Krishna struck a deal with Yudhishtira at the end of Kurukshetra war. He took a large lot of orphan horses at the end of the Great War and plunged into his passion, the Horse Arts. He put all his love and craft into Rama & Krishna Horses and Riders Academy so named after Dada and himself.
Horses from around the globe gathered to become pedigree and riders swarmed in to train themselves to be fine horsemen and horsewomen. Krishna belonged to the school of nurture and not to that of nature. He had said that very clearly in his great Gita. His basic teaching to both horses and riders was, ‘Remember you are one. You are a Unit. The supporting base is called horse and the guiding head is called Rider’. Riders seldom thrashed their own bases and the horses never tried to throw their own head off. As well-trained units regularly turned out Krishna was happy.
But when the day of dissolution came his brow furrowed. ‘Where to transplant these horses and riders?’ he thought hard. He relocated the whole unit carefully at a different time and place, retaining as much of the old trappings as possible.
As the Unit picked up itself, there were starting troubles. As a Dada was involved in the beginning many riders indulged in Dadagiri. Heads forgot their bases and bases forgot their heads. There were all types of twists and turns. Heads and Bases behaved as if they were species apart. Then as the realization came that it is one equestrian unit, the top portion having a technical name and base portion another, it moved majestically.
Swami Sampurnananda
Talk-Ananda series
June 9, 2010
Old Math, Mother’s Place
Belur Math
Horses from around the globe gathered to become pedigree and riders swarmed in to train themselves to be fine horsemen and horsewomen. Krishna belonged to the school of nurture and not to that of nature. He had said that very clearly in his great Gita. His basic teaching to both horses and riders was, ‘Remember you are one. You are a Unit. The supporting base is called horse and the guiding head is called Rider’. Riders seldom thrashed their own bases and the horses never tried to throw their own head off. As well-trained units regularly turned out Krishna was happy.
But when the day of dissolution came his brow furrowed. ‘Where to transplant these horses and riders?’ he thought hard. He relocated the whole unit carefully at a different time and place, retaining as much of the old trappings as possible.
As the Unit picked up itself, there were starting troubles. As a Dada was involved in the beginning many riders indulged in Dadagiri. Heads forgot their bases and bases forgot their heads. There were all types of twists and turns. Heads and Bases behaved as if they were species apart. Then as the realization came that it is one equestrian unit, the top portion having a technical name and base portion another, it moved majestically.
Swami Sampurnananda
Talk-Ananda series
June 9, 2010
Old Math, Mother’s Place
Belur Math
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