jabdakhata

When Avataras or special manifestations come to the world to embrace a worldly life they have to behave exactly like ordinary human beings. Otherwise every body will know them and their mission will not be successful. They would play a role knowingly and thus like the best actors they would act so convincingly that it would be difficult to distinguish them from ordinary men. However, their powers will still manifest through their selfless actions and love for humanity and they will reveal their identity to a select few through whom they will leave a message for the mankind. As human beings they too will be subjected to suffering and will have passions like happiness. Rama was grief stricken by the loss of Sita. Krishna too had his moments of weakness. When he left Vrindavana there is no account of how he felt for the loved ones he were leaving behind, knowing fully that he wont be returning to them, that these simple village girls and boys loved him with their everything and he too re

The conquest of Jarsandha had to be done in a way that would not get attention from his allies. They would not have time to react against the Pandavas and Krishna. They would be awestruck by the policy and the swiftness. Also it had to be a just battle so that it did not cause any censureship on Yudhisthira who was conducting his Rajasuya. Jarasandha was notorious for another reason. He was planning to conduct a great nara medha yagna or sacrifice of human beings to become invincible by begetting divine power. He captured eighty four kings and small chieftains and was waiting to capture sixteen more whom he would have sacrificed to Mahadeva to get a boon of invincibility. So he had to be stopped for saving the lives of his hapless victims through his foolishness and fundamentalism. There was no other person who was capable of fighting him, other than Bhima. Bhima was young and powerful. Moreover he had Krishna on his side and Arjuna to back him up. So the three went to Magadha disgui

Now let us come to one of the most important and also controversial episode of Krishna’s life, one which has been maligned by many, understood by few and appreciated by fewer – The Raas Leela or the Autumn Dance festival. Swami Vivekananda had said that one having body consciousness can never understand the true spiritual significance of the Raas Leela. Only people who have achieved transcendental love can understand the Raas Leela and what it meant to a bunch of women who were mad with divine love, divine fervor. The story goes on like this – The Hemant season was the harbinger of the winter. On a lovely day the young maidens, the gopikas took a bath and went to the temple of local goddess Katyayani and almost all of them prayed privately for having Krishna as their husband. On a lovely moonlit autumn night Krishna was desirous of playing with the folks and he started playing on his flute. Hearing that ethereal music, full of bliss and joy, none of the gopikas could remain in the

By killing Jarasandha with the help of Bhima who was equal to him in strength, Krishna secured the safe execution of the Rajasuya for Yudhisthira. There was no further obstacle as most of the other kings were either friendly or indifferent to Pandavas performing Rajasuya. They were also afraid of the strength and power of the Pandavas, esp. of Bhima and Arjuna. So far so good. But then Shishupala played the spoilsport. That cousin of Sri Krishna had a major hatred against Krishna and he never lost on opportunity to display that. There are some myths regarding his birth, that he had extra organs which came off once Krishna took him in his lap and the oracle revealed that he would die in the hands of Krishna. So his mother extracted a promise that Krishna would forgive his sins. Krishna agreed to forgive his ninety nine omissions. However fantastic this tale is, there is probably one shade of truth, that Shishupala knew that Krishna was going to be his nemesis, like that of Kamsa. Ther