Celebrating August

Celebrating August

August is such a special month with so much to celebrate - Lord Krishna's birthday, Sri Aurobindo's birthday, India's independence day, which is itself like a birthday. The first of the three events is on the 10th of August when the nation celebrates Janamashtami or the birth of Sri Krishna. Just in case you aren't acquainted with Him take a look at The Story of Krishna on Next Future, e-magazine of SAS.

They say that the gospels are forgeries and Krishna a creation of the poets.
Thank God then for the forgeries and bow down before the inventors.
- Sri Aurobindo

Krishna

At last I find a meaning of soul’s birth
Into this universe terrible and sweet,
I who have felt the hungry heart of earth
Aspiring beyond heaven to Krishna’s feet.

I have seen the beauty of immortal eyes,
And heard the passion of the Lover’s flute,
And known a deathless ecstasy’s surprise
And sorrow in my heart for ever mute.

Nearer and nearer now the music draws,
Life shudders with a strange felicity;
All nature is a wide enamoured pause
Hoping her lord to touch, to clasp, to be.

For this one moment lived the ages past;
The world now throbs fulfilled in me at last.
- Sri Aurobindo