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The World Teacher Advent of Lord Krishna Master E.K. THE WORLD TEACHER Advent of Lord Krishna KUlaPATHI BOOK TRUST Visakhapatnam 530002 1 Original Title: THE WORLD TEACHER - Advent of Lord Krishna 1st Edition : January 2012 - Master CVV Guru Puja Celebrations Copyright © 2012 Kulapathi Book Trust, Visakhapatnam, India All rights reserved For copies Kulapathi Book Trust #15-7-1, Angels Enclave Krishna Nagar Visakhapatnam-530 002 Andhra Pradesh, India Email: [email protected] Ph: +91 0891 2565291 Price in India Rs. 100 Europe € 6 USA $ 8 Switzerland CHF 8 Printed in India by: Vamsi Art Printers · 11-6-872, Red Hills, Lakdikapul · Hyderabad · A.P. www.vamsi.com 2 KULAPATHI BOOK TRUST All rights relating to this book belong to the “Kulapathi Book Trust” Visakhapatnam 530002, which is the exclusive owner of the books written by Kulapathi Ekkirala Krishnamacharya. Extracts can be taken with the prior permission of the Trust. The publishing unit is constituted to propagate the Ancient Wisdom given out to humanity from time to time. The proceeds from sale of the book are utilized for reinvestment in similar books in pursuance of the objective of propagating the Truth. The contents of this book are dedicated to the humanity at large. They belong to the One Light and the One Truth that pervades and are beyond the concepts of caste, creed, religion and nation. 3 4 About the Author Kulapati Ekkirala Krishnamacharya, known as Master E.K. among his followers, is the new age Teacher, Healer and Yogi. He provided social-economic basis for spiritual living to those, who followed him. He gave a synthetic understanding of the scriptures and their usefulness in daily life. Through his life style he proved that the scriptural way of living is possible even in the materialistic world. He made it clear that the so-called material is none other than the offspring of the spirit and hence is spiritual in essence. He was emphatic that those who pretend as knowers classify the creation into spiritual and material. But the real knowers always saw the spiritual. To them material is an aspect of the spiritual. In Master E.K.’s understanding there are no good and bad things or people. He promoted the doctrine of pure love. He built a spiritual bridge between East and West among those who followed him. Those who lived in proximity to him know him as a representative of the hierarchy, sent out to spread the Yoga of Synthesis, which is age old. His writings are many but the undercurrent of every topic drives the reader into synthesis. He is a true healer and trained many into healing activity. 5 Under his guidance a number of children schools and healing centres are opened and operated to serve the community. Master E.K. is a multi-cut diamond. He is a poet, a Vedic scholar, a teacher, a healer, a friend, a guide and a social reformer. The Publisher 6 Translator’s Note Master E.K.’s Telugu novel, ‘Purana Purushudu’ was translated by him until 12 chapters and part of 13th. He even styled the book as ‘The World Teacher’. This unfinished work of translation is now picked up for its completion. Master’s Telugu version is so profound in its content. It has many dimensions of wisdom emerging from his deep understanding of the Vedas the Puranas and the Itihasas. Being himself a poet and writer of par excellence in Telugu, his presentation of subject enables reader to concurrently live with the times relating to the advent of Lord Krishna. The oriental language, Telugu, is extolled in India by rulers, kings, poets of its varity of expression. To bring this novel into English is only to satisfy the readers of his books who are spread all over the globe. I took upon myself the responsibility of completing this translation work and did so from the second half of 13th chapter to the 33rd. I summoned the help of young co-workers such as Chi. Ramana, Chi Guru Prasad and Chi. R.P. Joshi and his group at Bangaluru. Not infrequently I had to look to Wikipedia and Dictionaries to find appropriate expression. It was an absorbing experience to translate this epoch making rendition of Master E.K. 7 Throughout I felt the pleasant presence of the Master. I did not venture to meddle with his earlier translation except for correction of typographical and grammatical mistakes. This work is dedicated to the ardent readers of the teachings and writings of Master E.K. Twenty eight years after his departure, this work finds its expression. Its appropriateness would be revealed in the posterity. K. Parvathi Kumar 8 Preface The New Age visualizes that there are intelligences in man and forces in nature. It also perceives that man employing his intelligence, utilizes the forces of nature for his own benefit. The Seers of the ancient times proclaimed that both intelligences and forces emerge from nature. It is these intelligences and forces that evolve the beings into humans and cause further evolution of the humans. According to the Seers the beings are constituted of the intelligences and forces of nature. It is the network of nature that brings about the beings. The man according to the Seers is required to realize this network of intelligence and forces within him and relate to nature by attuning to the intelligences and the forces of nature. He can operate with these in nature by cooperating with nature’s intelligence and force. The ease of Be-ness is recommended by the Seers. It was therefore commended to the humans at large to realize within and to relate without. This understanding of cooperation is healthier than the present understanding of conquering of nature. This method of cooperation is called Dharma, the Law. The effort required to gain this cooperation is called Sadhana, the Practice. Once the cooperation is gained the omniscience and omnipresence is naturally 9 experienced. And such an experience results in bliss. Such understanding is Synthesis. Thus cooperation was found to be the way, finding such cooperation within and without and gaining cooperation between within and without. When this cooperation is not gained the actions are not in tune. This attunement when accomplished, at-one-ment is realised. At-one-ment is, to be one with all. It need not be thought of attainment. It should be regarded as attunement with all. When this is absent lawlessness prevails. Such lawlessness disturbs the equilibrium of the natural network. Those who follow the law, function like the intelligences of the nature. Those who do not, function with the forces of nature without intelligence of attunement. Between these two groups of those who know and those who do not know there is always a conflict and the related wars. The story of humanity is but a series of wars occurring from time to time. These are recorded in Puranas as the wars between the divine and the diabolic. The conflict and the war continue to be. As long as there is conflict in man their collective conflict results in a war. Such is the story over yugas. The Vedas give dimension of this. The Puranas give examples of this. The Itihasas are the stories that happened before on Earth. The Vedas give revelations, they are compiled by man from time to time as per the revelations. The revelation to man is beyond measure 10 of time and therefore the Vedas are considered to be timeless. The Vedas tend to be dynamic in the sense they are revised from time to time by the Seers of the time. Such a revision was done by Parasara and his son, Krishna Dwipayana Vyasa during the twilight hours of Dwapara and Kali. That means the latest revision of Vedas happened approximately 3500 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. It is the same duo who also gave out the Puranas and the Itihasas. Their disciples made compilations of the narrations of the two grand beings of that time. The Avatar is no other than the Omnipresent One that descends with all the intelligences and forces of nature. The Avatar is One who volunteers to take to body. The beings are prepared in the body. The beings follow the path of evolution through their attunement to nature. The ultimate goal of the beings is to be one with the Omnipresent One. The beings ascend to gain at-one-ment with the Omnipresent One. An Avatar is the descent of the Omnipresent One, to be one with the beings. He descends to uphold the law and to establish the law in the beings. Among such Avatars the Avatar of Krishna is considered full and complete, not only by the Puranas and Itihasas but also by the acts of the Lord as Krishna. Lord Krishna’s story is contained in such Puranas as Vishnu Purana, Harivamsa, Brahamanda Purana, Skanda Purana, Bhagavata Purana and Devi 11 Bhagavata. Among Itihasas the story is contained in Mahabharat. Apart from this there is mention of Krishna’s life events here and there in other Puranas. The standard and generally acceptable authoritative narrations are mostly in Mahabharat, Harivamsa, Vishnu Purana and Bhagavata. If one carefully elicits the information contained therein and synthesises, the full story of Krishna from the point of his immaculate conception to the point of his departure can be found in an order. With that as the scheme these novels on Krishna are being given out. The impact of a magnet is in its surroundings. The impact of a lamp also extends into the surroundings as per the power of the lamp.
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