Sree Krishna, the Lord of LovePremananda Bharati, Baba
Religion
Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love
Premananda Bharati, Baba
Krishna (Hindu deity)
Whichever of the four devotional feelings towards Krishna the Bhakta
(devotee) cultivates, it must reach the stage of unalloyed sincerity to
be rewarded by its blissful realization. The loving Servant of Krishna
must love His service above all he loves and holds dear. The devotee who
wants to be the Friend and Companion of Krishna must have his
all-forgetting Love of Krishna pervaded by an uninterrupted sense of
equality with Him. He may serve Him as a slave, but it is the service of
a friend who is more than a slave to his friend. The devotee who wants
to love Krishna as a Father or Mother must have unwavering sincerity of
such paternal love and affection. He or she must always consider himself
or herself superior to Krishna whom they must regard as a helpless child
in their charge. This true parental feeling is pervaded by the
unconscious spirit of spontaneous service and friendship, for no
friendship and service can be compared with those of parents. The same
rules apply to the cultivation of the filial feeling of devotion to
Krishna. The fourth, the feeling of a loving wife to her lord sums up
the essence of all the foregoing three feelings, It is the highest and
tenderest feeling of devotion. The true wife is the servant, friend,
mother and lover of her husband. She is his slave, equal and superior by
virtue of her all-surrendering love. Every form of pure love is
self-surrender. The love that knows no surrender or sacrifice is a
mockery. It mocks itself more than its object, for sacrifice is its
chief test and best expression. Love that only loves, if loved, is pure
selfishness, it is self-deception. But the love that loves for its own
sake and is the fullest satisfaction in itself, the love that loves
whoever or whatever its object loves is the Love Absolute that Krishna
is. The human soul that develops it, binds Krishna thereby and holds Him
its prisoner for good. When that Love develops the tenderness of a
loving wife, it captivates the Heart of hearts, and entrances the Soul
of souls, Krishna.
These Vaishnav forms of devotion reached their highest degree of
development and received their greatest impetus on the appearance of
Sree Chaitanya, the Fullest Incarnation of Krishna, who was born in
Nuddea, on the Ganges, Bengal, a little over four hundred years ago and
flourished for nearly half a century. He was Krishna Himself incarnated
in the form of His Greatest Devotee. Krishna is the Mystery and
Chaitanya is its Explanation. Whenever Krishna comes to earth as the
Mystery of Love in the Junction Period of Dwāpar and Kali, He comes
again in the form, of Chaitanya as the Explanation of that Mystery, five
thousand years after, to show to mankind the Way to Himself for
examples.
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