Day: April 14, 2026

This is the story of how Sri Krishna took on the role of Arjuna’s charioteer.

Sri Krishna is an incarnation, an avatar, of Vishnu. Therefore, he is an aspect of Brahman the ultimate reality.

Brahman incarnates from time to time. The aspect of Brahman who incarnates is Vishnu. Vishnu has ten avatars. Why ten? Because decimal.

The first avatar was Matsya, the Fish, who came to save the universe from a great deluge and preserve life. Then came Kurma, the Tortoise, to help the gods and the demons obtain the nectar of immortality. That was a real adventure. They churned the ocean and all kinds of stuff emerged from that. Fascinating story.

Next, in avatar #3 place, we have Varaha, the Boar, to rescue the earth from a demon, lifting it from the cosmic ocean. In fourth place we have Narasimha avatar: part-man, part-lion. Some kind of superhero.

Number five is Vamana, the dwarf, who subdued a demon king. He was followed by Parashurama, sixth in line, the warrior with an axe, who restored justice and dharma. Continue reading “Why Sri Krishna is Parthasarthy”

Scumbag politicians and clueless citizens are a matched pair. You cannot have one without the other. The criminality of the one is enabled by the cluelessness of the other—and the two are entwined in a dance macabre which is the continued destitution of India.

The interesting question then is what gives rise to this situation? Indians are fairly unremarkable in that they are not genetically programmed to be stupid. They are only as flawed as any other large segment of humanity.

India is not spectacularly gifted natural resource wise (to put it mildly) but neither is it entirely devoid of them. India has not been repeatedly visited by natural catastrophes that periodically send it back to square one. Over the centuries, India has had a fairly stable existence — barring the occasional Islamic invasions murdering a few tens of million infidels. All things considered, India had all the material and human resources to make a go of it. What went wrong? Continue reading “The Rules Rule”