The story of the dark Lord

No, not Darth Vader. Darth Vader has an awesome story behind him indeed. First as Anakin Skywalker, and then as the Dark Sith Lord. But, this post is intended about someone much more fascinating, someone out of the world, someone we all know very easily, as Krishna.

I was into the Bhagavatha a couple of days ago, and it rekindled the mythology I had kept inside me. The story of births, rebirths, of salvation, redemption, curses, boons, and eventually devotion, it was something which had kept me spellbound for most part of my childhood. It's about even the names people have. You have a huge deal of logic behind each of the stuff there. Even the names. Krishna is black, the name of the dark lord hence came up. Pareekshit was questioning, which was precisely what he was doing soon after birth, asking about who the dark lord in yellow clothes who protected him in the womb from Ashwathama's brahmastra was. It also speaks about moments of madness, even by great people, and how it affects the lives of many. For example, the Bhagavatha came to the entire world because Pareekshit had a momentary lapse of sense, and let a snake hang round a rishi's neck, in the process getting cursed. Following this, he gets to listen to the Bhagavatha before death, and gets salvation.

I thought I'll deal with the story of Lord Krishna's death today. One story which was fascinating in ways more than one. Once, Lord Krishna's son Samba, and his friends, in an attempt to fool a few rishis visiting Dwarka, fixed a mace to Samba's stomach, and made an attempt to show him pregnant. But then, the rishis, who obviously could see far beyond the pranks of these youngsters. So, they cursed the youngsters that the womb would end up being the destructor of the entire Yadava race. On consulting Krishna, they powder the mace and put it into the seas. The powders go into a fertile basin and become part of some grass there. While one part is not powdered, is eaten by a fish. The fish is found by a hunter, who finds the unpowdered piece sharp enough to be used as the pointer to his arrow.

On an excursion to the basin, the Yadavas get drunk, and on a small fight, they start using the grass as weapons. The mace powders, end up making the grass sharper, and ends up fatal for most of the Yadava clan. As for Krishna, he is meditating under a tree, when the hunter mistakes his feet for a deer, and shoots. This mortally wounds Krishna, and he takes this chance to leave the world. The most interesting part of this is, the hunter is Jara, a rebirth of Vali, who got a boon from Rama that he would kill Rama in the next birth without the knowledge of the guy being killed, as he was being killed by Rama. He extracted his revenge here.

I could have included a few more interesting points here, but as Im rushing somewhere now, no time... Ill add something sometime later. Until then, buh bye... :)