Did Krishna commit treachery?

 Did Krishna commit treachery?

by Vinod hariharan

Krishna was a human avatar who was born in Dwapara yuga as the 8th Avatar of Lord Vishnu , a human form which naturally should face Karma for his deeds ,not to mention his deeds were calculated moves which had a specific purpose.  But Krishna goes about doing his deeds without expecting results , he had no attachment to the results .Krishna tells Arjuna  that when Adharma overpowers Dharma,  he shall take birth each time to reestablish Dharma .

During the last phases of  war, Arjuna was getting depressed ,  fighting & killing  his own relatives & getting in to a mental crisis.. Eventually krishna shows Arjuna his  Vishvarupa where Arjuna sees the whole universe- every creation, every living being . Krishna was the infinite universe with no beginning , no end, the supreme being. Arjuna then had to beg Krishna to come back to his human form and after Gita discourse by krishna, Arjuna gains wisdom and continues fight.

Did Sri krishna commit misdeeds as some misrepresent?

1) In the War, there used to be many warrior formations, the most complicated  one to break was chakravyuh. Arjuna was the only Pandava who knew how to break it and once he explained it to Shubadra while she was pregnant (with Abhimanyu in the womb), that is how Abhimanyu learnt of it while he was unborn . But his  unborn son  did not know how to get out of that formation .  During Kurukshetra war, Abhimanyu broke through chakravyuha formation and slaughtered them like a great hero of the yore . Once he got in to the center of Vyuha, he killed a sizeable  number of Kauravas. As per the rules of kurukshetra war,  one warrior was supposed to fight with only one another, 1:1 always and no one was supposed to attack an unarmed warrior. Abhimanyu, at one stage had his chariot damaged inside this formation and ran out of weapons as well. But the Adharmic mindset of kauravas wanted to end Abhimanyu who was a raging warrior who threatened the existence of Kauravas. Abhimanyu had to then pick up chariot wheel and fight when many Kauravas attacked him and eventually killed him.

On hearing of this treachery, Arjuna took a vow that he shall kill Jayadrada who killed his son ,by sunset next day , if not he shall kill himself. Whole Kauravas were overjoyed and Duryodhana said whole Army shall be deployed to protect Jayadrada next day till sunset such that Arjuna shall have to honor his  vow and commit suicide. 

Next day, 14th day of the war, Arjuna rallied ferociously towards Jayadrada, but as jayadrada was protected by the entire force of Kauravas, it was not possible for Arjuna to reach Jayadrada before Sunset. Sensing this , just little before actual sunset, Krishna used his powers and formed a cloud that hid the sun. This made Kauravas jump in joy thinking that Arjuna lost it ,they were all exalted hoping to see Arjuna commiting suicide.  Jayadrada too came out of hiding to watch Arjuna  . Suddenly Krishna removed the cloud so that Arjuna could kill Jayadrada just in time. 

Was this a treachery by Krishna? If Kauravas could use adharmic ways to kill Abhimanyu by going against the set rules of Kurukshetra war, if they could cheat Pandavas during the game of dice, if they could cheat and try to kill Bheem numerous times, there is nothing wrong in Krishna using Adharmic ways to ensure victory for Dharma . Everything becomes equitable .

2) When Arjuna and Karna were at war, both were equally good warriors, on an even scale . But Karna had a very special weapon- Pashupatastra which can kill anyone that he acquired as a boon through tapas. When Karna unleashed Pashupatastra on Arjuna, Krishna the chariot driver of Arjuna saw it and he sank the chariot wheel by few inches in time so that the weapon aimed at Arjuna's head hit the  crown and knocked it off .

3). When game of dice was going on between Pandavas and Kauravas, Krishna could have easily helped Pandavas win the game so they could escape ignominy of defeat . Was this a treachery by Krishna on Pandavas? In Udhav Gita, Krishna explains this to his friend Udhava very elaborately. 

-First of all Pandavas did not wish to inform  Krishna about this game . And as game was starting, Duryodhana replaced himself with Shakuni to the surprise of everyone. Shakuni was an uncanny dicer whose hobby was playing dice day in day out. Fielding Shakuni was against spirit of the game as it was originally fixed between Yudhishtira and Duryodhana themselves.

As Yudhishtira started losing the game he started praying that krishna should not come to know of this. He lost his kingdom, his people and finally Draupadi . Yet Dharma ( Yudhistira)  kept praying that Krishna should not get cognisant of this happening . 

Udhav Gita:

Krishna explains to Udhava in Udhav Gita that he was waiting outside the hall when game was being played. But as Pandavas kept praying that Krishna should never come there at that moment, he was bound by their prayers  and had to wait outside. 

Krishna replies to  Udhava that "in life one who is cautious ,wins . "Dharma lost to Kauravas because Dharma ( Yudhishtira) did not use wisdom he was bestowed with whereas Duryodhana used it well and made Shakuni play the game. What stopped Yudhishtira from saying, Krishna shall play this game on my behalf? Had that been the case do you think Shakuni would have won it against me? Do you think Shakuni could have called the numbers correctly in the game against me? Would Pandavas have lost kingdom, people, Draupadi if i played? On top , Dharma ( Yudhishtira)bound me outside the hall through his prayers. Even when they kept losing Nakula, sahadeva, Arjuna, Bhima... they kept fighting on their strength than calling me in. Just one call and i would have joined them.

To this Udhav asks" Great Krishna, so you shall come and help your people only if you are called , is that the way for you to conduct, watching people suffering  ?

And Krishna replies " Every soul takes up a body and goes through their own karmas, i do not conduct life, i am a mere observer. I keep watching life from close quarters . I am not supposed to interfere with Karmas- that is the Dharma of Gods"

Udhava: "Ok Krishna, so you just keep observing our sinful deeds and the amount of karma that we accumulate. You do not act then?" and Krishna replies again : " if you are aware that i am observing you & witnessing your life , if you are cognisant of my presence, why shall you do sinful deeds & accumulate karma ? when you forget that i am witnessing your life and ignore me, shall you start acting on your own and invite sinful deeds. When the game of dice started, had Dharma knew that i am witness to his life, he would not have tied me outside the hall and he believed he could wain the game on his own strength"

So ,is there a justification for Adharma done by Krishna or is his Adharma more saner than that of Kauravas. Answer lies in a series of deception and treachery employed by Kauravas throughout the life to eliminate Pandavas - be it poisoning Bheem, tying Bheem with a rope and pushing him to the river, game of dice which was full of deceit by Kauravas, disrobing of Draupadi in full public view, burning of palace  made of lac and sulphur to eliminate Pandavas.  Kauravas spoke of Dharma when it suited them and when they were in a position of vantage, they went back to adharmic ways again.

But Krishna, who had a human form in this Avatar and whose very purpose was to get Dharma back on top of Adharma ,had accumulated his Karmas by virtue of him being a human incarnation and finally krishna was shot dead by an arrow while he was resting in a forest.  A hunter mistook him to be a deer and shot an arrow and that was a Karmic end to this avatar. 

Is Mahabharata a myth or reality?

 Is Mahabarata a true Story:

Difference between Ramayana and Mahabharata is that Ramayana is an epic on principles of Life - an ideal King, Ideal husband, Idea son  whereas  Mahabharata is one about Dharma versus Adharma .  Kauravas chose Adharmic ways to subjugate Pandavas through out 

Facts to prove MB was a true incident:

1)River Saraswati is referred to in MB as a mighty river many times and Saraswati started drying around 1900 BCE which means MB happened before that , Saraswati is mentioned in Vedas and in Ramayana as well which shows a continuity of civilisation around the river. River Saraswati was captured by satellite landsat of Nasa in 1920s and later ISRO satellites mapped its full original  path . Saraswati itself is a proof that MB happened in real.

2). Many cities mentioned in Mahabharata still exists such as Dwaraka, Mathura , Hasthinapur, Indraprastha and submerged city of Dwaraka was already located under the sea 

3). Greek historian Megasthenes has stated that Chandragupta Maurya is 138th King from lineage of Sri Krishna

4). Aryabhatta dated MB war in around 3100 BCE, historian BB Lal dated it around 3400 BCE and Japanese study using skymap software fixes it around 3200 BCE. So there is  a near about commonality there

Link between Ramayana & Mahabharata:

Lord Shiva appears in both. Rama and avana were both Shiv Bhakts. In MB there is a mention  of a duel between Kirat and Arjuna when they  shoot a wild boar and then Kirat ( Shiva) defeats Arjuna in a duel .

Brihadbala, last king of Kosala kingdom, a descendant of Lord Rama fought for kauravas in MB. He was killed by Abhimanyu in Kurukshetra war. During Karna's digvijaya yatra, he conquered Kosala kingdom and hence Brihadbala had to fight for kauravas.

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Is Ramayana a Myth or Reality

 

Ramayana is our true History and not a Myth

By Vinod Hariharan

Ramayana is the best living teacher on how to live a principled life.  it depicts history of  true relationships, ideal father, ideal Son , Ideal life.  Ramayanaa consists of 24,000 verses and incidentally the first letter of every 1000th verse makes Gayatri Mantra.  Lakshman is an avatar of Sheshnag or Adi Shesha and he also accompanies Lord Krishna ( 8th avatar) as  Balram.

Ramayana happened in Treta Yuga  So let me first explain about Puranic Calender

Puranic Calender :

Basic unit of Life = Nimisha, the instant
15 Nimisha =1 Kastha
30 Kastha =1 kaala
30 Kaala = 1 Muhurta
30 Muhurta = 1 day
30 Days = 1 Maasa ( Month) = 1 day for Gods
6 Maasa = 1 Ayana

1 Human year = 1 day and night for Celestials ie 1 Uttarayana and 1 dakshinayana
365 Human Years = 1 Year for Gods

 4 Yugas:

Krita = Pure & Pristine ( 4800 yrs)
Treta = Less Pure ( 3600 yrs)
Dwapara = Half corrupt ( 2400 yrs)
Kali = Evil ( 1200 yrs)

First 3 yugas is 2,3,4 times kali yuga ie 1:2:3: 4. To get equivalent human years, we need to multiply each yuga by 365 because 1 year of  Human life = 1 day of God

1 Chaturyuga = 1 Cycle of all yugas = 12,000 Godly years = 12,000*365 Human years

71 Chaturyuga = 1 Manvantara
14 Manvantara = 1 Kalpa
Kalpa of 1000 Chaturyuga = 12 Million yrs = 1 day for Brahma
1 day of Vishnu = 1 Life time of Brahma
1 day of Shiva = 1 Life time of Vishnu

Proof of Ramayana:

1) Biggest proof of Ramayana is the Supreme Court approval of the Ram janmabhoomi case in favour of Temple. One of the clinching proof used by SC was visit of Guru Nanak to Ayodhya to pray to Lord Rama which was recorded in his biography.

2) Ramsetu is another clinching and living proof to show that Lord Ram lived on this same land . Nasa has released images of this bridge as well 

3) Places mentioned in Ramayana still exists such as Ayodhya, Mithila, Chitrakoot, Prayag,  Panhchvadi, Rameshwaram

4) Lord Rama' veneration was celebrated even in current South east Asia regions like Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia. Even today, Kind of Thailand is referred to as Rama 1, Rama 2, Rama 3....

5) Cobra hood cave where Sita was held captive in Srilanka still exists in the town Sigriya

6) Hanuman Garhi, the place in Ayodhya where Hanuman waited for Lord Ram when he went on exile still exists and there is a Hanuman temple right there now and  huge foot steps of Hanuman are still seen on the stones of temple Nuwara Eliya and nearby temples at Sri Lanka

7).And lastly Ramayana has reference to mighty Saraswti river which too has been proven by Satellite  Landsta of US which captured its path  and later by ISRO imagery as well. So if Saraswati is real, Ramayana has to be real.

Ram & lakshman were not born through a natural process of reproduction. They were born through a Yagya conducted by Dasaratha. Dasaratha belonged to Ishkavu dynasty and was  also the founder of Sun dynasty 

Ram is the 7th avatar of Lord Vishnu and Sita ma is an incarnation of Lakshmi.

By Vinod hariharan

( Pics are sourced from internet)

Explaining Varna System of Vedas

Aryan Invasion Myth

 

Aryan Invasion Myth:

Aryan invasion, Aryan Dravidian divide are some of the ideas that were planted firmly on our minds by British agents  led by Max Mueller. Post India's Independence too, the same mechanism was continued by leftist historians  for driving a very well planned political agenda  of divide and rule amongst Hindus 

Europeans , from the beginning wanted to prove their white race as superior to Indian race. It can be seen from the speech made by William Jones  at Asiatic Society of bengal in 1786 itself when the first seeds were planted . Later on, these snippets  were picked up by British Administration in India with the help of Max Mueller, a German scholar and an expert  in Sanskrit & India studies who was paid heavily by British to translate Vedas, other scriptures and drive Aryan invasion theory in India just for the sole purpose of getting easy acceptance amongst Indians by dividing North Indians from South Indians  and to spread Christianity easily .

Germans always wanted to drive a point that civilisation started in Caucasian mountains and then spread to Central Asia and India with Aryan invasion. Hence they claimed white raced Europeans migrated to steppe region in Asia first and then later moved to North India  ( Aryans).  

Max Mueller developed this concept in detail and said first inhabitants of India were Dravidians -dark skinned cavemen with no culture, no traditions & no script to boast of.  Aryans came to North India and drove Dravidians to far south and then Aryans spread Vedas, Upanishads, Culture, Script in India in the year 1500 BC. Max Mueller followed bibilical chronology as per which world began around 4000 BC and floods around 2500 BC. So he had to fix Aryan invasion around 1500 BC to show that Xtianity was prior to Vedic era and he dated 500 BC as the date for composing Vedas 

https://amazingbibletimeline.com/timeline_online/

https://amazingbibletimeline.com/blog/biblical-event-noahs-flood/

Mueller claimed that Aryans drove dark skinned Dravidians to South . Dravidians are  Aborigines who existed long before Hinduism was formed and this concept was used to help priests to convert South Indians to Xtianity . Later Mortimer wheeler claimed superior Aryans invaded india  with  horses, chariots which were non existent in India till then  as Dravidians were aborigines, mere cavemen

Later on, the same concept was picked up by American missionary  Sheldon pollock . Much later  fake Gene studies were done by people like David Reich of Harvard University which took over the goal of driving AIT further . They purposefully picked gene samples from very few non critical locations of India  just with the goal of proving Aryan invasion theory . The most critical indian groups of those IVC days - people from Bihar, UP, Haryana, Punjab were left out in those gene studies to prove AIT      ( Aryan Invasion theory).

This concept was used to divide North India from South India till today by Politicians as well 

Exposing fake Aryan Invasion theroy:

1. Max muellers claimed AIT happened around 1500 BCE and positioned  Vedas as written in 500 BCE

 Saraswati river is mentioned in 57 verses in Vedas. Saraswati had dried completely prior to 1500 BCE and there is no way Aryans could  have seen it or written great literatures about a dried up river ( proof of saraswati drying is recorded through carbon dating studies).  This disproves AIT.

2. Till today, there is no proof of any Aryan genocide of Dravidians anywhere . If theory of Aryans invading North India and driving Dravidians to South holds good, there must be multiple graveyards as proof in various parts of North India which is still non existent . This again disproves AIT

3. World wide, all older civilisations were formed around a big river . Mesopotamian civilisation was near river Tigris because River was the life line for people those days. There was no way that Aryans invaded a place where the major river had dried up  already , historians never accept theory of invaders invading a dying civilisation around a dried up river as it does not benefit invaders to live in a dying society. This also disproves AIT.

4. Indus civilisation  was spread over a mammoth area of 2 million sq KM around Indus & Saraswati river area and there is no way a few 100s of  invading Aryans could kill and drive away a large number of local inhabitants to far south . 

5. Genetic study done on North Indians and South Indians proved there is no difference and these genes were vastly different from Europeans . This shows Aryans were not Europeans.

6, Radiocarbon dating of Rakhigiri proves that Indus civilisation is as old as 3000 BCE, much before AIT claimed by Mueller in 1500 BCE.

7. Radiocarbon dating of Bhirana in UP showed that there was a civilisation existent here even in 6000 BCE as well.

8. Archeological excavations in UP, Rajasthan showed that Horses, Chariots were very much in use in India in 3000 BCE ( harappan area) . Seals, figurines, coins with images of Yoga, meditation, Horses showed that they were present much before Aryans brought chariots and horses here . Yoga and Meditation images showed a continuity in cultural and traditional aspects from an earlier civilisation that lived prior to IVC .

9. American Satellite Landsat , in 1970 captured entire path of dried Saraswati River which proved that some claims by Communist historians of Saraswathi being  just a mythical river ,is false. Later ISRO satellite imagery proved that Saraswathi was a mammoth 14 km wide and 4600 Km long river.

10. Proof of sacrificial altars seen from IVC shows that there was a continuation of cultural practices from earlier civilisation. Gods seen in IVC era from seals, coins, figurines  had a continuity from what was recorded in previous Vedic era , such as Shiva, Mother, Agni..

10. Genome study of R1a haplogroup showed that Indians are a group of people who share a common ancestor- single line of descent . Study by researcher Lucette G shows that oldest R1a is found in India and is 15,400 years old. This perse, invalidates AIT of Mueller. Further studies by Swarkar Sharma, Ekta ray, mamta Jena  titled Indian origin of paternal haplogroup R1a ( journal of Human genetics 54(1), feb 2009) found that same R1a genome was found in brahmins and scheduled tribes as well

The above point proves that AIT is a myth and actual migration was reverse. ie it was Indians who migrated from here to other continents such as Europe and started civilisation there. That can be partly explained by similarity some claim between Sanskrit and German language . Scholars are awestruck to see similarities between Sanskrit and Indo-European languages such as Lithuanian, Greek, Latin, Celtic..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit#:~:text=Sanskrit%20belongs%20to%20the%20satem,the%20classical%20languages%20of%20Europe.

https://www.opindia.com/2019/05/asi-finds-evidence-of-4000-years-old-civilisation-at-mahabharat-era-excavation-site-different-from-indus-valley-civilisation/#:~:text=At%20the%20second%20location,%20the%20ASI%20unearthed%20remains%20of%20four

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