Oh Krishna My Krishna

Thyagarajan Sir, wonderful message on Janmashtami.
'Undergoing suffering culminates in proximity to Lord' might have been true in the case of Bamboo.
In reality, people suffer throughout life=due to poverty, diseases,loss of jobs and disharmony and their entire life is spent in nothing but distress.
My sister lost all her five boys one by one-either due to birth defects or health problems. No child survived for more than two years.
If the above theory holds good, the sufferings children had undergone without their knowledge were in their best interest and they reached the feet of Almighty.How about the mother? Actually it was she who sacrificed her children , by destiny.The flute story appears to justify the sufferings at the outset but there are more factors to it than the mere sacrifice, purported to have been done by the bamboo.
The reality is we have to accept whatever happens-either caused by human hand or destiny and simply be a witness.Even desiring for proximity to Lord may be reckoned
as 'desire'.
Sarvam Krishnaarpanam.Do your duty ,leave the fruit of actions to Lord Krishna-good or bad,desirable or unfavourable.

Jayasala42

 

Dear Sri Thyagarajan:

I received this story through Whatsapp yesterday and was discussing at home about it. I was smiling ear to ear when I read your snippet. It is my understanding the Lord played three types of flutes and they are Venu, Murali and Vamsi. The names Venugopal, Muralikrishna and Bansilal came out of the Lord playing these type of flutes. While Venu had six holes, Murali had four holes and Vamsi had nine holes. He also had other flutes such as Mahananda, Madanajhankrti and Sarala. Interesting part is each one of them the Lord used for specific purpose and for specific audience. When he played flute for cows, only cows can hear it. He calls the name of the cows one after another when it is time to go home. When the Lord played flute with different tunes, it had different effects.

Frankly, the life of Lord Krishna itself is a demonstration of surrender to the will of nature. He is a flute Himself surrendering to the love of His devotees. He was separated from the parents at the time of birth, raised at a different place, always focused on establishing righteousness from the childhood and eventually ended up planning and executing the Mahabharath war getting all bad names. He did nothing for Himself but to establish righteousness. What He taught in Bhagavad Gita was what he practiced. While all other Avatars established righteousness and led an exemplary lives, Dwapara Yuga Avatar taught as the essence of the scriptures through His teachings to Arjuna besides leading an exemplary life.

 

Inspiring one!

 

Cheeniya-- you can't make a distinction between Ram and Krishna. They are one in the same. In the Maha mantra, we chant hare krishna hare krishna, krishna krishna hare hare, hare rama hare rama, rama rama hare hare-- we are offering ourselves to the Supreme Godhead for fulfilling his service. Similarly, in Gujarat we say jai shree krishna while in UP and Hariyana they say Jay Ramji ki, both celebrate God's victory over our ego/body.