Excerpt form an article “Divine Raas Leela of unconditional love”
– by SEEMA BURMAN
‘Sharad’ means winter and ‘mahotsav’ is festival. Though this is the month of Phalgun, it was in Sharad on a full moon night that millennia ago in Vrindavan a dance of love was performed by Krishna, a child of seven years and the gopis. This came to be known as ‘raas leela’.
Swami Vivekananda said that the raas leela is an external ex-pression of divine leela which takes place in the heart of each and every individual, between the finite and the universal soul. Unless we have unflinching love and faith, Krishna and his life would always baffle us.
Take for instance Radha’s love. So enchanted was Krishna with Radha’s love, pure and divine, that He wished to experience it Himself. Radha told Krishna to incarnate so that she could infuse ‘Radha bhava’ in that incarnation. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is believed to be Krishna’s incarnation with Radha Bhava.
Only those who become “mad” with love can understand the love of gopis who are the personification of unconditional love.
(Yesterday was Holi. It was also Sri Chaitanya’s birthday)
To create dynamic will power, determine to do some of the things in life that you thought you could not do. Attempt simple tasks first. As your confidence strengthens and your will becomes more dynamic, you can aim for more difficult accomplishments. Be certain that you have made a good selection, then refuse to submit to failure. Devote your entire will power to mastering one thing at a time; do not scatter your energies nor leave something half done to begin a new venture.
—Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, “The Law of Success”
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