- Krishna gave life to the world in the midst of conflict
- Tum mille aur manzil ek ho gaya, saath chale aur sab asan ho gaya,
Lutf Milli aur Zindagi Hasne Lagi, Jale Chirag aur Roshni Hone Lagi.
Everyone likes to swim on the surface, but very few like to go deep into a river, lake or sea. Those who dive deep into the sea are divers, but only divers find pearls.
In the events of a religious man's life or in the spread of popular religious stories, all float on the surface of the story, skim, but hardly anyone gets a sense of the mystery or depth behind it, so be it the Ramayana or the Mahabharata or the Jain and Buddhist stories, but in The story is glorified and often its meaning is completely missed.
Sometimes such questions also arise in the mind that in Ramayana there are ideal characters like Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughan, Hanuman, who keep their family green with their emotions. If you say ideal of family life, then say ideal and sweet message, then we get sweet message from the characters of Ramayana, then at the opposite end of it, in Mahabharata, we find crooked characters like Dhritarashtra, Duryodhana, Shakuni, Dushasan.
In 'Mahabharata' all the harshness, chaos or moral laxity that is not imagined in 'Ramayana' is found. Bharata abdicates for Rama, on the other hand, Duryodhana, on the other hand, devises a plan to remove Bhima's ashes so that he does not get in the way of future kingship and tries to burn the Pandavas alive in Lakshagriha. Why would there be such completely opposite things? Because Rishi Valmiki wants to give the nectar of family life, while the Mahabharata Veda Vyasa points out that if a family member is evil, it cannot be forgiven. He should also be repaid for his misdeeds. He should be taught a lesson. Shri Krishna defeats his maternal uncle Kansa and his son Shishupal with witchcraft or Sudarshan Chakra respectively.
Thus the world of Ramayana is completely different from the world of Mahabharata and the message of both is also completely different. The festival of Janmashtami naturally brings to mind the childhood play of Lord Krishna and the captivating lines of Soordas, 'Maiya Mori, Mein Nahin Makhan Khayo', automatically come to mind. The charming form of the Butter thief Shrikrishna appears before our eyes.
The sweet talk of Krishna's childhood gives the identity of Manavkrishna. Krishna's character is such that on one side you can see Shri Krishna as a human being, on the other side Shri Krishna appears as a superhuman being and if you look further than that, you can see him as a superhuman or an avatar. Such a Shrikrishna was born in the midst of a black cell of imprisonment. Krishna came to enlighten the world. Where Krishna not only penetrates the darkness and comes out of Kansa's imprisonment, but also dispels the darkness of cruelty and perversity that pervades the world by wading in the sweet waters of the Yamuna. The birth of such a phenomenon creates many rare events. The story written in 'Shrimad Bhagwat' of the birth of Shri Krishna says that when Vasudev was carrying the child Shri Krishna in a basket, the flood waters of Yamuna started rising, so Vasudev made the water touch his son's feet and as soon as the feet touched the waters of Yamuna subsided.
How much life has to do with water! In Krishna's character water is constantly glorified and how his life is spent around the Yamuna stream. Does the flood water in the river go down by touching the feet? One who questions with the help of such logic should see the character of Mahavir. The water of the Yamuna flows here from the toe, similarly in the character of Mahavir, while going to anoint the child Mahavir, Saudharmendra wonders how this child will be able to bear the abundant water of this anointing pot? And at that time Bal Vardhaman knew the doubt in Indra's mind. He pressed his right toe on Mount Meru and suddenly the entire mountain trembled. As if there was no sudden earthquake! After this incident Indra was deep in thought. It happened to him that this child Vardhaman knew my doubt, that is why he has shown his infinite power by pressing his toe on the mountain. Acharya Sri Vimalasuriji has put this notion while sketching the character of Mahaveeraswamy in the book 'Paumchariya'.
The extraordinary life of a great man cannot be measured by the yardstick of ordinary and everyday life. For those who have the special, the common yard is shortened to get it.
In fact, the very incident of childhood indicates the extraordinary potential of the person to come. Ever since the birth of Shri Krishna, one gets a sense of his exceptionality. Events such as Krishna's Balalila, Kansavadha, Rukmani's Haran or Narakasur Vadha are not found in the Pandava oriented 'Mahabharata'. For that one has to go to 'Bhagavat' and that too to the first half of 'Dashamskand'.
Remembering the events of Shri Krishna's childhood, let us think that what will be the meaning behind the incidents of stealing butter? Why would Shri Krishna have stolen butter from house to house in Gokul? First of all, butter is associated with the concept of human physical strength, so cowherds were physically healthy and strong. Krishna introduces Shakti in his childhood. Butter is created after many processes and long struggle. Butter comes out when curd and buttermilk is churned from milk. No frosty glory of buttermilk, very thin. Then the butter is sticky on the fingers. Thus one has to bear many hardships to get butter. Srikrishna's life itself was a constant struggle. From his birth till his death, there was a struggle in one form or another. But in the midst of this struggle, he gave the world a new lease of life.
And they were not only stealing butter from Nanda-Yashoda's house. They used to steal butter from the houses of gopis too. The question arises that why does Shri Krishna, who lives in Nandaraja's house, have to go from house to house to steal butter? They did not need anything like this, but they used to steal butter from every house, i.e. they used to bring Navneet of that house. Love, friendship, goodwill, tolerance found in that house would bring them all. The house or the family would bring the extract and then the extract, the Navneet or the butter would be distributed to the Gopbals. He used to eat himself and sometimes the butter would stick on his face. He used to feed the cows with butter and give them new virtues of life.
Where the virtues are shared, where does the vices last? As a result of Balashrikrishna's theft of butter, the influence of virtues began to spread everywhere in Gokul. People's life became pure, sattvic and cultured. That is why the story of this butter thief created a festival of virtues in the homes of Gokul residents. The sattva in the house began to spread in the whole family.
We call Janmashtami as Gokulashtami, so how Gokul became associated with Krishna Janaka. In today's terms, Shri Krishna realized his vision of a villager in Gokul. First of all, he gave adventure and yeast to the people living in Gokul. The people of Gokula must have heard the cruelty of Kansa, knew the cruelty of the kings, the plight of Devaki and Vasudeva in prison must have made their hearts tremble. Thus there will be fear in Gokul. People will be suffering from demonization of kings and bullies. Due to all these, fear, fear or fear must be sitting in the minds of the people of Gokula. At the time of arrival, Krishna comes to Gokul and gives fearlessness to the fearful Gokul residents. Shows Abhay's joy by allaying fear. Brings a kind of self-respect to Gokul residents and as a result Gokul's own identity is created.
The identity of any village or town depends on its inhabitants and the courtesy, bravery and culture of those inhabitants are what make up the identity of the town. Shrikrishna did not despise the gopbalak's playing of cards, but at the same time made them adept in witchcraft. The gopis' flute filled with the tunes of love, then by treating the gopis in a noble manner, he gave a prominent place to the feminine power.
Thus, the sentiments of Shri Krishna Janmashtami need to be felt in life. Otherwise, many Kans will be seen moving around making this Janmashtami Jugarashtami.
