Experience a beautiful lullaby for your soul and inner child. Accompanied by colorful illustrations of the early life of Krishna and the story of his miraculous escape from death.
Krishna is widely revered among devotees around the world. He is known for the qualities of compassion, tenderness, protection and love. Krishna appears in many epics that include other historical personages.
Based on the positions of constellations described in the Mahabharata, scientists can date events such as the war of Kurukshetra. Krishna’s departure for Hastinapura on a diplomatic mission is dated as being in the month of September in 3067 BCE.
Krishna’s mother Devaki is the Hindu goddess of childbirth. Krishna is the eight incarnation of Vishnu. Devaki’s brother is the evil king Kamsa. When Devaki and her soon-to-be husband Vasudeva were traveling to their wedding, Kamsa received a vision which revealed to him that a child of his sister Devaki would overthrow him. He sought to kill her immediately to prevent this outcome, but Vasudeva begged for her life.
Kamsa agreed to allow Devaki to live if he would be given each of her male children. Devaki and Vasudeva were imprisoned by Kamsa after their wedding. As each of their first seven male children were born, Kamsa killed them.
Finally, they came up with a way to save their eighth son. Around that time, a girl relative was born in the country. She was smuggled into the prison just as Devaki gave birth to Krishna. The guards miraculously fell into a deep sleep.
The children were switched. Krishna was safely taken to live in obscurity in a rural area and to be raised by Nanda and his wife Yasoda. The female child was also safe because she was not a threat to the king.
Krishna grew up in the country with surrogate parents who raised cows. His childhood is replete with tales of his mischievous fun and his friendship with the milkmaids, especially his beloved Radha. Because Krishna grew up living an idyllic rural life as a cow herder, he is known by the names of Govinda and Gopala. “Go” means cow, a sacred animal that may also symbolically represent sacred scriptures or sacred truth.
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