Bhalka Tirth - A Spiritual Message by the Lord Krishna

Lord Krishna is  .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

beyond words. If the Vedas cannot describe Him, who am I to even dare to think to describe Him. Still, He is the one, for whom, infinite is very much finite. 

While the story of the Lord Krishna is very famous and even the children know it very well, great people (even if we dare to assume that He was not an incarnation of God, but only a powerful, intelligent, brave hearted, kind hearted, very earnest and extra ordinary human being) are not merely known by their lives, they are also known by the way they leave this temporary world - 'death' - in a common man's language.

Adi Shankara, Lord Krishna, Lord Buddha, Jesus etc. many greats sent us a strong message with their so called deaths. Such holy souls do not die, of course. They just disappear from our naked eyes, at the most.

So, in brief, the story goes like this: after Yadavasthali incidence, where the civil war that broke out amongst the Yadavas, due to the curse of Gandhari to Lord Krishna (please understand that Krishna was beyond' anyone's course. But, it was the leela of Prabhu that He approved this or accepted this curse too). That killed many of them. After Balaram left this earth, Krishna too decided to give up his physical body and started meditating. 

Mistaking Krishna, who was partially visible, as a deer, a hunter named Jara shoot his arrow towards Krishna's foot which seriously injured Him.

On seeing that he had shot an arrow to none other than Lord Krishna, the hunter felt extremely sorry for his sin. To that, Lord Krishna replied, that it was His (Krishna's) wish that the hunter shot an arrow to him. It is because that hunter Jara was the rebirth of Vali, who was killed by Rama (Krishna in his earlier incarnation).

Now, here are main takeaways from this incidence:

1. Death in inevitable. Death is the only final reality - the FINAL destination. That is why a lot of philosophies of the world have treated death as an important point to ponder upon. 

In Budhhism, there is a famous story. A woman, whose young child had died, went to Lord Buddha. She asked him to bless the child with new life. She was demanding a miracle. She was a mother, of course. And a mother is a mother, none can replace her. 

Lord Budhha asked her to visit as many nearby homes, as possible and asked her to findout one home, where there had been no death. If she would find such a home, Lord Buddha promised to give back the life of her son. As expected, she could not find any home like that, and learnt the reality.

2. None, including the Lord Krishna Himself (in a symbolic sense), is beyond the KARMAS. Though Vali paid for his bad KARMAS by getting killed by an arrow, that was short by none other than Lord Ram (Krishna Himself), it was a KARMA, which ought to be rewarded. So, to settle the score of His own Karma (in a symbolic way once again), Lord Himself decided that Vali should be reborn as a hunter Jara, and must become the reason for His death, like He had become the reason for Jara's death in the previous incarnation. That Rama had killed Vali stealthily led to the situation, where Jara shot an arrow, when Lord Krishna was in a meditative state. Thus, it was also a stealthily shot arrow.

So, it is a strong message to all of us: That none is beyond Karma. And that, one must pay for one's Karma. The great Lord symbolised this universal truth through His death.

3. That Lord is very kind. Lord accepts everything that the bhaktas offer to him, as prasadam. Gandhari was a great devotee to Lord Shankara. And Lord Shankara and Lord Vishnu pray to each other - They are Equals, Inseparable, Incomparable (comparing them is a very big sin), complimentary to each other, and yet complete in themselves. So, when a great devotee to Lord Shiva cursed Lord Krishna, He accepted that as a wish or command of the devotee. It was also a command of a mother, who had lost 100 sons. And she blamed Lord Krishna for that. So, in that sense, Lord decided to pay back for this alleged KARMA (not stopping the war, that He arguable could and should have stopped, according to Gandhari). And, because Gandhari's all the sons had died, that the whole Kuru clan became almost extinct, Lord Krishana decided to pay back for this Karma of Him, by making His Yadava clan extinct. It is one more incedence that shows, that, even Lord Himself has to pay for His Karmas, when He takes birth as a human and performs the Karmas as a human. 

4. The last is, nothing is permanent in this world. Not even the incarnation of God is going to live permanently. The God keeps visiting this earth to reestablish the dharma. And that, in the end, everything is subject to change, everything is temporary. That, only the name of the God, is the ultimate reality. If you see death in death, you have not understood what life is.

JAY MAA KHODIYAR

JAY MAA BHAVANI

JAY SIYA RAM

JAY SHRI KRISHNA

JAY SOMNATH MAHADEV