Lord Krishna

Krishna Janmashtami is an annual joyful Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Krishna. The festival usually occurs in August. Moreover, it is observed in Bhadrapada Masa. People celebrate Janmashtami by performing various rituals inside the temple. People perform a dance to different religious songs on this occasion. Dance-drama enactments of the life of Krishna, devotional singing through midnight when Krishna was born, fasting, and a night vigil on the following day are a part of the Janmashtami celebrations. According to Hindu mythology, Krishna, the human incarnation of Vishnu, was born on this day to destroy Mathura's demon king, Kansa, the brother of Krishna's virtuous mother, Devaki. 

Krishna, the essence of who he is, he is an irrepressible child, a terrible prankster, an enchanting flute player, a graceful dancer, an irresistible lover, a truly valiant warrior, a ruthless vanquisher of his foes, an astute statesman and kingmaker, a thorough gentleman, a yogi of the highest order, and the most colourful incarnation. Among nine incarnations ( Matsya, Koorma, Varaha, Narasimha, Vamana, Parashurama, Rama, Krishna and Kalki), Krishnavatara was considered a complete avatar or complete incarnation of all aspects. As a tribute to the multi-dimensional nature of who he was and though he never claimed it; people attached to him. The clarity that he brought to people around him made people experience him as godlike. He was willing to dance with life. In all kinds of extreme situations, he smiled.

From the day Krishna was born, many assassinations came to kill him. Wherever he was in battle or just about to behead his foe, there was always a smile on his face. He was always playful, untouched by a terrible reality. Many people imagine Krishna through his childhood pranks and divine possibility but he is more than that. Radha-Krishna's love, intimacy, and romance caught the imagination of a whole culture in the entire subcontinent in such a way that we don't say Krishna-Radhe but Radhe-Krishna. 

His guru, Sandipani made him realize what is the purpose of his life, Thus at the age of sixteen, he left everything including his hometown; Vrindaban, friends, family, and Radha. At the time of departure, he gave the flute to Radha and never played the flute again. From sixteen to twenty-one, Krishna lived as Brahmachari and went through several Sadhana, political and spiritual processes. He did everything possible for spirituality. He wanted spirituality not as a fringe thing but as a mainstream life. His vision was to spiritualize the political process in leadership. He wanted the kings of the day to turn spiritual. 

As Sadhguru said, Everything Krishna wanted to ended up in the disaster of Kurukshetra; a terrible war which wiped out an entire generation of man; we still worship Krishna for the clarity of vision that he exhibited and the certainty about his ability to discern what is true and what is untrue. It supports that whether we are going to come up with the biggest success in the world is subject to many realities. But the question is how we deal with these realities.

Everything rests upon Krishna. He is a supreme personality of godhead. Reading his past times, we will come to know about him, and his glories. Krishna is the biggest cheater for the people who try to cheat his devotees, if a person cheats a devotion of Krishna even once, Krishna will cheat the cheater for many lifetimes. Krishna sees everyone as a moving temple as he stays in everyone's heart. Here are some of the beautiful quotes by Lord Krishna.

• Do everything you have to do, but not with ego, not with lust, not with envy but with love, compassion, humility, and devotion. 
• There are three gates to self-destruction and hell: Lust, Anger & Greed.
• A man is made by his beliefs. As he believes. So he becomes.
• The Key to happiness is the reduction of desires.
• For one who has conquered his mind, a mind is best of friends, but for one who has failed to do so, a mind is the greatest enemy.
• Happiness is a state of mind, that has nothing to do with the external world.
• Why do you worry unnecessarily? Whom do you fear? Who can kill you? The soul is neither born nor dies.
• Whatever happened was good. What’s happening is going well. Whatever happens, will also be good. Do not worry about the future. Live in the present.
• Set your heart upon your work but never its reward.
• The only way you can conquer me is through love, and I am gladly defeated there.
• When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as though they were his own, he or she has attained the highest spiritual union.
• Among all kinds of killers, time is the ultimate because time kills everything.
• Calmness, gentleness, silence, self-restraint and purity are the disciplines of the mind.
• Perform your obligatory duty, because the action is indeed better than inaction.
• The mind is fickle. It won’t obey you every time the mind misbehaves, use your discretionary intellect to bring it back to the equanimous position.
• No one who does good work will ever come to a terrible ending, in the world.
• Change is the law of the world. In a moment, you become the owner of millions. In another, you become penniless.
• Hell has three entrances – Greed, Anger and excitement.