God Bound Up!
Deaf Dumb & Blind God!
Today it has become popular to reduce the understanding of God down to a leg-less, hand-less, head-less, eye-less form-less white light blob of indefinable energy. That is a popular conclusion derived at by those who have no proper understanding of how God revealed his Personal Qualities as in the Vedas. Meticulous thinkers will not settle for this very limited and impersonal understanding of God because it makes no sense. All of us have eyes, ears, form and individual consciousness so to conclude that the God who created everything does not have these minimal qualities means we have experiences God has no access to. This is a contradiction to the fundamental concept that God is “All-Knowing, source of everything.” There are two basic reasons why people may settle for this limited ephemeral concept of God.
The first reason is that unless they are fortunate enough to come in contact with someone who has been properly trained to understand God’s personal attributes, they simply have no access to that information. When sincere individuals have a chance to learn about those qualities, they respond positively and understand the advantages for taking up devotional service to the Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krishna.
The other reason why people resist the concept of God being a Person is because they have become so conditioned by the speculative teachings that suggest divinity exists in the individual alone and God is not independent from His creation (which include the individual living entities in his creation). It is almost impossible for those individuals to flush the absurd idea that they are God out of their head.
‘If we falsely claim that “I am God, I am that supreme consciousness,” it is our lunacy. It is our lunacy. We should not indulge in that way, and anyone teaching in that way, that is a cheating. It is not possible. Here is an authoritative book. He is the perfect being who is eternal and all-pervading, omnipotent, omniscient. All individual selves are more or less subject to the affliction of ignorance. We are, all living entities except God, everyone, everyone, they are subjected to ignorance, forgetfulness. That’s a fact. Ignorance, egoism. Egoism means that without having the qualification, one declares that “I am God.” This is egoism. Without having the qualification of God, if one declares that “I am God,” a foolish man, that is called egoism.’ – Lecture by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada On Bhagavad-gita As It Is Chapter 2 “Contents of the Gita Summarzed”. Text 12, March 7, 1966, New York
Some people drank the cool-aid and are so convinced that they are God that nothing will shake them from that delusion,.. regardless of how obviously ridiculous that idea is! God is always not someone who has no basic control over his senses and suffers all sorts of miserable material conditions.
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God Bound up is an endearing example of a deep loving exchange between the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna and his devotee… in this case playing the role of His Mother.
When I was a young boy I got myself into a lot of mischief. Sometimes my adventures and exploring would get me in trouble and as a matter of appropriate discipline my mother would restrict my play by confining me to my room. For a young Marco Polo like I thought of myself to be that was torture. There was a huge world out there and I had to sit in my room. In a similar way we frequently hear in today’s world young mothers warning their irascible child “Do you need a time-out?” This has become the politically correct way to tell a kid who is screaming his lungs out in the candy isle of the grocery store that if they don’t shut up and stop embarrassing their mother, they will be dragged back out to the car and forced to sit there for a few minutes until the screaming fits subside.
Both of these examples are clear illustrations of punitive consequences used to correct the misbehavior of wayward children. The parents are big, authoritative, and very much in the position to exercise their good judgment in regards to how they choose to discipline their children. The child sees it as oppressive punishment, although we all know that a parent who fails to set appropriate boundaries with their children like that are remiss in their parenting duties. In fact, many psychologists would say that reigning in selfish or derelict behavior by responsible parents is how their children know they are loved, even though they will cry and protest profusely when their freedom is curtailed.
We learn from the Bhagavat Purana that when Lord Krishna was a young boy, he was mischievous like most young boys are. His tendency to steal butter from the neighbors porches got so out of hand that his Mother Yasoda had to impose her parenting discretion on young Krishna. The way they would do it back in those days is they would tie their children to a spot to keep them in sight as they would go about their household duties. Nowadays tying your child would be considered child abuse but apparently this was the custom back then where the village was like an extended family the child could find many places to run and hide!
What makes this story so facilitating is the fact that Krishna isn’t just another typical “Conditioned Little Boy.” He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and demonstrated that he could defeat and even kill some of the most terrible demons no one else could get rid of, like the serpent Kaliya who polluted the Yamuna river for years. Yet here we learn how Krishna ALLOWED mother Yasoda to bind him up like a common village thief simply because he accepted that as an act of love from his very devoted and concerned loving mother, which is exactly what it was!