on love - Bhagavatam!

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on love - Bhagavatam!

(Krishna, Balaram and other cowherds taking cattle for grazing)

Coming to Krishna, his pranks were harmless and don’t forget though he was mischievous he was very responsible and fulfilled all his duties with complete honesty and sincerity – like taking care of cattle etc. He never complained that it was boring or that he was to get up so early and work till sunset and walk so far into the forest to graze the cattle. You never hear him make complaints like “I am going away from 6am to 6pm daily and so far too! That dog sleeping there is so lucky, it doesn’t have to work.  Lucky dog!” you never hear him envy dog or pity himself for slogging. No. He loved every bit of his role and work. For him, his duties and responsible were not burden and not that broke him but those that he relished.

His lunch too was not fanciful. He would eat same curd rice with pickle. That rice also was one cooked on previous night. It is called as ‘saddanam’. Yet he was epitome of joy and happiness. That shows that ‘he was a person who was happy in any circumstance’. He didn’t have anything worth the name to be called ‘good’ or ‘lucky’ and yet, yet he was satisfied. He was not ‘balanced’ (being happy both when he had only his basic needs fulfilled and in abundance – when he became king-maker of Mathura and Yadavas) because he was God, he was God because he was balanced. If we choose the qualities to bear our responsibility with a smile and to do our duties happily along with being balanced in good times and in times, in absence of riches and in abundance of them, we are working towards our divinity.

Then these qualities would unleash the ‘Divine powers and energy’ in us that we can then use to do ‘great works’ effortlessly which world would term as ‘lucky’ or ‘miracle’ as the case might be!

When as a teenager he came to know that he was ‘only brought up’ by Nanda Yashoda and that his biological parents were actually Devaki Vasudeva, he did not became depressed, cry over his fate, hate his foster parents for hiding the truth from him. Infact, he celebrated the fact that he was twice blessed for having two pairs of parents loving him. How many of us can take this news so positively? We are the ones fighting or cribbing, pitying self, complaining all our lives that our parents love our siblings more than us, have given dowry more to them, educated them well and what not! No doubt, we call ourselves ‘after all human beings’ and he behaved as ‘God’ to ‘be’ God!

He knew better than Balarama – his elder brother Balarama had human weaknesses as vanity, being short-tempered et like and yet Krishna never belittled him nor did he disrespect him. He gave his elder brothers’ his due respect all through his life. That was Krishna!

When as a kid and in his childhood, his behaviour teaches us how to behave with elders and others and what attitudes to own for maintaining cordial and loving relationship with one and all, what to talk about such example all through his life?

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