Rama and Krishna

   The two sacred words Rama and Krishna are so divine that the very utterance of these brings total liberation to the ardent devotees. There is a lot to know about these names. It is absolutely essential to know how these words have become so sacred, so divine, and so powerful. There is agama shastra that explains how the sounds of the elemental gods like the space that reverberates, the air, the fire, the water, the earth that rotates and revolves and even the Sun that burns a Lakh and a odd million Kilometers away creates life! Even our own body, the life-breath, produces these sacred divine sounds that are full of knowledge, creative energy and power to create! The sounds of our breath can easily be exercised to produce anything we wish! But, alas, we do not know how to produce these sounds and use them to elevate ourselves from the state of ordinary mortals to that of Shree Rama and Shree Krishna! We simply waste this divine gift given to us! 

    The Space (Akasha) reverberates all the sounds that create the very universe- the galaxies, stars, the sun and the moon, the earth and the living beings on earth-like planets! The air and the fire, the water also produce sounds that are capable of creating matter out od the spirit inherent in them, These powers vested in the invisible spiritual manifest forms are called devi and devata in the scriptures. How powerful these forces, shakti, are have been experienced in our daily life! The scriptures describe them in mantra, sukta, and samhitas. The mythology describe these in the form of gods and ancient history describe some of these as the Characters that may be enacted in drama! Thus, we have the Rama and Krishna who appear as Gods, mythological characters and also, the Kings. The learned sages have realized these and given us a lot of stories so that we can easily understand them! However, we miss the importance, the spiritual aspects hidden in these. Only a few attained persons can ever interpret these spiritual aspects to us. The Bhagavad-Gita is one, Adhyatma Ramayana and the Adhyatma Mahabharata are also available to us. Edatore Krishna Shastry has given us the these spiritual texts. They reveal a lot of secrets behind every name that appears in these great epics. More about these later.