Krishna :: Religion Religious Hinduism Essays

KrishnaKrishna, revered as a glorious disclosure of the Supreme (Vishnu). He is often picture as drawing worldly concern to the Divine by the power of love, symbolized by the lure of his flute. (Living Religions, 14th trim p. 93) The textbook, The Humanities by Witt, Brown, Dunbar, Tirro and Witt, states that Krishna is the ninth and most recognizable incarnation of Vishnu. multitude of compare the relationship between Vishnu and Krishna to the Christian belief of God and Jesus. In the eighteenth book of the Mahabharata, The Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Supreme Exalted One), Krishna appears as the charioteer of Arjuna. (Living Religions, 14th edit p. 93) In the Bhagavad-Gita, Arjuna is going to fight in a battle that places him in the position of fighting his own people. Arjuna then turns to Krishna for guidance. In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna is a wise teacher, as well as Arjuna charioteer. In R. Zaehner displacement reaction of the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna in response to Arjuna plight saysNever was there a age when I was not, nor you, nor yet these princes, nor depart there ever be a time when we shall cease to be all of us hereafter. Just as in this body the embodied self must pass through childhood, youth, and aged age, so too at death will it assume another body in this a thoughtful man is not perplexed. But contacts with the objects of sense bemuse rise to heat and cold, pleasure and pain they come and go, impermanent. Put up with them, Arjuna.Arjuna is told to withdraw his attention from the impetuous demands of senses, ignoring all feelings of attraction or aversion. This will give him a steady, peaceful mind. He is instructed to offer devotional assist and to perform the prescribed Vedic sacrifices, but for the sake of discipline, duty, and example only when rather than reward. Krishna says those who do everything for love of the Supreme transcend the notion of duty. Everything they do is offered to the Supreme. Thus they feel peace, fre edom from earthly entanglements, and unassailable happiness. This yogic acquaintance of transcend the lower self by the higher self is so ancient that Krishna says it was originally given to the sun god and, through his agents, to humans.