Why Is God Not Humble?
Jangam, Sandeep
Question: Why does Krishna brag so much in the Bhagavad-gita, proclaiming that he alone is the Supreme, that his glories have no end and that everything attractive is a spark of his splendor? Why is he not humble?
Humility: Krishna still reveals his humility in an extraordinarily endearing way in the Gita – not through its message, but through its setting. Krishna speaks the Gita from the humble station of a chariot-driver, a position that he has accepted out of love for his devotee, Arjuna. The position of a chariot-driver is, more or less, like that of a chauffeur – certainly not a position that a braggart would ever accept voluntarily. But Krishna voluntarily and joyfully accepts this position because his happiness comes not in speaking his own glories, but in reciprocating love with his devotees.
Krishna’s becoming Arjuna’s charioteer is not a one-off fluke, but a graphic demonstration of a perennial principle that animates the highest spiritual realm, Goloka Vrindavana. Krishna’s message of his own supremacy is meant to point out to us that realm where love reigns supreme. In that world of love, Krishna no longer delights in announcing his godhood; instead, he conceals his godhood by his divine mystical potency and accepts any role, no matter how humble, that best facilitates the intensification and maximization of loving reciprocations with him. Thus, for those devotees like Yashoda who long to love him in a parental mood, Krishna accepts the role of a helpless child and plays it to perfection.
This world of love is our original home and final destination; it is where our heart will discover its ultimate fulfillment and we will actualize our supreme destiny. It is only to invite us to join him in this world of love that Krishna speaks of his majesty and glory. If ever again our mind starts mistaking these statements to be indicative of arrogance, let us remind ourselves that actions speak louder than words, and disarm the mind by meditating on Krishna’s disarming humility as manifested in his actions as a chariot-driver in the Gita and as a child in the spiritual world.
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