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<strong>H<strong>in</strong>duism</strong>: <strong>What</strong> <strong>Really</strong> Happened <strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> – M. M. N<strong>in</strong>an<br />

Krishna. Balarama gave up his ghost <strong>in</strong> disgust and Krishna withdrew to<br />

a copse near the shore and waited for the drama to play itself out.<br />

His constant headgear of peacock feather plumes stuck out over the edge<br />

of the conceal<strong>in</strong>g shrub he was sitt<strong>in</strong>g beh<strong>in</strong>d, and a hunter let fly a fatal<br />

arrow mistak<strong>in</strong>g it for a prize catch of a peacock. The arrow stuck him <strong>in</strong><br />

the heel, like Achilles his only vulnerable spot, and the end had come.<br />

His last act of compassion was to reassure the aghast hunter that he had<br />

committed no s<strong>in</strong>. He was one hundred and sixteen years old, the<br />

mandatory fullness of years as specified <strong>in</strong> the Vedas. The hunter's name<br />

was Jara. It means Old Age.”<br />

http://www.<strong>in</strong>diayogi.com/content/<strong>in</strong>dgods/krishna1.asp<br />

<strong>What</strong> they did <strong>in</strong> life is not important - Preach<strong>in</strong>g is the essence?<br />

Krishna claimed many th<strong>in</strong>gs, but never demonstrated them. Here is the<br />

heaviest stumbl<strong>in</strong>g block – the resurrection factor. “While the<br />

circumstances of Jesus' disappearance are by no means clear, they are<br />

<strong>in</strong>deed for us less important, even irrelevant.” As Srila Prabhupada<br />

po<strong>in</strong>ted out: "preach<strong>in</strong>g is the essence."<br />

The whole cosmos is under decay and there is no way out of it <strong>in</strong> the<br />

Krishnite culture, even Krisha himself is subject to birth and death – the<br />

only difference is that Krishna knew his past births and poor us do not!<br />

Life, Objective realities, evidence or truthfulness is not the important<br />

factor to <strong>H<strong>in</strong>duism</strong>. Only the preach<strong>in</strong>g is the essence! If one can build<br />

fantasy - that is enough?<br />

Redemption through faith<br />

sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja<br />

aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami ma sucah<br />

"Abandon all varieties of dharma and just surrender unto Me. I shall<br />

deliver you from all.” While the b<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g of Karma cannot be broken –<br />

even by Krishna – how he can do this without the violation of cosmic<br />

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