Man’s whole past was so full of want and hardship, of struggle and suffering, that it was hard to accept life happily. In their day, life on this earth was so miserable and painful it was nearly impossible to live. They set distant things like the attainment of heaven and liberation as goals for man’s life on this earth. With the exception of Krishna, all the remarkable people of the world, the salt of the earth like Mahavira, Buddha, and Christ, stood for some other world, for a life in some other world. And in this regard, I would like to go into a few things. He is, in my view, the most relevant, the most significant person in the context of the future. It is precisely for this reason that I chose Krishna for discussion. And all such people become objects of worship. Despite our best efforts he, like God, ever remains to be known. This person is as unknowable and as mysterious as God himself. Such a person is God-like in the sense that we don’t understand him, just as we don’t understand God. But these are the two sides of the same coin. It is really difficult to accept one’s ignorance it is easier to call him a god or God-incarnate.
One who defies our judgment, we call him a god or God-incarnate. We worship friends with praise and we worship enemies with slander. We either praise or slander them, but both praise and slander are kinds of worship. We worship those who perplex and defeat our ability to understand them. Perhaps only in some future period will we be able to understand him the past could not do so.Īnd remember, we begin to worship those we fail to understand in their lifetimes. All significant people come ahead of their time, but Krishna came too far ahead. It is only mediocre people who are born in their time. All great persons are born ahead of their time, and all insignificant people are born after their time. The truth is, Krishna was born much ahead of his time. He is more significant for the future than for the past.
It is not that other significant people did not happen in the past - and it would be wrong to say that significant people will not happen in the future in fact, any number of remarkable people have walked this earth - but Krishna’s significance is quite different. He is the most significant person in all of history. If a man has to think, understand, and say something, for him there can be no more meaningful a topic than Krishna. Q: WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO SPEAK ON KRISHNA? AND WHAT IS THE CENTRAL THEME OF THIS DISCUSSION?
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