No question of fitness
9. This most charming part of Krishna's
life is his childhood. It is Bala-Krishna, the young Krishna, that
we cherish in our hearts and worship. He goes out with other cowherd
boys grazing cattle; he eats and laughs and plays with them. When
they set out to worship Indra, he told them, "Who has seen
Indra? How has he helped us? But this Govardhan hill stands here
before our eyes. Our cattle graze on its slopes. Streams flow from
it. Let us, therefore, worship it." Such things he taught them.
To his cowherd companions, to the gopis with whom he laughed and
talked, to the cows and calves he rejoiced in, to them all he opened
the door of moksha.
The Lord Krishna has shown us by his
own experience this easy way. He moved with cows and calves in his
childhood, with horses when he grew up. On hearing the music of his
flute the cows went into ecstasy; the horses thrilled to the touch
of his hand as he stroked them. The cows and calves, the
chariot-horses, were filled with Krishna, became one with Him. Even
creatures of lower species, attained moksha. Sri Krishna made it
clear that not only men but animals and birds also had the right to
moksha. He proved it in practice in His life.
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