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THOUGHTS ON THE MATHURA LILA,
Kansa was killed and all good men that had fled from Mathura
returned to it. Krishna fast developed Himself as Isvara. He re-
stored his Guru's son to life.
Uddhava, the embodiment of Bhakti Yoga mixed with wisdom,
was the messenger of Krishna to the Gopis. It was through him that
Sri Krishna sent words of wisdom, which He himself could not
have spoken to them at Vrindavana. For the Gopis would have
spurned such words from Him, so great was their personal love for
Him. Krishna now placed another ideal before them for meditation.
They were now to seek Him, not as the lovely Krishna, playing upon
the flute, but as the all-pervading Atma to be known by discriminat-
ing wisdom. He asked the Gopis to meditate on this ideal, and He
now returned to them as the all-pervading immutable principle in the
Universe.
In the stories of Jarasandha, Yavana and Muchukunda we
find the historical Krishna.
Jarasandha was an incongruous combination of materiality and
spirituality, (the two parts which Jiva put together). He was the per-
former of Vedic Yajnas, the supporter of Brahmanas, the represen-
tative of the old state of things. Naturally therefore he was the most
powerful king of his time and the most powerful enemy of Krishna.
Vaishnavism had to fight hard with orthodox Brahmanism Vaish-
nava kings were put to death in large numbers. Krishna could not
kill him on account of his connection with Brahmanas and with Vedic
Yajnas. He even feigned a retreat and fled away to Dvaraka. Dvaraka
was a spiritual centre on earth, created by Krishna, for the performance
of His mission as Avatara. The town was washed away as soon
as Krishna disappeared.
It will be interesting to know the future mission of Muchukun-
da. But the Bhagavata is silent about it.
THOUGHTS ON THE DVARAKA
At Dvaraka, we find Sri Krishna as the Lord of the Universe,
a Kalpic Avatara, and as such something more than the historical
Krishna.
Sri Ktishna as an Avatdra.
It is time that we should know something definitely of Sri
Krishna as an Avatara.
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