Janamashtmi. Celebrated the world over as the birthday of Lord Krishna. The complete avatar of Vishnu. The Param-atma. Who showed us that God can be celebrated, as much as revered. That God is to be loved, not feared. Who showed us that God is within us, and outside us. Who could be naughty, as well as cunning, who could preach peace, as well as war…Krsna had a strange dichotomy that had never been seen before.
He taught us that love is pure, and one can be immersed in worldly pleasures and yet be aloof, this too…that too…
Spoke to some of my friends in the morning. A few were fasting, others didn’t have any specific plans, except a possible visit to the temple. Another asked me how I would celebrate – the traditional way?
Well, I don’t know much about fasts and pujas. I fall in the “that too” category I guess. So I did what I felt like…cleaned the puja room ([puja stand actually), lit the agarbatti, prayed…then played some celebratory Krsna bhajans…even some Bollywood songs based on Krishna…
And wished him..
Maybe wasn’t the ideal or traditional way of worship, or celebration, but then, its the feeling in the heart that matters, doesn’t it?? And Krsna being Krsna, would have found a way to enjoy the little prayer I made:)
Narada, Vishnu’s devotee and wandering sage, was curious to find out how Krishna was managing to live with his 16,000 wives and came to Dwarka to check. Krishna welcomed Narada with all the honours due to a sage. Narada then visited every one of the houses of Krishna’s 16,000 wives and was surprised to see Krishna present in every house with his wife in an atmosphere of total domesticity, laughing and joking with his wife and taking care of his children, and helping his wife in house hold chores. Watching this phenomenon, Narada was convinced that it was divinity in the form of Krishna, a complete and manifold manifestation who had enjoyed the company of his 16,000 consorts at the same time.
We all have our own Krsna. Celebrate the way you would like to, he will accept it…Happy Janamashtmi…JAI SHRI KRISHNA!!
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