The name "Krishna" originates from the Sanskrit word Kṛṣṇa, which is primarily an adjective meaning "black", "dark", "dark blue" or “the all attractive”. Krishna has several meanings. The most famous is black.
Krishna is derived from the Dhatu/Root(of verb) krish of meaning vilekhan(attraction). Therefore the word Akarshan is made from this root Krish. Then we add the suffix Nak(नक्) in which only na(न) remains. So Krish+Na=Krishna.
The Root Krish also has many meanings. It means Aakarshan(attraction) normally.
- karshati = akarshati(attracts). Karshati bhaktan iti krishnah =The one who attracts his followers is Krishna.
- Krishati jagat pralayakaale swakukshou iti krishnah= the one who attracts the universe(jagat) into his belly button(swa=self kukshau=his navel) at the time of pralay is Krishna.
On basis of Lakshana
Krish means 1.destruction and 2.bhoo/satta/vidyamanta(existence).
- Destruction - karshati areen/paapaan iti krishnah. The one who destroys his enemies(areen) and all sins (paapaan) is Krishna.
- Satta/Bhoo.
On basis of Satta, there is a shloka in the Brahmavaivarta Puran which was also quoted by Shankaracharya.
Krishir bhoovachakah shabdah nashch nirvritivachakah tayoraikyam param-brahm krishna ityabhidheeyate.
कृषिर्भूवाचकः शब्दः णश्च निर्वृतिवाचकः । तयोरैक्यम् परं ब्रह्म कृष्ण इत्यभिधीयते।।
Grammar=Krish(root)+nak/नक्(suffix)=Krishna.
Krish stands for satta. That means there is nothing in this Jagat/universe except of Krishna's Sat Amsh. Sat means existence. There is nothing but Krishna everywhere and everything is Krishna. It just appears to be a Pillar as Maya has covered it. But Brahmagyaanis like Prahlad could see par the aavaran(curtain) of Maya.
Na/ ण= nirvriti. Nirvriti is synonym for Aanand. That is complete satisfaction or happiness. The Anand Amsh of Krishna is also everything and everywhere. But even Brahmagyaanis have only reached the Sat and The Chit. But no yogi, no tapasvi and no sadhu can reach Aanand. Only Uncoditional Bhakti can serve you to the realization till Aanand.
Tayo=both Aikyam=oneness. So both together(krish+na) become Param(greatest) Brahm(The one whose vriddhi/growth doesn't stop).
Krishna iti(this) abhidheeyate(is known as). Togetherness of both forms Satta and Anand is known as Krishna.
Now lets derive it as we did earlier.
Karshati= Ananden Aatmasat karoti iti Krishnah. The one who makes us(bhakts) experience the Aanand is Krishna.
Karshati = sarvatra vidyate iti krishnah. The one whose satta everywhere .
''The word 'krish' is the attractive feature of the Lord's existence, and 'na' means spiritual pleasure. When the verb 'krish' is added to the affix 'na' it becomes Krishna, which indicates the Absolute Truth.''
—Mahabharata (Udyoga-parva, 71.4)
If we analyze the nirukti, or semantic derivation, of the word 'Krishna,' we find that na signifies that He stops the repetition of birth and death, and krish means sattartha, or 'existence.' (Krishna is the whole of existence.) Also, krish means 'attraction,' and na means ananda, or 'bliss.'
—Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.8.15
How to perceive this God Krishna? Imagine pitch black, like in space/cave where is there is no light at all. Eyes widely open, you can’t even see something as close 1 centimeter away. That pitch blackness is called Krrshna. This is also called Dark Energy which is pervaded everywhere in the Universe and driving this cosmos. It is like a cosmic ocean, we are all swimming inside of it. We can’t see this pitch blackness, then we how to visualize it? Only with light being manifested, we see the darkness. Where light and darkness meets, it is blueish. So, you can start adding features to the darkness, an image emerges. The blue makes the best of the image. Like above picture, there Krishna emerges from Darkness and brings Aanandam.
The hidden symbolism behind the story of the birth of Lord Krishna
Devaki (Lord Krishna’s mother) represents the physical body, while Vasudeva (Lord Krishna’s father) represents the Prana (the vital life-force). When prana rises in the body, joy (Krishna) is born. That's why Krishna is called Nandalala – one who is the embodiment of bliss. Within this small body you are able to experience the infinite space (through spiritual practices).
Kamsa represents the ego. Kamsa is Devaki’s brother which indicates that the ego is born along with the body. The biggest adversary of ego is joy. Ego cannot survive and has to bow down where there is joy and love. Ego simply melts when confronted with love, simplicity and joy. This is why there is a war between ego (Kamsa) and love. Krishna is the epitome of joy, the quintessence of simplicity and the very source of love.
When Krishna was born, the prison guards fell asleep. The guards here represent the five senses which protect the ego because they are turned outward when awake. When there is no happiness and joy (Lord Krishna), the body feels like a prison. When Lord Krishna (joy) was born in this prison (body), all the senses (symbolized by the prison guards) fell asleep. The five senses – the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin – are the guards of the ego that keep you so engaged on the outside so that you don't see the infinite sky within. When one turns inwards towards the source of joy, bliss is born within, that is, Lord Krishna.
Lord Krishna and the Mother Divine were both born on the same day of Ashtami (also a day of special significance during the Navratri celebrations). The Mother Divine took a physical form, but when the evil King Kamsa tried to grab hold of her, She freed Herself from Kamsa’s hands and disappeared into the skies. The essence here is that the ego cannot capture Shakti – the Divine energy (represented here by the Mother Divine). It may appear that the ego can trap Shakti, but it is not so.
Ego can neither capture bliss (represented by Lord Krishna), nor can it capture Shakti. This is the message of Janmashtami.
Connecting to Lord Krishna
So where should you look for Lord Krishna? Everywhere!
Lord Krishna says, ‘One who sees Me everywhere, in everyone, and sees everyone in Me is truly intelligent’. Everything has emerged from one divinity – this is the special message of Janmashtami.
You can realize Lord Krishna only through deep rest. You cannot realize Lord Krishna through struggle and effort. And when can you get that deep rest? Deep rest happens when your mind is not restless and entangled with feverish desires; when it is not caught up in cravings and aversions. It is in those moments of deep rest that one witnesses the birth of Lord Krishna (here meaning the feeling of bliss).
Lord Krishna the Thief
Krishna is also known as the butter thief. Milk is the essence of nourishment and curd is a cultured form of milk. When curd is churned, butter comes up and floats on top. It is nourishing and yet light, not heavy. When our intelligence is churned, it becomes like butter. When knowledge dawns in the mind, one gets established in one’s Self. Such a person remains unattached to this world and his mind does not sink in it. Krishna stealing butter is a symbolism depicting the glory of love. So attractive is Krishna’s charm and skill that he steals the minds of even the most dispassionate.
With spiritual yogic efforts, when a Rishi makes divine butter, there Krishna emerges from Darkness to steal it from you. Why he have to steal it? He takes away the butter, gives more milk or aanandam, to churn again and again to attain more divine knowledge. Every time you make more butter, he loves to come and eat and replaces with new eternal knowledge. Rishi getting closer and closer to Krishna.
Krishna Conscience
Krishna consciousness is acting according to Krishna’s order. A conditioned soul, illusioned by the external energy of matter, does not know that the Supreme Lord is the master who is full of knowledge and who is the creator of everything. Whatever he desires He can bestow upon His devotees. Krishna is the best friend, dasa to Rishi/Yogi, powerful to enemies, full of all opulences, potencies, controller of this material nature and of all living entities and inexhaustible time.
Krishna can give Himself to a Yogi. One who does not know Him, is under the spell of illusion. A Rishi full divine knowledge, naturally surrenders to Krishna… one who reads and comprehends Gita attains full Krishna consciousness. The result of Krishna consciousness is that one becomes increasingly enlightened, and he enjoys aanandam all the time.
Bhagavad-gita As It Is (18.73 & 76)
Krishna’s Preachings
#1 Importance of Karma (duty) Bhagavad-Gita Karma in Chapter 2, Verse 47
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन |
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि || 47 ||
karmaṇy-evādhikāras te mā phaleṣhu kadāchana
mā karma-phala-hetur bhūr mā te saṅgo ’stvakarmaṇi
Do your duty and be detached from its outcome, do not be driven by the phalam, enjoy the journey of enlightenment.
#2 There is always a cause or reason Karma in Chapter 4, Verse 16
In Bhagavad-Gita Lord Krishna said that everything happens for a cause or Karma.
किं कर्म किमकर्मेति कवयोऽप्यत्र मोहिता: |
तत्ते कर्म प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वा मोक्ष्यसेऽशुभात् || 16||
kiṁ karma kim akarmeti kavayo ’pyatra mohitāḥ
tat te karma pravakṣhyāmi yaj jñātvā mokṣhyase ’śhubhāt
What is action and what is inaction? Even the wise are confused in determining this. Now I shall explain to you the secret of action, by knowing which, you may free yourself from material bondage.
#3 Control your anger Bhagavad-Gita Chapter 2, Verse 63
क्रोधाद्भवति सम्मोह: सम्मोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रम: |
स्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति ||63||
krodhād bhavati sammohaḥ sammohāt smṛiti-vibhramaḥ
smṛiti-bhranśhād buddhi-nāśho buddhi-nāśhāt praṇaśhyati
Anger leads to clouding of judgment, which results in bewilderment of the memory. When the memory is bewildered, the intellect gets destroyed; and when the intellect is destroyed, one is ruined.
#4 Humbleness and Humility Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 13, Verse 8-12
अमानित्वमदम्भित्वमहिंसा क्षान्तिरार्जवम् |
आचार्योपासनं शौचं स्थैर्यमात्मविनिग्रह: || 8||
इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहङ्कार एव च |
जन्ममृत्युजराव्याधिदु:खदोषानुदर्शनम् || 9||
असक्तिरनभिष्वङ्ग: पुत्रदारगृहादिषु |
नित्यं च समचित्तत्वमिष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु || 10||
मयि चानन्ययोगेन भक्तिरव्यभिचारिणी |
विविक्तदेशसेवित्वमरतिर्जनसंसदि || 11||
अध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वं तत्वज्ञानार्थदर्शनम् |
एतज्ज्ञानमिति प्रोक्तमज्ञानं यदतोऽन्यथा || 12||
amānitvam adambhitvam ahinsā kṣhāntir ārjavam
āchāryopāsanaṁ śhauchaṁ sthairyam ātma-vinigrahaḥ
indriyārtheṣhu vairāgyam anahankāra eva cha
janma-mṛityu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣhānudarśhanam
asaktir anabhiṣhvaṅgaḥ putra-dāra-gṛihādiṣhu
nityaṁ cha sama-chittatvam iṣhṭāniṣhṭopapattiṣhu
mayi chānanya-yogena bhaktir avyabhichāriṇī
vivikta-deśha-sevitvam aratir jana-sansadi
adhyātma-jñāna-nityatvaṁ tattva-jñānārtha-darśhanam
etaj jñānam iti proktam ajñānaṁ yad ato ’nyathā
Humbleness; freedom from hypocrisy; non-violence; forgiveness; simplicity; service of the Guru; cleanliness of body and mind; steadfastness; and self-control; dispassion toward the objects of the senses; absence of egotism; keeping in mind the evils of birth, disease, old age, and death; non-attachment; absence of clinging to spouse, children, home, and so on; even-mindedness amidst desired and undesired events in life; constant and exclusive devotion toward Me; an inclination for solitary places and an aversion for mundane society; constancy in spiritual knowledge; and philosophical pursuit of the Absolute Truth—all these I declare to be knowledge, and what is contrary to it, I call ignorance.
#5 Best friend Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 6, Verse 5
उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत् |
आत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मन: || 5||
uddhared ātmanātmānaṁ nātmānam avasādayet
ātmaiva hyātmano bandhur ātmaiva ripur ātmanaḥ
Elevate yourself through the power of your mind, and not degrade yourself, for the mind can be the friend and also the enemy of the self. Krishna being your best friend, he leads you towards him.
Krishna’s Divine Energies
Krishna is the independent principal conscious entity, and the energies are His attributes. They can never be independent. Krishna may be called vibhu, the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent master, and the manifestations from His energies—all other existing phenomena—may be called vaibhava, the opulent expressions of His factual existence. Yet, even amid unlimited, countless energies scattered throughout endless time, Krishna remains separate and independent in His original form. It is through these energies, these vaibhava of the vibhu, that the Lord’s presence can be perceived.
The manifestations from Krishna’s energies are of three types: cid-vaibhava, or spiritual manifestations coming from Krishna’s spiritual potency; acid-vaibhava, or the dull, unconscious material world; and jiva, or countless souls, small particles of spirit.
CID-VAIBHAVA: SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATION
The cid-vaibhava consists of Krishna’s abodes, such as the unlimited number of Vaikuntha planets; Krishna’s unlimited names, such as Govinda, Hare, etc.; Krishna’s unlimited forms, such as the two-handed form holding the flute; Krishna’s extraordinary qualities, such as affectionately giving bliss to His devotees; Krishna’s pastimes, such as the rasa-lila of Vraja and the sankirtana activities of Navadvipa. Even though these spiritual manifestations may descend into the material world and be visible or perceivable by the living entities, they remain spiritually untouched by material influence. All these elements intimately related to Vishnu or Krishna are called Vishnupada throughout the Vedas. The word denotes that the cid-vaibhava are inseparable from the Lord Himself. The spiritual phenomena are inseparable from the prime spiritual entity.
Therefore, in the spiritual realm of Vishnupada, the changes which occur due to the influences of the material energy are not present. That realm is transcendental to material change, and like Lord Vishnu Himself, is pure goodness, unmixed with passion or ignorance in the least, unlike the condition of the material world. Krishna and the plenary Vishnu expansions are all of the pure goodness. Thus, whether in Goloka, Vaikuntha, the Causal Ocean, or the material world, these personalities remain unaffected, as the Lord of all the demigods and the Lord of maya.Vishnu forms are the Lords of maya and are in pure goodness, whereas Brahma, Siva, etc. possess goodness mixed with other modes.
ACID-VAIBHAVA
Across the Viraja River, which is the separating boundary, opposite from the Vishnu forms, spiritual abodes, spiritual pastimes and other spiritual manifestations, lies the nonspiritual realm composed of the universes of fourteen planetary systems. This realm under the control of the Lord’s illusory energy is called Devidhama, the abode of maya. It is composed of the five material elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether), plus mind, intelligence and false ego, which form the gross and subtle bodies of the living entities. The seven upper and seven lower planetary systems are all contained within the acid-vaibhava, or nonspiritual manifestation of one of the Lord’s energies.
JAIVA-VAIBHAVA
Whereas the spiritual manifestation (cid-vaibhava) is the full spiritual principle, and the illusory material world (acid-vaibhava) is its shadow, jivas are atomic particles of the spiritual element. Because the jivas are spiritual in character, they also have some degree of independence and have the potentiality of unlimited bliss which is natural to the spiritual realm. Those jivas who resort to Krishna to attain that bliss remains as liberated souls eternally associated with Krishna. But, thinking of his own happiness, if one selfishly desires to enter the neighbouring abode of maya, he turns away from Krishna and takes a material body in the material universe. Having fallen into the revolving wheel of continuous activities, good or bad, with their results, the jiva wanders throughout the universe, sometimes in svarga, sometimes in hell, taking birth with a material body to enjoy life in all the eight million four hundred thousand species of beings.
Krishna the Dark Energy and Matter
What Is Dark Energy?
More is unknown than is known. We know how much dark energy there is because we know how it affects the universe's expansion. Other than that, it is a complete mystery. But it is an important mystery. It turns out that roughly 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%. The rest - everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter - adds up to less than 5% of the universe. Come to think of it, maybe it shouldn't be called "normal" matter at all, since it is such a small fraction of the universe.
What Is Dark Matter?
By fitting a theoretical model of the composition of the universe to the combined set of cosmological observations, scientists have come up with the composition that we described above, ~68% dark energy, ~27% dark matter, ~5% normal matter. What is dark matter?
We are much more certain what dark matter is not than we are what it is. First, it is dark, meaning that it is not in the form of stars and planets that we see. Observations show that there is far too little visible matter in the universe to make up the 27% required by the observations. Second, it is not in the form of dark clouds of normal matter, matter made up of particles called baryons. We know this because we would be able to detect baryonic clouds by their absorption of radiation passing through them. Third, dark matter is not antimatter, because we do not see the unique gamma rays that are produced when antimatter annihilates with matter. Finally, we can rule out large galaxy-sized black holes on the basis of how many gravitational lenses we see. High concentrations of matter bend light passing near them from objects further away, but we do not see enough lensing events to suggest that such objects to make up the required 25% dark matter contribution.
Krishna's Messages
“The main teaching of Lord Krishna is that our whole life and the whole manifested universe is His ‘Maya’. He continuously tells His great disciple Arjuna to realize His presence underlying seemingly unrelated events and various living organisms populating the universe.”
Lord Krishna of His own Maya in His crown and stimulates our intelligence to understand the fact that the whole universe is a diverse manifestation of one single divinity. Thus, we are also supposed to understand the nature of Maya continuously during our life so that we do not get carried away and suffer due to its influence.
There are two paths in human life — Pravritti, the path of action and progress and Nivritti, the path of inward contemplation and spiritual perfection. Pravritti is eternal life of humanity. Cooperation, togetherness and mutual love and understanding are the hallmarks of Pravritti, leading to a state called Abhyudaya. Nivritti, a value-oriented life is achieved, which is based on the inner spiritual dimensions of humanity. This leads to a state called in our scriptures as Nihshreyasa.
Spiritual growth progress and material development on the individual and social planes have to be accompanied by inner spiritual growth based on a universal value system. Knowing one’s true nature is as much a necessity, if not more, as external material progress. Without the spiritual dimension, yogic progress becomes directionless.
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