Today is Janmashtami, the day Krishna was born. Hindu dharma considers him to be the eighth avatar of Vishnu. See note 1 below for details of the dashavatara (10 avatars).
There are dozens of lovely stories about Krishna. I’d like to tell you one of my favorite stories. It is from the Bhagavad Purana. As a child Krishna was a handful and got up to all sorts of mischief. He loved butter and was known as a “makhan chor” (butter thief.)
One time Krishna’s elder brother and other cowherd playmates snitched on him to his mother, Yashoda, that he had been eating dirt. His mother scolded him severely but Krishna maintained his innocence and said, “Ma, I have not eaten dirt. If you don’t believe me, look for yourself.”
Yashoda looked into his open mouth expecting to see dirt or butter. Instead, she saw the entire cosmos: outer space, the sun, moon, stars, planets, wind, and fire. She saw all living beings, time (kala), the nature of cause and effect (karma). She even saw the village of Gokula, and in it her own home, and herself standing there, staring down into the mouth of the boy before her. Continue reading “The Deontological Ethics of the Bhagavad Gita”
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