Sree Krishna, the Lord of LovePremananda Bharati, Baba
Religion
Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love
Premananda Bharati, Baba
Krishna (Hindu deity)
Here I will try to put the philosophy of this solution as briefly as
possible. If our actions of this life are the products of actions in
previous lives, the actions of those previous lives are the effects of
actions in still more previous lives and so on. Thus trying to trace the
causes of all our actions in all our past lives, we are bound to arrive
at the time of the Creation of the universe, when it sprang from the
Will of Krishna. We, as parts of the universe, sprang from that Will
too. Krishna's Will before Creation was; "I am One and I wish to be the
Many," and His Creation is the manifestation of His Will's motion
towards manifoldness and Karma is the law of the rhythmic steps of that
motion. The Will of Krishna, therefore, is the cause of all Karma the
entire Creation as well as of ours, because we are but parts of that
Creation. This makes it clear that, since Krishna is the cause all Karma
of the Universe, He is the Actor of all actions. This being so, the
cause of our sufferings from bondage to Karma lies in our mistaken
conception that we ourselves are the doer of our actions. This cannot
be, because all our actions proceed from our past Karma, the roots of
which are embedded in the Will of Krishna. It is Krishna that is the
whole Universe, as well as its laws and actions. It is Krishna that
suffers and enjoys in so many shapes and forms which make up His moving
Will, called Nature. All our troubles are born of our usurping His
place, the place of the Real Actor. Hence Karma clings, by natural law,
to whoever claims it. We claim the doership of actions which manifest
themselves through us, but the real Doer is the spring of primeval
action—Krishna Himself.
This belief, that we ourselves are the doers of our actions, subjects
our Ego to their reactions. If by tracing the source of Karma to
Krishna, we dispel this illusion from our mind and keep it ever out of
it, so that it may not disturb our conviction of the fact that Krishna
is the only Doer, all our past and present Karma, the stored-up and the
working—Sanchit and Prārabdha—will leave us of themselves and go to
Krishna to be absorbed by Him, while, for the same reason, the
Karma-seeds springing from our present actions will be rendered germless
like roasted seeds which never grow. But this belief needs constant
practice of this thought in order to be sustained without interruption
and involves thinking of Krishna, Absolute Love and Life, every
minute—thoughts by which the thinker absorbs the essence of the purest
spirituality whose illumination ever guides him along the paths of Truth
and Wisdom and prompts him to actions whose results bring harmony and
happiness to himself, as well as to all with whom he comes in contact.
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