Krishna is an exception. Among many others, whom God sends to the earth to convey His message to the humanity, Krishna is different.
Religious persons are singularly marked by their serious, somber faces. They are pensive too. Krishna, a sage, is polar opposite. He is dancing, singing and laughing.
We have yet to come across Jesus, who is seen smiling. The same is true with Buddha and Mahavira. In fact Buddha and Mahavira are in favour of other life, shunning this shining life on this stunning earth. They want stoppage of life while Krishna embraces it.
Life is broadly divided into two parts: joys and sorrows. Every religion finds virtues in the latter and denies the former. Krishna accepts life in its full. He knows joys and woes are the basic ingredients of life. They cannot be sorted out from each other.
Krishna is full of love and passion and compassion. So his heart is non-violent. But if he is thrown into the fire and brimstone of violence, he is not averse to take to violence and bloodshed. A courageous man can talk of non-violance (it is worthy of him); a coward cannot. There is a long list of those who Krishna pulverizes: Putana, Vatsasura, Vyomasura, Kansa, Shishupala, to name just a few.
To Krishna, life is a leela, a play-acting, where dying or killing is only a drama enacted.
As Krishna is doing leela in life, he is limitless, boundless, and free. Suppression is not for him, because suppression brings in war with self. If a man is at war with himself all the time, he will end up destroying his life. If someone allows his right leg to battle with left one, both legs will lie broken and the man mashed. There is no use battling with self. So give free rein to instincts and emotions, otherwise you are denying your great self and desires and thus create a world full of wrongs.
Krishna, a great incarnation of God, is loyal to instincts. A surfeit can lead to perfect celibacy.
He married chiefly Ashta-Bharyas: Rukmini, Jambavati, Satyabhama, Kalindi, Mitravinda, Nagnajiti, Bhadra and Lakshmana.
He also married a group of women, freeing them from the captivity of demon-king, Naraka. Krishna killed him and freed the women, but they refused to leave Krishna. Krishna then married them and built for each of them a huge palace with beautiful gardens to give them status in society and a life with honour.
The civilization lives in suppression and negativity. Krishna remains a lonely dancing oasis of truthfulness and positivity in the condemned desert.
It is easy to worship Krishna at the corner of a closed room. Let Krishna be made an idle idol of clay, rather than a living role-model; because civilization thrives in self-denial, it perishes in honest self-expression.
Krishna pities civilization with his forgiving melody of flute.