When we say Krishna, most people only think of butter and girls and flute.

From 16 to 21, he lived as a brahmachari, he took sannyas, lived as a brahmachari,

went through severe sadhana.

Everything that he wanted to create failed with Kurukshetra was,

but we call him Lord because through all this he was playful, untouched.

By a terrible reality, a terrible drama that's playing around you,

this you can also do, isn't it?

Today is Krishna, Janmasthami.

When we say Krishna,

there are too many misconceptions about Krishna.

When we say Krishna, most people only think of butter and girls and flute.

Yes.

But we must understand that his butter business was all till he was six years of age or eight years of age.

So all this girl business only till he was sixteen years of age.

At the age of sixteen, when his Guru Sandipani made him realize what is the purpose of his life,

first of all he left Rundawan, never again came back.

Never again came back to see any of his relatives or the girls or boys of his area.

That was the end of it. At sixteen he left.

When he was leaving,

today if we say Krishna, we say Rade Krishna, Rade comes ahead of Krishna.

Because their love, their intimacy, their romance,

caught the imagination of a whole culture in the entire subcontinent in such a way

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