Reading Notes: Epified Krishna Series, Part A

Taken from the Epified Krishna series, on Youtube.

(Krishna playing the flute, from Wikipedia)

I always enjoyed the short, concise format of the Epified series, and the one on Krishna is no different. I love the calm atmosphere the narration and the background music provides.

My thoughts on Krishna are...mixed. He was basically the one who instigated the war in the Mahabharata. I mean, I get that he's an avatar of Vishnu, but still, does that mean he can treat mankind as his plaything? Apparently so, as in the Mahabharata.

Poor Devaki. Every child she had was smashed against a wall. In prison.


I love the story of Krishna eating mud. When his mother gets angry with him and tells him to open his mouth, she sees the universe in Krishna's mouth. Of course, the vastness of it nearly breaks her mind, but she's brought back to reality by the realization that her son, though a Brahmand, is still just a child. The humanity balances her.

Sorry, I appreciate Krishna ridding the lake of the poison and the snake and all, but those kids kind of deserve it? It was a pretty well known fact that this lake was inhabited by Kalia the snake. The water and the air were poisoned, but the kids were playing by it.

Um....to be saved from an illness, you have to drink water off someone's feet..? Is there some kind of significance to this? It seems kind of gross.

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