Reading Notes: Epified Krishna, Part A

Krishna had many enemies before he was even born. Many of these enemies even tried to kill him before he was born.

Kunti gave birth to Arjuna the same day that Krishna was born. Kamsa was an evil king, and a voice told him that his sister, Devaki's, eighth son would kill him. Kamsa decided to kill them. Instead, he threw them in prison and was going to kill all of their kids. Kamsa killed six of their kids. However, the seventh child was moved to Deaki's husband's first wife. Krishna was the eighth incarnation of Vishnu. Vasudev is Devaki's husband and Krishna's father. 

The guards fell asleep, and a voice told Vasudev that it was safe to escape the prison will Krishna. Devaki was okay with them just leaving as she understood. Vasudev had to cross the Yamuna River and a serpent protected him. Krishna was left in a cowherd's camp with Yashoda.

Kamsa learned that Devaki had given birth to her eighth child. Kamsa wondered if this was his last day of his life. When Kamsa saw that Devaki was holding a baby girl, he laughed. Kamsa knew the girl wouldn't kill him. He was going to throw the baby against the wall, there was a burst of light and Durga appeared (she was in disguise as the baby).

Yashoda woke up to having a baby boy instead of a girl. Her husband brought another baby boy home. Her husband told her the story of Mathura's king slaying babies. Putana paid Yashoda a visit. Putana quickly became part of the family. She turned into a demon one night and kidnapped Krishna. She was going to try to feed Krishna some poisoned breast milk. Krishna was draining powers from her while drinking the milk. Krishna killed Putana. Yashoda knew that her baby was something special when she found him next to Putana's dead body.

Krishna slaying Putana. Image from Wikimedia

A cart lost balance and rolled towards Krishna (still a baby). The cart was broken because Krishna kicked the cart away from all of the children. Krishna was a trouble maker. One day someone told Yashoda that Krishna was eating mud. Instead, when she forced Krishna to open his mouth, it had all of the universe inside of it instead. Yashoda now knew that her son was Brahma.

Krishna choked a tornado that was actually a demon to save himself. Bakaasur was another demon who came for Krishna was killed by Krishna. Kamsa had been sending the demons and was running out of demons.

Krishna told the people to worship Govardhan Hill instead of Indra. Indra got mad and sent torrential rains. Krishna picked up Govardhan Hill with one finger. Indra realized he couldn't do anything to overpower Krishna and went to Earth to apologize to Krishna.

Krishna loved Radha. She let him drink water off her feet to cure him.

Bibliography

"Epified: Krishna: Part A". Epified. Youtube. Link