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Krishna

Krishna es un ser divino, una encarnación de la Divinidad, un avatar, y es uno de los héroes indios más celebrados de todos los tiempos. Krishna ha capturado la imaginación y la devoción de los hindúes por doquier en sus muchas formas, ya sea como un niño juguetón y travieso, como el amante de las pastoras o como el amigo y sabio consejero del poderoso guerrero Arjuna.

El Bhagavad Gita

Krishna es conocido como la octava encarnación de Vishnú, la Segunda Persona de la Tríada hindú. Su historia se narra en el Bhagavad Gita, la obra religiosa más popular de la India, compuesta entre los siglos V y II a.C. y parte de la gran épica india, el Mahabharata.

Bhagavad Gita significa «El canto de Dios». Está escrito en forma de diálogo entre Krishna y Arjuna. Krishna se describe a sí mismo como «el Señor de todo cuanto respira» y «el Señor que mora en el corazón de todos los seres», queriendo significar el que está en unión con Dios, el que ha alcanzado esa unión que es Dios. «Cuando la bondad se debilita», dice, «cuando el mal aumenta, mi Espíritu surge en la Tierra. En todas las eras vuelvo para liberar a los santos, destruir el pecado del pecador, establecer la justicia».

Arjuna es amigo y discípulo de Krishna. El escenario es la víspera de una gran batalla para decidir quién gobernará el reino. Krishna ha de ser el auriga de Arjuna. Justo antes de que comience la batalla, Arjuna vacila porque deberá luchar contra sus parientes y matarlos. Krishna le explica que debe tomar parte en la batalla porque es su dharma: su deber o su razón de ser. Él es miembro de la casta guerrera y, pase lo que pase, debe luchar.

La interpretación tradicional hindú de la batalla es doble. Primero, la batalla representa la lucha en la que se debe implicar Arjuna para realizar su dharma y reclamar su reino. Segundo, la batalla representa la guerra entre las fuerzas del bien y del mal dentro de sí mismo, su naturaleza superior e inferior, en la que debe luchar.

Krishna teaches Arjuna about the four yogas, or paths of union with God, and says that all the yogas should be practiced. The four yogas are knowledge (jnana yoga), meditation (raja yoga), work (karma yoga) and love and devotion (bhakti yoga). By self-knowledge, by meditation on the God within, by working the works of God to balance karma and increase good karma and by giving loving devotion, we fulfill the four paths of the four lower bodies—the memory body, the mental body, the desire body and the physical body.

Krishna (Spring in Kulu), Nicholas Roerich (1930)

Krishna as the archetype of Christ

We can see Arjuna as the archetype of the soul of each of us and Krishna as the charioteer of our soul, one with our Higher Self, our Holy Christ Self. We can see him occupying the position of the Holy Christ Self on the Chart of Your Divine Self, as the Mediator between the soul and the I AM Presence. He is universal Christ consciousness.

When we send devotion to Krishna through mantra and sacred song, we open a highway of our love to the heart of Krishna, and he opens the other half of the highway. He sends back our devotion multiplied by his manyfold.

Healing the inner child

Lord Krishna has pledged to help heal the inner child as we sing mantras and bhajans to him. His request is to visualize his Presence over you at the age when you experienced any emotional trauma, physical pain, mental pain, from this or a previous lifetime. You can ask for these events in your life to pass before your third eye like slides moving across a screen or even a motion picture. Assess the age you were at the moment of the trauma. Then, visualize Lord Krishna at that age—six months old, six years old, twelve years old, fifty years old—and see him standing over you and over the entire situation.

If there are other figures in this scene through whom the pain has come, see the Presence of Lord Krishna around them also. Give the devotional mantra and song until you are pouring such love to Lord Krishna that he is taking your love, multiplying it through his heart, passing it back through you and transmuting that scene and that record. If you see Lord Krishna superimposed over every party to the problem, to the anger, to the burden, you can understand that you can affirm in your heart that there really is no Reality but God. Only God is Real, and God is placing his Presence over that situation through the personification of himself in Lord Krishna.

For more information

Elizabeth Clare Prophet has released an audio recording of devotional songs, Krishna: The Maha Mantra and Bhajans, that can be used in the exercise of healing painful memories. Available from www.AscendedMasterLibrary.org.

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “Krishna.”