Story: Little Krishna

One day many years ago there was a happy village. This village had many happy people. Everyone went around doing there jobs and helping out the village as it needed to be. Everyone loved what they did and loved the village even more. Everyone knew each other in this village. So when something happened to one person, the entire community knew about it. If it was good then they celebrated, if it was bad then they morned. Everyone loved each other and took care of each other. That is until a certain boy came along…

One day a little baby was born. His name was Krishna. He was born with the color of his skin being blue. Everyone thought it was just something that would go away by the end of the day, but as days went along his color never changed. This was mysterious to everyone. “Why is he blue?” everyone questioned each other, “Is he a special gift?” some would ask. Nobody really knew what had happened to Krishna. As Krishna grew up he always made trouble. It started with him eating mud off the ground. No child ever ate mud. And people worried about this. Krishna’s mom went to him worried. “What are you eating, son?”. As she opened his mouth. That instant she knew he was not just an ordinary child. As she gazed into his mouth she saw worlds beyond this world. She saw galaxies vast and distant. She saw every star in the sky. Marveled at this sight fell to her knees. Grabbed her little boy and hugged him tight. 

Many years later, Krishna began to be not only different from the rest of the community, but a bad child. And it didn't end with Krishna but he influenced many of his friends to be bad as well. “Come on” he would say, “they are making butter in here, lets take it!”. Krishna and his gang of misfits would rush into the house and take the butter that the woman was making from her, while she was watching. People were appalled by his behavior and his immaturity, while the kids thought that they were bringing real life into the village. What was seen as fun to the kids was evil to the adults. The people began to call them the “Butter Thieves". They took pride in this and stole more and more butter. 

The day came when powerful god came into the village. This god was an evil god, a god of destruction. He was feared in all the land and hadn't set foot in the village in many many years. This god brought a storm that was more powerful than any that had ever been seen by this village. Rain, thunder and lightning terrorized the village. As the villagers sought for shelter they had no place to go. Their homes were flooding and trees were falling. Before their eyes they saw a miracle like no other. Krishna was lifting a mountain. He raised the mountain onto his finger as he told everyone to climb underneath. All the villagers filled underneath the mountain in awe of the fact that Krishna was lifting it with his pinky. All the sudden the boy that was a menace became a hero and the awestruck villagers recognized this in Krishna. 

Krishna Holding the Mountain

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Krhisna Comes

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Authors Note:

In my story today I decided to write about Krishna in his many works as a young child. I wanted to tell of his misbehaving to his amazing works. I thought it would be fun to tell a story in the way that shows the village he grew up in. I wanted to show how his coming changed everything. I thought the best way to show this would be to show how his village was all happy always, and when he came a lot of things changed. Like the wonder of his skin to the misbehaving attitude and actions he had growing up and stealing butter. The whole butter part is one of my favorite things to hear. Because out of like everything that you could have stolen, why did he chose butter? I think that is hilarious, so I have to keep that part in. But people thought he was a menace in some ways, so I wanted to be sure and tell how thoughts changed as he saved everyone from the god who was attacking the villagers. This is a huge part of the story just because it show the strength of Krishna and also the love that he has for his community. Even though he was a menace, he loved his community and this showed just that in a huge way. I hope that you enjoy my telling of this famous story. 

Reading Notes: Epified Krishna Comes part B

In the second part of the story Krishna does many more miracles and mighty acts to display his strengths. It starts with Indra going to see Krishna and seeing that he really loved his friends and shared food with him. Knowing Krishna was a god he thought that it was crazy that he would share his food with them. So he wanted to see if Krishna really loved his friends, so he stole them and all the cows that he was tending to. When Krishna could to find them, he created them with his mind and Indra only saw all of the Krishnas. He was very impressed. Later Indra set a storm against Krishna’s village, this made it pour rain and lighting for many days and was flooding the ground. Krishna took the mountain that they were next to and raised it up with just his pinky. Everybody was so impressed and marveled at his strength. When the villagers thought that he had been holding it too long they tried to take over and none could hold it so Krishna took it back. More and more people were amazed at his powers and continued to believe that he was more and more of a god. As he grew up he was told that his parents were not his parents and that his real parents were being held by his uncle, the king, in prison. He found his uncle and his uncle realized that he was the eight son of his sister, the one who was supposedly going to kill him. So they fought and Krishna killed his uncle with the help of his brother. This then set his family free. It is important to understand the story of Krishna because we begin to see who the Hindu’s believe in. They also know one of the most important gods of the Hindu faith. I really love this story. I love the movie that was made about it to. 

Krishna Holding the Mountain

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Krhisna Comes

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Reading Notes: Epified Krishna Comes part A

This week I decided to watch the epiffied version of Little Krishna. In this video, they tell the story of Krishna, how he was born to all the epic acts he did. It starts with his parents being imprisoned by his uncle who was told that he would die by the the eighth son of his parents. When he was born his father escaped his prison and went to a village where he exchanged his son with a daughter from the villager. When he returned the king was happy because he saw they had a daughter and not a son. The villager woke up the next morning and thought she had a daughter but woke up to a son. She was confused, but happy that she had a child. It didn't take long for her to realize that Krishna was special and not just an ordinary baby. She found Krishna eating dirt and when he opened his mouth, Krishna’s mom saw the universe in his mouth. Krishna became known as the trouble maker of the village, he would go around and steal from the villagers. I find it strange that in Hindu religion, people watch the gods and know that they came to show what not to do, instead of what to do. I am a Christian, so this was different to me. But anyways, the story is good. Krishna and his friends became known as the butter thieves for all the butter that they stole from the villagers. One day Krishna and his friends decided to go to the lake, it was a dangerous lake that had a deadly snake that poisoned the water along with the air. So while Krishna was playing his famous flute, all his friends became poisoned by the air. Krishna being upset about this summoned the snake and played his flute. While he played the snake was wrangled and his poison left. So his friends woke up and they all went home safely. This was the beginning of the story of little Krishna and his growing up. As He grew up he did a lot more awesome things and rescued many people in his village. I am excited to get to watch these stories because I really love the story of little Krishna. I think that his younger days were the best days and his adventures then were a lot of fun. I am looking forward to reading more. 

Little Krishna

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Krhisna Comes

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