#govind

I want to see poetry about him in desi braj bhasha , awadh and other dialects.

I want to see people talking about how they came to know about Krishna, how they felt at that time.

As we all know it is Eid today even though I'm hindu and we don't celebrate it but I'm always looking forward to festivals. Whenever any festival is about to come of any religion I automatically feel that day is special and I just don't know I have to do something, something to celebrate or just something that makes me feel happy. Like even I will be doing a very ordinary thing on that day it will just make me happy.

It was Eid, so obviously I met him (my forever obsession moon). Inse to main milti hi rehti but still it felt special on Eid.

But before I met him I met someone else....none other than govind aur unki pyaari gauyein

Kṛṣṇa and Draupadī Discuss Karma

One of my favourite interpolations from modern tellings of the Mahābhārata is a conversation between Draupadī and Kṛṣṇa that occurs after Draupadī's sexual assault and attempted disrobing by the Kauravas.

Clutching his feet, Draupadī sobs: "Govind, why? Why did this happen to me? What sins did I commit? I am reaping the fruit of which actions of mine?”

Picking her up and caressing her hair, Arya tells her: "What happened was neither because of your ‘bad’ karma, nor did you reap the fruit of your past actions. It was the Kauravas who reaped the fruit of their past actions by engaging in such a grave misdeed. Sakhī, this is the meaning of karma."

"But I am the one experiencing agony, Govind."

"Then relinquish it, Sakhī. Although what happened was not the result of your 'bad' karma, the way you transform following these events will be your karma."

This is such a beautiful and profound exchange which offers rich nuances to the teaching of karma. Oftentimes, when events we perceive as terrible happen to us, we create a story of unworthiness around them; we wonder if we are being punished, if the root cause is our evilness, if God or the universe are rejecting or dooming us. A question that rests on these lines that is often asked would be the common: “why do bad things happen to good people”. A first layer to this, in my view, is a deconstruction of 'bad' and 'good' as solid concepts. The second layer is the understanding that any event 'just' happens aleatorily, rises and falls, and karma is not a simplistic cause-effect reaction.

Karma encapsulates, in my understanding, the ingrained patterns held within us through which we act, react, and process the world around us and the events that occur in our lives. There is freedom from karma in finding new ways of reacting, engaging, processing.

Finally, a significant teaching encased in this interpolation is that the way someone treats us, ultimately, is a reflection of their karma (ingrained patterns), and not a reflection of our ingrained patterns. We cannot control another's patterns, but we can aim to understand and rewire ours accordingly.

Here's Govind, aged 8, from the UK, sharing his poem in British Sign Language about how important healthy soil is!💚🌳

Shree Radha Krishna edition.

Shree Radha Krishna are known as Ekatma.

Ekatma means one soul. Radha is Krishna and Krishna is Radha and vice versa, due to this concept. Like how one can't separate the moon from its light, same way, Radha Krishna can't be separated.

If Krishna is immortality then Radha is the Amrit and vice versa.

Then there's the thought. Shree Krishna married Rukmini. So technically Radha Krishna are separated.

The reason for that is. Radharani and Rukmini (and other wives of Krishna) are all forms of Mahalakshmi, as Narayan is Shree Krishna Himself. Lakshmi maa knows that Krishna will not spend his whole life in Vrindavan.

Radha Krishna represents bliss. Or enjoying the closeness with bhagwan.

Now the raasleela is introduced here.

The whole raasleela is a symbolism of the bliss one feels when they're immersed in Prabhu and is close to him. Everyone run and dance when he plays his flute. Nothing exists when they're immersed in Shree Hari. There wasn't any lust among Krishna, Radha and the Gopis. Only happiness, awareness, devotion and love. Radha is the sweetness of Krishna, Krishna is Paramatman Sri Bhagwan and we're the Gopis.

The flute song is just a formless entity of him only. That entity that ignites the flame of devotion or bliss in our hearts.

To understand them, one must see with bhakti.

Thanks for reading.

I know it was short.

When my rambling heart wanted to write something for my favorite man.

★ Dashing In Black… Salman Khan with Hossain Shah, Husain Mist, Zafar, Govid and Rahul Kanal at Yash Raj Studio (September 29th 2017)! 

Video: https://twitter.com/sallulicious/status/913479508078014464

Namami Radhe Krishnatmika.

Vrindavana Nivasaya,

Namo Shree Gopika Vallabham

Madhavaya Madhavaya,

Sundar Kamalalochanaya.