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Thank you for subscribing! Your subscription is confirmed for news related to biggest developments in health, medicine and wellbeing. Now playing. Reminder Successfully Set! Select a City Close. Your current city: Mumbai Mumbai search close. All Bombay Times print stories are available on. We serve personalized stories based on the selected city OK. Go to TOI. The Times of India. How does your zodiac sign flirt? Is it good or hopeless? Find out now! These descriptions of Krishna's activities can be very difficult to comprehend, especially if one is used to the notion of God being the supreme father who is angry, jealous and eager to punish those who don't follow his law.
There are descriptions that better fit Krishna: He's a poet, a singer, a dancer, he likes to serve, and all one has to do is look at a sunset, sunrise or any of the other wonders of nature and it becomes easy to understand the creative and artistic side of Krishna.
What I found especially intriguing about Krishna was the description given in an ancient Hindu text, the Brahma Samhita : "He has an eternal blissful spiritual body He is a person possessing the beauty of a blooming youth I found this to be a very refreshing idea! If God is old, that means he falls under the influence of time and is subject to decay and possibly even death.
Here he's described as an eternally youthful person beyond time and space. It's not possible for us, with our limited and inaccurate sense perception and logic, to comprehend the nature, quality and personhood of Krishna.
Hindu scriptures and sages explain that one needs to qualify oneself to understand God. Purifying one's senses, mind, consciousness and soul is the prerequisite for gaining access to this knowledge. For example, before studying calculus, one needs to qualify one's self by studying arithmetic, algebra and geometry. For, Krishna knew the law of Karma is universal. Even Gods and avatars are subjected to it. Now, I have to leave this body and was waiting for an opportunity to end my life.
I was waiting for you so that the karmic debt between you and me is finished. Blessing him, Krishna then breathed His last at 14 hours, 27 minutes, and 30 seconds. His death marked the end of Dwapar Yuga Era. The period after his disappearance has great significance in the history of the earth — it marks the first day of Kali Yug.
When adjusting with the current English Calendar, the Janmashtami date differs. India never had a unified calendar system….. Please contact the author for re-posting or publishing at [email protected]. How to live in the intense present? Interestingly, each and every incarnation of Krishna, speaks as much about religion as can be understood by the particular people of that time, under their particular circumstances and so as to lead them to God in the most appropriate way!
Having said that, it is important to understand that He is not created or born, as we are, for He is always present everywhere and at all time. It might appear that He is taking birth as an ordinary person would, but unlike us, He transcends time and age. He is always present just like the Sun, but based on our own position on the earth we may see a cycle of sunrise birth and sunset death.
He appears exactly in this eternal form of His, uncontaminated by this material world — so that we can concentrate on Him as He is, and not on some mental concoctions or imaginations about His form. Now we might ask that what is the significance of His original transcendental form, after all we too have our own form. But unlike Him our form varies from birth to birth. We have no fixed body or form, we just transmigrate as living soul, from one body to another and just as water we take the shape of the container we are in.
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