Let us be bitten and smitten by the divine love Let us be bitten and smitten by the Divine Love ‘BUG’ called as Lord Krishna. His divine love for us human beings is highly infectious and transmits the power of our soul to each and reaches every other soul in this universe. The Janmashtami or Birthday of Lord Krishna is celebrated year after year with much joy and fervor. His Life reveals His constant state of joyousness and bliss. Infact, the birthday of Krishna, for yogis is the birth of the very soul itself. Even though, the soul has no ‘Aadi’ or ‘Antya’, as it is always ‘Anaadi’ - that means no beginning or no end. It is always constant and a perennial energy. Yogis take it as the birth of their soul to constantly establish and maintain that state of awareness and enlightened consciousness always.
Shri Krishna’s stories are easy to remember and narrate. When you contemplate on His birth details - He was the eighth child of His parents and was born on the eighth day after the Full moon (Poornima), which is also known as Ashtami. If we look at the figure 8, it has the symbol of infinity. It has no beginning or end. One can go on tracing it again and again because it is made up of two inter-linked loops. Likewise, the principles of Dharma are eternal and ageless. They remain constant and unchanging through all eons of creation.
The circumstances of Shri Krishna’s birth are extremely mystical and strange. This beautiful, divine child, who is an avatar of Lord Vishnu Himself, was born in a prison at the stroke of midnight. Symbolically when contemplated upon - all this becomes extremely clear and significant. Shri Krishna represents our own soul, which is divine and eternal. Vasudeva and Devaki symbolise our mind and intellect. King
Kamsa is the ego, which entraps us. The prison comprises of the six vices - attachment, anger, greed, lust, arrogance and envy. These vices hold us captive in the prison of maya or illusion so that the mind and intellect are cut off from the divine influence of the soul.
When we become aware of our inner bondage and re-link ourselves with the soul within, our life is filled with light and joy. In short, we should release our soul from the bondage of our ignorance of the spirit.
Then, Lord Krishna vanquishes Kamsa and becomes our divine charioteer. In the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna in chapter 4, Verse 8 says - “To protect the virtous and vanquish evil and to re-establish dharma on a firm footing, I am born from age to age”. It means, He is the Supreme Guardian and Custodian and Custodian of Dharma or Righteousness. When we let go our ego and transcend our 6 internal vices, His consciousness re-enforces and establishes our consciousness - i.e. Chaitanya with His Divine Chaitanya and empowers us in totality to fight Adharma i.e. mismanagement, corruption and not understanding that all of us human souls are on an equal footing in this world i.e. without any disparity for example - Our own government considers us and treats us as second class or third class citizens. Krishna is the very personification of Dharma and on this Janmashtami day of His, we with our Shraddha, Bhakti, Sharanaagati and Sadhana allow Him to take birth within us to fully empower us to fight this adharma.
