Why is Krishna so Attractive?

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we cannot see the Supreme Lord, due to imperfect vision. Yet those devotees who want to see him by means of material vision are favored by the Lord, who appears in a so-called material form to accept His devotee's service."

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(Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 5, Purport)

 

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to Radharani whose bodily complexion is like molten gold and who is the Queen of Vrindavana. You are the daughter of King Vrsabhanu, and You are very dear to Lord Krsna."

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therefore that You are the Supreme Soul, Absolute Truth, and the supreme original person; and although You have expanded Yourself in many Visnu forms, or in living entities and energies, by Your inconceivable transcendental potencies, You are the supreme one without a second, You are the supreme Supersoul. The innumerable living entities are simply like sparks of the original fire. Your Lordship, the conception of the Supersoul as impersonal is wrongly accepted because I see that You are the original person. A person with a poor fund of knowledge my think that, because You are the son of Maharaj Nanda, You are not the original person, that You are born just like a human being. They are mistaken. You are the actual original person; that is my conclusion. In spite of Your being the son of Nanda, You are the original person, and there is no doubt about it. You are the Absolute Truth, and You are not of this material darkness."

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(Krsna Book, Chapter 14, Prayers Offered by Lord Brahma to Lord Krsna)

 

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Sri Srinivasa Govinda

Sri Venkatesha Govinda

Govinda Hari Govinda

Gokul Nandana Govinda

 

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(posted by Vanamali)

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God is the definition of beauty. Lord Krsna points this out in Bhagavad-gita 10.34:<blockquote><center>mRtyuH sarva-haraz cAham

udbhavaz ca bhaviSyatAm

kIrtiH zrIr vAk ca nArINAM

smRtir medhA dhRtiH kSamA

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mRtyuH--death; sarva-haraH--all-devouring; ca--also; aham--I am; udbhavaH--generation; ca--also; bhaviSyatAm--of future manifestations; kIrtiH--fame; <font color="blue">zrIH--opulence or beauty;</font> vAk--fine speech; ca--also; nArINAm--of women; smRtiH--memory; medhA--intelligence; dhRtiH--firmness; kSamA--patience.

I am all-devouring death, and I am the generating principle of all that is yet to be. Among women I am fame, fortune, fine speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness and patience.

 

PURPORT

As soon as a man is born, he dies at every moment. Thus death is devouring every living entity at every moment, but the last stroke is called death itself. That death is KRSNa. As for future development, all living entities undergo six basic changes. They are born, they grow, they remain for some time, they reproduce, they dwindle, and finally they vanish. Of these changes, the first is deliverance from the womb, and that is KRSNa. The first generation is the beginning of all future activities.

 

The seven opulences listed--fame, fortune, fine speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness and patience--are considered feminine. If a person possesses all of them or some of them he becomes glorious. If a man is famous as a righteous man, that makes him glorious. Sanskrit is a perfect language and is therefore very glorious. If after studying one can remember a subject matter, he is gifted with a good memory, or smRti. And the ability not only to read many books on different subject matters but to understand them and apply them when necessary is intelligence (medhA), another opulence. The ability to overcome unsteadiness is called firmness or steadfastness (dhRti). And when one is fully qualified yet is humble and gentle, and when one is able to keep his balance both in sorrow and in the ecstasy of joy, he has the opulence called patience (kSamA).</blockquote>

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MuddugAre YasodA mungiti muthyamuvidu

DidderAni mahimala Devaki suthudu

 

caraNam 1

 

Anthanintha gollethala arachethi mAnikyamu

PanthamAdey Kamsuni pAli vajramu

KAnthula moodu lokAla Garudapachapoosa

Chenthala mAlonunna Chinni Krishnudu

 

caraNam 2

 

ratikeli rukminiki rangumovi pagadamu

mithi gOvardhanapu Gomedikamu

sathamye SankhachakrAla sandula vaidooryamu

gathiyai mammu gAche KamalAkshudu

 

caraNam 3

 

kAlinguni talapye gappina pushyarAgamu

yelleti Sri VenkatAdri Indraneelamu

pAlajalanidhilona bAyani Divya ratnamu

bAluneevale dhrigi PadmanAbhudu

 

Lord Venkateshwara is compared with precious gems in the form of Krishnavatar Leelas. Mother Yasoda is kissing the Bala Krishna (muDugare yasODa) and he is submerged in her kisses like in a tub of pearls (mungidi muTyamu). Like a ruby (mAnikyam) he is shining and for kamsa the demon he is strong as a diamond(Vajram). His consort RugminiÕs lips are like Coral (pagadam). When he is Govarda Giridhari, he is like gOdEDiga (a brown stone). He is wearing vaidUryam (another precious stone) in between his sanku and chakra. When he is dancing on the head of kAlinga, the serpant king, he glows like pushyaraga (yellow sapphire) and when he is Lord Venkateshwara, he is like indra nIlam (blue sapphire). On the whole he is like all the precious gem stones, always helping the devotees.

 

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God, so beautiful, so opulent, but why? One might say that because He is God the original ultimate person, whatever He is, is by definition beauty.

 

One might also consider that His attractiveness demonstrates His power over all living entities who are so attracted to Him, or that it demonstrates His kindness and mercy to living entities by being so attractive.

 

It is as though the functioning of the fabric of reality itself depends on this all-attractiveness of the Supreme Person, that this Krsna-ness, attractiveness is a fundamental law of reality facilitating the pleasure of Sri Krsna, and all that is. In the mundane sphere we see gravitational attraction used to control the interactions of objects, atoms, and galaxies. Perhaps on a higher causal plane, it is this ultimate attractiveness of God that keeps everything in tune with His desire.

 

I don't seem to be able to put it clearly in words, but there is a major wonderful truth there that brings it all together, somewhere in the idea that the definition of beauty and attractiveness is God Himself. Krsna has the beautiful form of Syamasundara because that is the ultimate beautiful form - or is it the ultimate beautiful form because it is His form and He is by constitutional position, the definition of beauty. Something like that.

 

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"The brahmanas' wives saw Krsna with a blackish complexion, wearing a garment that glittered like gold. He wore a nice garland of forest flowers and a peacock feather on His head. He was also painted with the minerals found in Vrndavana, and He looked exactly like a dancing actor on a theatrical stage.

 

They saw Him resting one hand on the shoulder of His friend, and in His other hand He was holding a lotus flower. His ears were decorated with lilies, He wore marks of tilaka, and He was smiling charmingly. With their very eyes the wives of the brahmanas saw the Supreme Personality of Godhead, of whom they had heard so much, who was so dear to them, and in whom their minds were always absorbed. Now they saw Him eye to eye and face to face, and Krsna entered within their hearts through their eyes."

 

From "The Krishna Book", by Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Not necessary,he may be attractive to you,but not to everyone,to me there is no god more attractive kind powerful than Lord Siva,before Iskon not many felt Krsna as attractive as he is claimed,in South India Lord Siva is more popular,but attractive or not no god is helping us so who cares..they may not even exist,cause if they do and keep watching the atrocies like this then who needs them anyway

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Not necessary,he may be attractive to you,but not to everyone,to me there is no god more attractive kind powerful than Lord Siva,before Iskon not many felt Krsna as attractive as he is claimed,in South India Lord Siva is more popular,but attractive or not no god is helping us so who cares..they may not even exist,cause if they do and keep watching the atrocies like this then who needs them anyway

 

 

Yes what you say is true,no one has even seen Krsna in person,so how can they claim to be attractive,if that character is attractive,then so is Superman or Jesus or any fantasy character in Mythologies.