HINDU FASTS & FESTIVALS : 19-5.





19. KRISHNA JANMASHTAMI-5.


If you cannot read the whole of the Srimad Bhagavatam during these days, at least you should recite the following four most important verses from the book. The leading two verses and the closing verse are the prologue and the epilogue respectively:

    “Hear from Me the most secret knowledge coupled with the essential experience and its component parts.

    “May you realise by My Grace, the knowledge of Myself and what form, qualities and actions I am endowed with.

    1. “Before creation I alone existed. There was nothing, neither existence nor non-existence. I am that which remains after dissolution.

    2. “Understand that to be Maya or illusion which is devoid of any purpose, which is not to be found in the Self and which is unreal like light and darkness.

    3. “As the primary elements are amalgamated, with one another and also separate from one another at the same time, so I pervade the whole universe and am also separate from it.

    4. “The aspirant should, by the method of positive and negative, know that thing which exists always and everywhere.

    “Experience this truth through the highest superconscious state so that you will not be disturbed even by illusory objects”.

    There is another beautiful verse in the Bhagavatam which you can recite daily: “In days of yore, the Lord, born of Devaki, brought up in the house of Yasoda, killed the wicked Putana of illusive form and lifted the Govardhana hill, killed Kamsa and the sons of the Kuru race, and protected the sons of Kunti. Thus is recited the essence of the ancient Bhagavat Purana consisting of the nectarine stories of the deeds of Lord Krishna”.

    May the blessings of Lord Krishna and Sri Radha be upon you all!

END.

Next : 20. Sankara Jayanthi

Swami Sivananda
 To be continued  .....








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