Ordinarily we think thorns are inimical to flowers. It is not that Krishna chooses only the flowers of life and shuns its thorns he accepts both together, because he knows thorns are as necessary to life as the flowers. He accepts life choicelessly, unconditionally. Krishna accepts life with all its flowers and thorns, its light and shade, sweet and sour. Love can only happen to one whose mind has come to a standstill, it trembles no more. Krishna has called this state of rootedness sthita-pragya. Love is an infinite stillness, a state of rootedness. When all is a game and all is a dream, then why be bothered? He is not worried and bothered. His liberation is without flaw because he knows all is a game. He is really liberated his liberation is perfect, without flaw. He promises one day and forgets on another day. Krishna is totally different: it is a game. He is perfect saint: he had denied all that is wrong - but that is seriously, and that shows that you are still taking the game very, very seriously. Rama is not that perfect he is very afraid of cheating, he is too sincere. And Hindus call him `the most perfect Master’. You will be surprised that Krishna is the only great Master in the world who is known to have cheated. To know it is to be free, free from all prisons: the prisons of the body, the prisons of the mind, the prisons that exist outside you. It was with you before your birth and it will be with you after your birth, because it is you, your essential being. Krishna is right when he says, nainam chhindanti shastrani - “No weapon can even touch me”…nainam dahati pravaka - “And neither can the fire burn me.” He is not talking about the body, the brain, the self - they will all be destroyed - but there is something in you indestructible, immortal, eternal. – Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy, Chapter #1

In the long line of such sages it is Krishna alone who comes dancing, singing and laughing. By and large, the chief characteristic of a religious person has been that he is somber, serious and sad-looking - like one vanquished in the battle of life, like a renegade from life. The most important reason is that Krishna is the sole great man in our whole history who reached the absolute height and depth of religion, and yet he is not at all serious and sad, not in tears. Only in some future time will we be able to understand him and appreciate his virtues.

He is still beyond man’s understanding he continues to puzzle and battle us. Man has yet to grow to that height where he can be a contemporary of Krishna’s. Firstly, his uniqueness lies in the fact that although Krishna happened in the ancient past he belongs to the future, is really of the future. Krishna is utterly incomparable, he is so unique.

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