The ‘most complete avatar’ of God was
born today. The street below me is thronged with merry crowds visiting the only
local ‘tourist spot’, the Ram-Sita Mandir, and it’s awash with bright many-coloured lights, and the
junk food vendors are making hay (mercifully they have spared me the
loudspeakers blaring the same old bhajans they have been playing for nearly
three decades now).
I have been musing. In the whole vast
Hindu pantheon, Krishna is my favourite god. And not just for his balgopal roop, I was not telling the whole truth
there (the last lines of that blogpost). I am thinking of Hari, and Janardan,
and Ananta, and Gopal, and Jagannath and Keshav and Vishwaroop and Achyuta. But
most of all I am thinking of Shyam Muralidhar Purushottam, Lord of Radha, the
Ultimate Lover, of whom we mere mortals, despite our most strenuous and earnest
efforts, can at best be only pale shadows, and that only for a fleeting moment in time, to only a few…
Ask if you want to know what I have
been thinking.
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