Lord Krishna- The Love Guru.

Lord Krishna- The Love Guru.

Our basic instinct is eating, mating and fighting. Krishna was fond of butter, women and fighting.

There are many facets to Krishna – the naughty kid, the majestic prince, the most romantic lover, valiant warrior and shrewdest politician.

Krishna, through his life story , shows us the way to live a full, rich life and doing all the actions without any attachment to the outcome.

As a child Krishna was very naughty and mischievous like any normal child and was famous for stealing butter. The message to humanity was probably not to make childhood too serious and children should be allowed to enjoy themselves without restrictions of right and wrong.

As a young man Krishna was a passionate lover and the Kama sutra and Raas Leela is full of his erotic love affairs with Radha. The message to humanity probably was to lead a normal passionate loving life and not be too moralistic and idealistic. Have fun and enjoy life for only lovers can know the true meaning of desire and love and thereafter God.

As a man Krishna was a good administrator or king and guided the complex battle between the Kauravas and Pandavas beautifully. The message to humanity probably was to fight with commonsense and make all efforts through diplomacy to avoid a fight and if that fails then one should fight for righteousness without any attachment.

Krishna never went into seclusion and deep contemplation or practiced severe austerity in some remote mountain – he was a normal human being with a normal life and his message is to lead a normal happy life. There are four main goals of life as per Indian philosophy – Dharma or Virtuous living ; Artha or material prosperity ; Kama or desire and Moksha or Liberation  and Krishna taught humanity how to achieve all the goals while leading a normal life by his personal example.

The purpose of the story is to bring out the life of the Divine incarnation as simply as possible and what we can understand is that without being too perfect we can achieve perfection by only loving everyone. The love circle keeps on expanding in different forms and emotions from friends and family to lovers and then to community, society and all of humanity in a natural progression. Therefore God manifests wherever there is love.

To avoid intellectualism and display of knowledge this story has been kept very brief and simple to provoke the mind to re-think about being too perfect or moralistic and judgmental about everyone, when God’s incarnation is Himself so full of life and liberal in His outlook.