16/08/2025
"Today we are celebrating the Jayanti of Bhagavan Sri Krishna, also known as Sri Krishna Janmashtami, the day of his avatara. Bhagavan Sri Krishna is regarded as purna-avatara, which means the full Incarnation.
Bhagavan Sri Krishna was an all-comprehensive personality. He was a householder, had wives and children. He was a politician and a statesman. He was a soldier and also a servant when the time demanded that kind of attitude from Him.
To speak from the point of view of the historical life which Bhagavan Sri Krishna is said to have lived thousands of years ago—let alone the spiritual or the mystical—we see a wholeness manifest in Him. His life was a fullness right from childhood up to the maturity of life. He was a completeness in every respect, even in his babyhood or childhood, a completeness in his adolescence, a completeness in his youth and maturity. He was a fullness of bodily perfection, a fullness of understanding, a fullness of social relationship and political statesmanship, and a fullness in His own Being. This has been revealed even in His outward physical personality—a beauty and a charm that mankind has never seen.
The Mahabharata and the Srimad Bhagavata are the monumental records of His life, His activities and His achievements. The Bhagavadgita may be regarded as the great gospel that He gave to mankind.
The Bhagavadgita, the cream of His teaching, also conveys to us that things are not what they seem to our senses. This is what we learn from His life also. There is something quite different from what we sense, feel, think and understand as valuable. This is the Truth behind things, for which His life and teachings stood and which He Himself embodied in His own life. This is the message for us today, which we should try to imbibe into our lives by invoking His grace and putting forth honest efforts. As the Gita concludes, where Krishna and Arjuna are together, where Divine Grace and human effort go together, there is prosperity, victory, happiness and firm polity."
Swami Krishnanadaji Maharaj of The Divine Life Society, Rishikesh.
Krisham Vande Jagat Gurum.