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| Krishna dancing on Kaliya's head. Source: Wikimedia. |
For this week's Krishna/Jataka tales readings, I decided to go back to the Epified series for their Krishna videos. I decided to read up on Krishna because he is the Hindu god that my family prays to daily. My mom has always told me stories about Krishna, but I wanted to read up more on him and see that differs from what my mom has told me.
I learned quite a lot just through this Part A of the videos. Right off the bat, I learned that Krishna's mother, Devaki, would have eight children. I never knew that. Krishna's uncle, Kansa, was told that Devaki's eighth child would be the dead of him. This made him so angry that he threw Devaki and Vasudev into jail and would kill each of her newborns. Devaki's seventh child was transferred into Vasudev's first wife, Rohini's womb. Krishna was born as the eighth incarnation of Vishnu.
Something else I liked watching was the part where Krishna's adoptive mother, Yashoda, looks into his mouth and sees the universe. This is when she realizes that her son isn't just a normal boy, but a god.
Also, another part I really liked is when Krishna is by the lake with his friends. This lake is poisoned by a snake named Kaliya, and the poison had managed to kill his friends. Krishna challenged the snake that Kaliya had to revive everyone that had died because of the poison. Krishna started playing his flute and he started dancing on Kaliya's head. The snake got so annoyed that he withdrew back into the water and the water was cleaned from the poison. The village people started seeing Krishna as a god as well.
I think for a story it would be cool to imagine Krishna has a superhero but in modern times. Because that is basically how he was portrayed in Dreams and Music part.
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