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Krishna
Dr Suvarna Nalapat
Sage Gargya got up from his seat to go to Gokul. The expected had happened. The incarnation of Vishnu and Anantha for destroying adharma has occurred as he had predicted . He was about to see the dual avathar of Vishnu . The wonderchildren growing up fast in the care of Nandagopa ,away from the eyes of cruel Kamsa,their uncle . Gokula was preparing to welcome the great sage. He had a university of his own and had been the descendent of the Yadava Gurukula of Gargyamuni of yore . Every yadava venerated him as the greatest scholar . The homes and cities and villages were cleansed and beautiful coloured padma colam with eight ,twelve and sixteen petals drawn on the streets and new colourful flags fluttered everywhere . The breeze had the fragrance of chandan and kasthuri and flowers . The yajnasala was ready and the pandal for the naming ceremony of the children was decorated . Rohini and yesodha had been very busy bathing and feeding their children and decorating them with proper jewels and dress .Krishna had a peacock feather in his hair and was given a yellow silk .Balarama was dressed in blue silk .Yesodha suddenly remembered the day of his birth. She hadnt known the pain of childbirth.In a swoon ,she was, when the new guest arrived .Yesodha looked at the tiny blue face beside her .It looked lovely .And blue in colour. She whispered in those pink petallike ears : My Mohan My shyaam .. When she said that she will call him her shyam Mohan Nanda has said :Yasomathi ,we cannot name him yet .Garga has to come for that .Yesoda was a little unhappy .She said: whatever Garga calls him he is my little shyam ,my Jaganmohan shyaam .. Nanda kissed his wifes forehead and held her hand and took the little boy in his hands.It looked like the most beautiful blue lotus in the lotus of his palms . The aged couple were in 7th heaven . They have at last fulfilled a dream ..They have become parents .A little descendent have come to look after their Gokula when they are gone behind the curtain of the inevitable.And today ,Garga is coming to name and bless their son. What name will he give my Shyam Mohan ? Yesodha wondered .

2 He said in his strong mellow voice resembling that of a temple bell .He is Krishna .Krish is Bhoomi ,the earth mother . Everything that come out of the earth mothers womb we call krishi .. Naa is the temple bells ecstatic note. This child will be the ecstacy of the earth and heaven , the incarnated Pranava..I call him Krishna .He will be attractive and give Ecstacy of the highest kind the Kaivalya to all . Then he turned to Yesodha in a consoling way and said : Krishna means the dark one ,the shyaam . And he is Mohan as he attracts everyone. Is that okay ,Maa ? Balarama ,he called Rohinis son .Bala since he is very strong in built and mental and intellectual faculties too.Raama since he will ,like Sri Rama before him,attract every heart . The mothers rejoiced in what the sage had said .The blessings of Gargya is with their children.

Krishna was trying to bring out a new melody in his flute. The swaras came in cascades of shining beauty and filled his being .Then came a rhythmic gingle.one.Two .Three What and wherefrom that anklet makes this swet sound ? From his inner being.From his sahasrara came her sweet smelling presence ! The sounds of rhytmic foorsteps .The banglesanklets..garlands all making the most beautiful waves of lasya around himLost in thought he played his flute.. Suddenly he heard Balaramas voice : Sabash Krishna was startled .He saw Balarama making a beautiful pillar with his chisel and playing rhythmic sapthaswara on it .Krishna said : I was startled out of a symmetry .I was in heaven. What symmetry you noticed . Symmetry of being one with one.In ascending and descending order .. 1X1 =1 11X11=121 111X 111=12321 1111X1111=1234321 11111X11111=123454321 111111X111111=12345654321 1111111X 1111111=1234567654321 Balarama said : You are the 1 . I am the 0 .But you have seen the symmetry of 8.Why do you hide it from me ? The symmetry of 8 ?

3 Yes .The symmetry of 8 which contains both of us. The Navarasa and saptaswara as well. That is our sakthi . The female in us ,Krishna Balarama continued:-See the descending and ascending order and symmetry on ashtamurthy,navarasa and sapthaswara - the serpent power of Kundalini is within us . 9x9+7=88 98x9+6=888 987x9+5=8888 9876x9+4=88888 98765x9+3=888888 987654X9+2=8888888 9876543x9+1=88888888 98765432x9+0=888888888 Balarama started to play a rhythm with 7 varnakshara as the base thriputa. His panchavadyamela with a series of pathikaala upto 896 aksharakaala rose in a wonderful aesthetic combination of power and beauty .Krishna heard,saw and analysed it in a mixed awe of respect and love for his elder brother . 7.14.28.56.112.224448896. 1..2..4.8.1632..64.128 Multiples of 2 for 7 times making the 64 arts possible within its foldBalarama was wearing his blue silk and a curl of blue hair was dancing on his golden forehead marked with a naama ,the symbol of U which all Yadavaas wore as a serpent symbol of Kundalini and Omkara on their forehead. The seals of the Yadavas had this U mark which is reminiscent of a mark on the hood of serpents .Krishna had often wondered why we Yadavas use the mathematical ratio and progression with 8/3 between 2 and 4 . 1:2:8/3:4:16:32:64:160:200:320:640 That 8/3 is always an oddman out,he had thought. Now watching Balarama playing his panchavadya and analyzing his question about the symmetry of 8 Krishna knew the secret . The secret of his secret power .The Sakthi that had a figure of eight pattern in body,movements, and in mental faculties The Kundalini .. The sakthi within him and in Balarama too The strength the Sri the Radhus of veda The RaadhaHe smiled to himself and left Balarama to himself and walked away in silence to Yamuna .

Radha was sitting on a stone ,watching Yamuna .She leaned her back on a kadamba tree and looked lost in thought. From a distance Krishna watched her .Away from the abstract figure of eight of

4 Balarama,this was his true figure of eight ,his ashtasakthi . How beautifully the figure of eight is seen even in her gross body . Krishna thought wistfully as he approached . Lost in dreams ? Not at all. Lost in you and in your melodies. She replied immeadiately . But you are a dream . I am lost in you,as a dream ,as a beautiful aesthetic melodious dream .. Do you know what Balarama just now said ? He says our sakthi is the 8. You are my ashtasakthi ,I cannot share it with him. Radha smiled to herself . He is abstract and you are too mundane ,Krishna . That is why everyone loves you so much . But she said aloud: And no woman would ever love to be shared by many men . I am yours and you are mine .Even in dreams and in next lives .. We are together . You may be the ecstacy of the entire earth .But I am the ecstacy of You alone.Without me ,you cannot experience ecstacy and for you to give ecstacy to earth ,you have to experience it from me . Krishna touched her hair caressingly .True . I give ecstacy through you only .Earth is getting my ecstacy only because of you .So you are my sakthi. Krishna , Guru is sakthi .I am sakthi .Therefore I am your Guru . Through my teaching ,you became ecstatic and you are teaching that to the world ,giving it to the world . We enjoy in ekaantha . And your teaching will be ekanthikabhakthi alone .. Eka is Brahman . Anthika is near . The Brahman is near ,most near ,within you. Know it ,experience it .. That is the Brahmi state you will teach through me to the world . Krishna slowly realized what she was telling.He stood spellbound before her for a few moments and then fell at her feet .The Radhakrishna baani of devotion had already taken its shape and its figure of eight danced with lasyabhava on the banks of Yamuna. Peacock feathers fell everywhere as the peacocks with the peahens danced their seasonal dance and Yamuna flowing slowly along covered shores with unending waves of ecstacy ..The flute was on his lips ..The melody in his heart and the anklets within his sahasraraa ..She was dancing within and without endless ..ananthaa .. coils of Kundalini in fiery waves of ecstacy ..within him was the abstract anantha dancing with the mundane Krishna ,the neverending ekantha lasya of Radha 6000 earthly years passed after that .He was reborn as she and she as he ..several times several spacetime continuums ..almost unnoticed and always creating that melodious ecstacy within .Abstract and mundane at the same time ..The dance of the thrimurthy as Ashtasakthi in navarasa format continued . 2. Krishnaa was in the elevator .She was working in a multispeciality hospital . Her colleague was asking her : Krishnaa ,how old are you ?

5 She said : 6000 years He was taken back . He said :Are you kidding ? Not at all,my friend .I am 6000 years old. She saw his face becoming serious .Now he must be thinking that I am crazy . He might even report it to everyone that Professor Dr Krishnaa is on the verge of a psychiatric illness and needs immeadiate intervention. To prevent such a calamity she said : Even you must be somewhat that age .I am not talking about the body ,but of our souls. The soul is eternal. He was relieved .He said :If eternal how you say that it is 6000 year old . Simply because I remember my soul from that period onwards .Before that I must have been existing .As Vishnu ..His numerous incarnations .. But I remember me from Krishnaa onwards . Not before that .. But how come that you remember your past lives ? I dont know .I saw them in my dreams . But dreams are only illusions. For me life also seems an illusion if not a delusion. One is in jagrada state and the other in nidra state .Only difference in state . Both are plays of the mind ..our neuronal channels making pictures and sounds and analyzing and storing them neatly for memory and use later on. That part I agree .The memory stores of neuronal channels .That is science. Then you must be indirectly agreeing that dreams are also stores of memory in neuronal channels . Yes .I do. Then why dont you understand my dreams of past lives also could be stores of memory of several past states of existence ..It is possible for human race to store all phylogenitic memory in their genes .And all memory of the human race too.Similarly I store my past life memories and carry them as a package within me .For me that is absolutely scientific and not a crazy psychic belief . Krishnas colleague was amazed at the explanation. The explanation was science .The science of neurophysiology .Science of molecular genetics . And of biological memory of entire living beings .. That memory is crystallized in all of us.Only some do realize it in abstract way .And only a very few from them live it and experience it both abstractly and in a mundane sense . Dr Udhava was satisfied .Krishna said.The first philosopher when he developed the concept of a triangle found out the sum of angles related to a right angle. He had nothing but the concept of the figure enclosed by three straight lines and in it the concept of equally many angles. He analysed and made distinction of a straight line or of an angle. Then he had the number three from one. He took up

6 the question from a geometric view and started to construct a triangle.He knew that 2 right angles together are exactly equal to all adjacent angles that can be drawn at one point on a straight line ,he extends one side of his triangle ,and obtains 2 adjacent angles that together are equal to one right angle.He divided the external one of these angles by drawing a line paraellel to opposite side of the triangle and see that an external adjacent angle arises which is equal to the internal . Thus through a chain of inferences ,that is always guided by intuitions he arrives at a fully illuminating and at the same time general solution of the question. I started the journey as a single I ,Aham Brahmasmi. I knew its three angles as thrimurthy . And I see the same equal I in every being .My intuition is my dreams. They always guide me through a chain of thoughts ,inferences and a fully illuminated awareness of the universal Aham ,the I as solution to all problems of diversities and separatisms on this globe. Udhava said : I understand. That is the only way for attaining world peace. Krishna answered: Yes.No other shortcut for the big problem. The global peace and war depends on whether one recognize this universal I or not . But ,Krishna ,you seem highly mathematical in comparing that to triangles. Udhava .Triangle is the middle of my Srichakra ..My sudarsanachakra .I started from there for you to understand it easily . It is not about solving a mathematical or geometrical problem I am talking about . But I want to tell you that even in mathematics ,the solution of problem is not a mere logical inference from concepts alone. It always requires a process ,whether of counting or constructing ,that can only be understood as an appeal to intuition rather than an analysis of concepts.The intuition matters .Our right brain channels are as important as our left brain .Science and art are not really separate .Dreams and jagrad experiences are not really different .All merge as one within us .The dance of that absolute truth is as figure of eight Udhava said in a calm understanding voice .Yes I can hear it through you.See it in you The figure of eight of transcendental aesthetics.. They had reached their destination . Udhava left for his room .Krishna reached his chamber and opened her computer .She thought in a resigned way : I doubt whether he understood me . Does he really know the concept of our Romantic Republic dream ? Have we got the three rights fulfilled in the romantic republican dream ? The right to participate in public affairs,to elect rulers and determine public policy ? The freedom of individual members .The right for equal protection of property ,freedom of speech and press? Care of state for education and development of citizens as enlightened citizens ? Nishkaamakarma through righteous Paandava rulers have to come. For that a revolutionary battle with a hundred corruptive forces to be won.

7 Krishna thought of his ideal state and its wide world views and global peace missions and drifted into a thoughtful reverie to fulfill that dream .. for her Bhaarathadesa ..The Indian Republic of the 21st century . Her laptop opened up with her professional and personal journeys ..Her Geetha had begun

Dr Suvarna Nalapat Retd Professor and Head of Department of Pathology Amritha Institute of Medical sciences and Research center