bonds with their issues. But, it is very difficult for the females to reject their bonds with their issues unlike males, who bear the pregnancy for nine months. Hence, the last birth of any soul to be tested finally is only the birth as a female. With all this background, the Lord asked them to take actual female births in low castes as uneducated. They agreed and took birth as Gopikas and God Datta also took birth as Krishna in the caste of same Yadavaas as per the boon given by Him to Yadu to restore their right for kingdom.]
6) Dhanaputreshanaa preshthaa, dashavarsheshu saa dvaye,
Naagato nakrutam pashchaat, pariikshaa vidushaamapi.
[Among the three strongest bonds, the very strong bond is the joint bond of issues and wealth, which means that all the wealth accumulated is to be given to issues. Hence, God tested this joint bond by stealing butter kept reserved for their issues for about ten years. The bond with life-partner is weak compared to issues and wealth and hence, God tested this bond for two years (two moon seasons) only. God has no fascination for stealing wealth or illegal sex and this is proved by two points:- i) God never repeated these two actions anywhere after leaving Gopikas and ii) God never returned to Gopikas due to the fascination to them. He had sufficient butter in His house and everybody misunderstood His stealing the butter. He was very beautiful, loved by several girls and Gopikas were not so beautiful also. Hence, this is the testing of eshanas only and not the fascination of the Lord. Understanding this real hidden truth is very difficult even for scholars and hence, it is said that the Bhaagavatam is a test for scholars also (Vidyaavataam…).]
7) Virodhaabhaasatashchaidya, vaasoharanachauryakrut,
Jnaayate jiiva daivaarthah, tat samdarbha samanvayaat.
[Without understanding the background of the actions of God, people get confused and confuse others. God Krishna killed Shishupaala for forcibly marrying the wife of king Babhru while He Himself danced with Gopikas. Similarly, He supplied saris to Draupadi and saved her from becoming naked in the court of Kauravas while He Himself stole the saris of Gopikas while they were taking bath in river. He killed all the Kauravas for trying to grab the wealth of Pandavas while He Himself stole butter, the saved wealth of Gopikas in spite of having enough butter in His house. These contradicting actions are to be resolved carefully by analyzing the contexts. Shishupaala and Kauravas as souls broke the fundamentals of Pravrutti whereas He as the God tested Gopikas in the climax of their Nivrutti. He tested Gopikas in their bonds with wealth related to issues and with life-partner and in their knowledge that God is omniscient and nothing need be hidden from Him.]
8) Parokshapriya gopyastaah, pratyaksha yaadavaa hataah,
Kshiirataapaat sa hi klaanto, Raadhaa hrudi niruupitah.
[Only very few passed in the test of three strong worldly bonds and others, who complained to Yashoda and criticized Him failed in the tests. The devotion of passed candidates was increased to climax by very long separation from Him to grant them the highest Goloka and even the passed Gopikas misunderstood Him as very cruel without understanding the reason for separation. Even the Veda says that nearness decreases dearness (Parokshapriyaah). Gopikas developed wonderful faith in Him due to separation and reached the highest Goloka, which is above the abode of God! Yaadavaas, who stayed very close to Him in Dvaaraka neglected His prohibition orders due to negligence on Krishna resulted by closeness, became highly indisciplined to kill each other in the end. Once Radha came to Dvaaraka and was offered hot milk, drinking which resulted in the red hot color of Lord due to His presence in the heart of Radha. Rukmini was drinking the same hot milk everyday and God didn’t become red hot on any day since closeness to Lord developed negligence. Seeing this, Radha went back to Brundaavanam to save the value of her devotion.]
9) Balaraamah parah siddhah, tadanya Uddhavashchyutah,
Uddhruto Gopikaabhishcha, tato ¬ vajnaa Guruh parah.
[The case of Balarama, the incarnation of Adishesha is quite different since he attained God (Siddhapurusha) already through this spiritual procedure and the rule of nearness and dearness can’t affect his mind. Such category always follows the Lord in the incarnation on this earth. It is not necessary that whoever is near to Lord must be the unaffected soul. Uddhava was also staying very close to the Lord and unlike Balaraama, he was very much affected by ego through the path of Monism. The Lord wanted to reform him in the path of devotion and encouraged him to go to Gopikas to preach them about the Monism. He went to become their preacher in knowledge, but, became their disciple in devotion! Gopikas already passed over the first stage of knowledge in the previous births as sages and are in the second stage of devotion. Uddhava was a victim of nearness affecting the dearness. He was never considering Krishna as God since he was considering himself to be the God! Gopikas and Uddhava are very good examples of this rule. The nearness not only develops the negligence, but also, results in insult! (Avajaananti… Gita) and the same point is clearly mentioned by scholars (Atiparichayaat avajnaa bhavati…), which means that insult comes from over closeness! Only the omniscient God knows the perfect state of a devotee and hence, God as the divine preacher is the correct authority to advice the best suitable to the specific stage and no soul can estimate itself or other soul. Uddhava, very close to the Lord, may be misunderstood as Balaraama by not only other devotees but also by Uddhava himself!]
10)Naavakaashah paraarthasya, Bhagavat premapuurite,
Naaradaayoddhavaayaapi, proktam taabhirvichaaryataam.
[When the final stage of single bond with God is achieved after continuous intensive spiritual efforts through millions of births, even fear for sin and hell disappears (Sarvadharmaan… Gita) since in such state of extreme madness filling the mind, no concept finds any place to enter the mind of such climax devotee. When Krishna suffered with false headache and told that the feet-dust of any devotee as its medicine, even the eight wives refused to give it fearing for sin and hell! But, Gopikas gave the feet-dust immediately to sage Narada. When he told that such action will lead them to hell, they replied that they are prepared to go to hell, if Krishna is cured of His headache! When Uddhava tried to preach them the path of Monism, they replied that their minds were fully filled with the love to Krishna only and no concept other than this can enter their minds since there is no space to receive any concept other than love to Krishna! This is the highest state in spiritual path, which shall be carefully understood with patience before talking any nonsense about misunderstood Bhaagavatam.]
11)Vishvaruupekshito Datto, madhyavaktratrayena hi,
Navaniitamiva kshiiraat, dhenudharmaavanam dvaye.
[The cosmic vision shown by Krishna is direct visual proof that the world is created, maintained and dissolved by single God (Yato vaa…, Ekamevaa… Veda). The central three faces of this vision are the faces of God Brahma, God Vishnu and God Shiva showing directly God Datta, the first energetic incarnation. Milk is offered to God Datta and butter is offered to God Krishna. Butter came from milk and God Krishna came from God Datta. Both are associated with cow indicating that God is always with the deity of justice for protection.]
(Shri Krishna Bhaagavatam is completed.)
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