Kali ghani andhiyari raat ko tu aaya... The Jayanti of Bhagavan Sri Krishna, also known as Sri Krishna Janmashtami, falls on the eighth day in the dark fortnight of the month of Bhadrav. The date of Krishna’s birth is traditionally given as 5201 of Bhadra Krishna Astami, or 3226 BC (or 3227 BC, depends if we consider the year 0 or not) The observance of this holy day and the performance of this sacred worship to the great Incarnation is a symbol of an intensification of our soul’s yearning to come nearer to God as much as possible. Bhagavan Sri Krishna is regarded as Purna-Avatara, which means the full incarnation, Avatara is ‘Incarnation,’ and Purna is ‘the full’. He is considered to be a complete manifestation Krishna represents the total power of attraction (Aakarshna Shakti) like a magnet of infinite rise. Hence Krishna is the source of joy. Since Lord Krishna was born at midnight, symbolizing light dispelling darkness, the worshipping is done in the late evening hours. This divine advent took place not at the commencement or at the fag end of the night, but in the thick of the night, midnight, which from the point of view of our own personal Sadhana-life, is reminiscent of the conditions under which God would reveal in our own lives. God did not reveal Himself in daylight, but in the dead of night. The spiritual connotation of this, from the point of view of the relationship of the soul to God, is that the day light or activity of the senses is the midnight or slumber of the Atman, and the daylight or birth of the Atman is the midnight or slumber of the senses. When the senses cease from their activity, conditions become favorable for the manifestation of God. Kamsa represents the ego and all his menials the senses. All these were put to rest at the time of birth of Lord Krishna. Hence, the Bhagavad Gita says: Ya nisa sarvabhutanam tasyam jagarti samyami, yasyam jagrati bhutani sa nisa pasyato muneh—The night of the ignorant is day for the sage, and vice versa the night of the sage is day for the ignorant. So, on this day we have such an occasion of worship of Bhagavan. The life and message of Bhagawan Sri Krishna to the people of Bharatvarsha and to humanity as a whole should be understood properly. This great Super man, who is the towering figure of the stupendous biographical narrative bequeathed to man by the equally great Sri Krishna-dvaipayana or Vyas, stands as a shining star at the apex of a triangle at the ends of whose base are the world and the individual. In the life of Sri Krishna we have been given the ideal towards which life’s process is moving. There is an ascent from inanimate matter to vegetable life, from plant life to that of the animal, from animal to man and from man to super man.of God, not a partial expression of the power and the glory of God. Subha Janmastami
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 18:26:56 +0000
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