(courtesy / author : Renuka Narayan, Hindustan Times, February 28, 2009)
The Potter in India is grandly called ‘Prajapati’, the lord of creation because his pots combine the five elements of which man and the world are made.
It’s made of mud and water, baked in fire, cooled by the wind and contains space. A clay pot is considered a perfect analogy for a human being. Krishna’s craving for ‘butter’ and smashing clay pots to get it, is a metaphor for the smashing of our denseness, so that the juice of awareness can flow in our heads.
Krishna’s game are analogies for God’s function in our life. When we behold God as beautiful (as Krishna’s form conveys), we get a drink of intense awareness of life’s many layers.
You can be bored in this world, that’s so rude, when I have filled it with things, says God through Krishna.
And lest we forget that everybody gets a chance, he chose the cowherds and the pots to play out His avatar.
