How to Meditate on Shree Krishna Part 5 of 7
Jagadguru Shree Kripalu Ji Maharaj
He will see Krishna’s Divine form. Everyone will attain the same Divine Bliss. Just think how causelessly Graceful He is!
No one has said to God, “Maharaj, I can’t meditate on You. Please tell me what to do!”
Even before the creation of this universe, Krishna proclaimed His rule: “However you wish, form a feeling of loving relationship with Krishna and conceive His form. Krishna resides within your heart, noting your thoughts, thus, you will receive a true Divine consequence.
“When your devotion is complete, then your senses, mind, and intellect everything will become Divine. Then, with your Divine senses and mind you will perceive Krishna in His true, original Divine form.”
First, a young girl plays with dolls; afterward, she marries. First do loving remembrance and reach up to ‘mamekam śharaṇaṁ vraj (मामेकं शरणं व्रज), complete surrender. Up to here is your work. Your work ends after this. Now your Guru’s job starts. His work is not very complicated; it doesn’t take even one second. If your vessel is ready, he will give his Grace. He is checking you every second,
“When will he be qualified so I could give him everything?”
Some effort is required by the Guru. First, theoretical knowledge. Second, on the practical side when a devotee does devotion, whatever difficulties he faces, the Guru has to solve. Seeing his disciple’s sanskārs from uncountable past lives, the Guru will have to help from time to time.
“It’s necessary for me to go to him at this time. Why? He will experience a bad sanskār on the 30th. I should arrive there on the 29th. With my association, that sanskār won’t get stronger and make him crazy.”
The Saint has to do all this work, but secretly. He doesn’t tell any disciple that he spent even two minutes on him. Even if someone were to ask, he would say,
“What nonsense! I’m absorbed in my own happiness. Am I so crazy to run after you?”
So when your devotion is complete, the Guru’s real work starts. On that day, he will make you his true disciple. Please note this.
The drama that goes on nowadays is that so-called ‘gurus’ are anxious to make disciples, but disciples are not that anxious to make someone their Guru. It doesn’t happen like this.
First you have to install all the electrical fixtures in your house, put in the light socket, put in the bulb, do the wiring. Everything should be complete. Then the power plant can give its power. Your house has no fixtures or wiring, and you are saying, “Give me power.” Where could he give it? Prepare yourself first.
But how are modern gurus? “Come on! Everything will be OK. Anything goes here.” They say a mantra in your ear, “Rāmāya namaḥ, Krishnāya namaḥ, Govindāya namaḥ, Vāsudevāya namaḥ…”
And if we said this in simple language, “O Ram, I bow to You,” wouldn’t Ram be happy? In Sanskrit it is said, “Namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.” This is a mantra. In Hindi you could say, “O Bhagwan Vasudev, I bow to You.” Won’t your aim be attained by saying this? Where is it written that it won’t?
Mother Yashoda never said ‘Shree Krishna’. She said, “Kanua.” In what scripture is Kanua written? Her slang pronunciation of Krishna was Kanua. And for Balram, Balua. The ‘Hare Ram’ chanting that you all say so properly was never done in Mother Yashoda’s home.
But you shouldn’t imitate her. You are doing fine. Don’t think, “First I will become like Yashoda.” No, first you have to go step by step. If a devotee were to imitate the actions of Saints, he would be completely destroyed. You should act according to your class. When you attain what Saints have attained, you can act like them. In this way, meditate on Krishna’s form as you wish. From a newborn baby up to sixteen years of age, pick any age, and do loving remembrance.
Actually, the Ved also says you could imagine Him as a very old man. Don’t be afraid if you like to think of Krisahn as one hundred year old and walking with a stick. The Ved says, “You are a boy and also a girl; You are young and also so old that You walk with a stick.” God has no objection. Make His form whatever age you prefer. Make His complexion whatever color you prefer. You are also free to imagine the color of His complexion.
Someone might say, “I don’t like a dark complexion. If I make Krishna with a dark complexion, it would bother me.” Then make Him with a fair complexion. His avatar, Gaurang Mahaprabhu, was extremely fair. What is the difference between Radha and Krishna? One Supreme God has two forms: one is very fair and one is very dark. So there is no barrier. Whatever complexion you like, whatever form you like, the kinds of decorations you like also don’t have to be of one kind. They can be of many kinds and changed whenever you wish without spending anything.
Someone may wish to decorate a temple Deity with a 50 million-dollar necklace. Where to find 50 million dollars? Now there is a problem. But for what you create for Krishna in your mind—what is $50 million? It could be a 50-billion dollar diamond, even better than the Kohinoor. Imagine a diamond. How it sparkles, how big it is! Imagine it in a necklace. The necklace is made. Now it is in my hands. Now I am putting it on Krishna. How beautiful He looks! Was any money spent?
It has been a while since you put a blue diamond necklace on Him; now you could decorate Him with a white diamond necklace. Take off the old necklace,
“Come, white diamond necklace!”
It came. You put it on Him. Change His decorations every second, but only with your mind. Mentally conceive His form, His decorations, and His leelās. Leelās are not limited to what you read in the Bhāgwatam or to what Saints have written; they are uncountable.
You like cricket? Then play cricket with Krishna. Give Him a bat and strike Him out! Don’t be afraid. “How could Krishn play cricket? How dirty!” Nothing is dirty there. Only our minds are dirty. There is nothing dirty or impure in the Divine world.
Think, “If Krishna were to descend today in your home, what would happen?”
Even little boys wear suits and ties. You have seen in the English-medium schools that four-year-old boys wear ties. If Krishna came into your home, He would have to wear a tie, not a peetambar. Whenever He descends, in whoever’s house He appears, whatever His parents prefer, He will eat and He will wear. At that time, whatever games are played in that country, He will also play. For God there are no restrictions. At present, there are descensions happening in uncountable brahmandas, and there are uncountable kinds of leelās happening. Imagine whatever you prefer. At first, you may feel reluctant,
“I’ll remember what is described in the scriptures.”
So do that. I won’t stop you or force you to make Krishna play cricket. But if someone wants to, they are free to do so. You have my permission. So there is no problem in doing Krishna’s remembrance.
Source: Excerpt from the lecture published on Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat Philanthropy YouTube channel.