Sri Aurobindo and Sri Krishna

🌷 Disciple: We have heard that you received guidance from Sri Krishna in your Sadhana: was it from Sri Krishna of Brindavan or of Kurukshetra?

Sri Aurobindo: I should think it was of Kurukshetra.

Disciple: These distinctions between various personalities of Krishna, one of Brindavan and other are of later growth in Vaishnavism.

Sri Aurobindo: Yes. They regard Bala Gopal as the Delight aspect or the Delight-Consciousness; but there are older schools of Vaishnavism that regarded Krishna as an Avatar of Vishnu.

Disciple: Krishna of Kurukshetra is, I suppose, the one who gave the Gita.

Sri Aurobindo: The one who spoke the Gita is the Vishnu aspect.

Disciple: Arjuna could not bear his sight and had to ask him to resume his human form.

Sri Aurobindo: In the Vishnu Purana all the aspects of Vishnu are nicely described. It is one of the Purans I have read through carefully. I wonder how it has escaped general notice because it is magnificent poetry.
There is a humorous pages in it, where a disciple asks the Guru whether the king is on the elephant or the elephant on the king. (Laughter)

Disciple: The king must be Ramamurthy if the elephant was to be on him.

Sri Aurobindo: Then the Guru jumps on the shoulders of the disciple and asks him whether he is on the disciple's back or the disciple on his back. (laughter)

EVENING TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO
RECORDED BY A B PURANI ( page no 640)