Murlidhar ko Baizzat Bari Hone Mein Thoda Time Aur Lagega

Hi people. Long time, huh. How are y’all, my dear readers? Ok, so today’s article has been put on private because I trust only my closest ones with this piece.

Ever since I started learning about God, about knowing Him, I have always resonated well with Mahadev. Some of you even know how personal and relational He feels to me, how close I feel to Him. But my relationship with Madhav has never been as straightforward. It has been quite difficult, confusing to be more precise. I have always loved Him but His actions, His ways of working, His plans… they just don’t make sense to me. Feel contradictory, especially when He says that He is the embodiment of dharm and then He does things that make it feel like He is choosing sides or His actions appear to be maliced. For once, try to remove the lens of “It was for the greater good” aur socho, “Agar kisi insaan ne kia hota, to would you have accepted it the same way?” Debatable, right? The same has been my confusion for years.

For years, every time I thought of Karn, every time I thought of Abhimanyu, every time I thought of Kurukshetra, my understanding of Madhav hit a wall. Why were they stripped of the dignity of a warrior’s death, the one they actually deserved? Why did Madhav come to Karn so late that Karn didn’t have an option to go back anymore? Why do so many characters feel like they were used as pawns in the grand game of chess between dharm and adharm? Why did dharm not protect its followers when Madhav says that He is dharm itself and still seems to choose sides?

For years I kept looking at Madhav as a God making decisions for humans even though He Himself decided to give them free will. A strategist. A king. A friend. But today I wondered if I was looking at Him from the wrong lens altogether. What if Madhav is not merely a decision-maker? What if He represents something much more fundamental? I had this crazy chain of thoughts, a crazy speculation that might not be even 1% correct. But it makes sense to me. So, I invite you to continue reading if I have made you curious by now.

Ok, before we go further, let me give you a quick basic background so that you can understand things better. The ultimate God, the ultimate source of everything in its rawest, most boundless form is consciousness. And since this consciousness is whole, it can’t experience emotions, it can’t experience itself. For the consciousness to be able to experience itself, it divides continuously. That is what the texts say. Now, I want your permission to take it along this context and extend it further up. This expansion of consciousness can’t happen on its own. It needs Shakti, or power for that. And there are 3 types of Shakti.

First is the ichha shakti or the power of the will to make things happen and the thought of the infinite possibilities things could happen in. Aka the creation or the Brahm. The second one is the kriya shakti or the power to take action, to realise thoughts, to act. Aka the power of transformation and the outcome or Mahadev. And The third one is gyaan shakti, the power of knowledge. The power to decide how each possibility of thought reaches its outcome. The power of knowledge decides the path the creation or the will or the ichha would take and all the intermediate outcomes it follows. The power of knowledge, aka Madhav or Narayan.

Thus, Madhav is essentially not only the knowledge but also the maintainer of the different timelines. And the more I sat with this thought, the more it refused to leave me alone. Because if this is true, then Madhav is not merely the one who knows the destination. He is the one who understands the journey itself.

Think about it. We often imagine God as someone who knows where everything begins and where everything ends. But what if Madhav's domain lies in the space between those two points? The countless decisions, accidents, conversations, lessons, mistakes and opportunities that shape the final outcome. The bridge between thought and action. Between possibility and reality. Between who you are and who you eventually become.

Confusing lag raha hoga na? Let me give an example to straighten things for you. I had a chain of thought and I decided that I want to share it with you all to invite your opinions (the ichha shakti or the power of will). The end outcome is probably going to be an understanding, either you accepting my ideas or you disagreeing and having a difference of opinion (the kriya shakti or the power of action). In-between bridges that I choose, the words I use, the conviction in my tone is what decides the direction the debate would take place in your head.

And on a cosmic scale, since Madhav knows all these different possibilities, He decides, maintains, controls, whatever you label it as, these paths because He knows the intermediate outcome between these two points. And that may be the reason He is the nurturer. Because a nurturer's job isn't just to preserve and protect but also to maintain coherence and continuity between events.

So, why does Madhav act? Why does He just not know? Why He guides? Why He interferes? Why He appears to manipulate events? Why does He intervene in so many different ways? Because gyaan is not just knowledge but also applied understanding. Because without application, ichha or the will remains a thought and the action and outcome remain a possibility. A map folded away in a drawer is useless. It becomes meaningful only when it is used to navigate a path. And if Madhav truly represents Gyan Shakti, then perhaps His interventions are not attempts to control the destination but efforts to guide the journey.

And why is Mahadev the action? Because what does my Mahadev say? "Act, be better, undergo transformation, understand, explore. You have freedom. And all the while, I will be there for you to steady you whenever you need Me." And He is the one who remains after the action is taken, after the transformation has happened, after you have chosen one path to act and walk upon. Madhav shows you all the paths and guides you on one, maybe by His mischief of manipulation, maybe the one you didn’t want to choose. And Mahadev said "Walk this path if you have chosen it and I will stay with you from the beginning all the way after the end."

But don’t get me wrong, my dear. This new interpretation won’t make me suddenly believe “God sees ten steps ahead of you. So, trust Him.” Not at all. I can trust Madhav. But… His plans, maybe a little later but certainly not now. If anything, now the arguments with Madhav are going to be even longer. Because after this, Karn frustrates me more, Abhimanyu frustrates me more, entire Kurukshetr frustrates me more. But now, I feel like I am arguing with a Madhav I understand a little better than yesterday. “Murlidhar ko abhi baizzat bari hone mein thoda time aur lagega.” And from what I know of Him, He would just be giving that annoying smile in His defence because He knows “Yeh ladka fir tang karne aaega.”