ShreeKrushNaJayanthi on shraavana bahula AshTami prayukta Rohini Nakshatram....
Here it comes again in 2021, the most celebrated festival across the world by one and all who love ShreeKrushNa...
Based on my guruji, sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaari ShreemadBhaagawata Pravachanaantargata ShreeKrushNaLeelalu, let me talk about the most celebrated spiritual hero who continues to remain a mystical personality even today...
( Yes..you heard it right... Ask the people who stay near by "Nidhivan"... saying..
Kaun hai vo ajnabi.. jo aaj bhi dinmay payDpaudho kay roopmay basay gopiyosay raatbhar naach nachaatay...raas rachaatay... bansi ki dhun say sab ki hosh uDaatay...har raat bankibihaari mandir may raasleela ka rasm apnaatayhuay apni pehchaan ko vrundaavan say aajbhi kaayam rakhtay hai...
And it is very well an established fact that Lord Tirumalesha is none other than Lord ShreeKrushna who specifically took the form of Lord ShreeVenkateshwara to fulfil his various devotees' asks as mentioned by her highness BhaktaYoginiKavayitri Shree TarigonDaVengamaamba in her ShreeVenkaTaachalamaahaatmyam, the most authentic of the works pertaining to Lord ShreeVenkateshwara and everything related to him in this Kaliyugam....
for that the content of the same is scrutinized by none other than Lord ShreeVenkateshwara himself..!!
( All the various books that talk about Lord ShreeVenkateshwara are essentially the explanation of various excerpts from the aforementioned
ShreeVenkaTaachalamaahaatmyam....)
Other than these two mystical places from the North of India and South of India respectively, there are many other places where in Lord Krushna has established himself as per his devotees' wish...
A devotee wanted to talk to his ShreeKrushna everyday however he wasn't allowed in to the temple citing some reasons as per the then temple administrative restrictions....
So he felt sad for that his Kaanha is available only to some elite devotees only and he consoled his grief by having a brief distant darshan from the rear window of the temple for which Lord Krushna has turned himself towards the rear window to tell everyone that his devotee Kanakadaasa is dear to him and thus his darshan would be given to all the devotees in the same form which continues even today....
The Q line was quite thin in the morning hours when I had a chance to visit Udupi Temple ( Karnataka ) en-route Kukke, and thus I was fortunate enough to have 5 times of free darshan from that NavagrahaKindi from where ShreeUdupi Krushna gives his darShan to one and all as given to his dearest devotee for the first time when he turned himself by 180 degrees to talk to his devotee...
( As known to the spiritual stalwarts,
the Udupi ShreeKrushnaMoorthy is essentially a transformation of the physical remains of Lord ShreeKrushna's mortal coil's heart that holds the HrudayaKosham of the ShreeKrushNaParamaatma from his ParipoorNaavataaram. Thus Udupi Shree Krushna Temple is one of the most powerful temples of India that holds spiritual currents of higher magnitudes even today. To those who have had the blessings of having the Bhojana prasaadam that gets served in the Udupi temple premises, it would be evident that it has that majestic touch of ShreeKrushNa divya hasta sparsha which makes it an Ambrosian / Amrita equivalent. Especially don't miss the gummaDikaai mukkalu in the most delicious Saambaar and the generic Panchakajjaaya prasaadam of Udupi which will make it even more remembering.. )
Be it Guruvaayoor in Kerala, Nemali in AndhraPradesh, etc...etc....
Lord ShreeKrushna continues to exude his mysticism as per his devotees' desires...
Ok...So let's talk about the ShreeKrushnaTattwam, the most revered spiritual philosophies across the world...
About the greatness of the Krushna Consciousness propagated by ISKON,
I've already written to some extent in my last year's post @
( shreeguravenamah-aithavk(dot)blogspot(dot)com/2020/08/wishing-one-all-very-happy.html
?m=1 )
So, apart from the above earlier post's content that talks about ShreeKrushNaVaibhawam, let's talk more about ShreeKrushna tattwa vaibhawam...
Ka kaara
Ra kaara
U kaara / E kaara
Sha kaara
Na kaara
sangamam makes the word
KrushNa or KrishNa.
( KrushNa is a more authentically accepted usage by our erudite elders...)
"Raamo Lalitaambika KruSHNashcha Shyaamalaa Swayam....." is the aryoakti explained by Shree Saamavedam ShanmukhaSharma gaaru in one of his pravachanams....
For now, let's set aside the Shaakteya Beejaakshara Vaibhawam embedded in the KrushNa naamam and let's discuss the KruShNa tattwam in detail...
As explained by sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaaru, the word KrushNa literally means
"NiratisayaAaanandaSwaroopam.. " i.e., the bestower of bliss...
Akin to the mesmerizing blissful state one is drawn towards by listening to the enchanting flute music, the holder of flute as his icon, KrushNa too draws everyone towards him by his enchanting ShreeKruSHNa mahimnata...
Have you ever observed that even an infant who keeps crying for no good reason calms down all of a sudden after listening to the various soothing flute instrumental renditions...?
( I found them to be the best way to calm down my daughter whenever she cries for no good reason )
Similar to how a small baby forgets all the surrounding irritation and gets so much involved in to the relaxing flute music as if they have been asked by someone to do so...
It would be the case with Lord KrushNa's magnanimity too, so much so that he makes us involuntarily involved in to him and his grace to bless us profusely with all that we need in our lives..
As explained by sathguru ShreeChaaganTi gaaru in the mighty ShreemadBhaagawatam discourses,
it is to be noted that Lord Krushna is the last avataar of the 3 avataars that he has granted out of his sheer kindness to a couple who prayed for Lord ShreeMahaaVishnu's blessings....
PrushnigarbhuDu
VaamanuDu
KrushnuNuDu
are those avataars blessed to the mankind of which ShreekruSHNa is the last one..
As explained by sathguru ShreeChaaganTi gaaru, ".KruShnaavataaram " is a paripoornaavataaram and thus Lord KrushNa continues to be hailed as KrushnamvandayJagadgurum....
From being the cynosure of NandaVraj as the cute little mischievous Krishna ruling the hearts of all the GopaGopi bhakta gaNam, to being Lord Krushna, the valorous warrior ruler of the mighty water locked city of Dwaaraka, ShreeKrushna has donned many a hat that is incomparable to any other celestial beings' avataar on the planet earth...
In other words, you name it..he has it..
As explained by sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaaru no other avataar has blessed the devotees as much as ShreeKrushnaavataaram did....
As a sober human being on one side and as a super human being on the other side, there is no equivalent for his ParipoorNaavaataara vaibhawam that has blessed umpteen devotees with all that they have wished for and granted them the most cherished KrushNaSaayujyam....
And it is far beyond the comprehending ability of a mere human being to understand his magnanimity exuded in all his ShreeKrushna Leelaas....
1. For a kid who has no dearth of butter in his home with Yashodamayya being the queen of Nandavraj, why would be the Navaneetachora leela become the most sought after leelaa for him...?
2. As a kid if he stood in the stylish Tribhangi posture with a flute in one hand and the lifted Govardhanagiri on the tip of the other hand's little finger for 7 days continuously to save every living being of Nandavrajam from the then Lord Indra's arrogance and ire being vented out in form of an unbearable downpour with hailstones,
then as a valorous Lord ShreeKrushna why would it become difficult to deal with culprits like Jaraasandha so that he runs away from them to make them a target for some other ascetic person resting in a cave as per Lord Brahma's boon for a really long peaceful slumber after a tiresome celestial war.
3. For a handsome and a powerful teenager....
who has blessed a garland maker, en-route Kamsa Antahpuram, with unimaginable riches for offering him a simple nice garland with pure love and devotion...
and then who smashed away a raging elephant named kuvalayaapeeDaNam and went on to give an extremely powerful blow to his uncle Kamsa maama to put an end to him in one punchy Shot for all the torture he kept him and his parents ever since he was born....
( Shree ChaaganTi sathguru gaari explanation of
"KrushnuDi okka guddu tho KamsuDu Panchatwam podaysaaDu...." is a must to listen to, to understand how powerful ShreeKrushna's shots are as opposed to how smooth and sober he looks to be )
....
why would it be that he didn't grant the pancha Pandavaas, who have always worshipped him with pure love and devotion, whatever they would have better got from Duryodhana by hitting the latter just like how he has handled his Kamsa maama...
4. For a Lord who took his buddy Arjuna to Lord Shiva and made him secure the powerful paashupataastram in order to make the latter use it during a complicated Saindhava vadha to save Arjuna from Saindhava's father,
Why would it be difficult to save the latter's son Abhimanyu from getting trapped and lost in the Padmavyuham...
5. And, for a lord who can stand infront of the deadly Brahmaastram, in his micro yogic form, that was targeted at Abhimanyu's son while the latter was being carried by Uttara in her womb, and consume it's explosive power in to him in order to save Arjuna's grand son ( who was later named as VishnuraatuDu and was called as Pareekshith...) upon Uttara's sincere prayer..
Why wouldn't it be a petty thing to take off a small piece of arrow head shot my some tribal hunter ( believed to be ShreemadRaamaayanam's Vaali in his subsequent birth ) that has hit and stuck in his Toe, instead of making it a reason to shrug off his super mortal coil to merge his derived consciousness in to the supreme MahaaVishnu's consciousness in the holy abodes of ShreeVaikunTham...
And so on and so forth....,
even the most erudite of philosophical scholars would be astonished by the way ShreeKrushna has projected himself in certain situations which are way beyond the perceivable realms of mortals....
Only an enlightened sathguru would be able to provide a complete comprehensive matrix of the unparalleled ShreeKrushnatattwam that is like a cosmic black hole that gulps in even time to its appetite...
It is because ShreeKrushna is that unquantifiable time spirit itself to whom a raging Yamuna made a way for Vasudeva carrying little ShreeKrushna on his head to wade through the same...
( Sun, his son Yamadharmaraaju, his daughter Yamuna..all are the various dimensions of the time spirit and ShreeKrushna is a master for all of them..)
It is because ShreeKrushna is that unquantifiable cosmic force that has it's own universal equations of the
Who, Why, When, Where, How...
of every given person and the associated incident and thus he is rightly that uncomprehendable divine personality who is as simple as a cool, soft, soothing breeze when respected and embraced with devotion and
who is as complex as an unbearable hurricane that can blow off the entire universe with its immeasurable universal power...
May the ShreemadBhaagawataantargata ShreeKrushna tattwam / vaibhawam continue to enrich the lives of all the devotees embracing the same with love and respect and may the same ShreeKrushna tattwam that has emulsified itself in to the ShreeVenkatesha Parabrahma tattwam to bless all the devotees of this Kaliyugam,
bestow Health, Happiness, Peace and Prosperity to all the devotees as per their earnest prayers....
And thus ShreeTaallapaaka Annamaachaarya has extolled this inscrutable ShreeKrushna tattwam standing mighty in the AanandaNilayam, saying
"SharadhiGhambheeraShaayi JayaJayaKeshava..."
కేవల కృష్ణావతార కేశవ... నామాంకిత శ్రీవేంకటాద్రికేశవ...
కిరణార్క కోటితేజ కేశవా
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