Krishna’s beauty brings unity amidst diversity – Meditation on Venkatesh Stotram 6
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misunderstand chanting this is a verse from the Venkatesh Totra which describes Krishna’s unique capacity to bring about unity and diversity it says that Krishna is one supreme but with his the music of he brings in control gopis, how many gopis? millions of gopis gopis and he is himself like he is himself like millions of gopis he reciprocates individually with every single gopi in modern cities sometimes there are crowded metropolis where there are millions of people and one feels utterly insignificant and lost being reduced to a mere statistic among the millions of people in the metropolis but when one serves Krishna even if there are millions of other devotees Krishna is there available fully for each devotee and every devotee feels enriched and satisfied happiness to every single one of the gopis therefore apart from such a wonderful person the son of Vasudev Krishna I don’t know anyone else why would we need anyone else to love when we have such a wonderful lord to the extent we recognize that Krishna is eternally available to everyone to that extent others to an extent we will be able to become free from envy be it for their material possessions or even for their spiritual advancement even if they are more spiritually advanced and they can feel Krishna’s presence more and they are more happy still we too can advance and we can also feel Krishna’s presence more so as long as our vision is on Krishna we can avoid envy but when our vision becomes disconnected from Krishna and focuses on those who are connected with Krishna but we don’t see their connection with Krishna we don’t see how their recipients of Krishna’s mercy how their qualities are coming from Krishna then others connectedness with Krishna is not going to define our vision as much as our capacity to discern their connectedness with Krishna that’s why there are sometimes non devotees can become envious of devotees and even devotees can become envious of other devotees because they are not conscious of Krishna and to the extent we become conscious other successes other achievements rather than making us feel insecure or devalued they can make us feel envious thinking that if this person is so wonderful and this person is manifesting a little of Krishna’s glory how wonderful Krishna will be so Vasudeva Vasudeva I do not desire any lord other than wonderful Krishna Hare Krishna