Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy
Osho's description about Lord Krishna.
Osho's krishna is beyond man's understanding. He is the most significant person in all of history. Krishna accepts life in all its facets, in all its climates and colors. He alone doesnot choose; he accepts life unconditionally. He doesnot shun love; being a man he doesnot run away from women.He is full of love and compassion, and yet he has the courage to accept and fight a war. His heart is utterly non-violent, yet he plunges into the fire and fury of violence when it becomes unavoidable. He accepts the nectar, and yet he is not afraid of poison.
There is perhaps no one like krishna, no one who can accept and absorb in himself all the contradictions of life, all the seemingly great contradictions of life. Day and night, summer and winter, peace and war, love and violence, life and death - all walk hand in hand with him. That is why everyone who loves him has chosen a particular aspect of krishna's life that applealed to them and quietly dropped the rest.
In the whole galaxy of religious luminaries krishna is the sole exception who fully accepts the whole of life on this earth.He doesnot believe in living here for the sake of another world and another life. he believes in living this very life, here on this very earth. Where moksha, the freedom of Buddha and Mahavira, lies some where beyond this world and this time - there and then- krishna's freedom is here and now. Life as we know it never received such deep and unconditional acceptance at the hands of any other enlightened soul.
A fakir has said in his prayer, ' O Lord, I accept you, but not your world". In fact, every fakir says, " O Lord , I accept you, but not your world". This is opposite to the position taken by an atheist. The atheist says, " I accept your world, not you." Thus theists and atheists are two sides of the same coin.
Krishna's atheism is quite unique. Infact, only krishna is a theist: he accepts what is. He says to God, " I accept you and your world too", and this acceptance is so complete, so profound that it is difficult to know where the world ends and God begins. The world is really the extended hand of God, and God is the innnermost being hidden in the world. The difference between the world and God is no more than this.
He accepts the whole. It is important to understand that krisna doesnot give up anything, neither pain or happiness. He does not renounce that which is. with him the question of renunciation does not arise.
In the course of his exhortation Krishna tells Arjuna, in the battlefield, " All those you think you have to kill are already dead. they are just awaiting death at the most you can serve as a medium for hastening it. But if you think you will kill them, then you will cease to be a medium, you will become a doer. And don't think you will be their savior if you run away from the battlefield. That would be another illusion. You can neither kill them or save them. You have only to play a role; it is nothing more than play-acting.
Therefore go into it totally, and do your part unwaveringly. And you can be totally in anything only if you put aside your mind, drop your ego and cease looking at things from the angle of I or me and mine." It clearly shows that krishna's life as a real play, a performance. Krishna's life is a leela; he just plays his part and plays it perfectly. Rama's life has a character, it is idealistic; krishna's life is a free play, a leela.
Krishna says, " Accept both the polarities, because both are there together. Go with them, because they are. Don't choose!. Choose and you err, choose and you are off track, choose and you are fragmented. Choice also means denial of the other half of truth, which also is. And it is not in our hands to wipe it way. There is nothing in our hands.What is, is. It was, when we did not exist. It will be when we will be no more."
Osho's krishna is beyond man's understanding. He is the most significant person in all of history. Krishna accepts life in all its facets, in all its climates and colors. He alone doesnot choose; he accepts life unconditionally. He doesnot shun love; being a man he doesnot run away from women.He is full of love and compassion, and yet he has the courage to accept and fight a war. His heart is utterly non-violent, yet he plunges into the fire and fury of violence when it becomes unavoidable. He accepts the nectar, and yet he is not afraid of poison.
There is perhaps no one like krishna, no one who can accept and absorb in himself all the contradictions of life, all the seemingly great contradictions of life. Day and night, summer and winter, peace and war, love and violence, life and death - all walk hand in hand with him. That is why everyone who loves him has chosen a particular aspect of krishna's life that applealed to them and quietly dropped the rest.
In the whole galaxy of religious luminaries krishna is the sole exception who fully accepts the whole of life on this earth.He doesnot believe in living here for the sake of another world and another life. he believes in living this very life, here on this very earth. Where moksha, the freedom of Buddha and Mahavira, lies some where beyond this world and this time - there and then- krishna's freedom is here and now. Life as we know it never received such deep and unconditional acceptance at the hands of any other enlightened soul.
A fakir has said in his prayer, ' O Lord, I accept you, but not your world". In fact, every fakir says, " O Lord , I accept you, but not your world". This is opposite to the position taken by an atheist. The atheist says, " I accept your world, not you." Thus theists and atheists are two sides of the same coin.
Krishna's atheism is quite unique. Infact, only krishna is a theist: he accepts what is. He says to God, " I accept you and your world too", and this acceptance is so complete, so profound that it is difficult to know where the world ends and God begins. The world is really the extended hand of God, and God is the innnermost being hidden in the world. The difference between the world and God is no more than this.
He accepts the whole. It is important to understand that krisna doesnot give up anything, neither pain or happiness. He does not renounce that which is. with him the question of renunciation does not arise.
In the course of his exhortation Krishna tells Arjuna, in the battlefield, " All those you think you have to kill are already dead. they are just awaiting death at the most you can serve as a medium for hastening it. But if you think you will kill them, then you will cease to be a medium, you will become a doer. And don't think you will be their savior if you run away from the battlefield. That would be another illusion. You can neither kill them or save them. You have only to play a role; it is nothing more than play-acting.
Therefore go into it totally, and do your part unwaveringly. And you can be totally in anything only if you put aside your mind, drop your ego and cease looking at things from the angle of I or me and mine." It clearly shows that krishna's life as a real play, a performance. Krishna's life is a leela; he just plays his part and plays it perfectly. Rama's life has a character, it is idealistic; krishna's life is a free play, a leela.
Krishna says, " Accept both the polarities, because both are there together. Go with them, because they are. Don't choose!. Choose and you err, choose and you are off track, choose and you are fragmented. Choice also means denial of the other half of truth, which also is. And it is not in our hands to wipe it way. There is nothing in our hands.What is, is. It was, when we did not exist. It will be when we will be no more."
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