A King never desires to be God Krishna, but a King would desire to be God's servant. The very highest calling for anyone in the bhakti movement is to serve the Lord. Ramakrishna once remarked that he wanted to taste sugar, not be sugar. Thus the Vaishnavas came to be called 'rasiks', as in the nectar of ambrosia. The rasiks then tried to reverse engineer the original Sahajiya Buddhist philosophical system, and turned it upside down, calling Sri Radha the 'active' female principle, and Krishna the 'static', in order to represent the highest state of bliss. Go figure.
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Richard J. Williams <[email protected]>wrote: > So, since Krishna is the Absolute, he is in fact 'indescribably > different', (Acyenta > Bheda Bheda). At first this seems to be non-sensical, but if you think > about it, > it makes more sense, and if you remember what MMY said in CBG 1-6. > > According to MMY, Lord Krishna is the 'Transcendental Person', mentioned in > Bhagavad Gita. That means that He is beyond, or transcendental to, > phenomenon > - the relative world of change. > > Many of the Vedantists who composed the Vedic literature were dualists or > qualified-dualists, and others were mixed dualists and some were > qualified-dualists. While all the Upanishadic thinkers were > transcendentalists, > not all of them ascribed to the Advaita philosophy, non-dualism. > > In fact, there is good reason to doubt the Advaita of the Adi > Shankaracharya. > Because many of these good fellows (sadhus) do not ascribe to the illusion > theory, 'maya' proposed by the Adi. According to Sri Aurobindo, this > Transcendental Person is not false - He is real, not an illusion. > > Isha Upanishad: > > "The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant > golden lid; that do thou remove O'Fosterer, > for the law of the Truth, for sight." - Isha v 2 > > The term 'Isha' refers to Ishvara, the cosmic person, Paramatman or > Brahman. > Ishvara is the supreme controller. > > Sri Aurobindo wrote that the Ultimate Reality is two fulls - 200% of each. > One > who knows nescience side-by-side with the transcendent, can pass beyond > repeated birth and death, and can enjoy the full blessings of immortality. > > Work cited: > > 'Isha Upanishad' > Translation by Sri Aurobindo > Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust > Pondicherry, India 1914 > > Notes: > > nescience > > adjective > > from Latin nescient, present participle of nescire not to know, from ne- > not + scire to know -- more at no, science. > > 1. lack of knowledge or awareness > 2. ignorance > > Synonyms > > benightedness, cluelessness, incognizance, innocence, ignorance, > obliviousness, > unawareness, unfamiliarity > > Examples: > > "The appalling nescience of today's high schoolers concerning > international affairs." > > http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nescience > >
