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CHAPTER 6. NUDITY AND CLOTHING SHOULD GO TOGETHER
mean that when two persons, a man and a woman, make love, they meet not only on the physical
plane but at the spiritual level too. A child born out of mere physical coitus cannot reach to that
height of excellence one born out of spiritual intercourse can. I take Krishna to be a child of spiritual
intercourse. That is why people who knew Jesus could say that his mother Mary remained virgin
even after giving birth to Jesus. Though Mary and Joseph must have made love physically, it is true
that the intercourse was much more spiritual than physical. Their desire for sex was not that strong.
The physical part of it was like the shadow of the spiritual meeting. Evidently the responsibility for
giving birth to Jesus does not lie with the shadow, with physical intercourse.
But the question is significant. Why were the sons of Krishna and Rama not as talented and brilliant?
There are good reasons for it. Firstly, it is impossible to give birth to a son who can excel Krishna;
Krishna is the apex any son can ever reach. Of course, Vasudeo, who is an ordinary person, can
produce a son greater than himself, but Krishna cannot. A son of Krishna is bound to be forgotten by
history, because Krishna will always tower above him. Even the high est peaks of the Vindhyachal
mountain range will look like dwarfs before Everest. Everything is relative; everyone pales into
insignificance before Krishna.
The offspring of people like Krishna, Buddha, Rama and Mahavira have to live under certain inherent
disadvantages. Lava and Kusha, the sons of Rama, are great in their own right, yet they pale before
their father’s towering greatness. If they had been born of ordinary parents they would have made
history; they were really extraordinary people. How could the sons of Rama be ordinary people?
But in comparison with Rama they had to take a back seat in history. Dashratha was a very ordinary
person; he is known only because he was Rama’s father. In his own he was insignificant, but he
became great just because he was father of a great person. But even a great son of a great father
cannot be that great; he will be smaller than his father by comparison.
The intercourse between Krishna and his wives was spiritual; his offspring were born of spiritual
union. But when we come to evaluate them, it has necessarily to be relative, comparative; there is
no other way to do it.
You are aware of an anecdote connected with the great Indian King Akbar. Once he was sitting with
his court discussing some important matter of state. He rose from his seat and drew a line on a
blackboard with white chalk and asked his courtiers to make the line smaller without touching it in
any way. Nobody could think how to reduce it without touching it. Then the King’s intimate friend
Birbal, who was known for his great wit, rose from his seat and drew another line longer than the
existing one, and the existing line became smaller without being reduced in size.
Lava and Kusha are indeed great, but they could not surpass their father, who was already at the
height of greatness. So they were lost in the shadow of his greatness, which was immense. They
would have shone if they had not been Rama’s sons. Then history would certainly have remembered
them.
Question 8
QUESTIONER: YOU TALKED ABOUT LIBIDO, SEX ENERGY AND SPIRITUAL INTERCOURSE.
IN THIS CONTEXT A DELICATE BUT CLEAR QUESTION ARISES IN REGARD TO KRISHNA’S
RELATIONSHIP WITH RADHA.IT SEEMS AS IF THE FLUTE BELONGS TO KRISHNA, BUT THE
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