Krishna, Mothers and the Simple Life
Look around you today. Everyone is running. Students are running towards marks. Young men and women are running towards promotions, salaries, designations and LinkedIn connections. There is nothing wrong with ambition. It is good. It is necessary. But somewhere in all this running, we have quietly dropped something precious, something we did not even notice we had lost. We dropped the simple idea that a full life includes more than a full inbox. That a rich life is not just a financially rich life. That the greatest moments a human being can experience are not in a boardroom, rather they are in a kitchen, a courtyard, a cradle. And this is exactly what a very old, very beautiful story has been trying to tell us for thousands of years. The Bhagwat Purana, particularly the tenth chapter is the story of Krishna's childhood. And what a childhood it is. It is not a tale of gods and thunder and battles in the sky. It is something far more powerful. It is the story of a little boy who ste...