Krishna leelas inner meaning / BHAGAVATAM- KRISHNA LEELAS

Bhagavatam inner meaning 1
Compiled by
Dr. Medicherla Shyam Sunder Kumar
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RAmAyaNam: The Heart of India
MahAbhAratam: The Mind of India
BhAgavatam: The Soul of India
RAMAYAN:
The Heart of India
MAHABHARAT:
The Mind of India
BhAgavatam:
The Soul of India

The word “yoga”
comes from the root “yuj,”
and it means “to unite, to join
Religion
re-ligare, i.e. re (again) + ligare or "to reconnect."
ALL SCRIPTURES TALK ABOUT
UNION OF ATMA + PARAMATMA

JIVATMA IN THE CONDITIONED BODY
ALWAYS
ANXIOUS TO LEAVE TO JOIN FATHER
BEING DICTATED
NOBODY LIKES IT
ALWAYS MAKING PLANS
TO GET OUT.

BODY MIND INTELLECT CHART BY SWAMI CHINMAYA
PHYSICAL personality
MENTAL personality
INTELLECTUAL personality
SPIRITUAL personality
WE HAVE 4 PERSONALITIES
World of s
THOUGHTS AS EMOTIONS & AS IDEAS OR DECISIONS
Carried in your DNA
from previous births
EGOLESS
(NO AHAMKARA)
DESIRELESS
VASANALESS
PURPOSE
SALVATION
MADHAVA (GOD)MADHAVA (GOD)
MANAVA (HUMAN)MANAVA (HUMAN)
TOTO PHYSICAL personality MENTAL personality
INTELLECTUAL personality
SPIRITUAL personality
! EGO (AHAMKARA
Gunas influence

MANMAN SPIRITUAL BEINGSPIRITUAL BEING
TRANSFORMATION-TRANSFORMATION- METAMORPHOSIS ,METAMORPHOSIS ,
CATERPILLAR CHANGES INCATERPILLAR CHANGES IN TO BUTTERFLYTO BUTTERFLY
Similarly Man must Transform to Divine beingSimilarly Man must Transform to Divine being
The caterpillars eat leaves with
voracious appetite and destroy the
plants ,while the adult butterflies land
softly on flowers and “drink” nectar only
as needed and pollinate many types of
wildflowers.
Humans must act like butterflies
(Take only what you need ) and leave the
nature for future generations.
Transform from Tamasic & Rajasic
to Sattvic being.

5/25/20175/25/2017 88GODGOD
KERNAL TO POPCORNKERNAL TO POPCORN
• Each kernel of popcorn does contain a small drop of water
stored inside a circle of soft starch.
• ( kernal needs to contain 13.5 percent to 14
percent moisture to tun in to Popcorn) .
•• Similarly Man must Transform in to a Divine beingSimilarly Man must Transform in to a Divine being
with Shraddha (Faith) and Saburi (Patience).with Shraddha (Faith) and Saburi (Patience).

http://livingthebhagavadgita.blogspot.com/2012/04/anger-management-part-i.html

THE MIND
OF
A SELF REALIZED PERSON

MIND
Desire is seated in the
senses, mind, and intellect.
Through them it deludes
people by eclipsing their
wisdom.
Desire leads to delusion and
ruin;
see 2:62-63.
Control the senses first
and then shatter Desire,
(the sinful destroyer of
knowledge and reason)

WHAT SEPERATES US FROM GOD ?
MIND WITH GUNAS
&
IGNORANCE

MIND
with
3 GUNAS
GOD
PARAMATMA
COSMIC SOUL
MAN
JIVATMA
SOUL
MIND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
OUR PLEASURE & PAIN
WHAT SEPERATES US FROM “GOD” ?
MIND IS THE KEY TO
REACH GOD
Gita ch. 6, verses 5-6-7. The
lower self is your enemy.
Gita, Chapter 4, Verse 19: ....
It is the mind that makes a
friend an enemy and an
enemy a friend.

Vedanta says that one can attain unconditional
security, peace, and happiness once these
impediments are removed.

SALVATION How? Is it possible?
VASANAKSHAYA MANO NASHANA
REMOVE DEFECTS OF MIND
MALA
( IMPURE or TOO MANY
THOUGHTS )
Rx---KARMA YOGA
SALVATION
VIKSHEPA
(AGITATIONS OF THE MIND)
TOSSING POWER
Rx---BHAKTI YOGA
AVARANA –
IGNORANCE
(VEILING POWER)
Rx---JNANA YOGA

3rd DEFECT OF THE MIND
AVARANA
IGNORANCE
(VEILING POWER)
CAN’T UNDERSTAND
REFLECTION
(MANANA)
HAVE NO EXPERIENCE-
MEDITATION
(NIDIDHYASA)
JNANA YOGA
ENQUIRY
RX
DON’T’ KNOW
LISTENING
(SRAVANA)
GITA-Ch11/55,13/25
CLOUDED,AGITATED,COVERD MIND
SEE HOW GOD CAN ENTER IF YOU LET HIM
HE WILL EVEN through CRACKS IN the DOOR
When you open your heart
He will enter.
•Ajanana avaranam
•Covered with Ignorance

““ MOKSHAMOKSHA ”” is not an easy fruit to obtain .is not an easy fruit to obtain .
Need practice or SADHANANeed practice or SADHANA
Explained in BHAGAVATAMExplained in BHAGAVATAM

SATTVIC-RAJASIC-TAMASIC
UPSIDE DOWN
OR DULL PERCEPTION
DISTORTED
PERCEPTION
CLEAR PERCEPTION

RAJO GUNA
SATTVIC GUNA
TAMASIC GUNA
The living being or substance is viewed as the net result
of the joint effect of these three qualities

LEARN ABOUT GUNALEARN ABOUT GUNA’’SS
ANDAND
INTERNALIZEINTERNALIZE
FORFOR
SELF IMPROVEMENTSELF IMPROVEMENT
NOT FOR JUDGING OTHERSNOT FOR JUDGING OTHERS

One reads and listens to stories
about Krishna’s childhood pranks
and feats with enjoyment. But
beyond all this, there are deep
symbolic meanings to each of
these episodes
KRISHNA'S story symbolic of
step by step union of
JIVATMA with PARAMATMA

The tenth Skandha of BHAGAVATAM contains all
the Lilas of the Lord. The youthful sports and
pastimes, the funs and frolics of the divine child
Sri Krishna, Kumara Lilas, Brindavan Lilas,
Mathura Lilas, Dwaraka Lilas, Kurukshetra Lilas
and Prabhasa Lilas are described in this Skandha.
It contains 90 chapters.

By reading these namittika (occasional) lilas
or pastimes of killing the twenty demons
mentioned in the Tenth Canto of Srimad-
Bhagavatam, the sadhaka or spiritual practitioner,
purifies his heart of all the impediments, obstacles,
anarthas and aparadhas, or offenses. Then one
becomes eligible to read, reflect upon and taste
the asta-kaliya-lilas of Radha-Krishna.

TENTH CANTO OF BHAGAVATAM
INNER MEANING

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PUTANA'S story symbolic of
Removing Vasana's = tendencies

Putana, a female demon,
is well known for her attempt
to kill the infant Krishna by offering him milk
from her poisoned breasts;
she was, however, sucked to death by the God.
Nonetheless, Krishna had accepted her like a mother and she
attained liberation, as did all the demons killed by Lord
Krishna
Killing PUTANA (Removing Vasana's = tendencies)

Killing PUTANA - Removing " I" AND " MINE "
Putana, a female demon,
Her breasts symbolic of " I" AND " MINE"Her breasts symbolic of " I" AND " MINE"
When you remove " I" AND " MINE "
"Jivatma " merges with "Paramatma"
Putana, merged in to "Paramatma"
Removal of 3rd defect of MIND

The inner chamber have two doors
symbolic of " I" AND " MINE"symbolic of " I" AND " MINE"
When you remove " I" AND " MINE "
you have Darshan of the GOD.

Putana story with inner meaning
THE STORY INNER MEANING
Putana comes with the plan of feeding the
child poison through milk.
Our ignorance is like the poisoned milk. It
has to be destroyed for us to be able to
reach the feet of the Lord.
So big is she that her body cannot be
disposed of easily. It is suggested that the
huge body be cut into pieces first and then
disposed of. But when this effort begins, the
axes turn blunt!
our ignorance is can be seen from a
description of the size of Putana. In the
same way our ignorance too is huge and not
easily got rid of. It requires Krishna’s mercy
to destroy it.
When Putana’s body is finally burnt, the
smell that emanates is not that of burning
flesh, but the smell of sandalwood.
Lord Krishna’s grace rids us of impurities
kRISHNA feeding on the breasts and killing
her
The breasts symbolic of "I' and "MINE"
when both are eliminated or divinized you
get SALVATION.Putana merged in to him.
On the night before Holi, there is a practice to
burn an effigy of Pootana -
the Ogress who nearly killed Lord Krishna.
The tradition is symbolic of
1-Victory of divinity over demonic forces.
2- It also shows the end of winter and darkness -
as typified by Pootana.

SHAKATASURA'S story symbolic
of removal of IGNORANCE
(TAMASIC GUNA)

IGNORANCE is removed
(TAMASIC GUNA)
life-chariot gets back on track
( Killing of Demon Shakatasura )
Have daya on fellow humans
and animals, but also to plants.
IF WE REMOVE ONE TREE
four must be planted
In previous life Utkaca
uprooted all the trees
in the āśramam of Lomaśa maharṣhi
& he was cursed.
Putana’s mission having proved unsuccessful, Kamsa then sends
Shakatasura, who assumes the form of a wheel to kill Krishna. But
Krishna destroys this demonic wheel as well.

SHAKATASURA'S story
symbolic The cycle of births and deaths is
never ending, and we keep coming back full
circle to where we were, taking birth and dying
only to be born again.
The only way to break this wheel is
through Lord Krishna’s grace, and that
is indicated in the Shakatasura episode.

The asura Trinavarta's story
story symbolic of removal of
RAJASIC GUNA.

The asura Trinavarta's
story symbolic of
removal of
RAJASIC GUNA.

Trinavarta (Twister) Crushing the Rajo Guna
KRISHNA
caught him so tightly that it was difficult
for him to separate the child from his body.
Thus Trnavarta himself fell down from a
very great height, and immediately died
Trinavartha takes Krishna away from His mother
Yasoda, so also do rajasic qualities like anger keep us
away from God.

Once you are SATTVIC
Paramatma bound by Jivatma
(DAMODARA LEELA)

Once you are SATTVIC
Paramatma bound by Jivatma
(DAMODARA LEELA)
Krishna is literally bound
by His devotees love.
The misfortune of the conditioned soul
is that he is willing to work so hard
for the temporary pleasures of this world
but he has no desire to endeavor
to achieve the ultimate goal of life
pure devotional service
KRISHNA’S AGE 3 Yrs

Yashoda running to capture—
seeker to capture god in heart
Allow himself to be captured
By devotional feelings in heart
FREE OF EGO
Rope devotional feeling-
Yashoda tied 3 yr old
Krishna to a mortar
MORTAR (FAITH )
YASHODA HAS FAITH
TREES (RAGA DWESHA-LIKE
2 KUBERAS SONS DISLIKE
IGNORED NARADA (SATSANG)
RAGA DWESHA UPROOTED
BY KRISHNA PULLING MORTOR
IN BETWEEN 2 TREES

Elimination of Pride (mada)
(DEMON BAKASURA)

(DEMON BAKASURA)

Bakasura demon in the form of a stork
was swallowing up Krsna,
Krsna caught hold of the beaks of
the great gigantic stork
and, bifurcated his mouth,
just as a child very easily splits a blade of grass
(DEMON BAKASURA)

Desire of family life
Forgetting GOD
(killing of demon Aghasura)

The SIN,
intense
desire of
family life
Forgetting GOD
(killing of
demon
Aghasura)

Aghasura happened to be the younger brother of Putana and
Bakasura sent by Kamsa, assumed the form of a python,
expanding himself to a length of eight miles
and the height of a mountain,
cowherd boys, along with their groups of calves,
entered the mouth of that gigantic figure.
later krishna entered & expanded His body to such an extent that
the asura suffocated and died.
The SIN, intense desire of family life
Forgetting GOD
(killing of demon Aghasura)

Dhenukāsura, (Greed)
Donkey demon

Dhenukāsura, (Greed)
Donkey demon
Dhenukasura is the evil of Lewdness for male or female,
greed for wealth, effort for acquiring material prosperity,
increasing one’s honor, fame and reputation etc for
selfish end. If humility becomes very deep and intense,
Krishna will be mercifuland restore his self-knowledge..

Śrī Kṛṣhṇa threw him down
and threw Govardhanagiri on
dhenukāsura, like a ball .
Dhenukāsura,
Donkey demon
Śrī Kṛṣhṇa līlas try to bring out some durguṇas, (Bad Habits )
commonly found in people,
and thus warn us to be away from the same.
to be unlearnt:
Not having Vinayam-vidheyata
OBEDIENCE, & RESPECT
(HUMILITY & MODESTY )

Arishtaasura Bhanjanam
Demon in the form of a Bull

Durgunam to be unlearnt:
Not respecting the Gurudeva.
Arishtaasura Bhanjanam
Demon in the form of a Bull

KESINISUDANA STORY

KESINISUDANA STORY
KESI + NISUDANA
DEMON IN THE FORM OF A HORSE

KESI + NISUDANA
DEMON IN THE FORM OF A
HORSE
GITA CH 18, Verse 1
The demon Kesi, in the form of a horse, was sent by
Kamsa to kill Krishna but was overpowered and slain
(Vishnu Purana 5.15-16). Krsna's hand within the
mouth of the horse at once began to inflate, and
Kesi's throat choked up died .
to be unlearnt: Chauryam
STEALING

Gets peace
( senses are purified )
pralambhasura
story

Gets peace ( senses are purified )
pralambhasura katha
Moral
Gets peace (senses are purified)
One must, even unknowingly,
never take things not belonging to them,
without owner’s prior permission
This will lead to caurya-doṣham (Theft)

THE SOUND OF
KRISHNA'S FLUTE

Vasanas ( tendencies ) are reduced
ATMA is eligible to merge with PARAMATMA
Seeker will hear melody of the Flute (primordial sound)
Anahata Nada (Heart Chakra)
One cannot hear the anahata nada (the Unstruck Sound of the Nada yogis) until one
has reached the level of consciousness of the Heart Chakra.

ESOTERIC SIGNIFICANCE OF
IN BHAGAVATA (KRISHNA ) LEELAS

BLISSFUL SOUL
Ego around the soul creates the illusion
that happiness lies within objects.
Regular spiritual practice alone can
remove the ego, giving the seeker
the spiritual experience of Bliss.
Nothing seems to satisfy one's quest
for Bliss despite the Blissful soul lying
right within him is that one searches
for it in external objects
Constant Bliss when he
merges with the God Principle
GITA CH 18, INTRODUCTION

EGO of BRAHMA
(Creative mind in us)
Is crushed in VATSA-LEELA
EGO of INDRA (Mind in us )
Crushed in
GOVARDHANA-LEELA
EGO of MANMADHA (cupid-Lust)
brought down to his knees
in RAASA-LEELA
Crushing the EGO
in leelas of KRISHNA

SALVATION How? Is it possible?
VASANAKSHAYA
Remove tendencies
MANO NASHANA
REMOVE 3 DEFECTS OF MIND
MALA ( IMPURE
OR TOO MANY THOUGHTS )
Rx---KARMA YOGA
SALVATION
VIKSHEPA
(AGITATIONS OF THE MIND)
TOSSING POWER
Rx---BHAKTI YOGA
AVARANA –
IGNORANCE
(VEILING POWER)
Rx---JNANA
YOGA
Mind covered with ignorance

KRISHNA EATING MUD
YASHODA LOOKED INSIDE THE
MOUTH OF BOY KRISHNA & SEEN
COSMOS
REMOVE 2REMOVE 2NDND DEFECT OFDEFECT OF
MIND VIKSHEPA (MENTALMIND VIKSHEPA (MENTAL
AGITATIONS)AGITATIONS)
SEE GLIMPSE OF COSMIC
CONSCIOUSNESS
ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN YOUR CONSIOUSNESS

Stealing butter (YOUR PURIFIED HEART JIVATMA-)

YASHODA
PURITY OF HEART
NANDA-PURITY OF MIND
BALARAMA WILL OF
ATTAINING SALVATION
INDRA –DOUBTFUL MIND
BRAHMA CREATIVE MIND
MANMADHA - SEX HORMONES IN THE BODY
Symbolism of characters

Crushing the Rajo Guna
(Lord krishna steals navanita, BUTTER the heart),
mind gets saturated with SAATVA GUNA
(Life becomes Sattvic)
Lord krishna steals
navanita, the soft heart
(BUTTER)
The butter implies the atma.
The atma does not belong to us,
and this is what the Lord shows
us. In taking the butter, Krishna,
therefore, is not stealing, but in
fact, is only taking that which is
His.

The pot is broken by Krishna,
to show us that the body to which
we attach so much importance
is really of no significance at all.

Impurities of the mind
(un churned milk)
We search person to person
for happiness
Frustrations
Feeling not yet pure
Turn to god
For Reason
(Get him out
of trouble)
Objectives- -wealth
confused--solution
no problem -God
forgotten
Milk churned
(human feelings churned)
personality must change
Butter (purity obtained)
Feeling purified
(churned milk)
Soul discovers God
Nature of human feelings

Krishna and his friends stealing butter
• women hanging POTS high from the ceiling.
Krishna and his friends then set about making
human pyramids to reach the pots.
(
http://www.glimpseofkrishna.com/individual/index.htm

Inner meaning of butter
Heart is soft & tender like butter
Stealing the butter is stealing the heart.
The ordinary thief gets caught easily.
One who steals the heart can’t be caught (krishna )
Jivatma is part of paramatma (Super soul),
so Krishna can’t be a thief taking rightfully jivatma (Butter-Soul) .
http://www.glimpseofkrishna.com/individual/index.htm

SRI KRISHNA played
the role of
a kidwith GOPA BALA
(Cowherd boys ),
Bhogi,Yogi and Jnani

SRI KRISHNA played the role of a kid
with GOPA BALA (Cowherd boys )
why ?
they can’t understand the high level of spirituality
so, he ate with them stealing butter etc
showed the LEELAS ( Lords Sport) and stole their heart.
http://www.glimpseofkrishna.com/dhenu/8.htm

Krishna played the role with enjoyers of the world (Bhogi)
as one of them
With YOGIS as a YOGI
With JNANIS as a JNANI
With YOGIS as a YOGI With JNANIS as a JNANI
With enjoyers of the world (Bhogi)
as one of them

WHO ARE THE GOPIKA’S ?
GOPIKA’S – GO means Senses
All the senses should be focused on LORD.
ALL THE LILA’S TO INDICATE THIS.
Lord Krishna’s main aim is to control
Gopikas Mind from wavering from the GOAL.

On account of the domination of the objective phenomena,
the deluded are not able to see Him.
If he turns the mind outside, the world is reflected in it;
if he turns it inside God is realized.
This Atma is seen only by such sages
who can discriminate between
the real and the unreal,
the seer and the seen.
(Seeing the Atma means, self-realisation.)
When the mind & senses (snake hood) is
turned outside, the whole of the phenomenal
world (Drishya)is seen.
The deluded are not able to see Atma (Seer-Drik)
GITA Ch 15 , Verse 10
The mind & Senses turned inward
Towards ATMA (Seer-Drik).
If the mind is turned within,
kept calm, pure and firm,
Atma is beheld.
If the mirror(mind) is turned to us,
we see ourselves.
if he turns mind inside God is realized.

Many maharshi’s were born at gokula.
Krishna ate dirt from the feet of those Illuminated beings
to elevate the future jiva’s in his womb.
SHOWING THE SUPREMACY AS BRAHMAN
CREATOR—SUSTAINER --DESTROYER
who is the original cause of this cosmic manifestation,
by whom the entire cosmos is maintained,
and by whom we can conceive of its existence.

FREE OF EGO
Krishna to a mortar
MORTAR (FAITH )
YASHODA HAS FAITH
IN BETWEEN 2 TREES

Deliverance of
the Yamala-arjuna Trees

FREE OF EGO
Krishna to a mortar
MORTAR (FAITH )
YASHODA HAS FAITH
IN BETWEEN 2 TREES

Nalakuvara and Manigriva were great devotees of Lord
Siva, but because of material opulence they became
so extravagant and senseless and does not care about
anyone, even a sage like Narada Muni.
Therefore Narada Muni set an example by cursingTherefore Narada Muni set an example by cursing
these two persons, Nalakuvara and Manigriva, tothese two persons, Nalakuvara and Manigriva, to
become dull and unconscious like trees and remainedbecome dull and unconscious like trees and remained
in the courtyard of Mother Yasoda and Nandain the courtyard of Mother Yasoda and Nanda
Maharaja, waiting for the opportunity to see KrsnaMaharaja, waiting for the opportunity to see Krsna
directly.directly.
Lord Krsna, by the desire of His devotee, uprooted
these yamala-arjuna trees AND RELEASED THEM
FROM THE CURSE. Now, that prophesy was fulfilled.
Delivered from their curse, Nalakuvara and
Manigriva thanked Lord Krishna profusely and,
seeking his permission, left for their heavenly abode

Further purification of JIVA
GOPIKA VASTRAPAHARANAM

Further purification of JIVA
GOPIKA VASTRAPA HARANA
Ignorance and Vasanas are eliminated
Loss of body consciousness leads to RAASA LEELA
Final union between JIVATMA & PARAMATMA

SrImad bhAghavatam tenth skandam
GOpikA vastrApaharaNam
The gOpis are observing kAtyAyini vratam,
and go to the banks of the yamuna to take an early morning bath.
Krishna steals all their clothes
and makes them all apologize for bathing without any clothes on,
thus insulting varuNa, the water god.
To come to him leaving ““II”” (EGO) and(EGO) and ““MINEMINE”” (ATTACHMENT)(ATTACHMENT)
He makes them pray to Him and then returns their clothes,
promising them that He will bless them all with RASA KREEDA
that night as a boon from the kAtyAyini vratam they all observed.
YOU WILL SEE GOD WHEN YOU GO BEYOND THE DUALITY
1Inner Meaning
FEELING THAT THEY ARE WOMEN (EGO)
attachment to the body, IN FRONT OF THE LORD

PARAMATMA
Clothes (
hide the body
ATMA
Vasana’s
(Tendencies)
Vasana’s (Tendencies) hide the ATMA
You can see GOD by removing the Vasana’s
GOpikA vastrApaharaNam (Stealing of gopikas clothes )
story symbolic of removal of ignorance & Vasana's
STORY OF RAASA LEELA
Symbolic of
ATMA + PARAMATMA
Merger
MIND
DUALITY
ONENESS
PARAMATMA
2-Inner Meaning

All pervading Lord KRISHNA didn’t steal Worldly clothes
to see naked bodies of gopikas
He is pervading in the water too.
Their mind is covered BY KAMA (LUST ) (Clothes)
He stole covering of (clothes) of the KAMA (LUST ) from the MIND.
ELIMINATING KAMA (LUST)
A YOGI MAY NOT HAVE BODILY DESIRE
BUT HARD TO GET RID OF MANASIKA (MIND) desire of lust.
even great rishis were defeated by lust.
They surrendered to lord & born as gopikas .
3-Inner Meaning

Krishna taking away the clothes to
make them realize the Lord
They have to abandon the
attachment to the body, which is
the vesture of the Spirit.
Stealing the Garments of the Unmarried Gopi Girls
Here, the gopis prayed to the goddess to become wives of Lord Krsna.
yogi can study the psychic movement of other men,
and certainly Krshna could understand the desire of the gopis
These stories should not be treated in a spirit of humor or profanity
(Bhagavatam, Skanda X, Ch.22).

'The Gopis were Rishis, and the Lord Supreme as a baby is teaching them a lesson.
There is a profound occult lesson behind the story.
When the Soul is approaching the Supreme Lord at the stage of initiation,
it has to pass through a great ordeal.
Stripped of everything on which it has relied,
of all external protection,
of all external covering,
the soul itself,
in its own inherent life,
must stand naked (SOUL without vasanas) and alone,
approaches the supreme goal,
that is told of in that story'.

KALIYA
KLESHA OR EGO

KALIYA MARDHANI
Several thousand hoods
Each head of KALIYA snake has poison (VASANAS)
each of our senses has poison
& in the mind Raga dwesha (like & dislike)
Sankalpa & vikalpa (accepting & rejecting )are the poisons.
KALIYA snake has poison (VASANAS)

Hole = BHAKTI
Devotion
SENSUAL ENJOYMENTS = SNAKE
When SNAKE of SENSUAL ENJOYMENTS take over
the hole of BHAKTI (Devotion )
no more BHAKTI left in that person.
Without SANYASA
(renouncing
desire prompted actions)
Can’t have
BHAKTI (Devotion )
What is it in for me
Or
We bargain with God
If you fulfill my desires I will do pooja, pilgrimage etc.

THE LORD KRISHNA KILLED ALL THE DEMONS
BUT SUPPRESSED & SPARED THE LIFE OF “KALIYA” SNAKE
WHY ?
WE CAN NOT KILL THE SENSES
BUT WE CAN GET CONTROL OF THEM WITH DISCRIMINATION
through SATSANGH
SADHANA
SERVICE
If we can purify senses ,
they will merge in to devotion
They are nurtured with BHAKTI
Senses become weak
Whatever yogi gets in SAMADHI
BHAKTA gets in BHAJAN , pooja or SINGING etc.

What other people
think of you
What you think you are
What really you are
AWAKE
SLEEP
DEEP SLEEP

KALIYA AWAKENED
(YOUR IMPERFECTIONS)
BY KRISHNA
BRINDAVAN
UNCONCIOUS REALM IN MIND
DEEP IN UNCONSCIOUS POISONOUS THOUGHTS
LUST,ANGER,GREED,HATE,EGOISTIC ILLUSION

YAMUNA RIVER
BRINDAVAN
UNCONCIOUS REALM IN MIND
MENTAL PROCESS POISIONED
BY KALIYA (KLESHA)
AVIDYA-IGNORANCE
ASMITA-EGOISM
RAGA-LIKE
DWESHA-DISLIKE
ABHINIVESHA-FEAR OF DEATH
Brindavan, along the Yamuna river

BRINDAVAN====UNCONCIOUS REALM IN MIND
YAMUNA RIVER==MENTAL PROCESS POISIONED BY KALIYA
(KLESHA)
SADHANA
KALIYA AWAKENED (YOUR IMPERFECTIONS) BY KRISHNA
YOU GET AGITATED
SADHANA,SATSANG HAS MIRACULOUS POWER
MORE INTENSE SADHANA
EASIER TO OVERCOME (-VE)
POSITIVE THOUGHTS
ALL THOUGHT WAVES TOUCHED BY KRISHNA’S FEET
ILLUSION GONE
AWRENESS OF GOD
SENSE OF EGO TO SENSE OF DIVINITY
KALIYA SENT TO OCEAN
KALIYA HAS FEAR OF GARUDA (INTUTION)
KALIYA MARDHANI
DEEP IN UNCONSCIOUS POISONOUS THOUGHTS
LUST,ANGER,GREED,HATE,EGOISTIC ILLUSION
AVIDYA-IGNORANCE
ASMITA-EGOISM
RAGA-LIKE
DWESHA-DISLIKE
ABHINIVESHA-FEAR OF DEATH
YAMUNA RIVER==
MENTAL PROCESS
POISIONED BY KALIYA
(KLESHA
KALIYA (KLESHA
OR EGO
THOUGHT WAVES TOUCHED BY KRISHNA’S FEET
CESSATION OF THOUGHT WAVES –PATANJALI

Relationship between Sri Krishna
and Radha –PARA BHAKTI
HEART MELTS SOUL MERGES
• There are only men and women in this
human world, and we do not see a third
gender. Therefore, when men and women
contemplate the mystery of God, they
cannot think in any other way except in
terms of men and women.
SITARAMA KALYANAM
VENKATESHWARA KALYANAM
SHIVA PARVATI KALYANAM

LIKE GOPI’S
SEEKER LONGING FOR GOD
FEELING OF SEPERATION MARK OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESS
TRANSCEND SENSES
FLOODED WITH PURE IMPRESSIONS
(SUBHA SAMSKARA)
INNER PEACE & SILENCE
MELODY OF SONGS –
UNFOLDS SAMADHI
(SUPER CONSIOUSNESS)

LIFTING GOVARDHANA MOUNTAIN

GO = SENSES
Over indulgence
Strengthen
the senses
Weaken the senses
BY LIFTING GOVARDHANA MOUNTAIN (senses)
Worshipper (Krishna)& object of worship (Krishna)& become one.
First step to advaita
By renouncing
KRISHNA’S AGE 7 YRS

SEASONAL OFFERINGS TO INDRA
(EGO CONSCIOUSNESS)
FOR RAIN –TRANSIENT ENJOYMENTS
KRISHNA STOPPED FROM DESIRE
PROMPTD (KAMYA KARMA)
TO DESIRELESS PROPMPTED KARMA
(NISHKAMYA)
(NIVRITTI MARGA )
CURB PRIDE OF INDRA
TORRENTIAL RAINS-(LOT OF OBSTACLES)
GOPIS LOOKED FOR KRISHNA
TOTAL SURRENDER
UN FLINCHING FAITH
KRISHNA LIFTED ON
LITTLE FINGER (Sattvic)
GOVARDHANA MOUNTAIN FOR 7DAYS
LIFTING GOVARDHANA MOUNTAIN
GO=SENSES
JNANA
BHAKTI
Loose body consciousness
Enter Raasa Leela
NIVRITTI (JNANA MARGA)
FAITH & DEVOTION
PROCESS LIFTED
ENLIGHTENED VISION
Strengthened
in Govardhana Lila
Weight of the world
KRISHNA’S AGE 7 YRS

The Gopis of Vrndavana,
who were so attracted to Him,
danced with Krsna, hand in hand.
THE FRUIT OF BHAGAVATA IS
UNION BETWEEN
JIVATMA (GOPIKAS) & PARAMATMA (KRISHNA)
KRISHNA ONLY 7 YR OLD

RASA KREEDA IS NOT KAMA KREEDA (LUST)
but VIJAYA KREEDA
(Victory over lust-MANMADHA or CUPID)
MAN – DESIRE = GOD
GOD + DESIRE = MAN
THIS LEELA TO CONTEMPLATE NOT FOR US TO PRACTICE
JIVATMA (GOPIKAS=PURE HEART )
in great distress to meet
PARAMATMA (KRISHNA)
This story of symbolic of 5 PRANAS in the body longing for GOD
This story of symbolic of that INTENSE LONGING of JIVATMA
Initially indicates DUALITY , but end result is ONENESS.
KRISHNA ONLY 7 YR OLD

• 1==NO PHYSICAL PLEASURES
• 2==NOT A DESIRE PROMPTED KARMA
• 3==THIS IS SYMBOLIC OF
UNION BETWEEN
JIVATMA (GOPIKAS) & PARAMATMA (KRISHNA)
RASA KREEDA DENOTES 3 POINTS
LORD KRISHNA’S AGE 7 YRS

BHAGAVATAM describes RAASA LEELA on 4 different occasions
1= Playing flute for GOPIKAS (Unmarried girls)
2 = Raasa leela with married GOPIKAS
3= Raasa leela with old GOPIKA ladies in GOVARDHANA LEELA
4 = Raasa leela with SANYASINI’S (Renunciates)
Other important RAASA LEELA ‘S
1 = With GOPA BAALA (Cowherd Boys)
2 = RAASA LEELA with COWS
One who is fully submerged with all the senses
And forgetting that they are male or female.
( No body consciousness)

Group-dance is called a rasa dance
the rasa dance took place during His eighth year
Dancing with the gopis is on the platform of yogamaya,
Not mahamaya, or the external energy (Sense gratification)
RASA LEELA-madhurya bava
Divine communion with god
Autumn sky-heart clean as autumn sky.
Full moon-mind pure
Yamuna River-deep love surges like river.
Flute-divine melody can be heard by pure heart.
They left everything –divine bliss no time planned.
Krishna disappeared –to free them from mental limitations.
KRISHNA danced with TWO GOPIKAS .
Symbolic state of purity
After krishna left brindavan
they were not distracted.
saguna to nirguna worship.
(With name & form.
to
without name & form.)

Lord Krishna himself took the form of calves
to give happiness & divine experience
to cows , old ladies at Gokulam.

YASHODA
PURITY OF HEART
NANDA-PURITY OF MIND
BALARAMA WILL OF
ATTAINING SALVATION

With Krishna and his friends stealing butter
• women hanging POTS high from the ceiling.
Krishna and his friends then set about making
human pyramids to reach the pots.
(

Inner meaning of butter
Heart is soft & tender like butter
Stealing the butter is stealing the heart.
The ordinary thief gets caught easily.
One who steals the heart can’t be caught (krishna )
Jivatma is part of paramatma (Super soul),
so Krishna can’t be a thief taking rightfully jivatma (Butter-Soul) .

SRI KRISHNA played the role of a kid
with GOPA BALA (Cowherd boys )
why ?
they can’t understand the high level of spirituality
so, he ate with them stealing butter etc
showed the LEELAS ( Lords Sport) and stole their heart.
http://www.glimpseofkrishna.com/dhenu/8.htm

Krishna played the role with enjoyers of the world (Bhogi)
as one of them
With YOGIS as a YOGI
With JNANIS as a JNANI
With YOGIS as a YOGI With JNANIS as a JNANI
With enjoyers of the world (Bhogi)
as one of them

WHO ARE THE GOPIKA’S ?
GOPIKA’S – GO means Senses
All the senses should be focused on LORD.
ALL THE LILA’S TO INDICATE THIS.
Lord Krishna’s main aim is to control
Gopikas Mind from wavering from the GOAL.

Impurities of the mind
(un churned milk)
We search person to person
for happiness
Frustrations
Feeling not yet pure
Turn to god
For Reason
(Get him out
of trouble)
Objectives- -wealth
confused--solution
no problem -God
forgotten
Milk churned
(human feelings churned)
personality must change
Butter (purity obtained)
Feeling purified
(churned milk)
Soul discovers
God
Nature of human feelings

OM SHANTI
OM SHANTI
OM SHANTI

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