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Mahabharata katha London
2012
In rasa uttsav, each gopi feels that Krushna is dancing with her, for her, by
her. 1000s of gopies were there, but none felt left out of the lila.
None felt they were neglected at any point during the maha-rasa. Krushna
praises them for their dancing, he matches them in duets, he supports them when
they get tired during the dance. At each point, he makes them feel he was
with them and them only. He treats them as individuals. This feeling
of being loved as an individual is so powerful that during the interlude when
the gopies lose sight of Krushna, what they mourn the most is their one-to-one
relationship with him. Once they regain their beloved, Gopies once again
act on a one-to-one, peer-to-peer basis. There is no God-Devotee type
relationship, but instead they are free to behave as equals, soulmates, souls.
Later, after Krushna weds 16,108 wives. Sage
Narada comes to find out how Krushna manages such a vast household. He
found Krushna in the palace of each an every wife, doing all the domestic things
expected of him as a husband. He was playing with the kids, teaching them,
entertaining guests, discussing mundane everyday things. And yet, when
Sage Narada returned to the main palace, he found Krushna there too, meditating
and doing all the things expected of a Yogeshwara !
Reading these two lilas, I had an amazing revelation that these two wonderful
lilas shows how God molds himself to the needs and desires of his devotees.
We don't have to change our innate nature, God changes for us!!!!!
God is one, yet for our sake, he can become 16,000 or 16 million or 16 billion!!
God loves us, each one of us, just the way we are. He expects us to do the best we can so that we become happy.
God loves each of his wives just as they are. He does not ask them to live
in a massive harem and serve him at his convenience. He gives them
individual homes, individual identity, individual attention, individual love.
God is capable of this and more.
Similarly, God loves us as we are. He does not expect us to follow him like a flock of sheep. Instead, he expects us to create an individual relationship with him. God simply wants us to love him unconditionally. Like the gopies and his wives, we have to create that individual relationship. God will happily maintain whatever relationship we care to create with him.