Saturday, October 28, 2017

Reading Notes: Sister Nivedita's Krishna, Part A


Photograph by Beth Moon (Bored Panda)

- In the stories about the Divine Childhood of Krishna, many different miracles and unusual events that occurred around the child are talked about. One of those is about the time that his foster mother tied the boy to an axle in an effort to keep him from wandering while she was busy doing work. There were two ancient trees growing close together, and the idea was that the axle would be too heavy for the child to drag. In the event that he was able to drag it, the axle would wedge between the two trees and limit his movement. However, Krishna was not only able to easily drag the heavy axle, but after it wedged itself between the trees, he was able to pull the trees down. After the trees were uprooted, two spirits appeared. They claimed that they had been held captive, by a spell, under the trees for many years. Krishna had saved them from their prison.
- I am curious about those two spirits. Who were they? Who imprisoned them and why? What was the spell that was used to keep them held under the tree and what was there existence like during the imprisonment?
- I want to tell the story of these two spirits. I think that they should be lovers who were kept apart by an evil sorcerer. The sorcerer lusted for the woman, but she rejected his advances in favor of her poor, but kind and honorable lover. Enraged by jealousy, the sorcerer imprisons the two under the trees, so that they are apart, but tortured by their closeness.



Bibliography: Cradle Tales of Hinduism by Sister Nivedita. Web source.

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