Krishna, Krishna, Krishna.

  The nation is celebrating Shree Krishna Janmashtami today, 30th August 2021. Who is this Shree Krishna? It is needless to ask this question since everybody knows the story at the end of dva para yuga. It is Krishna who steered the Mahabharata war as a neutral between the Pandavas and Kauravas at the Warfront in Kurukshetra. Krishna is born in Mathura and was taken to King Nanda at Dwarka where he has grown up. Actually, as the story goes, Kamsa kept his sister Devaki and brother-in-law Vasudeva in prison for fear of being killed by their son-to-be-born! This incident took place while Kamsa was joyfully celebrating the marriage of his sister and taking the procession. He heard the voice of warning not to be so joyful and he would be killed by the eighth child born to them. He went on killing all the children in the fear. However, the eighth female child Yogamaya escaped from his hands and Krishna descended in her place! So far as Krishna's birth. Remember that He, the Lord descended as avatara as stated in the Gita, yada yada hi Glanirbhavati Bharata... sambhavami yuge yuge! 

  In the Great Epic Mahabharata, Krishna is depicted by Vyasa Deva as the King of Vrushni and maternal uncle of Arjuna. Pandava were ruling Hastinapura and the cousins usurped their kingdom cheating them through a game of dice. Krishna stood by the Pandava and became the Charioteer of Arjuna in the famous battle of Kurukshetra. There are occasions when Krishna revealed Who He is to Duryodhana and Arjuna. He revealed His virat svarupa and gave divya darshan as Vishnu Bhagavan. Now, the problem is about the date, time place of birth of the avatara purusha. Krishna is, for all practical purposes God Incarnate. He is Vishnu, the all-pervasive Consciousness. He pervades the universe as pure consciousness  and is present as an iota of it in all jivas. Pancha bhuta are charged with Energy, Life force and sustains the universe. 

 Krishna, etymologically means 'That which does not diminish'! Here, in our epics (purana) created by Sri Krishna Dvaipayana, who later came to be known as  Veda Vyasa due to classification of Veda into four divisions, has one Krishna in Mahabharata and another in Srimad Bhagavatam. The latter, depicts the childhood days of Krishna. There is yet another Shree Krishna depicted as Bhagavan (God) by the Lord Himself. This is the famous Bhagavad-Gita. Here, Bhagavan speaks about everything one ought to know about- the creation, sustenance, dissolution, merger and the like. The word by word depiction of the universe explained in the Gita is not found in any known scriptures in the world, so far. Bhagavan Shree Krishna speaks about Himself and all His lila, sport. The Bhagavad-Gita differs from the epics in that the spoken words of the  Lord are in the form of instructions given to Sun God prior to creation. He, goes on to say that It is He Who gives the Energy, Light, Power of Life to the Sun!

  When we celebrate the Birth Day of Bhagavan Shree Krishna on the Shravan Ashtami, little do we remember the words spoken by the Lord in the Gita. He, the Lord says, Mudha, these people make me a child and celebrate my Birth, whereas I am neither born, nor do I ever die! In fact these people give me a date of birth as 5252 BCE? In fact, I am ever young! I only exist and nothing exists beside Me. I only appear as everything that is seen, felt, experiences here and I am the experiencer! "Where is the world that is not pervaded by Me", He asks? He, the Lord says, "I Am the Self of All" Aham eva Atmanah ! 

  Thus, The Gita is a beautiful guide that can enlighten and liberate the souls that suffer under the Illusory powers of Prakruti. One has th break the shackles of Maya and get liberated with the Gita. The Bhagavad-Gita is Brahma Vidya and Yoga Shastra. Meditate on Bhagavan Shree Krishna.