Meaning of Krishna

“The word Krishna implies: ' One whose form is very attractive.' Vaasudeva refers to our resting place, the Heart. If we bow down to Lord Krishna, it is equivalent to bowing down to all the gods. Every word of Krishna is Bliss He is Bliss incarnation. Releasing us from the dust within our mind and bestowing us with Self Realization is a child's play to Lord Krishna. Power is different from Knowledge. Krishna possessed both Knowledge and Power equally. Hence He is called as the Incarnation of Completeness (Poorna Avatara). Though Krishna waged wars, He never possessed any enmity towards anyone. Though He might have punished some people, he did it only to raise them to a higher level of consciousness but never possessed any personal likes and dislikes for them. How can he become God if He possessed likes and dislikes like us? The greatest quality of Lord Krishna is that if we are true devotees, He looks after our body with much greater care than the attention that He gives to His own body. The dearest thing to us is our body. We need not be told by anyone to look after it carefully. Similarly Lord Krishna is very fond of His devotees. We need not tell Him to look after His devotees. Lord Krishna decorated Himself and then entered the battlefield. He used to wear necklaces and blue colored silk clothes even while waging a war. Hence He is called as 'The Decorated God'. He looks very beautiful. But He says: "I am the very form of death. When the time comes, I squeeze out your life breath and take it away with Me." If we remove the unnecessary parts in a sandal wood, it turns out to be an idol of Lord Krishna. Similarly if we get rid of our unnecessary habits and weaknesses, Krishna becomes our very nature. We attain the very form of Krishna. Krishna is God Himself. He did not become God by his resolve (effort) but is God Himself. He is the perfect and complete God incarnation. Lord Krishna did not take birth but seemed to have been born on the day of Ashtami (which is celebrated as Krishna ashtami or Janmaashtami every year) in the city of Mathura. It is the Supreme Self which took the form of Lord Krishna. If there is any God who has talked immediately on taking birth, it is Lord Krishna only. He started talking immediately from the time he took birth. He told His father Vasudeva: "Take me to the house of Nanda in Gokul. The flooded river of Yamuna would give the path on its own." Lord Krishna has another name called the butter-thief. If our mind is made as white, pure and soft as butter, He will steal the same and merge us within Him ie bestows us with self knowledge. Only then we get rid of the agony of mind and the bliss within is revealed ie He removes the bubble (ego) and bestows us with the ocean (Self).” http://www.srinannagaru.com/books/LordKrishnaTheDecoratedGod.pdf