Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 1. THE FUTURE BELONGS TO KRISHNA
Krishna accepts the duality, the dialectics of life altogether and therefore transcends duality. What
we call transcendence is not possible so long as you are in conflict, so long as you choose one
part and reject the other. Transcendence is only possible when you choicelessly accept both parts
together, when you accept the whole.
That is why Krishna has great significance for the future. And his significance will continue to grow
with the passage of time. When the glow and the glamor of all other godmen and messiahs has
dimmed, when the suppressive religions of the world have been consigned to the wastebasket of
history, Krishna’s flame will be heading towards its peak, moving towards the pinnacle of its brilliance.
It will be so because, for the first time, man will be able to comprehend him, to understand him and
to imbibe him. And it will be so because, for the first time, man will really deserve him and his
blessings.
It is really arduous to understand Krishna. It is easy to understand that a man should run away from
the world if he wants to find peace, but it is really difficult to accept that one can find peace in the
thick of the marketplace. It is understandable that a man can attain to purity of mind if he breaks
away from his attachments, but it is really difficult to realize that one can remain unattached and
innocent in the very midst of relationships and attachments, that one can remain calm and still live
at the very center of the cyclone. There is no difficulty in accepting that the flame of a candle will
remain steady and still in a place well secluded from winds and storms, but how can you believe
that a candle can keep burning steadily even in the midst of raging storms and hurricanes? So it is
difficult even for those who are close to Krishna to understand him.
For the first time in his long history man has attempted a great and bold experiment through Krishna.
For the first time, through Krishna, man has tested, and tested fully his own strength and intelligence.
It has been tested and found that man can remain, like a lotus in water, untouched and unattached
while living in the throes of relationship. It has been discovered that man can hold to his love and
compassion even on the battlefield, that he can continue to love with his whole being while wielding
a sword in his hand.
It is this paradox that makes Krishna difficult to understand. Therefore, people who have loved and
worshipped him have done so by dividing him into parts, and they have worshipped his different
fragments, those of their liking. No one has accepted and worshipped the whole of Krishna, no
one has embraced him in his entirety. Poet Surdas sings superb hymns of praise to the Krishna
of his childhood, Bal. krishna. Surdas’ Krishna never grows up, because there is a danger with a
grown-up Krishna which Surdas cannot take. There is not much trouble with a boy Krishna flirting
with the young women of his village, but it will be too much if a grown-up Krishna does the same.
Then it will be difficult to understand him.
After all, we can understand something on our own plane, on our own level. There is no way to
understand something on a plane other than ours.
So for their adoration of Krishna, different people have chosen different facets of his life. Those
who love the Geeta will simply ignore the BHAGWAD, because the Krishna of the GEETA is so
different from the Krishna of the BHAGWAD Similarly, those who love the BHAGWAD will avoid
getting involved with the GEETA. While the Krishna of the GEETA stands on a battlefield surrounded
by violence and war, the Krishna of the BHAGWAD is dancing, singing and celebrating. There is
seemingly no meeting-point whatsoever between the two.
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