Lord Krishna: Face the problem with a smile!

Sindujaa D N

We exaggerate the problem with many things, unnecessarily angry. Let’s look at the spiritual story that makes us realize that if anything goes by normally, the problems will seem small.



Once upon a time, Krishna, his brother Balarama and arjuna were going through a dense forest. As it was still a long way to cross the forest, the darkness increased. So the three of them stayed under a tree and decided to leave early in the morning.


Since there would be evil beasts in the forest, the three decided not to sleep together and to be on guard as one for Jamaat. Accordingly krishna and Balarama went to sleep, and arjuna was on guard. Suddenly, smoke billowed from the area. A terrifying figure emerged from it. The figure was horrible with a wide nose, raised teeth and egg eyes. He saw two people sleeping under a tree and one of them was guarding it. Seeing this, Archunan angrily stopped it.


Then the figure said that he was going to kill the two sleeping men and that Archunan should help him. On hearing this, Archunan became angry and attacked the idol. As his anger increased, so did the strength and form of the figure. With that figure, Archunan went on a rampage to fight the aggression. arjuna was hit hard and the figure disappeared. Arjunan woke up Balarama to start the second jam and went to sleep.



Balarama was in custody. Then again the figure appeared there and told Balarama as he had said to Arjuna. Balarama, on hearing this got very angry and started to fight with it. That image is not submissive. The greater the anger of Balarama, the greater the strength of the figure and its form. Then Balarama was hit hard and the statue disappeared. When Balarama woke up krishna and went to bed again the evil figure appeared and on seeing this, Lord krishna smiled. The evil figure got angry and enquired why krishna was laughing.


Krishna couldn't stop his laughter on seeing the raised teeth and beautiful egg eyes. Seeing him make fun of himself it aggressively fought back. But krishna did not change his smile and started fighting. Krishna, laughing and laughing, the strength of the image and its form kept diminishing. Eventually the figure turned into a tiny worm and landed on the ground. krishna took the worm and wrapped it in a cloth.



It was dawn. Balarama and arjuna got up. The two talked about how a terrifying figure came at night and attacked them, and how the figure grew and then grew bigger. Then krishna pointed to the worm that had finished in the cloth and said, “This is the figure where you two fought fiercely. You were furious when you fought with it. Its strength and form increased as your anger increased. As I smiled and fought, its strength and shape diminished and then turned into a worm. If the fuss leaves the one who comes to fight and walks away with a smile, he will become like a worm. The sage is the one who reduces anger. ”



This teaching of krishna applies to us in many contexts. This is how we magnify the problem with many things, unnecessarily angry. If anything goes normally, the problems will seem as small as a worm.


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