Bhagavan Sri Krishna – The Divine Perfection : 5. Swami Krishnananda

03/03/2019
(Spoken on Sri Krishna Janmashtami, August 25, 1978)

There were great masters in ancient times who had thought over all these problems of life. We are not the only people who are thinking along these lines. There were towering personalities, great statures which stood above us right up to the heavens, as it were, and found that this mystery cannot be explained in logical terms. Science, mathematics and logic are inadequate to the purpose.

The great mystery of human aspiration cannot be explained by anything which is at present under the control of the human being, even including the intellect and the ratiocinating powers. The great thing, the wonderful thing, the vista of perfection that one holds before oneself, is incapable of definition in language. This was well thought out by great geniuses of the past.

One such Master has come down to our memories today – the great Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa, the author of the Mahabharata and many other scriptures attributed to him like the Brahmasutra, the Srimad Bhagavata, the Puranas, and so on.

Very few even among Indians themselves may be aware of the magnitude of the achievement he has projected forth in his personality and in his writings. He was perhaps the first great unifier of India’s culture, the first great personality, to our memories at least, who attempted a consolidation of cultures and thrilled people’s spirits by presenting before them a picture of what they are actually longing for.

He was not unaware of the futility of logical acumen and scientific presentations, so he turned to another line of approach altogether, which is the line adopted by all great poets and epic writers who knew the depths of human nature and the profundities of the mystery of creation.

To be continued ..