Chapter 7Krishna and Radha

Have they no meaning and no utility?

It is men who give a meaning to festivals in order to legitimate their presence.

21 November 1969

* Krishna represents both the universal Godhead and the immanent Godhead, he whom one can meet within one’s being and in all that constitutes the manifested world.

And do you want to know why he is always represented as a child? It is because he is in constant progression. To the extent that the world is perfected, his play is also perfected — what was the play of yesterday will no longer be the play of tomorrow; his play will become more and more harmonious, benign and joyful to the extent that the world becomes capable of responding to it and enjoying it with the Divine.

* Krishna’s play: a power of progress veiling itself behind appear-ances.

* Krishna’s play in Matter: beauty, love and joy are comrades; a play which widens and makes you progress.

* Krishna’s play in the physical: the rule of the Avatar upon earth, that is to say, the realisation of the new divine world.

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