Krishna & Divine Vision

To understand Gita, we must understand Krishna!

Krishna showed Yashoda, his foster mother, the whole of universe enclosed in his mouth. Krishna also gifted his divine vision to Arjuna to see his universal form. Answer to all these above perception is altogether different and beautiful! Every mother, sometimes the father, has the vision of the supreme in our child. It is another thing that we lose this vision with passage of time, but at some stage we had it for sure. If we can see someone with loving eyes, we will see the divine in them too. All we need is to have eyes that see. Right medium is equally necessary; the whole immense is hidden in every atom. The whole ocean is ensconced in a single drop of water.

       Arjuna too, saw, because he was in deep love with Krishna. It was a rare kind of friendship that existed between them. In a moment of deep intimacy with Krishna, Arjuna saw the universal form of divine in him. Divine vision, it can neither be given as a gift nor be withdrawn. It is really a happening. In moments it is the peak of our consciousness, but it is arduous to live on the peak. Even the momentary glimpse of the immense is enough to change us; we are a different person!

No one can give the divine vision. We all feel that Krishna seems to tell Arjuna that he will give it to him. Human language suffers from obscurity; it lacks clarity of expression. A mother says, “I give so much love to my son.” It is a wrong statement. Love has just happened between the mother and her son. It is linguistic clumsiness to put it in any other way. Hillary and tensing climbed Everest, then returned to plains. It is hard to live on peak. But to live on peak of consciousness is impossible. People like Krishna live there; People like Arjuna and us once in a while leap to it, see it and drop back to earth.

Divine vision happens. Chemistry has a term known as catalytic agent. It is one whose very presence causes something to happen. It facilitates and accelerates the process of happening. Krishna is such a catalytic agent. A master, a guru, is an illusion in some ways, like that of Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramahansa. If Van Gogh or Raja Ravivarma, the painters were asked, they will say, the painting happened, and they were the medium, but we will fail to understand it. Everything in existence is real but in our ignorance sees it as miraculous.