The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 85 : Lakshmi - 4

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 85 🌹

🌴 Lakshmi - 4 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. The Story of Rukmini  🌻

The story of Rukmini in the Puranas is a great tale of the devotion of a soul to the universal soul this way merging with it. The personality or the ego, however, – represented here by Rukmini’s brother Rukmi – first obstructed this union:

When Rukmini had heard of the qualities of Krishna, she decided to marry him. But her brother Rukmi wanted to get her married to a king and made preparations for her wedding. 

Since they expected that Krishna would come to take away the princess, a great army with 100 kings were prepared to fight with him.

Through Agnijyothana, a Brahmin, Rukmini sent a message to Krishna where she informed him: “Since I am totally devoted to you I cannot accept another man. Please come and save me from this marriage. 

There are many kings who want to marry me.” Krishna sent her the message through Agnijyothana that he would come at the right moment and take her along. 

The hundred kings who wanted to marry the princess came to know that Krishna was planning to take away the princess. 

Since they suspected that he might Rukmini away while she was going to the temple, the kings formed a semi-circle around the princess. As they had suspected, Krishna came. He was all alone, without weapons and without army. 

Not even a charioteer accompanied him, he steered the chariot himself. All the kings saw him. He looked at all of them and smiled, and they smiled back. 

Right under their nose, he went to Rukmini, took her left hand into his right hand, looked at each of the kings and led the princess to the chariot. He saw that she sat comfortably, turned the chariot around, and waved goodbye as he drove away. 

The kings and the entire army took ten to fifteen minutes to realise that he had taken the princess away.

His smile came from the pure source; it magnetised the entire surrounding and led the beings into trance and bliss.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Mantrams / Sri Suktam / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Vishnu Purana.

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