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Krishna é um ser divino, uma encarnação da Divindade, um avatar. Ele é um dos mais celebrados heróis indianos de todos os tempos, povoa o imaginário e é alvo da devoção de todos os hindus nas muitas formas que assume: uma criança travessa e brincalhona, o amante das pastoras, o amigo e sábio conselheiro do poderoso guerreiro Arjuna.

O Bhagavad Gita

Krishna é considerado a oitava encarnação de Vishnu: a segunda pessoa da Trindade hindu. Sua história é contada no Bhagavad Gita – o texto religioso mais popular da Índia, composto entre o quinto e o segundo século a.C. – que integra o Mahabharata, importante épico indiano.

Bhagavad Gita significa a “Canção de Deus” e foi escrito na forma de um diálogo entre Krishna e Arjuna. Krishna descreve a si mesmo como “o Senhor de tudo que respira” e “o Senhor que habita no coração de todos os seres”, ou seja, aquele que se uniu a Deus ou alcançou a união que é Deus. Ele diz: “Quando a bondade enfraquece e o mal aumenta, o meu Espírito ergue-se na Terra. Eu retorno em todas as eras para distribuir o sagrado, destruir o pecado do pecador e estabelecer a retidão”.226^[1]

Arjuna é o amigo e discípulo de Krishna. O cenário é a véspera de uma importante batalha que determinará quem governará o reino. Krishna será o cocheiro de Arjuna. Pouco antes da batalha, Arjuna vacila, pois terá de combater e matar os seus parentes. Krishna explica a Arjuna que ele precisa combater por ser esse o seu dharma – o seu dever ou a sua razão de ser. Como membro da casta guerreira Arjuna tem de lutar, haja o que houver.

A interpretação hindu tradicional da batalha abrange dois aspectos. Primeiro, o esforço que Arjuna precisa fazer para cumprir o darma e reaver o reino. E também representa a guerra que ele precisa travar dentro de si mesmo entre as forças do bem e do mal – a sua natureza superior e a inferior.

Krishna teaches Arjuna about the four yogas, or paths of union with God, and says that all the yogas should be practiced. The four yogas are knowledge (jnana yoga), meditation (raja yoga), work (karma yoga) and love and devotion (bhakti yoga). By self-knowledge, by meditation on the God within, by working the works of God to balance karma and increase good karma and by giving loving devotion, we fulfill the four paths of the four lower bodies—the memory body, the mental body, the desire body and the physical body.

*Krishna (Spring in Kulu)*, Nicholas Roerich (1930)

Krishna as the archetype of Christ

We can see Arjuna as the archetype of the soul of each of us and Krishna as the charioteer of our soul, one with our Higher Self, our Holy Christ Self. We can see him occupying the position of the Holy Christ Self on the Chart of Your Divine Self, as the Mediator between the soul and the I AM Presence. He is universal Christ consciousness.

When we send devotion to Krishna through mantra and sacred song, we open a highway of our love to the heart of Krishna, and he opens the other half of the highway. He sends back our devotion multiplied by his manyfold.

Healing the inner child

Lord Krishna has pledged to help heal the inner child as we sing mantras and bhajans to him. His request is to visualize his Presence over you at the age when you experienced any emotional trauma, physical pain, mental pain, from this or a previous lifetime. You can ask for these events in your life to pass before your third eye like slides moving across a screen or even a motion picture. Assess the age you were at the moment of the trauma. Then, visualize Lord Krishna at that age—six months old, six years old, twelve years old, fifty years old—and see him standing over you and over the entire situation.

If there are other figures in this scene through whom the pain has come, see the Presence of Lord Krishna around them also. Give the devotional mantra and song until you are pouring such love to Lord Krishna that he is taking your love, multiplying it through his heart, passing it back through you and transmuting that scene and that record. If you see Lord Krishna superimposed over every party to the problem, to the anger, to the burden, you can understand that you can affirm in your heart that there really is no Reality but God. Only God is Real, and God is placing his Presence over that situation through the personification of himself in Lord Krishna.

For more information

Elizabeth Clare Prophet has released an audio recording of devotional songs, Krishna: The Maha Mantra and Bhajans, that can be used in the exercise of healing painful memories. Available from www.AscendedMasterLibrary.org.

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “Krishna.”

↑ Swami Prabhavananda e C. Isherwood, Bhagavad Gita.

[1] Swami Prabhavananda e C. Isherwood, Bhagavad Gita.

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 a sua razão de ser. Como membro da casta guerreira Arjuna tem de lutar, haja o que houver.
-The traditional Hindu interpretation of the battle is twofold. First, the battle represents the struggle Arjuna must engage in to fulfill his [[dharma]] and to reclaim the kingdom. Second, the battle represents the war he must wage within himself between good and evil forces—his higher and lower natures.
+A interpretação hindu tradicional da batalha abrange dois aspectos. Primeiro, o esforço que Arjuna precisa fazer para cumprir o [[darma]] e reaver o reino. E também representa a guerra que ele precisa travar dentro de si mesmo entre as forças do bem e do mal – a sua natureza superior e a inferior.
 Krishna teaches Arjuna about the four [[yoga]]s, or paths of union with God, and says that all the yogas should be practiced. The four yogas are knowledge ([[jnana yoga]]), meditation ([[raja yoga]]), work ([[karma yoga]]) and love and devotion ([[bhakti yoga]]). By self-knowledge, by meditation on the God within, by working the works of God to balance [[karma]] and increase good karma and by giving loving devotion, we fulfill the four paths of the [[four lower bodies]]—the memory body, the mental body, the desire body and the physical body.