Calls to Krishna consciousness:: part 1

Calls to Krishna consciousness::

In Indian cultural literature and anecdotes four types of calls to universal consciousness are mentioned.

They all bear very important resemblance with human life and our own contininous/discreet calls to Krishna/Supreme/God/Consciousness/ultimate .

• Call of the elephant

“An elephant. The mighty ruler of forest , while crossing a small rivulet , meets a crocodile . crocodile grabs his foot and no matter what elephant do , elephant cant come out of the grip , elephant in his own wisdom and capabilities of mind , calls to Krishna . A pure call for help from the ultimate. Krishna helps and elephant becomes free”

This simple anecdote have very deep meanings. who is the elephant ? he is a very powerful fellow . in all his contingency plannings , imaginations of challenges , he would have thought of thousands of problems , but never about “being over powered” . After all he is the mightiest, most powerful , massive .

In our life, when we gain power , we acquire pelf , we feel strongest , we feel in super control…our ego swells more than the elephant . we feel that nothing can bog us down. in that super control situation, random event may happen which can challenge our very own existence .

A black swan event ( some accident , some random incurable disease , or anything ) . What do we do then ?

Even most atheist of a man, starts pleading to the Krishna / supreme consciousness .

Most amusing part is that, what happens after elephant comes out of the grip of the crocodile . Here elephants usually outsmart humans. They learn and become cautious . they stop going carelessly from that rivulet or they find some safer path .

But in the case of humans , even if Krishna saves us , most of us go back to same rivulet , to same crocodile , in same situation .

We can see this folly everywhere.

Few learn from mistakes , fewer learn from blunders .

• Call of Draupadi:

So the literature goes like this :

“Queen Draupadi , after being put on a bet by her husband Yudhistir ‘the Dharmaraj’ ( one who is hallmark of righteousness ) , is lost to Kauravas in a game of gamble .

Draupadi , who was luckiest among the females , had mightiest husbands ( The BHIMA , the Arjuna , the Yudhistir , best warrior , best archer , most righteous ) , suddenly faces a great tragedy . one among the Kauravas , dushashan ( bad ruler ) starts removing her cloths and tries to make her naked in front of whole congregation ( millions gathered for this gamble game between Kauravas and Pandavas ) .

Draupadi is different from the elephant . elephant made a mistake of considering crocodile’s power very insignificant and he had lot of ego on his strength . elephant was not reliant on others .

Draupadi on the other hand made no mistake on her own . She was not the sinner . Her husbands made the mistake . her trust was on her husbands that they will fight for her honor . she even trusted hundreds of ethical court members who were supposed to stop this heinous doing of dushashana .

BUT , when all individuals failed , when all institutions failed in protecting her , when the most powerful duty bounded lost , when persons with highest integrity failed to rise to stop evil………..she called KRISHNA .

KRISHNA, the supreme consciousness , intervened indirectly and saved her honor by giving her cloths an infinite length . He could have killed dushashna by a simple intention (after all the ultimate consciousness he is ) . but he chose to intervene in a subtle manner.

In our life also, when we have to pay for others mistakes , and we find that no one is coming to raise voice against explicit injustice , what we do ?

What even the most of the atheist did in concentration camps of Najis? or what a simple man does in a totalitarian regime , where every institution fails ??

We call Krishna , societies call Krishna …..and as Krishna wrote that “ when righteousness itself get maligned , I conjure myself to reinstall dharma”

Rest two calls in next part ………….call of meera and call of radha