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CHAPTER 1. THE FUTURE BELONGS TO KRISHNA
Let us clearly understand that what we think to be the lowest is the other pole of the highest. The
peak of a mountain and the valley around its base are not two separate things, they are part and
parcel of the same phenomenon. The deep valley has been caused by the rising mountain, and in
the same way the mountain has been possible because of the valley, One cannot be without the
other. Or can it? Linguistically the mountain and the valley are two, but existentially they are two
poles of the same thing.
Nietzsche has a very significant maxim. He says a tree that longs to reach the heights of heaven
must sink its roots to the bottom of the earth. A tree that is afraid to do so should abandon its longing
to reach the heavens. Really, the higher a tree the deeper its roots go. If you want to ascend to the
skies you will have to descend into the abyss as well. Height and depth are not different things, they
are two dimensions of the same thing. And their proportions are always the same.
Man’s mind has always wanted to choose be tween the seeming opposites. He wants to preserve
heaven and do away with hell. He wants to have peace and escape tension. He desires to protect
good and destroy evil. He longs to accept light and deny darkness. He craves to cling to pleasure
and to shun pain. His mind has always divided existence into two parts and chosen one part against
the other. And from choice arises duality, which brings conflict and pain.
Krishna symbolizes acceptance of the opposites together. And he alone can be whole who accepts
the contradictions together. One who chooses will always be incomplete, less than the whole,
because the part he chooses will continue to delude him and the part he denies will continue to
pursue and haunt him. He can never be rid of what he rejects and represses. The mind of the man
who rejects and represses sex becomes increasingly sexual. So a culture, a religion that teaches
suppression of sex ends up creating nothing but sexuality; it becomes obsessed with sex.
Up to now we have stubbornly denied the Krishna who accepts sex; we accept him only in fragments.
But now it will be quite possible to accept him totally, because we are beginning to understand that
it is the energy of sex itself that is transformed into the highest kind of celibacy, into brahmacharya
– through the process of its upward journey to the sahasrar, to the ultimate center in the head. We
are beginning to learn that nothing in life has to be denied its place and given up, that we have to
accept and live life in its totality. And he who lives wholly attains to life’s wholeness. And he alone is
holy who is whole.
Therefore I say that Krishna has immense significance for our future. And that future, when Krishna’s
image will shine in all its brilliance, is increasingly close. And whenever a laughing, singing and
dancing religion comes into being it will certainly have Krishna’s stone in its foundation.
Question 2
QUESTIONER: KRISHNA PLAYED A GREAT ROLE IN THE WAR OF THE MAHABHARAT.
IT MEANS HE COULD HAVE PREVENTED IT IF HE HAD WANTED. BUT THE WAR TOOK
PLACE, BRINGING HORRENDOUS DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN ITS WAKE. NATURALLY
THE RESPONSIBILITY SHOULD BE WITH HIM. DO YOU JUSTIFY HIM OR IS HE TO BE
BLAMED?
It is the same with war and peace. Here too, we choose. We want to keep peace and eliminate
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