Gopikas were the ugliest still Lord Krishna loved them

You may argue that you are bored with the misery in the world and therefore God should stop the show so that God also need not have the problem of coming in human forms with so many combinations of qualities. If the show is put off, God is certainly bored. That is not the point here. Why don’t you enjoy the cinema continuously by sitting in the theatre? You can enjoy even the tragic scene and you need not go out of the theatre when the tragedy appears. You need not ask the producer to close the show. If you are going out of the theatre, it is just your suicide. Anyway, death will come after sometime which means that the final dissolution of the world comes where the souls are stored as inert impressions in the inert energy. You can enjoy the life remaining in the second plane by realizing the third plane (forms and qualities) as unreal. The boy need not commit suicide if a beautiful girl rejects his love.

It means that he is not realizing the nature of the life and is running out of the theatre. If he realizes that the forms are unreal, he can even marry an ugly girl who loves him. The beautiful girl may have even good qualities. What is the use of those qualities when the love to you is absent? God will not recognize the forms and qualities except the devotion which is the love to Him.

Indra, the elder brother of Vishnu was attracted to the dancers of heaven for their external beauty. He was always in trouble. His brother Vishnu in the form of Krishna was not attracted to those dancers of heaven even for a second. He was attracted to Gopikas who are not good looking and their ugliness is doubled since they were villagers without fashions. The cow dung was the snow, powder, and sometimes was even their lipstick! They were having a bad smell with sweat whereas the dancers of heaven were using the divine flowers which have divine scents. Krishna was completely attracted to Gopikas and gave them Goloka, which is above His permanent abode.

What is the reason for His unimaginable attraction towards such Gopikas, though He was so handsome and was loved by 16,000 beautiful girls of the dynasty of kings? The attraction of the Lord was towards their unimaginable love which is the devotion. Therefore the youth should realize this and try to enjoy the life fully. They should understand that the real beauty is only love.


At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org

I think the reason is, Indira saw only the skin-deep beauty in the dancers of heaven, where as Vishnu (Krishna) saw the real inner, in-depth beauty in the Gopikas.

And honestly the inner, in-depth beauty is more important than skin-deep beauty, I believe it in my personal life too.

What is this? And how is it explained in the foregoing?

This is the most wandering of stories!

Krishna stole butter and danced with Gopikas. Is it a black scar on HIM?

First we must understand that the real aim in following Dharma (justice) is to please the Lord only. The Lord is protector and Dharma is protected. Protector is greater than protected. Among the other souls you have to reject the injustice and vote for the justice. But when the Lord competes with the justice, you have to vote for the Lord. In Pravrutti justice and injustice compete and you have to vote for the justice.

But in Nivrutti the Lord competes with the justice and you have to vote for the Lord. In fact, you don’t have patience to understand what the Lord does and blame Him. There are certain subtle aspects of Dharma (Dharma sukshma), which look like injustice. Only deep analysis one can understand the Dharma sukshma.

The butter indicates the extra stored money. You are expected to take the money from this world, which is required for your minimum needs. This entire world is the money of the Lord. But you are earning extra and storing for your future generations due to greediness. You must donate that extra money to the Lord who is in the human form and He will distribute that to His devotees for their upliftment.

If you are not doing this, the Lord will steal your money, which is actually His own money. Butter is the fruit of their work, which is the money. Similarly He danced with Gopikas who were sages. They prayed Him (Rama) in their previous birth for the same. He is fulfilling the boon given by Him to His devotees.

These are tired and worn texts with no ultimate meaning, when they do not include personal experience.