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CHAPTER 2. KRISHNA IS COMPLETE AND WHOLE
But Krishna will always remain incomprehensible. Whether you are in pain or you are happy, it
does not make any difference. You can only understand Krishna when you accept both happiness
and misery together and at the same level. Not before. And do you know the state you will be
in when you say an unconditional yes to both, when you know pain as the precursor of pleasure
and pleasure as the precursor of pain, when you receive them without being agitated in any way,
with equal equanimity, when you refuse to interpret them, even to name them? It will be a state
of bliss. Then you will be neither happy nor unhappy, because you will have stopped interpreting
and labeling things. The person who accepts things without judging them, without naming them,
immediately enters the state of bliss. And one who is in bliss can understand Krishna. Only he can
understand him.
One’s being in a state of bliss does not mean that one will not be visited by suffering now. Suffering
will of course visit you, but now you will not interpret it in a way that makes it really suffering. Bliss
does not mean only happiness will visit you now. No, bliss only means that now you will not interpret
happiness in a way that makes you cling to it and desire it more and more. Now things are as they
are; what is, is. If it is sunny, it is sunny; if it is dark, it is dark. And as life is, it is going to be, by
turn both sunny and dark. But you are not going to be affected by either, because now you know
that things come and go but you remain the same. Pain and pleasure, happiness and sorrow, are
like clouds moving in the sky but the sky remains untouched, the same. And that which remains the
same, untrammeled and unchanging, is your consciousness. This is Krishna-consciousness. This
Krishna-consciousness is just a witnessing: whatever happens to you, pain or pleasure, you simply
watch it without any comment, without any judgement. And to be in Krishna consciousness is to be
in bliss.
For Krishna, there is only one meaningful word in life, and that is bliss. Happiness and unhappiness
are not meaningful; they have been created by dividing bliss into two. The part that is in accord with
you, that you accept, is called happiness, and the part that is discordant to you, that you deny, is
called unhappiness. They are our interpretations of bliss, divided – and as long as it agrees with you
it is happiness and when it begins to disagree with you it is called unhappiness. Bliss is truth, the
whole truth.
It is significant that the word bliss, is anand in Sanskrit, is without an opposite. Happiness has its
opposite in unhappiness, love has its opposite in hate, heaven in hell, but bliss has no such opposite.
It is so because there is no state opposed to bliss. If there is any such state, it is that of happiness
and of misery both. Similarly, the Sanskrit word moksha, which means freedom or liberation, has
no opposite. Moksha is the state of bliss. Moksha means that happiness and misery are equally
acceptable.
Question 4
QUESTIONER: WHAT ARE THE REASONS FOR CALLING KRISHNA A COMPLETE
INCARNATION OF GOD? KINDLY SHED MORE LIGHT ON THIS MATTER. PLEASE EXPLAIN
IN DETAIL WHAT IS MEANT BY SAYING THAT KRISHNA POSSESSED ALL THE SIXTY-FOUR
ARTS THAT COMPRISE A COMPLETE INCARNATION.
There is no other reason but one, and that is total emptiness. Whosoever is empty is whole.
Emptiness is the foundation of wholeness. Rightly said, emptiness alone is whole. Can you draw
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