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Sunday 16 March 2008

Trance time...

I love Krishna!!!! PERIOD!!!!

Once a friend asked me, why I was a Krishna Bhakt. I regret every time I think about that question, because I couldn't give him a proper answer. I could not explain it to him. BECAUSE ITS A TRANCE!!! There is no explanation to it... Its a mental state which has the strength to influence the physical being.

It all started around September 2003, when I was on a college trip to Bangalore. Maybe the best thing that happened on that trip was the visit to the ISKCON temple there. I cannot describe the temple. As people say, even a million eyes are not enough to take in the beauty of the temple. That was my first meeting with Krishna, hehe, and I would want to call it love at first sight. Our plan was to stay in the temple for half an hour and then leave. Two hours. Probably even more. I don't know about my friends, but, I personally, didn't realize how time flew past as I just got swept into the magic. To top it all, it was Janmashtami time then.

The temple is huge hall with a empty space right in front of him, for at least 300-400 people to sit and watch him. The ceiling was painted with stories of Krishna and WOW what paintings. The best part was all of the hall was lit with diyas (though artificial lights, they were sparkling and gave out a very natural effect). Apart from 2 halogen lamps around him, there was no other light and this was just about evening time. The fact that I remember such minute details about the temple is enough to tell you readers to GO VISIT THE TEMPLE!!!! ITS GORGEOUS!!!!!

As I said, Krishna is a state of mind. He can influence you to do anything. Nothing is impossible with him around. Well... I am in such a trance now writing away all this. Whoever reads this post, might not even get close to reading these last few lines. They might find it boring. But, whoever has managed it till this point, its probably because they have been lucky enough to experience such sheer joy in their lives or they are compelled to do so. :)

Thinking of Krishna (or God in any form) is sheer joy, ecstasy, its pain, its intoxicating, its YEARNING, its LOVE, its a feeling out of this world. I wish I had words or a way to put all that joy on paper and pass it on to everybody to experience it. Its MAAAADDDDDDENNNNINGLY SANE!!!!! :)

6 comments:

Musings... said...

wow!!! This was intense!!! Amazingly written!!! Well, I hope you continue to be a follower and Krishna never breaks your trust!!! Good Luck with all, bhakts like you deserve it!

Rafiki said...

Interesting!

Incorrigible said...

Hey Krishna Devotee....if you haven't yet, u might wanna hear to the 'Mukunda Mukunda' track from latest movie, 'Dasavataram'...pretty good..song and Sadhana Sargam!

Natrajan Thamizhmani said...

nice post. i somehow managed to read the complete post without getting bored :P
Having said that you are a Krisha bakth, I wonder if you perhaps want to support the Iyengars. :P

Whatawonderfulworld!! said...

I have been to the same ISKON temple.. One of the lines from a poster in that temple that i remember till this day -
“Even if it were possible to count the atoms after smashing the earth into powder, still it would not be possible to estimate the unfathomable transcendental qualities of the Lord.” —Srila Prabhupada, Bhagavatam, 1.16.26-30

Krishna is the Ultimate source of joy and pure love...

Shyam said...

Good you felt so. None could (can) describe the innate beauty of the Krishna Consciousness or Krishna state of mind coz its never to be written but to be experienced. In other words experience will be so absorbing that nothing else remains except that beaming beacon of awareness