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Krishna never lifts a weapon in the great war of the Mahabharata, and yet the war turns on him. He drives Arjuna’s chariot, he talks him out of despair before the first arrow flies, and afterwards he hands out the punishment that outlasts every king on the field. On this site he shows up in the Indian war epics, in the lists of Vishnu’s avatars, in the question of why some gods are painted blue, and in a Frisian manuscript that claims him for the north. Here is where to find him.
The charioteer at Kurukshetra
The war itself is on The Kurukshetra War – 3102 BCE. Krishna goes to the Kauravas on a peace mission, Duryodhana refuses to give the Pandavas even five villages, and the armies meet. Krishna does not fight. He serves as Arjuna’s charioteer and advisor, and the dialogue between the two before the battle became the Bhagavad Gita. On Ancient wars the same war sits beside other conflicts of the old world, with the Pandavas, guided by Krishna, winning a battle that cost almost everyone.
Dwarka under attack
Krishna’s own city was Dwarka on the coast of Gujarat. On Anunnaki Wars in Ancient India the city is attacked by King Salva with flying machines called vimanas, and on At Last, This Indian Researcher Discovers This Shocking Truth! Dwarka is the Golden City that was built after Krishna left Mathura and later went under the sea.
An avatar of Vishnu
On Vishnu Krishna is listed as the divine statesman among the avatars, the one who destroys the tyrant Kansa. Four Yugas places him in the age when virtue and vice are equally balanced. On Steiner on the sun logos and ten avatars, Rudolf Steiner counts him among the later avatars who come as human teachers, together with Buddha.
Why Krishna is blue
On Blue Gods: Blue Skin, Blue Blood and the Anunnaki Krishna stands beside a blue Osiris and the blue figures of Maya art. The blue beings collects the explanations, including the reading of his colour as the sky and the ocean, both vast and without limit.
The curse on Ashwatthama
After the war was already over, Ashwatthama cut the throats of sleeping children. On Sadhguru on the curse of Ashwatthama, Sadhguru explains what Krishna did to him:
Krishna did not curse him with death he said I curse you with immortality
Sadhguru, Sadhguru on Ashwatthama, at 1:56
The same curse comes back on Immortality: the Tree of Life, Amrita and the Quest for the Elixir, among the many stories where living forever is a punishment as often as a prize.
Krishna in the old Atlantis books
Nineteenth century writers on Atlantis used Krishna freely. In Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel, Ignatius Donnelly quotes him on a lost original wisdom:
"All knowledge," says the Hindoo Krishna, "was originally bestowed on mankind by God. They lost it.
Ignatius Donnelly, Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
The boldest claim is in The Oera Linda Book, in William R. Sandbach’s translation, where one teacher in India carries three names at once:
His first name was Jessos, but the priests, who hated him, called him Fo, that is, false; the people called him Krishna, that is, shepherd; and his Frisian friend called him Buddha (purse), because he had in his head a treasure of wisdom, and in his heart a treasure of love.
The Oera Linda Book, translated by William R. Sandbach
Related pages
- The Kurukshetra War – 3102 BCE
- Vishnu
- Anunnaki Wars in Ancient India
- Blue Gods: Blue Skin, Blue Blood and the Anunnaki
- The blue beings
- Sadhguru on the curse of Ashwatthama
- Four Yugas
- The Oera Linda Book
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