Prabuddha Bharata Or Awakened India

The people of Mathura look upon Sri Krishna as the destroyer of the demons the punisher of the sinful the subduer of the forces of evil the besower of blessings on the virtuous the giver of wisdom to the seekers of Truth the saviour of those who surrender themselves at his feet the affectionate lord of those who are humbly devoted to him. [...] It appears to be a part of the Divine plan that in course of the evoltion of the world-process and partcularly in the history of the human race sometimes the forces of materialistic greed selfishness and haughtiness rise to the position of power authority and prestige and attempt to disturb the equilibrium of the moral and spiritual order of the universe and to suppress the Divinity ope [...] This represents the way of God in relation to the ordinary men of the world who think of themselves as the real actors and powers for the determination of the courses of events in this field of copetition rivalry the triumph of the strong and the sufferings of the weak and conceive of God only as an intellgent power behind the universe idifferent to its particular phenomena. [...] Winter solstice is the beginning and end of the mystic year and the mystic withdrawing himself into the cave has seen Him who is beyond time-space who is the secret of secrets the Cloud of Unknowing the Silent Music the Darkness of the Waters the Dark Nebula of the burning refulgent stars which when manifest in part takes on a spherical shape. [...] The glory of gods like that of the light of the sun and the breath of the air is that they are as innumerable as the devotees whom the gods meet in the measure of the worshippers' shrarldhd faith.