Krishna is present.
The last time I was flying, I came across a quote in the book Follow the Angels by Sridhara Maharaja. It really blew my mind and it’s difficult for me to suss it out.
By nature, Krishna is eager to supply everything to His devotees. But the higher devotees do not like Him to supply them with anything, or for Him to render service to them. Such is the purity of their devotion. Through their faith, they think, “He is my Lord. I don’t want to have His darsana merely to satisfy my lower faculty of perceiving that He exists.” It is a very low standard of faith to consider that only if we can see Him, then we shall be satisfied that He exists. We have no capacity to see Him. To make Him our object, keeping ourselves the subject, is a low standard of faith. But higher, intense faith fully proves that He is that wonder cause of everything. He is present.
Throughout much of the book, he is discussing faith, sraddha. Growing up Baptist, we focused upon faith quite a lot. Faith is nothing new to me. Having been raised with a very strong respect for it, I find that it almost comes naturally for me.
To have faith that God exists, I don’t feel, is that great of an accomplishment. If it was, how could I do it? But the last line in this quote is so simple and so complex all at once, it has me questioning what my faith even is.
Even to believe that Krishna is God isn’t probably all that spectacular when compared to deeper faith. Krishna is God is one thing. Krishna is present, is another.
