Champaklal Speaks

Sri Krishna

Once Nirod asked Sri Aurobindo regarding a photograph of an image of Sri Krishna: “I hear you have said about this image that it is very living. What is meant by living?”

Sri Aurobindo (laughing): “Living means living. There is some force in it.”

C: “Is it a conscious force?”

Sri Aurobindo: “Yes, but the consciousness is not in the image but around it.”

C: “Would it mean that Sri Krishna has this form?”

Sri Aurobindo: “Sri Krishna is not a human being. It is a form that a sculptor has seen. I am speaking of the photograph of the image, not of the image which I have not seen.”