"Janmashtami carries two Krishnas. One is the fashioned Krishna: the butter-thief on his swing, dancing among the gopis, easy to remember because he asks nothing of you. The other is the Krishna of the Gita, dangerous, asking for everything. Janmashtami remembers the first and forgets the second. Why? Because remembering the second costs something, and the whole art of the ego is to avoid that cost."

“There is one Krishna that we have fabricated for ourselves: the butter-thief, sitting on a swing, reveling in Raas with the Gopis. It’s easy to remember this Krishna, because he doesn’t demand anything from us. On the other hand, there is the Krishna of the Gita. In his life you will see nothing but apparent contradictions, because advaita itself means that all dualities are contained within it. The otherworldly image of Krishna that we created has, in fact, taken the Gita away from us.”

In this special Janmashtami feature published in Rajasthan Patrika, philosopher and author Acharya Prashant explains why the true Krishna is not an idol to be worshipped from a distance, but Truth, the Self, and Realization (Satya, Atma, Bodh) itself.

"The case for treating yoga as primarily a physical correction was always weak. Arjuna stood on the battlefield of Kurukshetra as one of the most physically accomplished warriors of his age, trained since childhood in archery and combat, his body in no need of correction. Yet it was to him, not to some unfit or unwell bystander, that Krishna delivered eighteen chapters on yoga. Whatever yoga is, it was never primarily about the body, and a tradition that arrives there has mistaken the address for the resident."

Every year Holi comes, every year Holika is burned, And every year, colors fill the air, friends meet, and there is joy. All this is fine, all this should happen. But along with all this, something else also happens that should not happen