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Krishna - The Divine Nature of Human

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Kamini

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Helloooo good guys!!

So, as today is Krishnashtami, I will discuss Krishna, the teachings of Krishna and the Suddha-Advaita (Pure Non-dualism) philosophy which centres around Krishna. Feel free to correct me if you do find any mistakes in my interpretations of Krishna.

When you think about Krishna, what comes to your mind? Some of you might be thinking of a very handsome, blue-skinned man wearing a peacock feather on his head, some of you might be thinking of his playful acts and his love for his Radha, some of you might be thinking he is a playboy, hence there is nothing divine about him. But what should be coming to your mind is "Can I learn something from Krishna?". So let's try to understand what Krishna represents, and if we can learn anything from him and what is his tatva (nature).

1)What is the meaning of Krishna?
It means "the dark one", "black" or "all-attractive". People don't often realize the significance of it though. If you think about the black colour, it has a special quality, it is the absence of light, it is not really a colour, it absorbs all colours of light. Likewise, Krishna attracts all kinds of people but he is not one of them, I will explain why he is not one of them in this post later. We represent different emotions with different colours. Red for anger, blue for sadness, green for happiness and so on and so forth. These emotions make different and all kinds of people. If someone is always angry, we say they are aggressive and trouble, if someone is always happy, we say they are jovial. Since Krishna attract all kinds of people, he is "all-attractive".

2)Why is Krishna depicted as blue-skinned?
Krishna is "Neela Megha Shyama" which means "dark as a rain-bearing cloud" but people often depict him with blue skin, it is because of his nature. Blue is the colour of the sky. Everything is under the sky, nothing is above the sky, so it suggests acceptance and inclusiveness. Krishna is all-inclusive. He doesn't know any discrimination. Blue also suggests freedom from bondage. Nothing can bind the sky so people use blue to represent these qualities of Krishna. In essence, Krishna promotes equality. Once you learn to see everyone equally, you love them equally. That is the greatest quality of Krishna.

3)What are the teachings of Krishna?
Krishna's teachings mostly centred around Niskama Karma and Karma yoga. Niskama means "without expecting anything", Karma means "deed" so Niskama Karma essentially means "deed without expecting anything". Karma yoga is practising Niskama Karma always. So what Krishna essentially says is, "you must focus on the work at hand, don't expect anything in return for your work, whether you expect something or not you can't stop what is coming your way". So he says, instead of getting entangled with the result, one must focus on the process, focus on the present to achieve what one wants.

4)Why is Krishna in some pictures surrounded by women (Gopis)?
People often fail to see Krishna's nature as they fail to understand women. Women essentially look for stability in life, it may be financial, emotional or something else, that is the nature of women. Krishna is Sat-Chit-Ananda. Sat means truth, Chit means consciousness, Ananda means bliss. Krishna knows the truth so he never gets swayed by illusory things, since he knows the truth, he is always conscious about what he is doing, since he never gets entangled with illusions and is always conscious, he is always in a blissful state. It is the ultimate state one can achieve. Once someone reaches that state, there is no coming back as they will be free from all the worldly illusions, they will be no lesser than any God. And once you know the truth, you can create your own illusions and put people under those illusions or you can enlighten people and help them to break from the illusions. So those women in the pictures were never pursued by Krishna as he was always above illusions, instead, for his stability women used to get attracted to him. He played with them, enticed these women with his leelas (divine plays). He flirted with them, he played the flute for them, he danced with them, he may have had sex with them, he did so many playful things but he never got entangled with anyone. Krishna never needed anyone, instead, everyone needed Krishna. That is why devotees recognize him as a yogi.

A yogi is someone who is free from entanglements. A yogi is not necessarily someone who doesn't do anything that ordinary people fancy, a yogi can also be someone who is surrounded by so many things yet can never be influenced by those things and pursue them. Throughout his life, Krishna was surrounded by so many dangers, so many distractions, so many sorrows yet he never got swayed by any of them. For that, he is an absolute yogi.

5)What is Shuddha-Adwaita?
Shuddha-Adwaita is a philosophy that says all souls and all the material world is parts of God. It was popularized by Jagadguru (Teacher of Universe) Vallabhacharya. It is a bit different from Adwaita as Adwaita states that the material world is Maya (illusion), not real, separate from God and gives stress on self-realization (Jnana Yoga) than devotion towards God, whereas Shuddha-Adwaita states that the material world is real and is part of God. It gives stress on devotion towards God (Bhakti Yoga). Shuddha-Adwaita states that individual souls who are part of God, get entangled with material things and create an illusion for themselves because of their ego, not that the world is an illusion. To get out of this illusion, one must devote oneself to God, it is the only way to liberate one's soul.

And I feel the best way to devote oneself to God is not by chanting God's name day and night but by doing things that can help people. Service to man is service to God. Service is the greatest way to show one's devotion to God and one must do service as a Karma yogi (a person who practices Karma yoga). For this reason, Krishna is called a Jagadguru as he thought service to humanity by his Karma yoga.

Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum​
 
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Amazing... no other words...!!

Add some extra points if you want, like... How did he didn't play his flute later in his life time and How did he get 16,000 wives etc...






Finally for the second time I've read your post completely...:fest:
 
ModernSanyasi said:
Amazing... no other words...!!

Add some extra points if you want, like... How did he didn't play his flute later in his life time and How did he get 16,000 wives etc...






Finally for the second time I've read your post completely...:fest:
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Love is all around us and most of the time, couples in India, often relate themselves to the heavenly couple, Krishna and Radha. Their names cannot be taken without each other. Without Radha, Krishna is incomplete and without Krishna, Radha can never be complete.

They are believed to have shared the love via their souls. But, the tragedy is that Lord Krishna never married his beloved Radha. The divine love story ended with the death of Radha. Here is a little we must know how she died and why Lord Krishna broke his flute.


According to the Vedic scriptures, Lord Krishna fell in love with Radha when he was just eight years old. His love for her was so true and eternal that he maintained his feeling throughout his lifetime.

It is believed that Lord Krishna used to love only Radha and his flute, more than any other people or things in his life. It was his flute skills which attracted his love to him. This is why he used to keep the flute always with him. But, the couple never managed to be with each other.

How Radha died​

After being released from all the duties, Radha went to meet her Krishna for the last time. When she reached Dwarka, she heard about Krishna's marriage to Rukmini and Satyabhama but she did not feel sad.


When Krishna saw Radha, he was very happy. Both talked to each other for a long time. However, nobody knew Radha in Dwarka. She requested Krishna to appoint her as a Devika in the palace.

Radha lived in the palace throughout the day and as soon as she got the chance, she used to see Krishna. But in the palace, Radha could not feel the spiritual connection with Lord Krishna like before. So Radha decided to go away from the palace with the aim to establish a deep spiritual relationship with Shri Krishna.

Radha did not know where she was going and is completely lonely and weak in her last days. Lord Shri Krishna came in front of them in the last time. Krishna told Radha that he demanded something from her, but Radha refused. On the request of Krishna again, Radha said that she wants to see her playing flute for the last time. Sri Krishna took a flute and started playing in a very harmonious tune.

Shri Krishna played flute day and night until Radha took her last breathe and merged with Krishna in a spiritual way. Radha abandoned her body while listening to the tunes of the flute.

Lord Krishna could not bear Radha's death and broke his flute as a symbolic ending of love and threw it into the bush. Since then, Sri Krishna has not played the flute or any other instrument of life.


Did Lord Krishna Stopped playing flute

When Radhaa dies on Lap of Krishna that time Krishna Break His flute and After Death of Radha.

but

when Rukmini Camee into his life and at that time Krishna forget his Past love Radhaa and he falls in love with Rukmini. He Married with Rukmini and she was Favorite wife of Krishna. After that Krishna once again started playing the flute
 
Did Krishna have 16000 wives?

Krishna had 8 wives. Besides eight principal queens, the Hindu god Krishna, an avatar of the god Vishnu and the king of Dwarka in the Dwapara Yuga (epoch), is described to have many unnamed junior wives. Their number is mentioned as 16,000 or 16,100 in different scriptures. Krishna accepted them as his wife upon their insistence to save themselves from the society who saw them as slaves of the demon king Narakasura. The chief amongst them is sometimes called Rohini. When Krishna slew Narakasura, he accepted all the captive women upon their insistence to safeguard their dignity. After marriage, they all lived in Dwarka, in a divine happiness.

The Bhagavata Purana mentions that the captive women are princesses. The Vishnu Purana says that they are daughters of gods, siddhas (saints), demons and kings. According to the Kalika Purana and the Adi Parva book of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, they were apsaras (celestial maidens). In the Dana Dharma chapter of the Shanti Parva book of the epic, they are blessed by the goddess Bhudevi to be wives of Krishna.

Some legends narrate that events in their past life led to them being wives of Krishna. A king had 16,000 daughters. While the king was sitting in court with the princesses, Vishnu arrived disguised as a sage. The daughters flocked around Vishnu, making their father angry who cursed them. When the daughters cried and begged for forgiveness, the king blessed them that in their next birth, they would be wives of Vishnu. In other versions, the damsels plead to others for liberation from the curse. The creator-god Brahma on the advice of his son and divine sage Narada or the sage himself give the princesses the boon to be wives of Bhagwaan Vishnu.

Narakasura was the king of Pragjyotisha. He was the demon (asura) son of Vishnu's boar avatar Varaha and the earth-goddess Bhumi (Prithvi). As the son of Bhumi, he was also called Bhauma or Bhaumasura (asura suffix appended). He conquered the three worlds: heaven, earth and underworld. On earth, he captured 16,000 princesses of defeated nations. In heaven, he stole the earrings of Aditi, mother of Indra - the king of gods and heaven. In the underworld, he seized the imperial umbrella of Varuna, the god of the waters.

The captive women were imprisoned at Audaka on the top of the mountain Maniparvata in his kingdom. Various demons including the five-headed Mura and his seven sons guarded the kingdom's gates. Narakasura's ten sons guarded the women.

Indra comes to Krishna and pleads with him to save the universe from Narakasura's tyranny. Krishna and his second wife Satyabhama fly on their mount the eagle-man Garuda to Pragjyotisha. Krishna slays Mura, his sons, Narakasura's army and finally the demon-king himself. Bhumi surrenders all stolen items, including the captive women to Krishna. When Krishna arrives in the palace of the captive women, each of them prays to Krishna to accept her as his wife. Krishna complies and sends them to his capital with Narakasura's plunder and four-tusked white elephants gifted by Bhumi. After returning Aditi's earrings to Indra in heaven, Krishna returns to Dwarka and marries the rescued women, making them his junior wives, saving them from "destitution and infamy".

The Bhagavata Purana captures the life of Krishna's wives after their marriage. Each of the junior wives was given a home, with hundreds of maid-servants. Krishna divides himself into several forms, one for each wife and spends the night with each wife simultaneously. In the morning, all his forms unite into one body of Krishna when Krishna works as the king of Dwarka. Each wife serves Krishna personally, worshipping him, bathing him, dressing him, fanning him, presenting him with gifts and flower garlands etc

In another story narrated in the Bhagavata Purana, Narada, Vishnu's devotee and wandering sage, was curious to find out how Krishna was managing to live with his 16,000 wives and came to Dwarka to check. Krishna welcomed Narada with all the honours due to a sage. Narada then visited every one of the houses of Krishna's 16,000 wives and was surprised to see Krishna present in every house with his wife in an atmosphere of total domesticity, laughing and joking with his wife and taking care of his children, and helping his wife in house hold chores. Watching this phenomenon, Narada was convinced that it was divinity in the form of Krishna, a complete and manifold manifestation who had enjoyed the company of his 16,000 consorts at the same time. He also concluded that Krishna was monogamist and divine supreme being. Having satisfied himself of the divine powers of the Lord Himself, Narada embarked on his usual voyages around the world singing the praise of Krishna. A variant tells that the mischief-maker sage Narada requested Krishna to gift him one of his many wives, as he was a bachelor. Krishna told him to win any wife for himself, if he was not with her. Then Narada went round to each of the houses of Krishna’s 16,008 wives but found Krishna in every house that he visited, and thus Narada had to remain a bachelor.


In the Bhagavata Purana, Rohini and Krishna are described to have unspecified number of sons, out of which only Diptiman and Tamratapta are named. The sons are said to represent all the children of the junior wives.

The Bhavishya Purana, the Skanda Purana and the Varaha Purana narrate that some of Krishna's junior wives were infatuated with Samba, the handsome, trouble-maker son of Krishna and one of his senior queens, Jambavati. One wife Nandini disguised herself as Samba's wife and embraced him. For this incest, Krishna cursed Samba to be inflicted with leprosy and his wives to be kidnapped by Abhira robbers after his death.

The Bhagavata Purana records the wailing of Krishna's queens and their subsequent leap in Krishna's funeral pyre immolating themselves (see sati). The Mausala Parva book of theMahabharata which describes the death of Krishna and end of his race records only four of Krishna's wives, including Rohini, committing sati. Dwarka submerges in the ocean and the rest of its inhabitants including Krishna's widows accompany Krishna's friend Arjuna to his capital Hastinapur. On the way, Abhira robbers attack the entourage and plunder their wealth and kidnap some of Krishna's widows. Some of the widows burn themselves alive. When the entourage reaches Hastinapur, all other widows retire to the forest for austerities (tapas).


Gopis, milkmaids from the life of young Krishna - who was a herdsman, are sometimes called his 16,000 wives. This mythology of Krishna love play with gopis is also described theologically as devotional worship of Krishna. The gopis risked to have relationship with him. It is also said he assumed 16,000 forms at the same time to be with all of them for love play.

Another theory relates the Krishna, who plays the flute and the lover of music, and his 16,000 wives to the 16,000 ragas or musical modes or passions or affections of the mind in Indian classical music, and their wives - the raginis (female raga). The raginis selected one of these ragas to which to modulate her strains for affecting and securing the heart of Krishna, the amorous and harmonious deity. Krishna who was devoted to music received and enjoyed every variety of modulation, multiplied to the number of 16,000, fancifully personified in the form of the women derived from Bhauma (a name of Narakasura), a five-stringed musical instrument.
 
Kamini said:
Helloooo good guys!!

So, as today is Krishnashtami, I will discuss Krishna, the teachings of Krishna and the Suddha-Advaita (Pure Non-dualism) philosophy which centres around Krishna. Feel free to correct me if you do find any mistakes in my interpretations of Krishna.

When you think about Krishna, what comes to your mind? Some of you might be thinking of a very handsome, blue-skinned man wearing a peacock feather on his head, some of you might be thinking of his playful acts and his love for his Radha, some of you might be thinking he is a playboy, hence there is nothing divine about him. But what should be coming to your mind is "Can I learn something from Krishna?". So let's try to understand what Krishna represents, and if we can learn anything from him and what is his tatva (nature).

1)What is the meaning of Krishna?
It means "the dark one", "black" or "all-attractive". People don't often realize the significance of it though. If you think about the black colour, it has a special quality, it is the absence of light, it is not really a colour, it absorbs all colours of light. Likewise, Krishna attracts all kinds of people but he is not one of them, I will explain why he is not one of them in this post later. We represent different emotions with different colours. Red for anger, blue for sadness, green for happiness and so on and so forth. These emotions make different and all kinds of people. If someone is always angry, we say they are aggressive and trouble, if someone is always happy, we say they are jovial. Since Krishna attract all kinds of people, he is "all-attractive".

2)Why is Krishna depicted as blue-skinned?
Krishna is "Neela Megha Shyama" which means "dark as a rain-bearing cloud" but people often depict him with blue skin, it is because of his nature. Blue is the colour of the sky. Everything is under the sky, nothing is above the sky, so it suggests acceptance and inclusiveness. Krishna is all-inclusive. He doesn't know any discrimination. Blue also suggests freedom from bondage. Nothing can bind the sky so people use blue to represent these qualities of Krishna. In essence, Krishna promotes equality. Once you learn to see everyone equally, you love them equally. That is the greatest quality of Krishna.

3)What are the teachings of Krishna?
Krishna's teachings mostly centred around Niskama Karma and Karma yoga. Niskama means "without expecting anything", Karma means "deed" so Niskama Karma essentially means "deed without expecting anything". Karma yoga is practising Niskama Karma always. So what Krishna essentially says is, "you must focus on the work at hand, don't expect anything in return for your work, whether you expect something or not you can't stop what is coming your way". So he says, instead of getting entangled with the result, one must focus on the process, focus on the present to achieve what one wants.

4)Why is Krishna in some pictures surrounded by women (Gopis)?
People often fail to see Krishna's nature as they fail to understand women. Women essentially look for stability in life, it may be financial, emotional or something else, that is the nature of women. Krishna is Sat-Chit-Ananda. Sat means truth, Chit means consciousness, Ananda means bliss. Krishna knows the truth so he never gets swayed by illusory things, since he knows the truth, he is always conscious about what he is doing, since he never gets entangled with illusions and is always conscious, he is always in a blissful state. It is the ultimate state one can achieve. Once someone reaches that state, there is no coming back as they will be free from all the worldly illusions, they will be no lesser than any God. And once you know the truth, you can create your own illusions and put people under those illusions or you can enlighten people and help them to break from the illusions. So those women in the pictures were never pursued by Krishna as he was always above illusions, instead, for his stability women used to get attracted to him. He played with them, enticed these women with his leelas (divine plays). He flirted with them, he played the flute for them, he danced with them, he may have had sex with them, he did so many playful things but he never got entangled with anyone. Krishna never needed anyone, instead, everyone needed Krishna. That is why devotees recognize him as a yogi.

A yogi is someone who is free from entanglements. A yogi is not necessarily someone who doesn't do anything that ordinary people fancy, a yogi can also be someone who is surrounded by so many things yet can never be influenced by those things and pursue them. Throughout his life, Krishna was surrounded by so many dangers, so many distractions, so many sorrows yet he never got swayed by any of them. For that, he is an absolute yogi.

5)What is Shuddha-Adwaita?
Shuddha-Adwaita is a philosophy that says all souls and all the material world is parts of God. It was popularized by Jagadguru (Teacher of Universe) Vallabhacharya. It is a bit different from Adwaita as Adwaita states that the material world is Maya (illusion), not real, separate from God and gives stress on self-realization (Jnana Yoga) than devotion towards God, whereas Shuddha-Adwaita states that the material world is real and is part of God. It gives stress on devotion towards God (Bhakti Yoga). Shuddha-Adwaita states that individual souls who are part of God, get entangled with material things and create an illusion for themselves because of their ego, not that the world is an illusion. To get out of this illusion, one must devote oneself to God, it is the only way to liberate one's soul.

And I feel the best way to devote oneself to God is not by chanting God's name day and night but by doing things that can help people. Service to man is service to God. Service is the greatest way to show one's devotion to God and one must do service as a Karma yogi (a person who practices Karma yoga). For this reason, Krishna is called a Jagadguru as he thought service to humanity by his Karma yoga.

Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum​
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Hmmmm what a way to present! Wish I had at least 10% of your writing skills.

If you allow me to add fun bits to this :

1. If African Americans read this post , they might put “ Lord SriKrishna” as their poster boy for “ Black Lives Matter” moment!

2. If at all Lord SriKrishna wants to re born again - that must be in form of Sr NTR, otherwise people don’t recognize/ accept as Krishna

3. I feel like listening to Bhagavadgita by Ghantasala again and I don’t understand why it’s played only when some one died. Like any head of the state died , they only play this 24 hours!

4. There is a saying “ Kaami gaaka mokshagami kaneradu” lol without being lustful first you can’t be blissful. If anyone thinks I’m twisting words , not my fault.

5. @Deepak Kiran and @Kamini should be appointed as heads of research wing.

All in all a good write up! Take me as your disciple @Kamini Teacher.
 
EkaLustYa said:
Hmmmm what a way to present! Wish I had at least 10% of your writing skills.

If you allow me to add fun bits to this :

1. If African Americans read this post , they might put “ Lord SriKrishna” as their poster boy for “ Black Lives Matter” moment!

2. If at all Lord SriKrishna wants to re born again - that must be in form of Sr NTR, otherwise people don’t recognize/ accept as Krishna

3. I feel like listening to Bhagavadgita by Ghantasala again and I don’t understand why it’s played only when some one died. Like any head of the state died , they only play this 24 hours!

4. There is a saying “ Kaami gaaka mokshagami kaneradu” lol without being lustful first you can’t be blissful. If anyone thinks I’m twisting words , not my fault.

5. @Deepak Kiran and @Kamini should be appointed as heads of research wing.

All in all a good write up! Take me as your disciple @Kamini Teacher.
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For 4 point first KAAM then only RAM
 
Kamini said:
Helloooo good guys!!

So, as today is Krishnashtami, I will discuss Krishna, the teachings of Krishna and the Suddha-Advaita (Pure Non-dualism) philosophy which centres around Krishna. Feel free to correct me if you do find any mistakes in my interpretations of Krishna.

When you think about Krishna, what comes to your mind? Some of you might be thinking of a very handsome, blue-skinned man wearing a peacock feather on his head, some of you might be thinking of his playful acts and his love for his Radha, some of you might be thinking he is a playboy, hence there is nothing divine about him. But what should be coming to your mind is "Can I learn something from Krishna?". So let's try to understand what Krishna represents, and if we can learn anything from him and what is his tatva (nature).

1)What is the meaning of Krishna?
It means "the dark one", "black" or "all-attractive". People don't often realize the significance of it though. If you think about the black colour, it has a special quality, it is the absence of light, it is not really a colour, it absorbs all colours of light. Likewise, Krishna attracts all kinds of people but he is not one of them, I will explain why he is not one of them in this post later. We represent different emotions with different colours. Red for anger, blue for sadness, green for happiness and so on and so forth. These emotions make different and all kinds of people. If someone is always angry, we say they are aggressive and trouble, if someone is always happy, we say they are jovial. Since Krishna attract all kinds of people, he is "all-attractive".

2)Why is Krishna depicted as blue-skinned?
Krishna is "Neela Megha Shyama" which means "dark as a rain-bearing cloud" but people often depict him with blue skin, it is because of his nature. Blue is the colour of the sky. Everything is under the sky, nothing is above the sky, so it suggests acceptance and inclusiveness. Krishna is all-inclusive. He doesn't know any discrimination. Blue also suggests freedom from bondage. Nothing can bind the sky so people use blue to represent these qualities of Krishna. In essence, Krishna promotes equality. Once you learn to see everyone equally, you love them equally. That is the greatest quality of Krishna.

3)What are the teachings of Krishna?
Krishna's teachings mostly centred around Niskama Karma and Karma yoga. Niskama means "without expecting anything", Karma means "deed" so Niskama Karma essentially means "deed without expecting anything". Karma yoga is practising Niskama Karma always. So what Krishna essentially says is, "you must focus on the work at hand, don't expect anything in return for your work, whether you expect something or not you can't stop what is coming your way". So he says, instead of getting entangled with the result, one must focus on the process, focus on the present to achieve what one wants.

4)Why is Krishna in some pictures surrounded by women (Gopis)?
People often fail to see Krishna's nature as they fail to understand women. Women essentially look for stability in life, it may be financial, emotional or something else, that is the nature of women. Krishna is Sat-Chit-Ananda. Sat means truth, Chit means consciousness, Ananda means bliss. Krishna knows the truth so he never gets swayed by illusory things, since he knows the truth, he is always conscious about what he is doing, since he never gets entangled with illusions and is always conscious, he is always in a blissful state. It is the ultimate state one can achieve. Once someone reaches that state, there is no coming back as they will be free from all the worldly illusions, they will be no lesser than any God. And once you know the truth, you can create your own illusions and put people under those illusions or you can enlighten people and help them to break from the illusions. So those women in the pictures were never pursued by Krishna as he was always above illusions, instead, for his stability women used to get attracted to him. He played with them, enticed these women with his leelas (divine plays). He flirted with them, he played the flute for them, he danced with them, he may have had sex with them, he did so many playful things but he never got entangled with anyone. Krishna never needed anyone, instead, everyone needed Krishna. That is why devotees recognize him as a yogi.

A yogi is someone who is free from entanglements. A yogi is not necessarily someone who doesn't do anything that ordinary people fancy, a yogi can also be someone who is surrounded by so many things yet can never be influenced by those things and pursue them. Throughout his life, Krishna was surrounded by so many dangers, so many distractions, so many sorrows yet he never got swayed by any of them. For that, he is an absolute yogi.

5)What is Shuddha-Adwaita?
Shuddha-Adwaita is a philosophy that says all souls and all the material world is parts of God. It was popularized by Jagadguru (Teacher of Universe) Vallabhacharya. It is a bit different from Adwaita as Adwaita states that the material world is Maya (illusion), not real, separate from God and gives stress on self-realization (Jnana Yoga) than devotion towards God, whereas Shuddha-Adwaita states that the material world is real and is part of God. It gives stress on devotion towards God (Bhakti Yoga). Shuddha-Adwaita states that individual souls who are part of God, get entangled with material things and create an illusion for themselves because of their ego, not that the world is an illusion. To get out of this illusion, one must devote oneself to God, it is the only way to liberate one's soul.

And I feel the best way to devote oneself to God is not by chanting God's name day and night but by doing things that can help people. Service to man is service to God. Service is the greatest way to show one's devotion to God and one must do service as a Karma yogi (a person who practices Karma yoga). For this reason, Krishna is called a Jagadguru as he thought service to humanity by his Karma yoga.

Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum​
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HARE RAM HARE RAM RAM RAM HARE HARE
HARE KRISHN HARE KRISHN KRISHN KRISHN HARE:rock:
 
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