Introduction
A True Story
Krishna is the God star
The God Star and the True Story
Lord Krishna and the Bhagavad-Gita
With faith, and not murmuring against it,
What man even hears it,
He too shall be released, and the fair worlds
Of men of virtuous deeds shall he attain.
What man even hears it,
He too shall be released, and the fair worlds
Of men of virtuous deeds shall he attain.
Lord Krishna, a k a - God
And whoso shall study this
Colloquy on duty between us two,
By him with knowledge-worship I
Would be worshiped: so I hold.
Colloquy on duty between us two,
By him with knowledge-worship I
Would be worshiped: so I hold.
Dance for Narayana
Introduction
9.27
Whatever thou doest, whatever thou eatest,
Whatever thou offerest in oblation or givest,
Whatever austerity thou performest, son of Kunti,
That do as an offering to me.
Whatever thou doest, whatever thou eatest,
Whatever thou offerest in oblation or givest,
Whatever austerity thou performest, son of Kunti,
That do as an offering to me.
I guess before you Dance for Narayana (ie if you want to) you've go to know who Narayana or what Narayana is. Narayana is another name for the Hindu God Vishnu, one of whose avatars is better known as Krishna. So in effect a Dance for Narayana is a dance for Lord Krishna.
Although Hinduism sports a number of Gods, some of these Gods are regarded as the one and only true God, just as Jews, Christians, and Muslims consider Jehovah and Allah to be the same one and true God.
So a Dance for Narayana means a Dance for God, and it is the same whether you are of the religions of the Book or the major eastern religions.
The types of worship associated with Krishna which Krishna discusses in the Bhagavad Gita are mainly 2 types of yoga, known as bhakti-yoga - devotional worship, and karma-yoga worship through the performance of actions. A Dance for Narayana entails both types of worship as I will explain as I go along.
Why a Dance for Narayana?
The type of action performed with Krishna in mind is a type whose dedication is not influenced by success or failure. In effect when an action is dedicated to God, the success or failure, and whatever joy or disappointment that arises is not the performer's concern. God is the one on whose account the act is performed and whether it successful or not is His alone to worry about. The performer's role is to do his very best in accord with an act that is dedicated to God.
A dance is an act which by its very nature is entails an application of effort which produces no material gain - there is no success or failure inherent in the act, yet it entails as much effort as any other act and in some cases even more.
When one gets to learn about the illusory nature of material reality expounded in Indian philosophy, one realises that the whole of life is really a dance because the objects and values over which we perform our actions are illusory and are merely stage props, as our bodies. There are truly sound arguments for stating that acting in the manner prescribed by Krishna is the only way to act, and I for one am inclined to describe the doctrine of Krishna as the The Way of the Intelligent Actor which it truly is.
