***The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna ***
1.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna, the Lord of Shri, whose essential nature is being
the sole reservoir of all illustrious attributes and who is the antithesis to
all that is evil as exemplified by wisdom and bliss. Who is the great ocean of
the infinite, immeasuarble, exalted and innumerable glorious qualities which
being part of His natural essence such as omniscience, power, sovereignity,
eternality, omnipotence and splendour. Whose transcendental form is a treasure
house of effulgence, beauty, lovlieness and perfection; beyond all conceptions,
divine, wonderful, everlasting and invincible and sublime being immutable in
accordance with His will. He is adorned with countless transcendental
ornaments: varieagated, bountiful, marvelous and permanent which are perfection
and worthy of Him in every respect. Who is accoutred resplendently with
innumerable divine weapons agreeing with His nature, of inconceivable power,
invincible, eternal and glorious.
2.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna is the beloved of Shri, also known as Laksmi-devi,
who is herself quite perfect in all the multitudes of limitless, marvelous and
uncountable qualities of divinity such as amiability, compassion, devotion etc.
and harmonising in perfect synchronisation with His nature, form, omnipotence,
majesty and opulence. He who has at feet constantly eulogizing prayers and
singing hymns, countless divine beings; whose essence, being, and phenomenal
works are all in accordance with His will. They delight solely in rendering
service to Him, posessed as they are with of a multitude of vast, eternal,
indestrucible, and sublime attributes far beyond any definitions of words or
thoughts.
3.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna whose expansions and incarnations have their abode in
the transcendental celestial firmament known as Vaikuntha which is
indestructible and limitless and which conforms with His nature, which is
expansive, unfathomable, endless and opulent. That Vaikuntha of infinite
wonder, of infinte glory, of infinite majesty and of infinite omnipotence is
eternal and imperishable.
4.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna by whose will and pleasure trillions of universes are
dramatically displayed by projection in the material substratum in the modes of
sustenation and dissolution; the universes so replete with 8,400,000 different
species of life and full of so many wonderfully variegated and amazingly
phenomenal creations and hosts of enjoyers thereof. He is also to be known by
the names of His manifestations such as Brahman and Para Brahman, by any of His
incarnations such as Rama and Buddha and by any of His expansions such as
Narayana and Vasudeva.
5.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna , who is the Ultimate Truth, the Ultimate
Consciousness and the Ultimate Personality, having emanated the complete cosmic
manifestation from Brahma down to a blade of grass, by His own desire He
withdrew within His own Self and was instantaneously completely beyond the
material existence and the meditations and adorations of Brahma, the demigods
and mortal beings.
6.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna being an all pervading ocean of infinite mercy with
unlimited compassion, unlimited love and unlimited magnamimity, although
completely transcendental to the material existence; simultaneously willed to
incarnate in various material forms similar to those of His creation, without
compromising His own divine transcendental nature and periodically descends as
different incarnations in the material worlds as he so desires.
7.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna is always accessible to those by whom He is
worshipped and receiving His mercy are granted their desires from artha which
is material wealth all the way to moksa which is salvation from material
existence and their aspirations are always completely fulfilled.
8.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna's main purpose for descending and incarnating is to
relieve the Earth of any demoniac and negative, undesirable influences that are
opposed to spiritual developement; but simultaneously at the same time it is
also His incomparable intention to continuously be within reach of all
humanity. To fulfill this purpose He periodically manifests Himself in the
material existence so that He becomes an actual reality for all people to
consciously see, hear and learn about and He personally performs such
phenomenal and extraordinary pastimes that are able to captivate, inspire and
enrapture the hearts and minds of all living entities high and low.
9.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna naturally delights all the worlds who are fortunate
enough to learn about Him with His transcendental beauty, His eternal,
spiritual form and His extraordinary phenomenal pastimes which are overflowing
with the nectar of compassion and love.
10.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna under the pretext of having to persuade Arjuna to
fight at the battle of Kuruksetra, agreed to accept the position of chariot
driver for His devotee and took the oppurtunity to reveal again the eternal and
imperishable Bhagavad-Gita which had been lost over the milleniums. By
delineating karma yoga and jnana yoga which both when becoming mature blossom
into bhakti yoga which is the science of the individual consciousness attaining
communion with the Ultimate Cocsciousness by loving devotional service unto the
Supreme Lord or through any of His sastrically authorised incarnations revealed
in the Vedic scriptures.
11.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna fully described the science of bhakti yoga in the
middle six chapters of Srimad Bhagavad-Gita and these six chapters reveal the
goal of all Vedantic teachings and by which He is irrefutably indicated as the
Ultimate Reality, the best object of love for the highest good of all living
entities and that loved , He Himself becomes the means to rescue a living
entity from all illusory and conditioned existences.
12.The
Supreme Lord Shri Krishna appeared in His original form with a view to shower
benefits on the whole Earth and allowing Himself to be overpowered by the great
love from His true and faithful devotee Arjuna, gave Himself to him and
consenting to his desire undertook the duties as Arjunas charioteer and safely
drove his surrendered devotee to victory throughout the 18 day battle of
Kuruksetra as witnessed by all the universe which was inaugurated due to King
Duryodhana and the Kauravas becoming antagonistic against Arjunas's family
known as the Pandavas.