hwacharts.blogg.se - Krishna by Osho

It is going to be the same difficulty that Krishna had created for himself.

I am aware I am going to be in difficulty on this score.

The whole of life is based on contradictions, and there is no discordance in those contradictions rather, there is full accord, absolute harmony among them. In fact all of life’s truth is a blending, a synthesis of contradictions. I say so for the reason that I don’t find these contradictions to be really contradictory. Krishna is a blending of contradiction, a beautiful synthesis of all contradictions. You will not find it in Rama, Buddha, Mahavira of Jesus Christ. And this is the uniqueness of Krishna, his individuality. Krishna is one person in so many diverse roles - and that is his grandeur, his glory. He can be a thief and a perfect yogi together. He can play pranks with the girls of his village, running away with their clothes when they are bathing in the river, and he can also make the most profound statements like in the GEETA.

And there is no contradiction between the two roles. He can play the flute and he can dance, and with the same ease he can fight his enemy in the battlefield with his chakra, his wheel-like weapon.

His significance, his greatness lies in the fact that he is all things together, all things rolled into one, all contradictions living hand in hand, and there is a great harmony in all his contradictions. Shorn of it he becomes meaningless, insignificant. My own view is that with all these contradictions there is only one Krishna, and that is his great ness and glory.To do so, it will be necessary to put aside all our concepts and categories and all our prejudices. It would be better if, instead of looking at Krishna through the screen of our concepts and categories in order to reconcile him with our conditioned minds, we look at him directly and as a whole.Now Shankara and Tilak are polar opposites. From the same GEETA, Tilak chooses karmayoga, the discipline of action, and he brings all his arguments to prove that action IS GEETA’S central message. Shankara establishes that sannyas and inaction form the cornerstones of the GEETA. So every commentator chooses from them according to what appeals to him. There are many sides to a single thing, and Krishna is a man of infinite dimensions. Every interpretation of Krishna is incomplete and partial. It is not possible, unless someone like Krishna himself comments on him. Not one commentary on Krishna is complete.