Lord Krishna

Divine Prayer

Lord Krishna, please, guide us into the road of righteousness. Allow your divine spirit to enter our souls so that we may experience and feel your immense love and peace. May you grant love, peace, health and happiness to all human beings. May the sorrowful find happiness, the sick find health, the homeless find shelter, the hungry find food, and the evildoers find love. May your divine light shine in front of us now and always.

Lord Krishna is a Hindu deity. He is often depicted as a small child, a young boy playing a flute surrounded by peacocks and cows, or a young prince giving guidance to others. According to Wikipedia, he is, "a godchild, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero and the Supreme Being."

Furthermore, the color of his skin is usually black or blue (modern representations usually display him with blue skin) indicating to me that skin color is of no importance. It is the inner part of the person that is important, not the outer.

It is believed that his life began in 3228 BCE (Before Common Era). He was a member of the royal family of Mathura, and the eighth child born to princess Devaki and Vasudeva.

Princess Devaki's brother, King Kamsa, who had ascended to the throne by imprisoning his father, King Ugrasena, had imprisoned her and her husband, and murdered their first six children.

He believed in a prophecy that foretold of his death at the hands of his sister's eighth son.

Soon after an apparent miscarriage of her seventh child, Krishna was born. Afraid of King Kamsa's evil nature, Krishna was secretly removed from the prison cell, and placed in the care of Yasoda and Nanda.

Interesting, in Wikipedia it states that, "some believe that Krishna was born without a sexual union, by 'mental transmission' from the mind of Vasudeva into the womb of Devaki." In other words, he was conceived without sexual contact-much like Jesus Christ.

During his childhood and youth, he was known to play pranks, protect people from evilness, kill demons such as Putana, tame serpent Kaliya- who caused the death of cowherds by poisoning the waters of the Yamuna river, and much more.

As a young man, he returned to Mathura and overthrew and killed his uncle, King Kamsa. "He reinstated Kamsa's father, Ugrasena, as the king of the Yadavas and became a leading prince at the court."

Later on, he and his followers moved to Dwaraka, and established his own kingdom there.

In his later life, he, "retired into the forest and sat under a tree in meditation...ascended to heaven..."

Although there are many historical depictions of Krishna's life, I decided to limit the information due to the immensity and profoundness of this topic.

Lord Krishna-to be continued........

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