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CHAPTER 2. KRISHNA IS COMPLETE AND WHOLE
made whole. In the very process of understanding him, you will begin to be whole and holy. If you
consent to drop your choices and preferences, and understand Krishna in his totality, you will find,
by and by, that your inner contradictions and conflicts have diminished and disappeared, and that all
your fragments have come together into an integrated whole. Then you will attain to what is called
yoga or unity. For Krishna, yoga has only one meaning; to be united, to be integrated, to be whole.
The vision of yoga is total. Yoga means the total. That is why Krishna is called a mahayogi, one
who has attained to the highest yoga. There are any number of people who claim to be yogis,
but they are not really yogis because they all have their choices, they all lack unity and integration.
Choicelessness is yoga.
These talks on an undivided and whole Krishna are going to be difficult for you, because intellect has
its own categories, its own ways of thinking in fragments. Intellect has its own ways of measuring
men, events and things. These measures are all petty and fragmentary. It does not make much
difference whether one’s measure is new or old, modern or medieval, metric or otherwise. It does
not make any difference whether the intellect is old or new, ancient or modern, classical or scientific.
There is one characteristic common to all intellect: it divides things into good and bad, right and
wrong. Intellect always divides and chooses.
If you want to understand Krishna then for these ten days drop your judgment altogether, give up
dividing and choosing. Only listen and understand without judging, without evaluating anything. And
whenever you come to a point where your understanding, your intellect begins to falter and fail, don’t
stop there, don’t retreat from there, but boldly enter the world which is beyond rational understanding,
or what you call the irrational world. Often we will come across the irrational, because Krishna cannot
be confined to the rational; he is much more than that. In him, Krishna includes both the rational
and the irrational, and goes beyond both. In him, Krishna also includes that which transcends
understanding, which is beyond understanding.
It is impossible to ht Krishna into logical molds and patterns, because he does not accept your logic,
he does not recognize any divisions of life as you are used to doing. He steers clear of every kind
of fragmentation without accepting or denying it. Although he touches all the pools of your beliefs
and dogmas and superstitions, he himself remains untouched by them he always remains the vast
ocean that he is. Evidently he is going to create difficulties for you. And the greatest difficulty you
will face is when your own tiny pools dry up and die, and Krishna’s ocean lives and goes on and on
and on. He is beyond and ever beyond.
Krishna’s ocean is really all over; he is all-pervasive. He is in good and he is in bad too. His peace
is limitless, yet he takes his stand on a battlefield with his favorite weapon, the sudarshan chakra
in his hand. His love is infinite, yet he will not hesitate to kill if it becomes necessary. He is an outand-out
sannyasin, yet he does not run away from home and hearth. He loves God tremendously,
yet he loves the world in the same measure. Neither can he abandon the world for God nor can he
abandon God for the world. He is committed to the whole. He is whole.
Krishna has yet to find a devotee who will be totally committed to him. Even Arjuna was not such
a complete devotee; otherwise Krishna would not have had to work so hard with him. It is evident
from the GEETA, from the lengthy statement made on the battleground, how doubting and skeptical
and argumentative Arjuna is. Two warring armies are facing each other on the grounds of the
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