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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Storytelling: The Bhagavad Gita

Allan spoke Kris with worry in his voice. He was trying to discern whether or not he should tell the girl he had been crushing on that he was the one that saved the puppy from the cars, not Steve. “Kris, I am the one who saved that puppy, shouldn't Dorothy know that? I mean, cant you imagine how much more she would like me if she found out that that was me?” Allan said with a fair bit of anger that Steve had been taking credit. 

“Allan, you are not supposed to do good things just so you can get recognition. Couldn't you imagine how the world would be, if everybody was only doing good for the recognition. I mean, everyone would be selfish jerks on the inside. And what good is it to do good outwardly if your heart doesn't reflect the good that you are doing” Kris replied, trying to persuade Allan not to go rambling about his good deeds to the girl he liked. “Besides, if you go off and tell her that it was you, she would probably just think you are trying to take credit and like you less. You should just let your deeds speak for themselves as she sees you do it without you knowing” Kris added. Allan grumbled a little, he really wanted to tell Dorothy that it was him. She loves puppies and would love him more if she knew he saved the puppy. 

“But Kris, she loves puppies and would love me for saving that little thing. She would be all about me after that. I mean she would probably marry me on the spot for saving that little thing. That would be the dream, man. Dorothy and I forever” He finished and looked back at the much wiser Kris. Kris looked back at Allan with pity for him. 

“I know that you love her, and I know that you want to marry her, but think man, would she really marry you just because you saved that puppy from the street? I think she would need a little more convincing than that. Just do your good deeds and do not think about her. Do not try to obtain the fruit of labor, just labor for the good of others” Kris said to Allan. Allan knew that Kris was right, he just did not want to admit that. Why would he not care about what Dorothy thought of him, he loved her and wanted her to love him back. But he finally came to understand what Kris was saying. 

“Okay, Kris, I will give up on chasing her with this. Steve can have the victory today. Hopefully my love for her will be enough to pursue her rightfully. I just hope that I am a good enough man. I will try and do as I ought to do because I ought to instead of chasing the fruits” Allan said with a sigh of relief. He was happy to know, although still upset, that he can just be himself instead of trying to always be noticed. 

Krishna & Arjuna

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Authors Note:

My story is a reflection of a piece of the Bhagavad Gita where Krishna tells Arjuna that he needs not to chase the fruit, but instead just work hard because it is his duty to. I like this story because it talks of Dharama and how that is a huge piece of the society and Hindu religion. Allan plays the part of Arjuna and Kris plays the part of Krishna. I wanted to make this into a story that we can imagine happening all the time in our society. We try to impress people by our good deeds a lot of times. That philosophy is what Krishna speaks against and wants Arjuna to know is not the way to live, but instead just follow your dharma. I think that my story hits the point well in a way that is understandable for us today. This Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita is one of my favorite chapters to read, so I hope that I did, indeed, do it justice. 

The Bhagavad Gita

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Reading Notes: The Bhagavad Gita part B

In this section of the Bhagavad Gita I learned that the that the character, Arjuna, was speaking to Krishna really with what seemed to be a loss of hope on his end. He did not want to fight his family but he was weighed down by the conviction of duty, dharma as they call it. So throughout this section of the story Krishna is really persuading Arujna to fight because of his dharma. This is important because Arjuna was really convicted against this but knew that Krishna was the god who was going to tell him what to do even through an undesired to do as Krisna commanded. Throughout this section we learn different stories that Krishna tell that relate to the faith that one must have. In each of these chapters of the Bhagavad Gita Krishna tells what it means, through story and theology what it means to have faith. So he described different types of faith so that Arjuna could really understand him. These theologies of the different types of faith help build the Hindu religion and what it looks like to follow on these different paths that one must take. These stories of theology also help build the backbone of the society that begins with the different types of classes that we still see today. It is important to understand as we read this book that it is not just an epic but it builds the religion and the society of India itself. I really enjoyed this book as I read because I got to lo ok at the conversation that was going on between Arjuna and Krishna during the Mahabharata. It is also great because we get to see how distraught Arjuna was over fightin his family. He was so upset about it that at one point he tells Krishna to become his charioteer again so he doesn't have to listen to a god telling him what he should do. I am excited that I will be reading the rest of this book because I want to dive deeper into an understanding of just how hard it is for Arjuna to fight and also learn about all the types of stories that were used to create an entire religion and society.

The Bhagavad Gita

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Storytelling: The Mahabharata

A long time ago, in a land far far away lived a man and his brothers. This man was the strongest man in the world. He also was the most rash man in the world. He would jump into fights without thinking and destroy all things in his path. His name was Hulk. Hulk and his brothers were in exile by the will of the king. Hulk hated exile, he urged his brothers time and time again to fight back and take the kingdom that they were exiled from. His brothers urged him to calm down and not to fight, but he grew more and more agitated by this. 

“I am Hulk and I must SMASH!!” He would yell out to his brothers who were meditating around him. “Join me brothers or we will die out here! Let us smash the king and take the kingdom back! We must smash!” Hulk continued to yell out. 

“Hulk, calm down” Thor, his brother said. “We have been subjected to exile now we must stay here. When the time is right, we will take back the kingdom. Hulk did not like this, he wanted to attack and to take the kingdom back. So he left his brothers sitting on the ground and ran into the world. While in the woods he came across a beautiful woman named Bala. Bala was a evil spirit who was trapped by her brother Loki. Bala came to Hulk and spoke to him about her love for him which Hulk reciprocated. “I love you Bala, but I am married and cannot be with you” he told her. 

“She has many husbands, she does not need you, come and be with me so that we can be together forever” Bala responded to Hulk. But while they were still talking Loki saw their interactions and attacked. 

“I am Loki and this is my sister Bala! What are you doing with her? Bala I told you to kill him” He shouted at Bala and Hulk. 

“I could not kill him, I love him” Bala Answered. “Hulk, kill my brother and free me”. Hulk, all too happy with what Bala said attacked Loki to kill him. Hulk ran at Loki and threw a nasty punch into Loki’s face. Loki flew into a tree but sprang up to attack Hulk. Loki kicked Hulk in the stomach and it threw Hulk to the ground. Hulk became very angry and grabbed Loki and squeezed him into two pieces. Loki’s body fell to the ground and Hulk let out a loud cry, which brought all his brothers running to him. 

Thor was the first to speak when he saw what had happened, “Hulk, who is this guy you killed? And who is this girl?”. 

“This Loki, evil spirit he is. And this is Bala my love”. Hulk answered Thor “Why do you all looked shocked? He was attacking me so I killed him”. 

“It’s not that you killed him, go you for that. It’s that you love Bala? You have a wife, Black Widow” Tony, another one of his brothers, answered. 

“Yes, but I love her, and now she is my love and I will marry her, you cannot stop me” Hulk answered. 

Bhima and Duryodhana

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Peter Brook's Mahabharata

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Author's note:

In my story this week I wanted to talk about Bhima. He was really a great character in Peter Brook's movie, so I wanted to focus on him as I made this story. I decided that I would equate the characters of the Mahabharata to the characters of the Avengers. Bhima related so well, in my own opinion to Hulk, so I gave him that name to make the story a little better. I enjoyed making the characters reflect the different Avenger's because they actually seemed to fit really well with the Avenger's characters. I decided to focus the story on the part where Bhima meets his second wife. I wanted to do this part because I thought that I could focus it more on the story and be able to show a lot of Bhima and Hulk's characteristics.

Reading Notes: Peter Brook's Mahabharata part D

Peter Brook's Mahabharata continues to interest me as I finished it off today. I just really enjoyed the entire thing as it related back to the original story. I loved the acting, though not the best, it was fun to watch how excited the characters were to be in the roles that they were playing. I loved the final battle of the movie, where Arjuna's son went into the ring to fight. It was sad to see him die though since he was just a young man. The battle was great though, interesting to watch, and great to see the reactions of the characters as they watched and battled together. I thought that the scene of Bhima going into the battle to kill Duryodhana. The battle with the maces was kinda funny and great even though it seemed so dramatic for everything, but I kinda feel like every battle that was fought was super dramatic and wasn't as realistic as I would expect a battle to be. But that is okay with me, the fight was great and the ending of the movie turned great. It was weird to see Krishna dying in the end just because I would not expect a god to die. So seeing this part of the movie made it interesting to me because I was seeing the mortality of all the people and gods in the Hindu religion. The movie was great, it was a good epic to watch and being able to rehear what it looked like as compared to the book version of the story was great. I did like the book version more, but the story all around was great and I was happy that I decided to watch this film. I will be trying to get my wife to watch it sometime soon. 

Bhima and Duryodhana

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Peter Brook's Mahabharata
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