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Indian gods are descriptions for common People very confusing. Since diving creatures with green, red or even blue color. Sometimes with multiple heads. It describes creatures that live thousands of years, flying in the heavens and to change their outward appearance as desired assets.
It is even more surprising when one learns of the devotees of Krishna, that the inner reflection and remembrance of those disclosed descriptions (lila-katha), the essence of Theo practice (spiritual exercise) of Krishna consciousness is.
Some years ago I was at the University of Zurich asked by a professor, if I really believe in these descriptions. "If these descriptions of symbolic or is it? Is this all an allegory, a describes something beyond words? Or do you think effectively as a man with an education to grow all these many-headed creatures with many arms from the navel lotus flowers? I'm ashamed to say this again, "Yes."
That's a wonderful question. The question needs to be put into context.
When we think of something, then we do that in our experience categories: truth, fact, fiction, mythology, reality, symbolism ... and we believe we have an exact idea of these categories of thought.
But to understand all of our thoughts and our entire force and all our assets Thought processes, our positions are based on basic assumptions that are not real.
the beginning of the inner path is therefore always an invitation to radical Entgrümpelung our ideas and thought patterns (Bhagavad Gita 2.11). In our search for restriction, which we call "our position", we are always looking for landmarks, reference to opportunities at straws, in which the I can hold back. Thus, depression is impossible. We have not noticed, as I added the conditional, the terms "true" and false "taken for themselves.
I want to give some examples.
This body is not the self. We are a soul that has no single point of contact with all the events and experiences in this world. But day after day - and have been unvorherdenklicher time - we identify with this role-play of the body and think we are male or female, healthy or sick, and we believe we would be older. The soul is not affected by time, but because this thinking is a habit, we continue to live outside of our identity and this means that in a distorted perception. Our reason is composed of ideas that do not correspond to reality.
We believe to have something. The ego has taken possession of all: my relationship, my Partner, my child, my thoughts, my feelings, my house, my property, my home, my world.
If you inwardly feels more weight than a feather, so you wear a weight that does not belong. And suffocated under the weight that weighs heavier than a rock.
Did they themselves really ever told the truth about how you feel with all this property?
Certainly heavier than a feather.
The feeling of ownership is completely wrong - but this idea permeates our consciousness and our thinking and the perspective of reality is clouded exactly like this.
Isavasyam idam sarvam (Isopanishad 1) "Everything in the universe, myself included, belongs to God. "But we claim ownership and suffer from the distortion of consciousness.
We have a tangible sense of identity and think we would do so much. But Krishna says in the Gita (3.27):
be "The modes of material nature completed all actions everywhere.
Who is the ego-feeling (of identification with the body) deluded, thinking that he is even the full charm of an action. "
The manifestations fluctuate material nature and create unlimited bubbles (all phenomena of the temporary nature) on the ocean of material energy - but the confused creature thinks it is itself the sole exporter of actions. We are like a couple of straws, which propel a large river in front of him. How funny would it be if they would think "I am now out here or there and achieved so much and got achievements and gains that I stressful for me ...."
illusory perception impossible but the insight into the reality.
We think that we are the Bhokta, the connoisseurs and our life was meant for our personal enjoyment. This is the most basic of all misunderstandings.
Krishna says in Gita that all activities are ultimately intended for his pleasure completely independent from their own joy and sorrow that this may result. And only in the low acceptance of this and applying this knowledge to practical peace is possible. (5.29 / 9.24)
In the religions God is usually regarded as creator and sustainer of this world, no separate existence is granted beyond His creation, or what at least not the main focus is.
Radha-Krishna-bhakti is exactly the approach. Since God is not Creator. Although it is pervasive, but the aspect of his omnipotence and omnipresence is only an external. His very being is in Vrindavan - where he was born. There he enjoys the exchange of love. God is infinitely happy. It's not
main concern is to relate to God in his own life into it, but rather refer to themselves in the life of God. When the Austrian writer Walter Eidlitz in the 30 years he came to know of the last century, the Indian love of God, he spoke of an "astonishing and shocking for the western people theocentricity. It's about the joy of God regardless of his own good or ill and you are not themselves the Bhokta, the primary connoisseurs, the world and its fluctuating phenomena.
All our thinking and our perception of the world are challenged and assembled in mindset and assumptions that are not real. The thought processes are conditioned by the physical experience of countless lives.
In everyday life we strive to be free of prejudice, but every single thought, which moves in these pathways is nothing but a prejudice.
If someone asks if this Krishna-lila (the discussion of Krishna) are mythology and allegory, or whether it is "true" is - then have the first overall categories of the understanding of truth will be found fundamentally in question.
Are all the ideas that you carry in his mind, right?
We have our experience of time - future, present and past.
Sri Krishna says in the Gita (2.16):
"There is no existence in that which passes. Temporary things do not exist.
And never has there been non-existence of what is eternal. "
In everyday life, consciousness-oriented one, however, virtually all the time on non-eternal and is upset at passing phenomena and their ratings.
Is Krishna-lila you? What is the understanding of "true", which bears the person within? There are ideas related to the temporary, according to the Sri Krishna just do not exist, not "true".
Krishna-lila is not allegory, because it is an irruption of eternity into our world. And it is not history, since it never in the flow of material has found time instead.
When I was many years in Vrindavan, I experienced strong feelings of resignation, when I remembered that Sri Krishna had appeared here 5,000 years ago.
Sadhus have taught me then that Krishna is purple, not taken place in the flow of material time, the secular history and Krishna 5000 years ago had not been here on earth. It made me sad to hear that there had been no words. They said further: "Krishna Lila will be held forever in every moment, right now - because it is eternal reality. Just as every moment of our life passes by and irreversible thing of the past, so Krishna is purple never over, but every single moment in the Krishna-lila stands forever. "Krishna's birth is the intrusion of eternity into the midst of our time.
It is not dusty history, but everlasting reality and it is available, if you hear of realized saints above. Sri Krishna Janmastami
is the feast in which we remember not only to Krishna appearance - but also celebrates its own belonging to eternity.
The participants of the festival to be contemporaries of the mystical event.
other words, they are coming out of their historical time out of time, which is constituted by the sum of the profane, between personal and personal events finding back to a primordial time, which is always the same, before eternity. The religious man leads initially periodic (at the time of meditation and the sacred festivals) in this holy time that is not "expire", but the often hidden in ordinary life eternal present is just reality.
Everything owes its existence to God. The origin of everything - even of our lives - is religious.
The sacred festival retains a front that can not be effectively forgotten essentials. It is the reminder that life is a gift from God. The festival, the sacred dimension of our lives restored, in the turbulence of the Alltagsarrangierungen is in danger of being hidden.
The sacred festival is a return to an event (the appearance of God within his own creation), which has nothing historical, but eternity.
The human need to repeat those sacred events in his life, revive his natural need arises, all the effort runs through - the proximity to Radha Krishna.
In the fixed breaks Krishna eternity into our time. Interruption is hard work, the more useful of the calculable. The festival is timeless and without purpose. It will be lifted out of the mere operation, out of the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The festival is marked by ease and lightness, which makes for a glimpse of purple.
If the center of everything is not of his own consciousness in the central direction, then the design of artificial festivals and an even looser form of breath work. The central purpose of the festival is sacred memory of Sri Krishna.
What is the effect of the memory of it? All Miss concepts which man carries in itself - the idea of owning something, a belief to control things, the identification with the body and the thought patterns in which people think that they exist within the material time and be the lovers of the circumstances - be resolved.
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