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<strong>Hinduism</strong>: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 97<br />

Krishna. Balarama gave up his ghost in 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 concealing shrub he was sitting behind, and a hunter let fly a fatal<br />

arrow mistaking it for a prize catch of a peacock. The arrow stuck him in<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 sin. He was one hundred and sixteen years old, the<br />

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

was Jara. It means Old Age.”<br />

http://www.indiayogi.com/content/indgods/krishna1.asp<br />

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

Krishna claimed many things, but never demonstrated them. Here is the<br />

heaviest stumbling block – the resurrection factor. “While the<br />

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

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

pointed out: "preaching is the essence."<br />

The whole cosmos is under decay and there is no way out of it in 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>Hinduism</strong>. Only the preaching 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 binding of Karma cannot be broken –<br />

even by Krishna – how he can do this without the violation of cosmic

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