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Aptavani-2
vendor sells pictures depicting Lord Krishna; people buy these
pictures and worship them. This is nothing but a business! Lord
Krishna cannot be like that. He is not what you imagine Him to
be. Everyone worships the child Krishna; they put his small idol
or picture on a little baby cradle and swing him back and forth.
No one worships the Yogeshwar Krishna who had become
established in Gnan; knowledge of the Self. Krishna says,
“People are wrong. They fast every year on my birthday and the
next day they indulge in rich fatty foods. These are my own
devotees and yet they contradict me. They make me out to be
the one carrying a flute and call me deceitful. They say I used
to frolic with the gopis (the cowgirls). They have maligned me
so much.”
When a person worships and devotes himself to the idol
(murta) he remains the idol, the formed non-self complex. When
he a person worships and devotes himself to the formless
(amurta) he attains the formless Self and become liberated. To
constantly remain as the Self, is charitra (atma charitra; real
conduct). This state of absolute purity (shuddha dasha) is
oneness with all (abhedta). In this state, one sees the Self in all
(atma vat sarva bhuteshu). That is absolute purity abounding
everywhere. The Gnan (Self knowledge), darshan (vision as the
Self), charitra (staying as the Self) and the bliss is the real Light
(jyoti), not this physical lamp (deevo). The One who is the
Knower and the Seer i.e. gnata-drashta is Krishna; not the
object that is seen.
Difference between Lord Rama & Lord Krishna
Questioner : Is it true when they say that Lord Rama
was partial Purushottam and Lord Krishna was absolute
Purushottam (the highest amongst men, the absolute state of
enlightenment)?
Dadashri : Actually Lord Krishna cannot be considered
absolute Purushottam. Only Lord Rama is the absolute