Krishna, the All-attractive One, the only object of love in existence, is attracted towards love. Keats had said, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty…” If a poet through his imagination could arrive at such a conclusion of reality, it is only stunningly unimaginable how beautiful the real ‘Reality’ would be. No wonder then, that Krishna is wondrously attracted towards His own beauty. Truth and beauty are synonymously interspersed within what we call love. There is no truth higher than love, and therefore nothing more beautiful than love. It is love alone that creates and enjoys life. Krishna’s eternal relationship is born out of His immeasurable love which is proven through His causeless mercy.
Why is Krishna so loving? It seems to me that Krishna is incapable of not loving. Love being the essence of existence, and Krishna being the only centre of existence, He Himself becomes the synonym of love. Love, in simple terms then, is life itself, since Krishna is the source of all Life.
It is rather obvious to all of us, by now, that life is more than any amount of material assets, that life is beyond our mental speculations, that life is, actually, a miracle. The past experiences and our understandings of it are no match for the present happenings, as each one of us has certainly paused at, at least one moment in life and thought, “Oh! But this is not what I had expected!” Life somehow always has a way of getting away with its own way, of putting the greatest of all intellectuals at odds with his or her own analytical hypotheses. Many a time what we can do is mere guesswork. In spite of such unpredictability in life, each and every one of us knows for sure that there is a tomorrow which is keenly looked forward to. The understanding of our innermost being with life is that of an eternal relationship with it, which is encompassed by love. The eternal soul craves eternally to enjoy this loving relationship, and therefore, by extension, we always await miracles!
At the interjection of such craving to live in joy and the innumerable hankerings of our past conditionings is a subtle understanding that life might be more than what we could ever make it out to be. Little wonder then, that Krishna’s miraculous nectar of compassion pours down in the hearts of those who become an empty receptacle, ready to receive it. The receiver, therefore, is more important than the giver, since the relationship between the two is established by the receiver alone. Krishna, therefore, attracts everything towards him through His love that comes down to us in the form of freedom. Our free will in the shape of our desires keeps defining our destinies, as what we desire is inevitably what we get. Krishna still attracts us, since He lives inside our hearts, and gives us the opportunity to listen to His music within. Thus we see people who claim to be self-taught, self-directed, and self-possessed! Every form of nature is beautiful, as Wordsworth said, and nature’s beauty lies in its variety. Krishna’s beauty is reflected in all forms of nature, and thus, Krishna, as we can see, again attracts the entire creation by his variegatedness.
Such is the wonder of Krishna’s love that He continuously manifests Himself in order to enjoy His own love. When we talk of understanding God, we deem it our birth right to seek benedictions from Him, while at the same time, expecting Him to shower His grace upon us without expecting anything in return. Don’t we actually sympathise with people in difficulties and say to ourselves that they really deserved better and that God has been cruel to them. What we do not track is our own ambitions and goals that brought us to the state we are currently experiencing. The great fallacy is that we not only hold the all-pervading Almighty responsible for our desires, but also justify such desires which are but sprouts of the soil of our freewill.
Love, therefore, has had its manifold intriguing faces since it means nothing but freedom. Freedom itself means one’s desire, one’s perception, and one’s subjective judgment of things. When freedom is used by the living entity in such a manner, wherein it reflects the superimposed desire of the self to enjoy, it falls short of understanding its connection with absolute love, and thus we end up not able to recognise the real and the false. This is the sole reason why great Acharyas suggest that such freedom should be surrendered in order for us to receive absolute love, which gives the right dimension to real freedom. Therefore, unless we allow the all-attractive one to actually attract us, real joy that is the perfume of real freedom and love will not spread in our lives.
Krishna’s beauty is a miracle. So is His love. He loves unconditionally since He is beyond conditions. His love alone is the cherishable asset worthy of possession. When we think foolishly that we can enjoy without Him, His overflowing compassion gives us the intelligence to be drawn towards Him in umpteen numbers of ways. It is impossible to love Him as much as He loves us; it is our misconception that we can give Him the love He wants. Why then, does Krishna crave for our love?
The only possible answer to this could be that love begs only love in return, and love never measures itself. A drop of love could satisfy the ocean, since the ocean knows for sure that it is entirely made up of such drops….this knowledge gives it the humility and grace to accept every drop as providing a potential completeness to it. Thus Krishna is, at any point of time, passionately looking forward to our love which can be compared to just a drop, and He gives Himself up to the one who has sacrificed his false identity, and done the daring act of accepting his true nature. To such a person, Krishna is ever indebted, as he was to the Gopis, and feels Himself incapable of repaying his or her love.
Tell me; is there any wonder then, that all the entities in all the universes are attracted towards such a person? After all, what we need is joy and if there is one person who is ready to give us unlimited, eternal joy, and also thank us for receiving it, who would forgo such a safe bet? If we could gather ourselves to the threshold of becoming aware of the all-attractive gains of loving the All-attractive One, it is pretty obvious that in spite of all the wrong decisions or desires of the past, we have not lived in vain. This first and only step taken, in whichever way one can, will go a long way in making our lives worthwhile, and, remembering Krishna’s promise, it may, eventually and in essence, be the last step.
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