Who is Krsna?

Once upon a time there was a little boy called Krsna. He was born in a very unusual circumstance. He was supossed to be killed the moment he was born….but to make the long story short, he was saved.


He was brought up by what we would call here as foster parents in a beautiful village in the north of India, called Vindraban.

While he was growing up his parents realised that he had unusual powers…he did things that surprised them…like fight with giants and monsters. Soon every one in that village realised that He was VERY VERY SPECIAL.

Today Krsna is a name that is widespread all over the world. Many know him as Hare Krsna…

And many have seen devotees of Krsna to be singing and dancing on the streets. People do not really know why do they sing and dance on the streets.

Well they do so to remind them selves that Krsna belived in having fun…and this was they way he lived.

For me Krsna represents love, passion and zest for life. He is that romantic influence that I had a crush on as a teenager…and was delighted to know that he was God too. I couldn’t belive that I was in love with God. It seemed absurd….because society in general creates a distance between humans and God.

I then read the holy bible of the Hindus called Bhagavat Gita which are words uttered by Krsna….I felt so releaved after reading that book…I got even further away from the general society!….Well you have to read the book….as to understand how did that happen.

Let me tell you how Krsna spent his days.

He got up in the morning and went to the green wild fields and started to play his favourite instrument the flute….as soon as he sent the melodious sound in the air…..the cows started to walk towards him….for grazing….and the women went crazy with the sweet sound…they all came to him…sat next to him and listened to his flute….later they all danced with Krsna…..and when Krsna felt like it….he went home….only to join his brother and other male friends…to do some mischief….like stealing and eating butter and yogurt and displacing things and confusing people…just for fun.

His parents got a lot of complaints…but Krsna always knew how to win peoples hearts, he only had to look at them with loving eyes….and a loving smile, and deny everything.

In the evening when people asked where were their cows?…he played the flute again and all the cows came back to the village.

Every thing seemed to be easy and fun for him……but then came the part of his life that got harder….he was summoned by the king…the king who wanted him killed when he was born. The king wanted him killed because he was told by the higher sources that Krsna will end his life one day.

The king was his uncle and he was curious to see how Krsna was developing as a person and if the predictions were really true.

Krsna was a young man then and he had to separate from his loved ones and his favourite girlfriend Radha. The whole village was in tears….they all loved him a lot and felt lost without him….but Krsna knew that he had to go and change the dark side of humanity…many things needed to be done by him…that is why he was here.

A whole episode of a different lifestyle occurred later….and many years passed…..ofcourse he won the battle with his uncle and then was involved in other episodes of politics….where there was eventually a huge battle between two kingdoms that belonged to the same family…and Krsna was the friend and advicer of one of the kings called Arjuna. Arjuna relied on Krsna for all kinds of advice….Arjuna didn’t want to fight with his cousins, but Krsna the explained the obvious thigs that will happen and how….it is then in the middle of the battle field, the bible of the Hindus was born, ‘The Bhagvat Gita’ . Even in the battle field Krsna never stopped playing tricks on the opposing army and confusing them. I think the phrase ‘All is fair in love and war’ was invented then.



No one knows what happened in the end……I always questioned this as a child and got very silly answers like he dissapeared, or he was living happily ever after in heaven…..etc, etc.



Much later in life I realised that this God who is known as the Supreme God….was never in a serious mood….He was always smiling…..He was always trying to have fun…..and He never cared what the people thaught about him…..and yet we all love him……



Do we all have something to learn from Him?



Does this mean that life is supposed to be fun?



Are we supossed to not care what people think about us?



And finally….from deep inside our hearts…..



Aren’t we all….. like Him? :)