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very off topic
Posted By: mamabear In Response To: very off topic (Caryl Stephanson)
Date: Tuesday, 8 January 2008, at 1:50 a.m.
Here is what these folks assert regarding Krishna: Krishna, of India, born of the virgin Devaki with a star in the east signaling his coming, performed miracles with his disciples, and upon his death was resurrected.
I checked with the Hindus in my family, and some sources a bit more primary than these guys used, and found little to agree with when spot checking what they had to say about Krishna. Krishna was/is an avatar (yeah the Hindus had the word first!) of Vishnu, their chief god. He couldn't very well have been born of a virgin, since he was the 8th child of Devaki and her husband Vasudeva. I can't find any reference to a star, but perhaps there is one somewhere--Hindu scriptures are quite voluminous. Not that these guys seem to have read any of them.
Krishna's best-known exploit wasn't miracles, but rather serving as charioteer for Arjuna in the Kurukshatra War (mythologically about 3102 BC, historically around the 9th century BC), fighting for the Pandava side. His advice to Arjuna can be found in the Bhagavad-Gita, highly recommended if you want to learn something about Hindu thought but don't want to spend forever so doing! Later, he's meditating in the woods, but due to a curse put on him by a woman who was bitter because she felt he didn't do enough to prevent the war, is speared in the foot by a hunter who mistakes him for a deer. He dies of the injury, but immediately rises from the dead and ascends heavenward from the spot. The story of his resurrection and ascension is clearly an afterthought in the story, of no redemptive significance.
I could assume the inaccuracy of their portrayal of Krishna was a momentary lapse and the rest of what they say is accurate, but that would be like reaching into a bag of marbles, pulling out a black one, and then assuming the rest of them were white.
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