Krishna thrishna

December 1966, Chennai

Professor Kasturi's English.

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Thirst for , for seeing Him, hearing Him, His Flute, for installing Him in the heart, in the mind, for grasping His Reality through the intellect - this thirst is the healthiest, the most conducive to peace. Devotion to is the chain by which the monkey mind can be fastened and subdued. Transmute all the desire with which the senses torment you into the thirst for and you are saved.

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means attract, draw, as in . Even a confirmed protagonist of , (the contemplation of the Universal Absolute without name and form), like confesses that the attraction for the playful child on the sands is irresistible. declares that though the taught him the truth of the Nameless Absolute, his heart taught him to revere the Cowherd Boy with the Flute. He prays that, when he draws his last breath, the Fair Child of with the Feather Flute and Flower might smile on him and bless him.

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draws the mind away from sensory desires; that is another way in which the draw operates. He pulls the mind towards him and so, they are pulled away from everything else, for everything else is inferior, less valuable. He satisfies the deepest thirst of man, for peace, joy and wisdom. That is why He is - dark-blue as the rain cloud. The very sight of the rain-laden cloud is so refreshing. He is lotus-eyed, lotus palmed, lotus-soled; the lotus is reminiscent of cool, calm, deep lakes of limpid water, the water that quenches thirst. When is quenched, the highest is attained; there is no more need, no more want, defect or decline. The urge to drink inferior drinks, that only feed the thirst, disappears when once the sweetness of and (name and thought of ) are tasted. Sense objects are like sea water that can never allay thirst. , , , , , - they knew the nectarine taste of that Name.

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Significance of 's birth and growth The , the real nature of can be understood only by those who have acquired that deep 'distressing' thirst for the Formful Aspect of the Lord, and for the Divine Call that resonates in the heart as the entrancing tune of the Flute. is said to have been born in , He grew up in , He proceeded to and He established His home finally at . The significance of this to the is, "Let be born in the of your Mind; let Him grow and play prankishly in the of your Heart; let Him then be fixed in the of ; and, finally, let Him rule over the agitationless Consciousness as the Lord and Master of ." The is the final result of His Kingdom established at , in the centre of the waves.

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will get born in the mind of man only when three prerequisites are attended to- Make the mind (), (saturated with . Make the intellect (buddy), full of , (illumination of His glory), Make the body (), the instrument for (practice of , of moral virtues). is the ; and are the two Aides-de-camp of this monarch. They are the guards that ensure safety. Unaccompanied by these two, the is not quite secure.

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Steps to cultivate thirst for The thirst for is a sign of health in the spiritual field. Not to have it is a sign of - the fell disease that afflicts worldly persons, the symptoms being grief, discontent, pain and worry, even when wealth and health are endowed. That thirst can be cultivated by the reading of scriptures, the cultivation of congenial company, lessons from a kind and considerate and regular practice of . Once it is acquired, the thirst itself will lead you on to places and persons able to quench it. That is the advantage of spiritual quest; the first step makes the second easy.

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The bane of modern times is the value attached to a cynical destructive type of judgement, by fickle, feeble intellects. A doctor's prescription can be judged only by an equally qualified or a more qualified doctor, not by a patient suffering from the same or a different illness. No person afflicted with lust or envy or greed or attachment or egoism can pronounce judgement on the ethereal, formless, nameless principle that concretised as . is described as blue in physical colour, for, He is as deep and inscrutable as the sky; the blue is the colour which the eye comprehends, though the sky has no colour at all. So too, has no colour or attributes but, in order to comprehend Him, the mental eye attributes a colour. Grace of can be won only by the good. The (demons) did not get (nectar); for they would have misused it. Knowledge in the wicked is power misused for the stratagems of hate and greed. Grace too is power and it has to be endowed on the deserving only. Therefore. character has to be sublimated into saturated piety and devotion. Then only can Grace be secured. Mere repetition of name, , will be of no use, unless the contemplation of the Glory of starts purifying the character at the same time. Thus, (human) becomes (divine). (death) is changed into (immortality). Through , (saturated with Divinity), this (mud-filled body) becomes (saturated with Divine consciousness) - through saturation, this clod becomes God. That is the consummation of , the thirst after God, which wells up in one's own heart.