Follow Krishna’s path
The Bhagavad Gita, the Bible and the Koran — whatever these scriptures say, their essence lies in a story that goes like this: One day a man went to the beach and the early morning breeze on the beach was so fantastic that he became blissful.
Whenever you experience something really beautiful, you want to share it with somebody, don’t you? So this man wanted to share it with somebody he loved. That somebody was sick in a hospital, so this man brought a big, coffin-sized box, trapped this wonderful breeze, sealed it and sent it to the hospital with a note.
The box arrived at the hospital. Let’s say you are the person who is in the hospital. You can do one of two things. You can either open the box very carefully, get into it, seal it and experience the wonderful breeze. Or you can read the note about where to find the wonderful breeze and, when you are fit enough, walk the path that he walked, reach that place and experience the wonderful breeze yourself. All the scriptures are just like these boxes. Somebody had immense experience within himself and wanted to share it. They either spoke, wrote or did something. But now people carry these books on their head, call them “holy” and are becoming stupider in the name of the book.
If you walk the path that Krishna walked, if you create the possibility that he created within himself, then the Bhagavad Gita is a reality. Until then, don’t believe anything that anybody has said. This does not mean you should disbelieve, nor am I saying that Krishna is nonsense. No. You don’t know. He is talking about things which are not true for you as yet. If there is a certain openness in you to accept that “this man is saying so many things, let me see”, then the possibility of you experiencing it opens.
So what does it mean being a Krishna? “Should I romance or start a war?” That is not the point. He did whatever he did in his life because of the kind of situations he was placed in. The whole Mahabharata is an intense drama with all kinds of people and extreme situations. There are out and out evil people and there are extraordinary human beings. It is a representation of human consciousness from the lowest to the highest. But whenever situations go beyond a certain level of intensity, all of them suffer. The good suffer, the bad suffer. That is the Mahabharata. Everybody, good or bad, whatever drama they are put into, is suffering. Krishna is the only one who is going through the whole thing without any sense of suffering.
So walking the path of Krishna means just that. Krishna’s path is to go through any kind of drama untouched. If you can go through your drama without any sense of suffering, you are on the path of Krishna.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, a spiritual leader, is a visionary, a humanitarian, author, poet and guru
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