A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

THE SAGES OF INDIA. 4591that beautiful play at Brindavan, which none canunHerstand but he that has become mad and drunkdeep of the cup of love ! Who can understand thethroes of love of the Gopis the very ideal love, love/>fthat wants nothing, love that even does not care for heaven,love that does not care for anything in this world, or thethis loveworld to come ? And here, my friends, throughof the Gopis has been found the only solution of ihe con"flict between trie Personal and the Impersonal God. Weknow how the Personal God is the highest point of humanlife ;we know that it is philosophical to believe in anImpersonal God, immanent in the universe, of whomeverything is a manifestation. At the same time, oursouls hanker after something concrete, something which wewant to grasp, at whose feet we can pour our soul, and soon. The Personal God is, therefore, the highest conceptionof human nature. Yet reason stands aghast at such anidea. It is the same old, old question which you find discussed in the Brahma Sutras, which you find Draupadi discussing with Yudhistira in the forest, if there is a PersonalGod, all merciful, all powerful, whyis this hell of an earthhere, why did he create this he must be a; partial God.There was no solution, and the only solution that can befound is in what you read, the love of the Gopis, how theyhated every adjective that was piled on to Krishna ;theydid not care to know that He was the Lord of Creation,,they did not care to know that He was Almighty, theydid not care to know that He was Omnipotent, and soforth. The only thing they understood was that He wasthe infinite Love, that was all. The Gopis understood <Krishna only as the Krishna of Brindavan.He, the leaderof the hosts, the king of kings, to them was the shepherd,and the shepherd for ever. I do not want wealth, nor