Siginificance of 8 Number in Krishna Life
Born Story of Lord Krishna
According to the Hindu mythology Lord Krishna was born around 5000 years ago, on the night of 8 day of the dark fortnight (Astami) in the Shravan month of Hindu calender, In Hindu culture the born day of Krishna celebrated as JANMASTAMI. He was born in the prison of Mathura, today a city in Northern India. He was the biological son of Devaki and Vasudeva, Devaki was the sister of KANSA the king of Mathura. KANSA was a tyrant who had keep devaki and vasudeva in prisoner because of his prophecy (Akash Vani) that said devaki' 8 child would kill him. out of this fear, KANSA killed Devaki 6 children but the 7 children BALARAM was transferred miraculously to another womb. when Krishna was born, the guards fell asleep, and prison door was opened miraculously. Vasudeva carried the new born Krishna and cross YAMUNA river to GOKUL, a near by village to save him from KANSA and There, Krishna was adopted by Nanda and Yashoda the king and queen of GOKUL.
Krishna story about killing kansa
When Krishna grew up as a son of Nanda and Yashoda in Gokul, he has some devine powers, when he was about 16, he went to Mathura to fulfill the prophecy. he participating in wrestling match where he defeated and killed KANSA, freeing his parents and the people of Mathura from Kansh 's tyranny. After defeating Kansh, Krishna helped his grandfather, king ugrasena.and reclaim the throne of Mathura . Then Krishna became a prince of Mathura and start guiding a YADAVA people.
Krishna Move to Dwarka
Krishna is the prince of Mathura he will decide to protect his YADAVA peoples from frequent attacks, He decide to move the Yadava kingdom from Mathura to a safe place by the sea, which name was DWARKA. He built a magnified city there, and Dwarka became powerful and prosperous kingdom. As the prince of new kingdom Dwarka , He was Married with RUKMINI the princess of Vidarbha,who was completely devoted to him . and after that he was marry with other princess also including satyabhama and jamnavati. Krishna has many children, but his most famous child was Pradyuman.
Krishna's Role in Mahabharat
Mahabharat was the legend story of Hindu culture, And Krishna play's very important role in this story. Krishna was very close friend of pandavas and special relative of pandava brothers espicially Arjuna, when the great battle of Mahabharat was about to begin between PANDAVAS and KAURAVAS brothers Krishna plays very crucial role as a guider and advisor to the pandavas.
On the battlefield of Kurushetra, just before the war began Arjun was filled with guilt and think about fighting with his own relatives and teachers (Gurus). Here Krishna plays an important role as a guider of ARJUN gave him a deep spiritual discourse, which is known as a BHAGWAD GITA, In this, Krishna explained the nature of LIFE, DUTY and SOUL, encouraging Arjun to do his duty as a warrior without attachment to the relatives and results.
The Story behind the Krishna Death
Once upon a time, After the Mahabharat battle, Pandavas brother are win in the war, the mother of kauravas name GANDHARI who lost her all 100 sons in the war, she was CURSED Krishna and she blamed him for not preventing the war and cursed that his Yadava kingdom would be destroyed like her family destroyed.
Over the time was passed, the Yadavas become arrogant and proud, fell into their internal conflicts. A curse from the group of sages led to the brawl among the Yadavas, which was resulted as killing each other.
After the destruction of YADAVA kingdom, Krishna retired to a forest near DWARKA a. while sleeping on a branch of tree, a hunter name was JARA came and by mistook Krishna's foot was wounding with an arrow for deer. Krishna forgive that hunter and understanding that it is time to leave his earthly body and He was passed away from the universe peacefully.
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