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The Why of Creation

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Krishnaswamy • May 3, 2002 


Dear Members,

Numerically, we form less than a tenth of one per cent of living creatures on this planet earth. The Lord in His wisdom has endowed us, uniquely among all beings, with intelligence and the power to think conceptually. He has also endowed us with the potential to break out of the grip of logical thinking to meet Him. This power was available to any one; yet, only a few in any century was successful in using it. We call them Seers. 


The Seers have said repeatedly that they have experienced the Lord of Creation.  Being compassionate, they have attempted the impossible: namely, to communicate to us and thus share with us this experience which is beyond the realm of words. But they had necessarily to use the language of words derived from and limited to our sensory experience. Since Vedic times, we continue to have doubts and questions, and to demand answers in the only language that we understand – words, words and words. We receive no answers because the language of the Divine is silence.



The Gopis of Brindavan were lucky that they were not burdened by the limitation of words. They lived a life of domestic bliss, going about their ordinary duties immersed in the blissful presence of their beloved Krishna. When they heard the wordless music from his flute from far away, they could just drop every thing and rush to the source in great abandon. How lucky the Gopis were that though they too were endowed with the same logical mind, they could tap into the over-riding power of unconditioned love for Krishna, hear his divine music and realize the Bliss that is the birth-right of every one of us.

Dasan,
Krishnaswamy M.K



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