Birthday 2024: Today, the festival of Janmashtami, the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, is being celebrated. On this day, the worship of the child form of Lord Krishna has been prescribed. Lord Krishna preached the Gita to the world through Arjun. About 5 thousand years ago, Lord Krishna spread the divine light of the most sacred message of the Gita on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Even today, people of not only India, but the entire world are blessing their lives with its sacred light. The greatness of the Gita is that if a person understands the true essence of even one of its 700 verses, then his boat will reach the shore. Lord Krishna has said some special things in the 62nd and 63rd verses of the second chapter of the Gita. Let us tell you about them in detail.
Here Lord Krishna has said a verse-
When a man meditates on objects, attachment to them arises.
From attachment lust is born; from lust anger is born.
From anger comes delusion, and from delusion delusion of memory.
By the loss of memory, the loss of intelligence is destroyed.
Meaning-
Through this verse of the Gita, Lord Krishna has given a unique description of the origin and gradual development of the disorders and afflictions that arise in the mind. The Lord says that if we constantly think about subjects, then we make our company according to that thinking. Under the influence of company, we become lustful.
Unsatisfied sexual desire gives rise to anger in the mind. Anger gives rise to attachment and attachment makes us fall prey to memory loss. When memory loss occurs, the intellect is destroyed and when the intellect is destroyed, we are destroyed. The other side of this is that if our thinking is pure, then the path to our ultimate attainment is paved.
God has also given its solution in Gita. Those who worship Me thinking of no other. I bear the safety of Yoga for those who are ever engaged in it.
In this shloka, Lord Krishna says that those devotees who meditate on me with exclusive devotion, worship me, and remain absorbed in me always, I myself take care of their yoga and kshem. Here yoga means the sum of good deeds of previous births. While kshem means efficiency.
In the 66th verse of the 18th or last chapter, Krishna also tells us the surefire way to salvation. Here Shri Krishna says, ‘Abandon all religions and take refuge in Me alone. I will liberate thee from all sins; grieve not.
This means that leave all religions, beliefs and sects and come to me, I will free you from all sins and give you salvation. There is no doubt about this. It is clear that all the divine acts of Lord Krishna contain the deep elements of upliftment of human life. If we understand these signs and start implementing them in our lives, then not only we but the entire world will be benefited.