Week 11 Reading Notes Epified India


Picking up with the story of Krishna, this time being told in a video by Epified India. We start off with it being mentioned that Krishna had enemies’ years before he was even born. His birth was tried to be prevented and on many occasions was tried to be killed. He later became a king and much more. No one else was able to see that he was greater than just a regular man during his lifetime. Krishna was born the same time as one of Kunti’s children far away. At first he wanting to kill his sister and his wife but instead threw them into jail and just killed the children by smashing their head against the wall with the first 7 children. When she was pregnant with the 8th child a light shined down upon them. This was the 8th reincarnation of Vishnu, named Krishna. The gods rejoiced with the birth of this child. Vasudev moved alone with Krishna taking him away from the prison cell. He reached a group of gypsies and traded children with one of the gypsies so that Krishna would live. The king had dreamed of the tragedy that would end his life, due to the 8th child. The child switched with Krishna was a little girl which mad the tyrant laugh, because surely he was not going to be killed by a woman. This of course was a trick to play with the tyrant’s mind. The gypsy woman who Krishna was being raised by noticed that all children were being killed.


Epified India: Krishna, Source


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