I am really enjoying these comments! Thanks for encouragement, TC.
Yes, synchronicity and humor accompany the Lord's activities, so yes the role of young children is appropriate as you note; quite fearless and living in Yogamaya.
The soul is pure and glorious despite the temporary role even as a great snakely demon. When freed by Gopal, again it is pure and radiant.
1. The boys playing with Krsna had no fear of their immortality, whereas the demigods, who drank nectar daily to prolong their life, were fearful nonetheless of their length of life.
The pastimes of the cowherd boys can be boldly surreal. for example, the shining like the sun, and reflecting red like a sunset jaws of this gigantic coppery red demon snake. and the boys just walk right in! Just goes to show the power of Yogamaya!
2. The boys imitated the bird's sounds. Curiously, ancient Sanskrita ceremonies use a tongue that is said by anthropologists and linguists to be composed of bird sounds. The boys said ill names to the echoes! Now that is strange and ecstatic and i thought it showed how the cowherd boys are "worldy" and "tough" than they are just naive or soft ! That is a vision we need more of in our artwork.
3. kaumaram; 0-5, pauganda; 5-10, 10-15 kaisaora, 15 +, young adults gita verse; kaumaram yauvanam jara, tatha dehantara praptir dhiras tattva na muhyate; From Gita; "The soul embodied passes from boyhood, to youth to old age, jara, but the sober /steady-minded/self controlled sage, is not bewildered by such change." HK !
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I am really enjoying these comments! Thanks for encouragement, TC.
Yes, synchronicity and humor accompany the Lord's activities, so yes the role of young children is appropriate as you note; quite fearless and living in Yogamaya.
The soul is pure and glorious despite the temporary role even as a great snakely demon. When freed by Gopal, again it is pure and radiant.
1. The boys playing with Krsna had no fear of their immortality, whereas the demigods, who drank nectar daily to prolong their life, were fearful nonetheless of their length of life.
The pastimes of the cowherd boys can be boldly surreal. for example, the shining like the sun, and reflecting red like a sunset jaws of this gigantic coppery red demon snake. and the boys just walk right in! Just goes to show the power of Yogamaya!
2. The boys imitated the bird's sounds. Curiously, ancient Sanskrita ceremonies use a tongue that is said by anthropologists and linguists to be composed of bird sounds. The boys said ill names to the echoes! Now that is strange and ecstatic and i thought it showed how the cowherd boys are "worldy" and "tough" than they are just naive or soft ! That is a vision we need more of in our artwork.
3. kaumaram; 0-5, pauganda; 5-10, 10-15 kaisaora, 15 +, young adults gita verse; kaumaram yauvanam jara, tatha dehantara praptir dhiras tattva na muhyate; From Gita; "The soul embodied passes from boyhood, to youth to old age, jara, but the sober /steady-minded/self controlled sage, is not bewildered by such change." HK
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