The demon who drive people mad

The evil king Kamsa made a plot for killing baby Krishna who was safely hidden in the village of Vrindavan. And so he hired the service of an evil she demon called Putana, who was an expert in killing babies. The she demon Putana took the form of a beautiful woman and went to baby Krishna's room. The Gopies, the cowheard girls of the village, had simply let her in. To them she seemed so beautiful and motherly. Who would of thought it's an evil demon? So the she demon Putana simply entered the room where Krishna was in. And that baby was no other then the one residing in our hart. God himself who is the goal of every spiritual aspirant. And that is something you might want to protect with everything you have. And no spiritual aspirant is as devoted as the Gopies. And yet they made such a mortal mistake and let the killer of the spiritual into the room, a deed who's doer shell fall into the depth of hell, as described in Isa-Upanishad (verse 3). How can that be?

Actually, we see that mistake being made by so many spiritual aspirants who simply gives themselves to a bogus guru. Simply because he appear nice, saying sweet words, smiles allot and repeatedly say the words "love" and "truth" they think the bogus guru is real. "How can someone appearing so nice be bogus? He is so full of love! he is my friend!" And so they fall into hell.
The power of the Putana demon lies not in the Poisson in her breasts, but in her lovely smile,her power to bewilder the mind of the Gopies to think she is a friend and not the killer of the soul. And that is why the Bhagvatam (10.6.27-29) Putana is mentioned as "one who drive people mad" and "One who bewilder the memory". What is Putana's Poisson? It is falls knowledge. What is the lovely form she had taken? It is the smile of the bogus guru. And as Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Takura told, this Putana may be found in so many temples and churches, giving away her Poisson, sometimes as "love", sometime as "yoga", sometimes as "truth".
And in this way, looking so beautiful and holding a lotus in her hand, the she demon Putana entered the child's room and took him in her hands. She then fed him with her poison milk. Yet along with the poison he sucked her life out, and by so her real monstrous form was exposed to the eyes of all the people of Vrindavan. By that lord who dwells in our hart, the demon was killed.

Krishna Kills Putana

A Family for the Gita

A new comics of mine at ISKCON Desire Tree. The story of "A Family for the Gita" by Bhaktisidhanta Sarasvati.

About anger

A poet once wrote a very wise phrase in hindi: "A person without judgment must never act hastily in anger, and by so may prevent a disaster". A king was passing by and saw that phrase and thought it was a verry inspiring thing. And so the king had the phrase inscribed on a golden plate and hanged by his bad.

One day the king came home and entered his bedroom where a very disturbing sight was discovered there before his eyes: His dear wife, which he loved more then anything in the world, was laying on the bed sleeping. and in her arms was a young man, also sleeping. The king, filled with anger, quickly puled out his sword, about to strike the unfaithful wife and her young lover and kill them in their sleep. And then, as he raised his sword, he suddenly saw a flash from the golden plate by his bad and reminded: "I must not act in anger! Never in anger!"
Gently he approached the bed and woke his wife. The wife immediately called: "Husband! The most wonderful thing happened to us today! The son we've lost years ago, when he was just a baby, has come home! And there he is, by now a young man!"
Just imagine the thoughts the king had as he realized the disaster just prevented. And all thank to those inspiring words of wisdom. He immediately summoned the poet to his palace and gave him the respect he so deserve.
What is the problem with action in anger? It is it's feature of distorting our judgment, our perception of reality. As mentioned it the Gita: "From anger, delusion arise" ("krodhād bhavati sammohah" 2:63). Why is that? Because anger set our center in the self, which is a false reality. Vedic philosophy sets a model of reality in which there is one center, which is Bhagavan. The natural state of things would be to revolve around that center. If one choose to revolve around himself, that would be a false reality. It is the desire to be God, to be in control. And anger is all about control. And so, out of anger, the delusion of control arise, and so the perception of reality becomes twisted. That is why the scriptures sets anger as one of the three gates to hell (greed, lust and anger). It's not just happen that the Jewish scriptures state that one who is angry it's as if worshiping false gods (Talmud, Shabat 105:2).
What about spiritual anger? is there such thing? Yes indeed! The Ramayan tells us of such anger. The anger of Hanuman the monkey, servant of Rama, who set fire into the city of Lanka. Is my anger can be considered "spiritual"? A tempting thing to consider. Let us investigate that idea: Hanuman's anger was spiritual since it revolved around the service of Rama. Meaning, the center point was not the self, but Bhagavan. Can I truly say my anger is as such? Can I truly say it's about service, not control?