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CHAPTER 1. THE FUTURE BELONGS TO KRISHNA
For this reason the question of violence has become meaningless in Krishna’s life. Now, violence is
just not possible. And where violence is meaning less, non-violence loses its relevance too. Nonviolence
has meaning only in relation to violence. The moment you accept that violence is possible,
non-violence becomes relevant at once. In fact, both violence and non-violence are two sides of the
same coin. And it is a materialistic coin. It is materialistic to think that one is violent or non-violent.
He is a materialist who believes he can kill someone, and he too is a materialist who thinks he is
not going to kill anyone. One thing is common to them: they believe someone can be really killed.
Spirituality rejects both violence and non-violence. it accepts the immortality of the soul. And such
spirituality turns even war into play.
Spirituality or religion accepts, and unreservedly accepts, all the dimensions of life. It accepts sex
and attachment together, relationship and indulgence, love and devotion, yoga and meditation, and
everything there is to life.
And the possibility of the understanding and acceptance of this philosophy of totality is growing
every day – because now we have come to know a few truths we never knew in the past. Krishna,
however, has undoubtedly known them.
For instance, we now know that the body and soul are not separate, that they are two poles of the
same phenomenon. The visible part of the soul is known as the body, and the invisible part of the
body is called the soul. God and the world are not two separate entities; there is absolutely no
conflict be tween God and nature. Nature is the visible, the gross aspect of God, and God is the
invisible, the subtle aspect of nature. There is no such point in the cosmos where nature ends and
God begins. It is nature itself that, through a subtle process of its dissolution, turns into God, and
it is God himself who, through a subtle process of his manifestation, turns into nature. Nature is
manifest God, and God is unmanifest nature. And that is what adwait means, what the principle of
one without the other means.
We can understand Krishna only if we clearly understand this concept of adwait, that only one is –
one without the other. You can call him God or Brahman or what you like.
We also have to understand why Krishna is going to be increasingly significant for the future and how
he is going to become closer and closer to man. It will be so, because the days when suppression
and repression ruled the roost are gone. After a lengthy struggle and a long spell of inquiry and
investigation we have learned that the forces we have been fighting are our own forces. In reality we
are those forces, and it is utter madness to fight them. We have also learned we become prisoners
of the forces we oppose and fight, and then it becomes impossible to free ourselves from them. And
now we also know that we can never transform them if we treat them as inimical forces, if we resist
and repress them.
For instance, if someone fights with sex, he will never attain to brahmacharya, to celibacy in his
life. There is only one way to celibacy and that is through the transformation of the sex energy
itself. So we don’t have to fight with the energy of sex; on the contrary, we should understand it and
cooperate with it. We need to make friends with sex rather than make an enemy of it, as we have
been doing for so long. The truth is, we can only change our friends; the question of changing those
we treat as enemies simply does not arise. There is no way to even understand our enemies; it is
just impossible. To understand something it is essential to be friendly with it.
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