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How Krishna is Not a Hindu God?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 28, 2011 at 9:16am

Question: How Krishna is Not a Hindu God?

Gurudeva:

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I have seen in India and noticed that people think that Krishna is a Hindu god. But Srila Prabhupada said that God is God just as gold is gold, that one cannot say, "Hindu gold" or "Christian gold." How can we understand that Krishna is not a Hindu god?

Chetan
 

Answer: He is Not Hindunatha. He is Jagannatha.

If Krishna was a Hindu god, He would be called Hindunatha (the lord of the Hindus), not Jagannatha (the lord of the universe), as He is properly designated. Krishna never states that He is simply the lord of the Hindus. He clearly states in the Bhagavad-gita that He is the Supreme Lord, the source of all material and spiritual worlds, that everything emanates from Him. Krishna's authoritative words should be sufficient to establish that He is the lord of all.  

The readers of this course mostly already know that Krishna is the Supreme Lord. Our challenge is how to reach out to and convince those who have not understood the final conclusion of the Vedic wisdom as explained so clearly in the Bhagavad-gita that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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  • sandesh shrikrishna sonawane July 29, 2011 at 1:11am
    Hare krishna,
    god ask we are from which religion when we enterd in temple,masjid or gurudwara.
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