The Lords Glories

She sang The Lords glories with so much passion. She sat at the corner of the temple street. She was very frail and ancient. She had arrived there about a year ago. 

Not that she left her household by force but she was tired of listening to jibes every single day from her son and his wife. Without informing anyone she just took her basic belongings and walked out of the house. She searched for a suitable place for two whole years, going from shelters to ashrams but everywhere she encountered terrible conditions. Ultimately, she found herself a tiny niche under the awnings at the end of the temple road. No doubt, the municipal administration person knew about her unauthorized squatting, he allowed her to stay put. That part of the land belonged to the rich landlord who lived abroad. Anyway, he believed she was not capable of causing damage or nuisance to the property. 

Some people brought her food and some others put a tenner in her hands. She never spread her hands in front of anyone. She sat there singing songs of The Lord the whole day in her melodious voice. After all she was a teacher of classical music in her past life. She had left singing after her husband died. Now she sang only for The Lord. 

Her son and his family used to visit the temple once in a while. He could hear her sing but he never went near her or asked about her. Another year went by. 

One day the landlord returned. He saw her squatting outside his gate. He made full enquiries about her from his staff. He came to know she just occupied a small disused patch outside his palatial house. She never caused nuisance or disturbed anyone so they had let her stay put. 

For a few days he could hear her mellifluous singing filled with so much fervor for The Lord. Then one fine day, he walked outside the gate and invited her inside. 

Then onwards she lived in that big house till she passed away peacefully a few months later. No one missed her except the rich landlord who had looked upon her as his grandmother. She had brought back God in his life. Her recorded voice still echoes sometimes from that rich mans mansion! 

Story Of Vajreshwari.

The story of Vajreshwari. 

Long ago, in a village called Gunj Kati, Parshuram the avatar of Vishnu was tired of killing the Kshatriyas and wanted to lay down his arms. He propitiated to Goddess Vajreshwari, an avatar of Parvati to take His deadly weapons away. She took them and hid these in the bowels of earth. Then She told Him to do severe penance there itself. 

The Gunj Kati temple! 

This is the myth surrounding Vajreshwari. 

Later Chimaji Appa found the Goddess and after he prayed to Her, she helped him overcome the Portuguese in Bassien Fort near Mumbai. In gratitude, he made a temple for the Goddess atop a nearby hill. He took the statues from Gunj Kati and consecrated these at  the village, now called Vajreshwari. 

The statues of Vajreshwari, Renuka( Parshurams mother), Kalika, Parshuram, etc are seen in that temple even today. 

At Gunj Kati, a replacement statues of these Goddesses are seen too. A nearby temple is the place where Parshuram did His austerities. 

The place where Parshuram did penance 

 The place has over 150 hot springs, heated due to the blood from the killing of the Kshatriyas and subsequent hiding of His weapons in the bowels of the earth. 

Two Sisters

There were two sisters. One of them was deeply in love with a man and intended to marry him when she got a chance. Unfortunately, she being the younger one had to wait till her elder sister got married. 

The family looked around for a boy for the elder one and they finally got the match. The elder one got married. Her life was tough since she had to get used to being with a man and a family. It took her many years to settle down. She learnt to love her husband and the family she had thereafter. For her marriage came first and then came love. 

The second one was into the relationship for four years before they got married. For her to get accustomed to her husband and family was easy. She had her previous time with them to get attuned to. She married for love. But there was a problem. They had explored their relationship far before their marriage. The cracks developed much earlier. As they say familiarity breeds contempt. Their too familiar relationship had progressed far beyond so there was hardly any need for exploration later. Even though they knew each other's habits, intolerance set in much faster. Both got on each other's nerves. Finally they couldn't see eye to eye with each other. They filed for divorce. 

Now she is already in another relationship which she wants to cement once her divorce comes through. She has pinned all her hope on her second love. She believes in the dictum, second time lucky. 

The first sister took many years to know and understand her husband. They learnt to look after each other. Today she is happily married and awaits her anniversaries with enthusiasm. 

When people are forced in a situation, they have to love what they have to do. It may take a very long time to get acclimatized to it. But they have to get used to the vagaries of each ones nature and sometimes tolerance is much easier. 

Then there are those who do what they love. But sometimes loving assumes a different role. Expectations grow and then there are mismatch of these. Unable to handle these discrepancies relationships deteriorate. 

These are two separate issues and are not the same but if you look at the above two stories, you will understand we are always on the look out for happiness and that is dependent on how we can learn to tolerate. First it's important to keep aside the ego in a relationship. Ego is the root cause of all downfalls. Love is the everlasting framework on which this universe exists. Love dependent on factors other than love itself can never be called love but a transaction. Love has to be purely unconditional. There are no conditions attached to love. 

We cannot find such love amongst humans. Hence unconditional love is only divine. 

Commitment And Action

What is commitment and what is action? Both are different terms but without commitment, you cannot have true action. Your action will be only partial if you do not have any commitment to the cause. Rather, you should say the action is non-action. 

If a man has doubts about his wife's fidelity, then can he call his marriage a committed one? In the same way, a woman stepping into marriage with guilt can never be fully committed to it. There has to be complete commitment from both sides without an iota of tainting, then alone that marriage will be successful and full of love. 

In my world too, doubts that assail a persons mind will never allow complete surrender to the cause. Even though I have mooted the idea of forming an organization for two purposes, I am unable to garner full commitment or further action till the doubts remain on my integrity. 

Being a person dedicated to the spiritual alone and seemingly attached to the family of the said incumbent, the disciples beliefs are shaken. Appearing to be biased to the personal family, the belief of serving the worlds cause is shattered. Secondly, the enterprise being purely a commercial one, involvement of a spiritual person in material causes would tantamount to breach of spiritual oneness. These twin reasons are weakening the said causes. 

So first let's look at the causes themselves. The first is the cause of leading everyone towards their own true personal calling. The second is raising the empowerment level of the weaker fairer sex for handling the future leadership of the Kali Yuga. Both these are instructions are issued by my own Guru to justify for my own existence. 

The vehicle given to me carries it's past legacy and I have to use them for the greater cause wherein there are no choices. Reiterating the causes in spiritual terminology, they simply translate into rectifying adharma to establish dharma and the second is the showing everyone their own true calling for reaching the ultimate goal of spiritual birth. 

In Krsna's earlier life, He had no choices but taking the body by physical means through Sachi and Jagganath Mishra as Chaitanya and through Vasudev and Devaki as Shri Krishna. As Krishna, He was committed to serving His parents and grandparents. He crowned His grandfather as king of Mathura, after winning back the kingdom from the usurper Kamsa. Even though He was in relationship with the Gopis of Vrindavan, He left them there itself. Then marrying the women who asked for Him, He was fully committed to them. Narada even verified that when He visited all the women He was married to. Similarly as Chaitanya, He took His mother with Him and promised to come back before her death. Married twice, He was husband to Lakshmipriya and Vishnupriya. 

Both the avatars while being family men, they performed the material and spiritual tasks thereby fulfilling the reason for their birth. 

Now consider their fulfillment of family considerations doesn't make them biased. They had no choices but being committed to the ones that accompanied their said bodies, they performed their material duties diligently. Both established their domain in their own way. One established His kingdom in Mathura and Dwarka and ruled diligently and the other established the Gaudiya Samaj for promoting Krsna Bhakti. They both taught, ruled, married and established Dharma. 

Now in light of the above please let me know if I am not following the laid out path of my Gurus agnya. The diktats of my Guru are my life goals and no one can dither or shake me from them. 

So having full faith in my actions and becoming completely committed to it, you can redeem yourself from troubles of rebirths by following the path laid out. Without complete faith in your Guru, you will not be able to follow it. 

So have absolute faith and completely surrender to the Guru, follow me in the ultimate goal of establishment of Dharma by realizing your true calling or the reason for your birth. Be fully committed to me and just do the prescribed actions just like Arjuna to win the war! 

As a last word, if you believe you are only with me for your spiritual upliftment then stay behind like the Gopi's of Vrindavan or get married to the cause and follow me to Mathura and Dwarka. We have a long way to go so hop in. 

Strange Idea!

I was stunned to know that quite few people have absolutely no idea of the relationship shared by Radha and Krishna.Almost everyone I spoke to said that Radha is His wife.I was amazed that those who pray to Krishna have no inkling about the two.So here I am going to put up some facts about them.

Radha is not married to Krishna! She is NOT his wife.

Radha was a married lady and her husbands name was Ayan or Abhimanyu.

She was the daughter of Vrushabhanu, a close friend of Nanda Maharaj of Vraja.

Radhikas brother is Sridama and her younger sister is called Anangamanjiri.

Her mother's name is Kirtida.Her mother-in-law was Jatila and sister-in-law is Kutila.They were a family of Cowherds and her husband was a well-to-do citizen with a large cattle and means of livelihood.

There is absolutely no mention of her in Srimad Bhagvad.

The above facts are culled from other important texts.

She was the prime Gopi with a big band of followers and her counterpart was a Gopi called Chandravali with her own group.

The primary group of Radha comprised of two principle Gopi's called Lalita and Vishaka and the others were Suchitra,Champakalata,Rangadevi,Sudevi,Tungavidya and Indulekha.

Once Krishna fell very ill and he told His friends that only the charnamrit(Washings of the feet) of a true devotee will cure Him.

They searched for such a person and found that the Gopi's were the greatest devotees of Krishna but they refused to give their charnamrit, since they believed that such an act would send them to hell. But Radhika gave her charnamrit and asked the gwala to hurry to Krishna- saying that she has no qualms of going to hell but would like to see the love of her life saved!

Krishna was deeply in love with Radhika(Radha) and their favourite past times are the Leelas described in various texts.

They would meet in the grooves of Vrindavan and the entire cast of Gopi's used to help them come together.

There is no mention of either of them having met after Krishna left for Mathura in any texts.

I am sure the idea about them having got married is now removed from your minds.

Krishna goes on to marry 16108 wives amongst which is Rukmini and Satyabhama at a much later point in time at Dwarka.Even then He still pines for the love of His life,Radha whom He could never marry!

Strange Facts About Radha and Krsna's Fights!

Radha and Krsna are two sides of the same coin.The coin of Supreme Consciousness.

If one is considered as the yin, the other would be yang.

If one is black then the other would be white,one is the essence of male the other would be the essence of female.Just the way we would describe Shiv and Shakti.

Now they both manifested as human beings in the bygone era and played out their armouros raas leelas in the grooves of Brindavan.

We have always heard the Srimad Bhagvad talk about the past times of theirs and their constant quarrels which went off and on. Why would two of the most beloved Gods of the Indian Pantheon want to fight about? And for What reason?

What one had the other didn't have and hence the constant reason for understanding what the other had to offer was the cause of fights.Let me tell you by examples here. Can the right ear see the left ear?Can the North pole know about the South poles power of attraction? Can the male understand the exact emotions of the female? Can one lover say the exact feelings of the other? No way.

We can try to understand but can never emulate it ever!

So Krsna tried hard to know the exact feelings of Radha and the reverse was true too.

They could neither get to be the other since they were cut out of the One only. Thats the reason why we say that the two will make the whole but one independently can never make it complete. They complimented each other perfectly.

It is not about male or female but about conjoining to become the Whole!

Just the way the yin fits into the yang to make it whole.

They both cannot be the same otherwise they will be pushed poles apart but to join they have to be opposite and attract!

Hence the saying that they used to fight with each other only to come more closer to each other.It would be termed as a armorous play of consummation of the body and soul for understanding the truth!

Without the soul there can never be the body and without the body,the soul will never have existence. So either of them are required to make it work.

The factor of compatibility comes if they have to live together but they were far away from each other,yet one! Look at it from the point of the soul and the body. They both are One but the body has its ego which does not allow it to know the soul.

Only when the ego is demolished can the soul be experienced! Without the body, that too cannot be experienced, so the body has equal importance. We can only go to the unmanifest through the manifest....hence Radha's importance is as much as Krsna's.So the manifest(Radha) can only take us to the unmanifest(Krsna), so we call out to them Radhekrsna!!

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