Krishna was in the hit list right from day one of His life centering Mahabharata age. His maternal uncle Kansa had a tattered psyche on and from the day he dreamt a very unwelcome dream: that the eighth baby of Kansa’s sister (Debaki-Basudev couple), if a boy would kill him. Kansa put the couple in the prison so that the killing of the new born posed no problem. As the apprehension of Krishna leaked there was a preplanned baby transfer in which a girl took Krishna’s position. That paved the way of Krishna’s escape where after He found in Yosada and Nandagope his surrogate parents in Gokul – a village of India originally inhabited by milkmen who later heard of a solacing legend : The One (Krishna) who will kill you (Kansa) is shaping up well in Gokul.
Deductions if any is left to the reader to another atypical story in human history: King Pharaoh - the mighty Egyptian Emperor found Israelis as totally unacceptable to him. So he enacted: a law – any Israeli new-born would be strangled and thrown into the river Nile – vile though it was not. A little baby boy who was destined to be ‘Moses’ found in Jochebed a woman as his host who in three months time made a cradle of papyrus for the baby and floated into the flowing Nile. King Pharaoh’s daughter – the Princess of Egypt was moved by the sorry plight of the boy the-would-be-Moses whose watchful sister got better of the Princess and pleaded for a nurse for the boy. This nurse was none other than Jochebed. The boy was christened ‘Moses’ since he was ‘saved from the water’. He grew up in the palace of King Pharash and turned into a health pioneer, friend of the poor, law-giver of the Jews and that very precious one who was the harbinger of the commandments from the mountain. It was he who broke the tables of the covenants and prayed at the tabernacle and viewed the Promised Land and ushered in the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus Leritieus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Krishna the First born of the universe wasn’t chary to be born and reborn to redeem the world in all its spheres. Later, He was in the hit list of Kansa for no less than thirteen occasions. Seven times in Brajalila (Braja being near Gokul), five times in Mathuralila (Mathura the birth place of Krishna and capital of Kansa; and after Kansa’s death his father-in-law got the gem. That was not the end of the hit list.
With rare most patience and wisdom Krishna successfully rejuvenated the erstwhile dejected Arjuna to take on the Kurus the sworn enemy in the great and symbolical historical battle of Kurukhsetra. As the friend, philosopher and guide of Arjuna - the front ranking one, Krishna saw him spearheading the battle with tacit understanding and actively participated as the charioteer the best ever all digital performer in A-Z of human history. In spite of the direct exposure to the heightened war Krishna remained unscathed. Needless to say that this kind of strategy could not be seen successfully through unless Krishna was the providential factor for all not excluding Himself. The drop scene of His life was in the hands of an innocent hunter who hit the bull’s eye, arrow passed through Krishna’s body when in a profound meditative stance in the deep woods. None knew as to why a permanently Supreme Active Yogi like Krishna needed renewal of mystic kinghood. He was said to have confided to Radha–His platonic lady love that He was going through the meditative cleansing after a hectic life in flesh and blood. He contended that in the manner the clean most water from the mountain-tops gets contaminated while rolling down to the meadows and rivers He too by his physical and mental warfare got worse. The remedy lay in being His original Self through His customary meditation.
This author is not aware of this kind of a lyric poetry Epic on Lord Krishna. Lyric caters for writers the thought and emotion while poetry balances its fire with beauty in verse, blank verse promotes itself to a new rhythm and rhyme – the ideal chime for the stomach of the mind – few words of Krishna are exemplified :
...That I am with them above and below
Inside and out they sleep with pillow
Made of brick and when thin and thick
Both the strong and the weak
In their aim to tweak does not pay
Heyday thought vapor up – what to say!
And when their tears do the speaking
And roll down the chin
With shooting pain in the shin
Thickened marrow harrows blood and life...           (Arrows show versification)
Though unconventional the above rhyming and rhythming look profitable because the words which have less poetic flavor get a wild entry much to the happiness of the dictionary whose members are set in better order from increased employment in Poetry – the top theme of expression. That is not all. The brain (encephalos in Greek) when awake does the job of thinking in continuity on entertaining more than one subject or object at a time. This allows emotion be that of joy or of anger a free hand. Punctuation that seeks its place in speaking or writing is a kind of a ration not easy to draw correctly. That kind of Poetry and lyric which seek to recruit more and more words would prove to be a real pleasure to Dictionary the keeper of words.
In the present context Krishna consciousness (KON) is a non-sleeping brain which has the most exceptional liberty and reprieve from interruption which punctuations looks for intently. What is more, this brain is a tight fit yet larger one than that of the universe so amicably on paralleled lines for conscious contact. With bracketed ranking one could safely be taken for the other without itch or hitch which means all round oneness. Arithmetically two but consciousness-wise One!
Registering such waves of thought is a task in prose. With divinity in hand it is a smooth affair in poetry-words volunteer to make a madding crowd. Its wish for a large scale reconnaissance to spot the one equal to the task is of great value. The Krishna consciousness and its interned universe interchange notes to make sure that the suffusion of the universe and all its constituents is ideal and as desired. This system is very tempting for Nature – the formless substrate of things. On a first come first served basis Nature successfully submits its application with a bio-brief whose central theme is genuine classification holds good. In other words, diversely diverse diversity demands its pound of flesh. All its participants raise their hands for a cushioned seat outside classification. The self-seeking class has its reservation while the vaster section goes all out for it.
To do it Krishna gave a fluent dictation which is as long if not more as the eighty five percent of the content of Bhagbad Gita. At that it is the most comprehensive one ever in the world. Almost like stitching a coat for the universe not without catering for the inner layers of dressings into and up to the ensouled body Krishna’s remarkable ease in encircling the world on thorough perfusion of the contents atom by atom is a routine.
The most important issue in the epic is the Krishna-Arjuna dialogue best described as the Srimad Bhagbad Gita which is generally spelt out Sloka wise of which there are seven hundred couplets. Here is a subtle difference : the essence of each chapter rolls out as a body of thought and when eighteen such are added together there is a figureless figure whose enormity is the same as Krishna consciousness : Krishna’s known for unthought-of of expansility.
Krishna leads from the front. He assigns Himself the task of becoming the world which on demand by Arjuna was an exhibit so exquisite and fulfilling. Krishna’s aim to unsheathe it proved practical and real. It proved its mettle in rejuvenating Arjuna was step by step. As a result Arjuna proved ideal for admission to Krishna College of Knowledge. After a thorough soul search and cleaning Arjuna became a much desired Krishnite a monophilic Krishnaphil.
Was expressly melancholic to start with and became the most enthralling one. How? That the soul-non-soul entity needed a cleansing with knowledge per excellence saw that action-norms have to be result-free which when a successful probe delighted Krishna who then delved with the non-stop mystic drill that freed from the senses learnt soul ensouling treat so as to beat well enough to be a worldwide wonder. The spectacles of the multifaceted splendor of the king of the world did steal the thunder by making the whole universe public when devotion was found to be its educational value to spring to itself a surprise of surprises that opened the gates of the details of the knower and the knowable. Three tier virtues so well tabled in the black-board of the Krishna College of Knowledge left the remaining lessons one has to view the supreme beings after crossing the bridge of the contrasting divines and demons which warrants multiplications of the firm most resolve for what? Release – on severing the bondage to birth and rebirth and do away with the samsara. - The phenomenal world.
By the time Arjuna was battle-fit it was quite evident that the devout Krishnite as he was had before him a joint task; physical and mental. The time taking Kurukhsetra battle rattled every warrior save Arjuna who by then was an active Krishnite thought it very comforting to merge with the detailed theme of Krishna in the Bhagbad Gita.
Arjuna and Sanjoy raised topics and questions when Krishna brought before them the base of the iceberg of answers. Since then Arjuna did not look back. With the guide of Krishna’s nature and stature the battle-contest was handsomely in favor of the Pandavas lead by Arjuna. After the battle the Mahabharata rail wheezed past but the post-war accounts turned grim: right from the date of birth the hit list against was up but all his enemy guns chose bullets which proved as butter pellets. Krishna remained His own self but Radha’s was a concern of concerns. To attend to the war weary Krishna Radha did have heart-splitting moments–the most crucial of which was the news that Krishna was proving Himself to be the most solemnned and austere mystic - a Yogi on the score to regain His former Self. He reasoned out that the manner in which the mountain-top-clear-water gets contaminated in its fall to the meadows. He too despite his divinely divine divinity lost some of the shine to recover to by the profound most meditation He thought it wise to go to the thick woods little knowing that He would be mistaken as a kill in the hands of an innocent professional hunter. On that fateful day, the hunter went back home without a kill to incur the wrath of his family members when he sought to make out that he did have a kill but that was a human.
Discovery of the most tragic incident raised waves of emotion of all around Krishna Consciousness which is a tight fit cover and contents of the universe kept aloft the standing provision of subsidy (assistance’- subsidium in Latin) in the public interest of the Universe. Joyous takers add to their joy while the handful of just few detractors feign to believe that they owe anything  to this consciousness nor do they feel that they are mere prototypes of this.
When man splits the atom to bargain energy output and tragically lose control on it to create very unwelcome and ghastly history day in and day out shout out their inability to constitute an atom why? The arrested few of its constituents e.g. neutron, proton, electron, Boson and quasars have been grilled and interrogated if any one of them singly or together could give clues about the other unidentified ones. Did the God particle of the atom join any of the sciences’ identification parades! Is that Krishna by name? Is Radhika His girl friend?
Krishna did try for His self-sculpt but no one-piece or joined stone could be so big. In case of painting His self-portrait the world canvas fell short and paint jars staged bottom up show. For his fluted ballet the stage managers of the world gave prior notice that He would do well to find out a suitable stage elsewhere. Vastness of the sky also pulled a surprise look of the ‘unable; Finally Krishna thought of containing Himself. That was a success-roar Krishna! Krishna!
First and last I have to take ‘yes’ Krishna hood
If I brood it is Krishna / in any talks He
If I shout the eye lids Krishna is the bee
In humming it is He/ It I meet a silencer it cannot be but Him
If I gaze for an image / or for a portrait – I bet my last penny