Raas an integral part of India

The spiritual essence of Raas

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India is a country of heritage and culture, every festival is celebrated in a big grandeur manner. The festival of raas has always played an important role in many parts of India. It is exactly not known to when the festival actually started gaining its popularity. Just right from the rural to the urban areas people have celebrated the festival wholeheartedly. 

Every part of the country celebrate it in many different ways, which includes raas leela songs to dances to festivals to fairs. The colorful India gets decorated more colorfully during this season when the celebrations takes place. Raas Leela is the most beautiful part of Srimad Bhagvatam and it is considered as the fruit of Krishna Bhakti. When the jeev (being) transcends the boundary of gender of the mortal body and immerses all the senses in transcendental love for the LORD, it culminates in the union of jeev with the PURAN BRAHM. When all the desires of the jeev melt away in the fire of BHAKTI LOVE) , Gopi bhaav arouses and life gets rid of all the impurities and the true knowledge extinguishes ignorance within. This is the first step towards RAAS LEELA.

The most common knowledge spread by Hinduism is the existence of a temporary body and a permanent soul. So when material world usually limits to at the most explaining the love of one life time, the love of one soul to another is only understood by advanced spiritual activists. The mind is like clay which shapes according to the impact of senses and the endeavor of the concerned person. Krishna’s love for mothers was clearly deeper than for the Gopis. Most corrupt people in the mode of passion and ignorance wouldn’t surely see things in this light as their intelligence and thought process is completely under the control of the material energy. The human body that is endowed to us souls has a very limited extent of sensory reach. We can’t even see what goes on beyond a wall or hear someone speaking from a distance. How can we then understand the extent and opulence of Krishna Leela with our five senses? Mostly, we try to see the world from the window of these senses. But as it is rightly said that “Salvation lies Within”, the understanding of The Supreme Lord’s form and His past times can only be achieved with meditation of His glories, not by mundane comparison and blind imitation of them. And even after accepting all these philosophies, understanding them in the truest sense is an all together different issue. 

Hence raas leela signifies the unification of the  individual soul with the over soul. Lord Krishna resides as the soul in each one of us. The lord is our real mother , father, friend ,guide and raas has been enacted to enable all jeevas to conquer lust and become pure. 

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