06-12-2008, 03:36 PM
People in India can openly question whether Sri Rama was real or not.
But have you ever heard that question about Jesus Christ? Most are completely unaware that many controversies about Christianity's origins and Jesus Christs' reality have been raised in the western countries which form an active and lively debate there, while in India they are unknown or suppressed by psecularism.
On the question of self inflicted wounds, it is quite tiring to hear about Sri Krishna's exploits with the Gopis in Vrindavan, and people passing moral judgements on that. The medieval poets created a nonsense out of an innocent story. If any one thought about it for a while with "facts" known, one would never ever fall for this.
The "fact" is that, as can be had from Srimad Bhagavata or other accounts of Sri Krishna's life, is that <b>Sri Krishna was 10 years old when he left Vrindavan permanently to go to Mathura to kill the demon Kansa</b>.
So, all the stories about Krishna and the gopis are about a boy younger than 10 years of age. It is also well known that gopis like Radha were older than Krishna. We are talking about innocent love of the gopis for a child Krishna here.
If people are looking for perversion, they should read the Hadiths, not Bhagavat.
http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/e.../bl-krishna.htm
P.S.
Husky, Nice set of posts!
But have you ever heard that question about Jesus Christ? Most are completely unaware that many controversies about Christianity's origins and Jesus Christs' reality have been raised in the western countries which form an active and lively debate there, while in India they are unknown or suppressed by psecularism.
On the question of self inflicted wounds, it is quite tiring to hear about Sri Krishna's exploits with the Gopis in Vrindavan, and people passing moral judgements on that. The medieval poets created a nonsense out of an innocent story. If any one thought about it for a while with "facts" known, one would never ever fall for this.
The "fact" is that, as can be had from Srimad Bhagavata or other accounts of Sri Krishna's life, is that <b>Sri Krishna was 10 years old when he left Vrindavan permanently to go to Mathura to kill the demon Kansa</b>.
So, all the stories about Krishna and the gopis are about a boy younger than 10 years of age. It is also well known that gopis like Radha were older than Krishna. We are talking about innocent love of the gopis for a child Krishna here.
If people are looking for perversion, they should read the Hadiths, not Bhagavat.
http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/e.../bl-krishna.htm
P.S.
Husky, Nice set of posts!