Krishna who appeared on the Mother Earth by her invitation, also appears in our hearts when we invite Him. That is Janmastami - to invite Krishna into our hearts with our love, and to open our hearts to receive His love.
Lord Krishna is unborn. Still, history indicates that He took birth about fifty centuries ago.
Krishna’s appearance and disappearance are compared to the sunrise and sunset respectively. Sunrise in not the sun’s birth, similarly, Krishna’s appearance in this world is not exactly His birth, but just the beginning of His pastimes. Sunset is not the sun’s death; similarly, Krishna’s disappearance from this planet is not His death, instead, it is the conclusion of His pastimes here.
When the sun sets at one place, he rises in the other hemisphere, similarly, when Krishna disappears from one universe, He appears in a different universe to perform His pastimes. When the sun sets, he rises again the next day. Similarly, Krishna concludes His pastimes during one day of Brahma and reappears in the next only to resume His pastimes.
He specifically descends whenever there is a decline in dharma and increase in adharma, to reverse the situation (BG 4.7). All His forms, appearances and activities are divine. One who understands this is liberated, as Krishna Himself promises in the following shloka.
janma karma ca me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so ’rjuna
“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.” (BG 4.9)
Krishna Himself gives three reasons for His appearance in the Bhagavad-gita (4.8)
paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām
dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge (4.8)
we can have Krishna appear in our hearts and live in there, when we are willing to undergo whatever difficulties or austerities are necessary for our purification, and are eager to lovingly serve Him.
Krishna appeared in the prison cell of Kamsa and illuminated the entire prison cell with His divine spiritual effulgence. Our heart is also like a prison cell and if we invite Krishna into our hearts by sincerely performing bhakti, Krishna surely and eagerly enters our hearts and illuminates our hearts with His divine spiritual blessings, knowledge, inspiration and guidance, enabling us to come closer to His lotus feet. Let us all pray for the appearance of the Krishna in our hearts this Janmastami. Hare Krishna
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