Does Krishna know which choices we are going to make?
Does Krishna know which choice I will take in which situation? I don't know. We have to understand that God is not a, God is not a, God is not an object with attributes.
That means, you know, we say God is omnipotent, God is omniscient, God is omnipresent. These are not like stuck attributes. Like some people are so tall, others will say, oh, you are so tall.
But even they are stuck with their height. That, you know, if they come into a room, they have to bow down, otherwise they bump their head. So, Krishna is not stuck with his omniscience.
That means, when mother Yashoda is chasing Krishna, when we sing Ramudarastra comes on. So, it is not that Krishna already, oh, Yashoda is going to catch me. And he is actually worried, if she catches me, what will happen to me? She will beat me.
Oh, no, I don't know what to do. It keeps running frantically. So, Krishna's purpose is the reciprocation of love.
And all his attributes are used for that purpose. So, when required, he may exhibit his omniscience. Krishna is tied as Damodar to the grinding motor.
Now, actually, untying a knot, how difficult is that? It is not all that difficult to untie a knot. If Krishna could actually, he could drag the grinding motor down. Look, even if that knot was on the back side, he could just move it around and he could reach and untie it.
So, Krishna, when he wants to serve his devotees, he wants to reciprocate his mother Yashoda's love to demonstrate how great that love is. At that time, he doesn't even know how to untie a knot. But while he is tied that way, what happens is, While he was bound, he liberated those who were bound.
So, Krishna is such a small child that he doesn't know how to untie the knot that his mother has tied around him. But that same Krishna, he looks at these two trees and he knows actually they were devatas in their previous life. And they were cursed by my devotee Narada and he has promised that I will deliver them.
So, let me deliver them. So, here we see that Krishna's knowledge is used for reciprocating love. So, for reciprocating love with mother Yashoda, it is as if he doesn't know how to untie a knot.
But for reciprocating love with Narada Muni, he knows how to bring down a tree and which tree to bring down also. So, if we understand this purpose that Krishna loves us, Krishna doesn't just love his pure devotees. Krishna loves all of us.
And Krishna wants all of us to grow. All of us he wants to come closer to him, to find lasting happiness in love for him. And everything is orchestrated for that purpose.
So, orchestrated means we are given options. Krishna doesn't force us to choose any particular option. We choose it.
So, if we go into the zone of knowledge, then we miss the purpose. The purpose, if you see consider past time, what is the point of the past time if you, I will run this much, then Yashoda will catch me, then she will tie me, then I will break this tree and then Narada will come and free me. And story over.
It is not like that. Actually, the essential thing in the past time is not just knowing the end of the story. Knowing how events are going to turn out.
The essential point is the reciprocation of love. That's what Krishna delights in. So, similarly for us, we see our life as an opportunity to make choices that express our bhakti for Krishna.
And if we make those choices, we grow towards Krishna. So, getting into the zone of what Krishna exactly knows and what he doesn't know, that is something which we, with our finite intelligence, really can't understand the infinite. So, the point is, two things we can say very clearly from scripture.
Krishna is omniscient. Second is, Krishna has given us free will. Now, the technicalities of how our free will reconciles with Krishna's omniscience, that is very difficult to figure out.
The driving point is that Krishna is not stuck with his omniscience. Krishna's defining characteristic is his loving nature. What we can call in English as his omnibenevolence.
Now, he is the well-wisher of all living beings. So, in his omnibenevolence, sometimes he may exhibit his omniscience, sometimes he may not exhibit his omniscience. Whatever is required for our growth, he will exhibit that.
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