Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Krishna's anger is also a Blessing!

Verses 1.7.33-34: One point here is that Krpi, Krpacharya's sister is from Gautama's vamsha, so is called Gautami. But because Ashwattama lost the morality of a brahmana, it is correct to treat him as an animal.

Second point is that when Arjuna is angry, his eyes are like red balls of copper, but Krishna's anger, his eyes are like lotus petals. Here Srila Prabhupada is making a nice point that Krishna's anger is not in the 3 material modes. Actually, the person whom Krishna is angry on, is also blessed.
Eg: Story - Audana sashti. Festival of giving new cloth to Jagannathji. Pundarika Vidyanidhi (in Krishna lila is Maharaj Vrshabhanu), Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Swaroop Damodar Goswami and others are there. Cloth with starch is being offered by the pujari's. Pundarika Vidhyanidhi thinks that there is an offense being committed. That night, Jagannath and Baladeva came in his dream and slapping him so hard, that never criticize my devotees. We have no problem, so why should u criticize. The next day morning, he woke up he realized how Jagannath was angry on him, but he was also happy that he received this special mercy of the Lord through His chastisement.
- Anger of Jagannath or blessing of Jagannath both are same. Becuase the Lord accepted him as a dear servant and punished him, he said thank you very much. Because Krishna is above the 3 modes, He is not inflicted by them, so His anger is also a blessing.

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