Sree Krishna, the Lord of LovePremananda Bharati, Baba
Religion
Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love
Premananda Bharati, Baba
Krishna (Hindu deity)
It is absolute Krishna-consciousness—or God-consciousness, if you will,
if that God is Absolute Love—that carries the atom from its man-stage of
development to its Real Home, Krishna, the Abode of Eternal Love and
Bliss. Like all roads leading to Rome, all religious paths lead to that
Home. The primeval, the most natural and the most scientific religion,
called now the Hindoo religion, has constructed five main roads for
making the return journey easy, and the travelers can choose any of
these roads, according to their inclinations and the state of spiritual
progress. One is the Path of Light and Psychic Force, called the path of
the Sun, because the Sun is the presiding deity of the path. The second
is the Path of Success whose presiding deity is Ganapati, Bestower of
Success. The third is the Path of Destruction of Tama whose presiding
deity is Shiva, the Destroyer, one of the Hindoo Trinity and the
presiding deity of Tama, Shiva who has subdued Tama and become its lord.
The fourth is the Path of Divine Energy whose presiding deity is Durgā,
the Motherhood of God and the Universe—"Prakriti," Divine Nature. The
fifth is the Path of Spiritual Devotion whose presiding deity is Vishnoo
(Aniruddha), the presiding deity of Sattwa, out of whose navel the
universe has sprung and who is the dispenser of Moksha to the walkers of
all the other paths. In this path is included another path, a path far
superior to all the five paths, the Path of Absolute Causeless Love
which leads direct to Krishna, whose presiding Deity is Krishna, the
Deity of all the deities. These different path-walkers are called by the
names of their respective deities of worship—Saura, Ganapatya, Shaiva,
Shakta (worshippers of 'Shakti,' Energy) and Vaishnavs, among whom are
included Krishna-worshippers.
The Sun is the medium of the physical manifestation of the Divine Light,
the Light of Absolute Intelligence, the Co-existent Attribute of
Absolute Love. It is called the Parent of the gross universe, the Outer
Eye of the Deity, the passage of the First Sense of the Divine Mind
which produced Forms. The devotee of the Sun worships it as such, as the
medium of the Absolute Deity, Krishna. Some of them concentrate their
eyes upon the Sun, immersed in water up to the neck from sunrise to
sunset, others pray to it morning, noon and evening and contemplate its
power. The sun is not blazing hot as some modern people think. It is
peopled by spiritual souls who, by the merit of soul-development, go
from earth after death to dwell there for further development. These
spiritual souls are spiritually governed by one who is most developed
among them. He is called the Sun-God, the representative of the sun.
Sun-worship leads finally to Krishna-worship in some fully developed
reincarnation.
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