Who is Lord Krishna?
Today, Lord Krishna is known and worshipped in two forms, as the Child Krishna (Baal Krishna) and as Yogeshwar Krishna (Krishna the God). The only person who truly knows the Lord Krishna is the Gnani Purush (The Knower of the Soul), for such a person has the same awareness as Lord Krishna did. Such Gnanis are extremely rare. Many think that Lord Krishna fought wars, killed many people, had sixteen thousand queens and lived a leisurely, luxurious worldly life. So then: Why is he considered a God? Why do people all around the world, worship him so devoutly? In reality, God (i.e. the Soul) was fully manifested in Lord Krishna. In other words, he was a fully Self-Realized being. He had constant awareness of being the Pure Soul; the awareness of, “The body is separate and I am a Pure Soul”. Despite his physical involvement in worldly affairs, he always had the awareness that ‘I am not the ‘doer’ of anything. Although he had so many queens and lived a rich and palatial life, he was in fact ‘
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