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CHAPTER 12. DISCIPLINE, DEVOTION AND KRISHNA
BALANCE IN LIFE) WITHOUT REPRESSION? AND WHAT WOULD BE ITS PLACE IN SPIRITUAL
DISCIPLINE?
Let us first understand what I mean by completeness, wholeness.
Wholeness can be both one-dimensional and multidimensional. A painter can be complete as a
painter, but it does not mean that he is also complete as a scientist. A scientist can be whole
as a scientist, but that does not make him whole as a musician. So there is a one-dimensional
completeness. I say Mahavira, Buddha and Jesus were complete in a particular dimension. But
Krishna was complete in a multidimensional way.
It is quite possible that one chooses a particular dimension of life to the exclusion of the rest, and
attains to its wholeness. This wholeness too can lead to the supreme truth The river that flows in a
single stream is as much entitled to reach the ocean as one flowing in many streams. With respect
to reaching the ocean, there is no difference between the two. Mahavira and Buddha and Krishna
all reach to the ocean of truth, but while Mahavira does it as a one-dimensional man, Krishna does
it as one who is multi-dimensional. Krishna’s completeness is multidimensional, while Mahavira’s
is one-dimensional. So don’t think that Mahavira does not attain to wholeness; he transcends the
seventh body and attains to wholeness as much as Krishna does.
Krishna reaches the same goal from many, many directions, and that is significant.
Another significant thing about Krishna is that unlike Mahavira and Buddha, he does not deny life,
he is not life-negative. There is an unavoidable element of negation in the lives of Mahavira and
Buddha which is completely absent in Krishna’s life. There is not a trace of negativity in this man
with the flute. Mahavira attains through renunciation of life; Krishna attains through total acceptance
of it. That is why I differentiate Krishna’s wholeness from that of others. But let no one think that
Mahavira is incomplete. All one can say is that while his wholeness is one-dimensional, Krishna’s
wholeness is multidimensional.
One-dimensional wholeness is not going to have much meaning in the future. For the man of the
future, multidimensional wholeness will have tremendous significance. And there are reasons for
it. One who attains to wholeness through a single facet of his life not only negates all other facets
of his own life, he also becomes instrumental in negating those aspects in the lives of many other
multidimensional people.
On the other hand, one who attains to wholeness, to the absolute, through all aspects of his life,
proves helpful even to all kinds of one-dimensional seekers in their journey to the supreme from
their own aspect. In short, while Mahavira and Buddha can be of help only to a few, Krishna’s help
will be available to many. For example, we cannot think how a painter or sculptor or a poet can attain
to the supreme through the path of Mahavira. Mahavira is one-dimensional not only for himself;
all others who will try to understand him and experiment with his discipline will have to negate all
other facets of their lives as ways to attainment. We cannot conceive how a dancer can attain to the
supreme in Mahavira’s terms, but in Krishna’s terms he can. A dancer, if he so chooses, can drop all
other aspects and keep to dancing, and by going deeper and deeper into it can attain to the same
state Mahavira attains through meditation. This is possible in terms of Krishna.
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