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CHAPTER 8. HE ALONE WINS WHO DOES NOT WANT TO WIN
If Krishna kills someone, he does it without cause. But you cannot say the same thing in regard
to the person who has been killed by Krishna. His death, from his side, is not without cause. This
man had been living a sequential life, a life connected with a long dead past; he was not living a
spontaneous life. How can the life of a demon be spontaneous? And whoever is not spontaneous is
no different from a demon. His life is inextricably bound up with his past; he lives through his dead
past.
If such a person dies at the hands of Krishna it means that his death is a link, the latest link in
the long chain of his past. His death flows from his past, although it is causeless for Krishna, from
Krishna’s side. Krishna would not have gone searching for this man in order to kill him; on the
contrary, the man himself came to him to court death. This is altogether a different thing.
Similarly, whosoever goes to him, Krishna’s love is spontaneously available. If he had not come,
Krishna would not have gone searching for him. Even if no one goes to Krishna, and he is sitting
alone in a forest, he will be loving, and the solitude of the forest, the emptiness around him, the
entire void of the cosmos will be the recipient of his love. It will make no difference for him and his
love if someone is near him or there is nothing or no one.
Question 16
QUESTIONER: WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT KRISHNA AND HIS MYRIAD VIRTUES
HAS SWEPT US OFF OUR FEET, AND WE SEEM TO HAVE TURNED INTO HIS DEVOTEES.
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THERE ARE NO INADEQUACIES IN HIS LIFE? IS IT NECESSARY
THAT WE JUSTIFY HIS EVERY ACTION WHETHER IT IS DANCING WITH THE GOPIS OR HIS
STEALING THEIR CLOTHES OR GOADING PIOUS YUDHISTHRA TO LIE ABOUT THE DEATH
OF ASHWASTHAMA? AND CAN WE CALL IT A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH?
Your question is right. It is good to know why we don’t find shortcomings in Krishna’s life. But do you
think it is scientific to purposely go in search of shortcomings? It would be unscientific if we decided
to find fault with him it would be equally unscientific if we decided not to find fault with him. Every
approach with a pre-judgment or prejudice, whether for or against, is wrong and unscientific.
Then what is a scientific approach? It is scientific to see Krishna as he is. And whatever I have been
saying about him here is exactly as I see him. It would, of course, be unscientific if I asked you to
see him the way I see him. You ate free to see him in your own way. It is okay if you find fault with
him, and it is okay if you don’t find fault with him. I have no desire whatsoever for you to accept what
I say about Krishna. But I am free to see him the way I see him. It would be unscientific if I tried to
see him differently.
It is good to know what a scientific approach is. Is it necessary to apply what we call the scientific
approach to anything and everything in the world? There are things in this world – are there not?
– which defy the scientific approach; it would be utterly unscientific to apply this approach to them.
And certainly. there are a few things that go beyond the scientific approach. For instance, we cannot
think about love in a scientific manner; there is no way to do so. The very phenomenon of love seems
to be unscientific. And if we try to examine love scientifically we will have to deny it altogether. We
will then have to say that nothing like love exists in this world. The very existence of love is against
science.
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