Krishna

**Krishna** is the eighth incarnation of the Primeval Hindu deity, Vishnu, and is worshipped as a god of love, compassion and tenderness. He is one of the most widely prominent and popular Hindu deities of all time.

## Overview

Krishna is mostly the god of Love, Knowledge, and Beauty. Krishna is recognized as the Svayam Bhagavan which is the eight avatar and complete incarnation of Vishnu, the Preserver. He battled many demons and waged war alongside a man called Arjuna. He is a famous deity in the Mahabharata and he is believed to have written the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna is one of the most widely worshiped and popular of all Hindu deities.

Krishna is often described and portrayed as an infant eating butter, a young boy playing a flute as in the or as an elder giving direction and guidance as in the Bhagavad Gita. The stories of Krishna appear across a broad spectrum of Hindu Philosophical and theological traditions. They portray him in various perspectives: a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero, and the Supreme Being.

His Name is sometimes translated as "**all-attractive**." Krishna was raised by cow herders. As a boy, he would play his flute, causing women to flock to him. As an adult, he became a great tactician. Left his physical body after being shot in the back of the leg by mistake by a hunter named Jara.

Krishna is often portrayed as an infant eating butter; a young boy playing a flute, and as in the Bhagavata Purana; a young man along with Radha; or a young man surrounded by women; or as an elderly gentleman giving direction and guidance, as in the Bhagavad Gita.

## Appearance

Krishna is often represented as an androgynous male, possessing female physical characteristics, sometimes resembling a woman. The reason for this is probably to show that Krishna was a very beautiful man, as other religious figures such as John the Apostle were also depicted with androgynous traits to represent beauty.

Krishna's appearance was that of a young man, with blue skin (It should be noted that the color blue is intended to represent a black-skinned person) and a delicate face like that of a woman. He has a curvy but shapely appearance, somewhat muscular but slender. His hair was dark and long, with his eyes being golden. He usually appears shirtless on top, wearing only a pair of Hindu prince pants. He is usually carrying his flute.

## Powers and Abilities

**Absolute Counter:** Krishna can perform a counter-attack that not only protects them from all forms of attack but also, at the same time, return to their enemy an unblockable attack, and in some cases, can instantly kill the enemy.

**Alpha Physiology:** Krishna is vastly superior to any member of their species or hierarchical society, learning and achieving quickly and effortlessly what takes years of hard work for others and growing substantially stronger and better with each challenge. They naturally arouse a strong admiration and desire among their kind, as they personify the pinnacle of their species, and even the most hostile are forced to acknowledge their towering superiority and amazing prowess.

**Army Annihilation:** Krishna can eliminate entire armies using various means ranging from physical to magical, spiritual, etc. Krishna is extremely powerful as a individual combatant, having a diverse range of powers and weapons at their disposal, coupled with the ability to gain victory in any type of war as an ultimate fighter, even to the point where they can challenge even transcendent beings.

**Artistic Intuition:** Krishna, either innately or through training, is a master of all forms of art. Krishna possesses great knowledge and skill in the art, such as painting a picture without any education. Krishna can subconsciously/effortlessly create an artistic idea in their mind and work off that to create it in reality. They have vast intuitive understanding in forms of art as well (acting, animation, calligraphy, dancing, filming, music, painting, performing, photography, sculpting, singing, etc.) and are able to use their intuitive artistic expertise and skills to easily create flawless works of art.

**Authority:** Krishna has the power of authority; a power that grants them the right to rule, enforce orders, and establish laws within their dominion, even extending to the supernatural realm. This authority bestows upon them total control over their designated domain including supernatural elements, such as mystical forces, living entities, mythical creatures, and otherworldly dimensions that shape their environment.

**Eternal Existence:** Krishna with this power is eternal in two aspects: possessing no end as well as no beginning. They were never created by anything and will never be concluded, existing in all points of time. No matter how deep one goes into past or future, they will never find a point where Krishna starts or ends, as these beings are truly eternal.

**Absolute Transcendence:** Krishna transcends absolutely anything and everything. This includes all dimensions, life/death, beginning/ending, concepts/ideas/principles, creation/destruction, boundaries, context, potential, possibilities/variables, levels of reality, existence/nonexistence, perfection/levels of perfection, embodiments, their personal status, being/non-being, etc.

**Eternal Transcendence:** Krishna is in a state of constant and endless transcendence, transcending one's unique state of being, existence, nature, capabilities, abilities, etc., to the infinity with no limit or restriction to their potential. Krishna is continuously transcending things like concepts and/or the various levels of reality endlessly, breaking free from the laws, principles, or rules that make up any reality, seeing all lower levels of reality as if they were nonexistent fiction and all transcended concepts as if they're meaningless.

**Absolute Command:** Krishna can impose absolute and irresistible commands upon anything, including themselves, as well as natural and supernatural or living and non-living existences. Krishna can grant anyone anything or themselves any power simply by commanding it so. Though commands are usually spoken in words, Krishna's intentions are what truly matters; they can impose complex commands with a single word, through a specific gesture or a sheer act of will, unquestioningly bending anything and everything to their will with all their intents and meaning behind it.

**Absolute Wish:** Krishna can make any absolute and perfect wishes for themselves and others without any limitations. They can even make vague or inconceivable wishes come true no matter what, as their power always makes the wishes come out the exact way the wisher intended and desired.

**Chariot Riders Aptitude:** Krishna, either innately or through training, is a master of riding vehicles pulled by animals, such as Carriages, Carts, Chariots, Sleds, Sleighs, and/or Wagons.

**Compassion Embodiment:** Krishna becomes the living embodiment of compassion and gain the ability to feed off of the compassion of everyone and everything including themselves. Krishna can convert compassion into energy and use it as a full source to extend their own life span or as a weapon. They may never age and may be immune to death unless certain conditions are met.

**Compassion Empowerment:** Krishna becomes stronger, faster, more durable, etc. by compassion/kindness of oneself and others, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing the existing powers. Krishna may be able draw sustenance from the compassion or even slow or stop aging.

**Fame Empowerment:** Krishna becomes stronger, faster, more durable, etc. by fame, or how much others know about or recognize them, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing the existing powers. Krishna may be able draw complete sustenance from fame or even slow or stop aging.

**Love Empowerment:** Krishna becomes stronger, faster, more durable, etc. by love of oneself and others, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing the existing powers. Krishna may be able draw sustenance from love.

**Demonic Slayer:** Krishna can kill demons/demonic entities of any form, being able to go toe-to-toe with even the strongest of demons and gain resistance to their demonic powers and demonic corrupting effects.

**Destiny Chosen:** The circumstance that Krishna is given powers related to their role in the fulfillment of a particular goal by an external, but in-story entity, such as a god or sorcerer. These powers can vary according to the world itself.

**True Hero:** Krishna is a true hero, a person who lives to help others, but in a way that shows those people how to help themselves, in the face of danger, combats adversity through impressive feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength, often sacrificing their own personal concerns for a greater good. They possess benevolent abilities and often command loyal friends, allies, and followers.

**Divine Avatar:** Krishna is the avatar or incarnation of a divine being. They hold a deep-rooted connection to the being and may be able to use its diverse powers as their own. Unlike Godly Incarnation, the divine being in question may or may not be omnipotent, monotheistic or the “one true god” incarnate. In fact, divine avatars can be either partial or complete, depending on the being. These avatars have definite purposes which revolve around the welfare of the universe.

**Transcendent Superior Human Physiology:** Krishna possesses a superpowered physiology then gained Transcendent Powers and may even have gained a transcendent physiology. The powers may be the result of a power inducing event/incident, Advanced Technology, Exotic Technology, Magic Objects, mystic relics, powerful objects, divine blessings, some other empowerment, or a combination of sources. The path to transcendence may also be achieved through years of study and practice in Magic and other Supernatural Arts.

**Divine Aura:** Krishna can surround themselves in divine energy, which can cause others to submit to them.

**Compassion Aura:** Krishna can generate aura of compassion that can amplify/induce kindness on beings inside their aura and gain power from the emotions.

**Love Aura:** Krishna can generate aura of love that can amplify/induce passion on beings inside their aura and gain power from the emotions.

**Nigh-Omnipresence:** Krishna is present almost everywhere at the same time, usually being limited by/within a certain domain, such as time, space, or nothingness.

**Divine Force Manipulation:** Krishna has control of anything that is divine. They are able to manipulate divine objects and relics that are connected to the gods or divine power. With this, Krishna is completely considered worthy of spiritual respect, allowing them to achieve feats that are impossible to be reached by mere mortals.

**Divine Object:** Krishna has access to an object that grants them divine/holy powers. They can range from source materials to apparel to fully-designed weapons; whatever the form, they can impart divine powers to those who lack them entirely or augment the already existing holy capabilities.

**Divine Weaponry:** Krishna is able to create and wield any kind of weapon of divine powers. The weapon can also grant Krishna special powers of any kind, make them invincible and even reach the same level of power of a deity making it possible for Krishna to hurt a god.

**Enhanced Potential:** Krishna has their potential and ability to grow and learn beyond the level of normal members of their species, allowing them to learn and develop in a much shorter period of time than normal members of their species, and can even learn things that are physiologically more difficult for the normal members of their species.

**Uniqueness:** The powers and abilities affected by this trait are so unique that they cannot be matched, absorbed, or copied by others. Krishna with such powers have immunity against power replication, ability learning, and other such power-imitating abilities.

**Fertility Manipulation:** Krishna can create, shape and manipulate fertility, the natural capability for living beings to reproduce (in terms of animals) or grow (in terms of plants). They can make land, living beings or plants fertile, allowing them to reproduce or grow, or make things infertile, making them unable to reproduce or grow.

**Gentleness Embodiment:** Krishna with this power can become the embodiment of Gentle, they are able to be delicate and treat everything with great care and attentiveness. They may be able to convert their gentle works and actions into a sort of energy to become a weapon or an attacking offense and also making it become a support to others as well as defense from any opposing powers of this embodiment.

**Guardianship:** Guardians are often those who are of noble birth or a high position of great historical or legendary importance. They have taken/been given the responsibility to defend, protect and, if needed, avenge the focus of their protection, which can be an object, place, concept, or person (throne/crown, village/gate/country/planet, love/good/harmony, royal heir/chosen prophet, etc.) among other things.

**Honor Deity:** As an archetype, an honorable divine, a deity/god/goddess/angel/divine entity/higher spirit associated with honor, glory, repute, chivalry, acclamation, praise, pride, discipline, forbearance, obedience, loyalty, piety, duty, modesty, respect, humility and all their aspects. This grants them absolute knowledge and power over them, their concepts and principles. They are often worshiped by those who seek honor, glory, praise, etc, either living by some code laid out by Krishna or society that reveres Krishna. Krishna could gain power from those who display honor, glory, etc. The more followers they have, the more powerful they become. Honorable divine weren't a common feature of worship in polytheistic religions but were important among ancient and current civilizations.

**Joy Bringer:** Krishna is a Joy Bringer; a being who bring joy unto good beings, inflicting an unspecific amount of happiness and comfort for an unspecific amount of time due to all the good the targets have done. Ranging from minor joy to full blown joy of every kind. Sometimes this power comes as a natural skill to beings such as Angels and God.

**Knowledge Deity:** Krishna with this ability either is or can transform into a knowledge deity, a god or goddess in mythology associated with knowledge, intelligence, education, wisdom or science. They are a common feature of polytheistic religions.

**Land Lordship:** Krishna has authority and control over the Land, a place where all return from whence they came. Krishna can control the earth and all things linked to it to a limitless degree.

**Life Connection:** Krishna is connected to any/all life and living things, so that as long as they exists life does as well. This allows them to have both an emotional and spiritual link to every form of life, so if the target feels pain or is injured all living things would feel the same pain and/or possibly gain the same wounds as Krishna.

**Transcendent Connection:** Krishna shares a powerful and intimate connection with the almighty, primal, primordial, omnipotent, or transcendent essence. This communion allows them to receive insights from the vast expanse of cosmic knowledge, infusing them with empowerment drawn from this profound source, and unlocking a myriad of latent inner talents. This sacred bond often serves as a profound indication of the user's exceptional status, signifying their chosen nature, divine lineage, or profound kinship with the very source itself.

**Love Embodiment:** Krishna becomes the living physical manifestation or personification of love and gain the ability feed off of the love of everyone and everything including themselves. Krishna can convert love into energy and use it as a full source to extend their own life span or as a weapon. They may never age and may be immune to death unless certain conditions are met.

**Miracle Manipulation:** Krishna has the ability to induce and manipulate miracles; an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs. Miracles are considered to be a divinely natural phenomenon with an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment which Krishna has under their command. They can control how they'll turn out, how powerful the miracles can be, etc.

**Nigh-Omniscience:** Krishna knows almost everything bar certain details, or is limited in some other way, such as being able to see one timeline or universe or have just small patches of information that are missing or blocked out. More simply, they may be in possession of such a vast reserve of knowledge that they can be regarded as "practically omniscient."

**Nigh-Omnipotence:** Krishna possesses supreme-like-power but has a limitation/restriction/weakness that inhibits their potential to become an omnipotent being. Krishna's near-omnipotence can range from having ultimate or maxed power over a particular domain or having expert-level power, knowledge, and presence over numerous or all aspects.

**Omni-Empathy:** Krishna is able to sense and feel the emotions an infinite number of emotions across all universes, planes and dimensions to an essentially absolute degree.

**Omnipresence:** Omnipresence is the property of being present everywhere and anywhere.

**Resurrection Deity:** Krishna represents the Resurrection Deity, A dying-and-rising god who is born, suffers a death-like experience, and is subsequently reborn and represents or is associated with resurrection and rebirth, but also life and death. This type of Deity is nearly impossible to truly destroy as they will always come back. Resurrection Deities are one of the oldest known deities. Examples of gods who die and later return to life are most often cited from the religions of the ancient Near East, and traditions influenced by them include Biblical and Greco-Roman mythology and by extension Christianity.

**Sacred Energy Manipulation:** Krishna can create, shape and manipulate forces of heavenly origin.

**Savior Deity:** As an archetype, a savior deity is a god/goddess who represents or is associated with heroism, courage, and virtue. Savior deities are fairly common in mythology and were important among ancient civilizations.

**Multiversal Lordship:** Krishna has control of everything existing within the multiverse. They may even have control over multiple multiverses as well.

**Logic Manipulation:** Krishna can manipulate logic, the reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity or situations, actions, circumstances or qualities of being justifiable by reason. With this power, Krishna can achieve logically impossible feats on a whim, and freely redefine on a metaphysical level what is possible and impossible. This ability may be either derived from some highly transcendent powers, or simply exist without much of a cause. Despite being completely outclassed by forces beyond logic, Krishna can legitimately be considered among the most powerful beings in existence, shaping reality, metaphysics and causation with nothing but a thought and ignoring all kinds of physical and metaphysical laws like they didn't exist at all. Essentially, to anything bound by logic, Krishna would seem completely undefeatable and capable of doing anything, perhaps even appearing to be Omnipotent.

**Totality Embodiment:** Krishna embodies absolutely anything, everything, and nothing. They would be the source of totality, possess absoluteness and supreme dominion over it, completely transcend it, have infinite knowledge of it, etc. but ultimately would simply encompass everything.

**Supreme Deity:** Krishna either is or can transform into a supreme deity, a god/goddess who unquestionably upholds divine sovereignty between its pantheon, and is associated with higher divine powers and abilities, and are considerably far more powerful by reason of being controllers of other divine spirits, gods/goddesses, and the universe which they rule over. Making them the alpha deity among the others.

**Telekinesis:** Telekinesis (from Greek: τηλε- "far off" and κίνηση "movement") is the ability to influence/control/manipulate matter or another aspect of a physical system with the ‘mind’ or through other non-physical means. Commonly, the most fundamental trait is to move or otherwise interact with objects (or to generate and apply physical force on a target, or potentially, an area) both from a distance and without physical contact.

**Trickster:** Krishna is a trickster: a god, goddess, spirit, anthropomorphic animal, man or woman who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventional behavior. Trickster openly questions and mocks authority encourage impulse and enthusiasm, seeks out new ideas and experiences, destroys convention and complacency, and promotes chaos and unrest. At the same time, tricksters bring new knowledge and wisdom. Even when punished horribly for their effrontery, their indomitable spirit (or sheer foolishness) keeps them coming back for more.

**Universal Lordship:** Krishna is the supreme being and lord of the entire universe, this includes galaxies, planets, stars and everything else. Krishna has boundless control over everything in the universe, they can see everything happening, Command large universal armies and even create new worlds with ease. The amount of things Krishna can control varies from user to user. Krishna is so powerful that they have large influence over the universe, and most beings bend to their will. Krishna is an immortal gods who can overpower anything in their setting. Krishna is considered universally powerful.

**Absolute Wisdom:** Krishna's intellectual faculties (memory, calculation, learning, creativity, etc.) transcend virtually all other sentient beings in their universe. They can always make the wisest decision regardless of any situation and can also avoid absolutely any mistakes. This power is inferior to Omniscience as Krishna has essentially limitless wisdom, rather than having innate knowledge/experience of everything. Krishna has the greatest, most supreme understanding and realization of concepts, common sense, people, things, events or situations, resulting in the ability to apply perceptions, judgements, and actions while keeping these understandings. It often requires control of one's emotional reactions (the "passions") so that universal principles, reasons, and knowledge prevail to determine one's actions.

## Myths and Legends

Krishna is represented in the Indian traditions in many ways, but with some common features. His iconography typically depicts him with black, dark, or blue skin, like Vishnu. However, ancient and medieval reliefs and stone-based arts depict him in the natural color of the material out of which he is formed, both in India and in southeast Asia. In some texts, his skin is poetically described as the color of Jambul (Jamun, a purple-colored fruit).

For generations, Krishna has been an enigma to some, but a god to millions, who go ecstatic even as they hear his name. People consider Krishna their leader, hero, protector, philosopher, teacher and friend all rolled into one. Krishna has influenced the Indian thought, life and culture in a myriad of ways. He has influenced not only its religion and philosophy, but also into its mysticism and literature, painting and sculpture, dance and music, and all aspects of Indian folklore.

Indian as well as Western scholars have now accepted the period between 3,200 and 3,100 BCE as the period in which Lord Krishna lived on earth. Krishna took birth at midnight on the ashtami or the 8th day of the Krishnapaksha or dark fortnight in the Hindu month of Shravan (August-September). The birthday of Krishna is called Janmashthami, a special occasion for Hindus that is celebrated around the world. The birth of Krishna is in itself a transcendental phenomenon that generates awe among the Hindus and overwhelms one and all with its supra mundane happenings.

Krishna is commonly worshipped as:

* ***Kanhaiyya/Bankey Bihari/Thakurji*:** Uttar Pradesh
* ***Jagannath*:** Odisha
* ***Vithoba*:** Maharashtra
* ***Shrinathji*:** Rajasthan
* ***Guruvayoorappan*:** Kerala
* ***Dwarakadheesh/Ranchhod*:** Gujarat
* ***Parthasarathy*:** Tamil Nadu

### Non-Hindu Legends

Krishna is mentioned as *Krishna Avtar* in the Chaubis Avtar, a composition in Dasam Granth traditionally and historically attributed to Guru Gobind Singh. Baháʼís believe that Krishna was a "Manifestation of God", or one in a line of prophets who have revealed the Word of God progressively for a gradually maturing humanity. In this way, Krishna shares an exalted station with Abraham, Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Muhammad, Jesus, the Báb, and the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, Bahá'u'lláh.

Ahmadiyya, a 20th-century Islamic movement, consider Krishna as one of their ancient prophets. Ghulam Ahmad stated that he was himself a prophet in the likeness of prophets such as Krishna, Jesus, and Muhammad, who had come to earth as a latter-day reviver of religion and morality.

Krishna worship or reverence has been adopted by several new religious movements since the 19th century, and he is sometimes a member of an eclectic pantheon in occult texts, along with Greek, Buddhist, biblical, and even historical figures. For instance, Édouard Schuré, an influential figure in perennial philosophy and occult movements, considered Krishna a *Great Initiate*, while Theosophists regard Krishna as an incarnation of Maitreya (one of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom), the most important spiritual teacher for humanity along with Buddha.

Krishna was canonized by Aleister Crowley and is recognized as a saint of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica in the Gnostic Mass of Ordo Templi Orientis.

## Quotes

*"There's no need to worry. I will make sure this world is safe and protected from all dangers that there are. No one will be able to destroy it under my watch. After all, wasn't that what I was born to do?" - Krishna.*

*"Whenever the forces of evil rule the earth, I will incarnate myself to destroy the wicked, protect the saints, and establish righteousness age after age." - Krishna, Bhagavad Gita.*

*"I am not manifest to all, being veiled by yoga-maya and its delusion the world knows Me not, the unborn and immutable." - Krishna.*

*"If you fail to achieve your goal don't change your goal but change your strategy." - Krishna.*

*"Beautiful and mystical God of all, embodiment of beauty and love, the Lord Sri Krishna. With one glance he conquers thousands of cupids." - A Scholar.*

## Trivia

* Krishna charitas is a name given to legends regarding the life of Krishna.
* Krishna's children are said to many different names in different interpretations. In Bahagvad Puran, and many other scriptures, Krishna had 16,008-16,108 wives and 160,080-161,080 children. In perspective he had 10 children with each of his consorts.
* The name Krishna means 'black'; the color black also relates to mysteries.
* Theologians have equated Krishna with Jesus Christ.