Open a dictionary at 'charisma': attractiveness that awakens devotion. That is the very meaning of the name Krishna
Kṛṣṇa — всепривлекающий (от корня kṛṣ — влечь)
Open a dictionary at 'charisma': attractiveness that awakens devotion. That is the very meaning of the name Krishna
Kṛṣṇa — всепривлекающий (от корня kṛṣ — влечь)
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"If you look in the Oxford dictionary, there's a word there. The definition of this word is impelling beauty that inspires devotion. … The cognate of Krishna in English is charisma. And it means the same thing."
There's a word we reach for when a person, a song, a face pulls at us for reasons we can't name: charisma. The dictionary defines it roughly as a beauty that draws us and awakens devotion. Śrī Prem Prayojan Prabhu points out that this is just what the name Krishna means — the One who attracts everyone by the beauty of love. What we call charisma in someone is a spark of a single Beauty the heart is really reaching for. And then his second thought: attention works like a needle — in its pure state it points to that Source, and all our restlessness begins where the needle turned away.
All that draws you is a spark of one Beauty. The heart remembers its Source.