![]() Like a weakling it runs away from challenges and dangers and plays safe. And it is a cowardly and dead society when life’s light is dimmed it loses zest and vitality. To me, it is an heroic age, a brave world, when life, bursting with energy, full of fire and radiance, invites challenges and stakes everything to meet them. If you do, Krishna’s actions will look immoral. And it would not be right to measure that age with the yardstick of our times. It had its own social order which was very different from ours. So you have to consider the age in which Krishna was born. When love begins to be governed by conventions and laws, you will know love’s power is fading, it has ceased to be a force, a challenge, a thing of value. ![]() And Krishna’s age was the age of love, when love held a supreme place in the life of man and his society. Love does not accept any law, it is a law unto itself. Everything can and should be staked for love. ![]() ![]() ![]() If Krishna encourages someone to kidnap his beloved, he is saying that love is such a valuable thing that even kidnapping is permissible. And I believe that it was really a heroic age, when marriages were not made with the consent of lovers’ parents and astrologers. You will understand it only if you try to understand the times in which Krishna lived. ![]()
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