What do you say about Krishna?

Canada
July 27, 2009 4:48am CST
Krishna is one of the popular hindu gods. Many people belive him to be God incarnate. Personally, I feel he was an enlightened person. He was unique and incomparable. His life, his personality is totally different from many other 'gods'. Do you consider Krishna as God incarnate or enlightened?
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• India
18 Sep 10
You are right friend, he is one of the ten avtars of the almighty i pray him as god not as human, my view lol.. Thanks for sharing. Welcome always, cheers. Professor. .
15 May 10
The Vedic scriptures show that Krishna is no ordinary person- he is indeed the original form of God. Many think he is an avatar of Vishnu but in fact he is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead. He says this himself in the Bhagavad Gita and it is made clear in detail in Srimad Bhagavatam.
• India
27 Jul 09
Krishna is one of the ten avatars of God so he can be called a personification of God. Personally, I don’t believe God can be personified in any form so that leaves us only with Prophets. All prophets have some similarities in the sense that they are extremely intelligent, mesmerizing, articulate, erudite, powerful, politically savvy, enigmatic characters capable of exhorting and enchanting their followers into doing what they want. Krishna was no exception…in addition, he was particularly charming to the ladies, embodying male chivalry. All prophets are said to have exhibited miraculous powers which are debatable or might be explainable from the point of view of today’s scientific knowledge. Again, Krishna was no exception. I believe that there can be no smoke without fire i.e. not all myths are figments of fertile imagination…there has to be some truth in some of them. Also fact is stranger than fiction and our knowledge today is but a miniscule of what needs to be understood and explained…as science progresses, we might yet find perfectly rational answers to many of these myths and then all prophets or avatars will seem like extraordinary human beings, but certainly not God.
• India
27 Jul 09
Krishna - Avatara Purusha
Lord Krishna Is Considered As A Lord Who Descended On the Earth As A Human To Protect Dharma (righteousness) And Eradicate Adharma (Non Righteousness).. He Helped The People Who Were Fighting For Justice .. He Is Considered As An Avatar Of Lord Vishnu .. Thank You ..
@GADHISUNU (2162)
• India
27 Jul 09
Fred, if you ask me by what standards I consider Shri Krishna God-incarnate, then by VaiShnavaite and smaarta tradition, viShNu being Godhood in a Sustainer function,is supposed to incarnate on earth for the upkeep of Dharma.KriShNa is one such avatar. He is considered a pUrNa-avatAr at that. This means He is a complete descent of Godly power. Incidentally, He is also an enlightened person.In the SD religion for lay people, God is supposed to descend to Earth so that more men may, in a short while ascend to Godhood. Certainly, He is considered as an Acarya par excellence by one and all - by that I mean all the denominations of the SD-fold. The reason for his being made to be God-incarnate have to do with the many miraculous acts that he had performed.His role as GitAcArya= An enlightened who made the summary document Bhagavad Gita a manual of living for humans is sufficient for Him to be worshipped.
@cannibal (650)
• India
27 Jul 09
I'll have to second your views here! Although the myth says that Krishna is an incarnate of (probably)Vishnu, I have strong reservations against that. That amounts to fiction, for me. Sri Krishna can be understood better from the monist point of view. I don't say it makes absolute sense for me (simply because I haven't studied the topic in depth), but it does make better sense than most of the God myths. Thing is, I was following a religious debate online wherein a self proclaimed 'neo-Yogi' claimed something like this: Accordingly, Krishna is considered as the supreme manifestation of the absolute consciousness (Brahman) He is a prophet (not in the Islamic sense) In other words, he's enlightened. Prophets will keep coming on this earth as long as required, and the later day mystics like Sri Chaitanya and Sri Sri Anukul Chandra Thakurji can also be considered likewise. Their point of commonality along with Krishna is that they were reportedly not smothered by Maya. (Cosmic ignorance)The eternal arrival of prophets is probably a part of natural justice or providence. Sri Krishna probably achieved the peak of consciousness when in the Gita he said that he is the God and so on. It is similar to Jesus saying "My father and I are one." and Sufi saints claiming "An-al Haq". (I'm God) That was strictly what I interpreted and recall from the discussion and it need not necessarily be correct.