Krishna

Krishna' (Sanskrit: m., कृष्ण kṛṣṇa, literally "the black one") is a Hindu form of the Divine and is usually worshipped as the eighth incarnation (avatar) of Vishnu. For his followers, he is the manifestation of the Supreme.

According to Rudolf Steiner, Krishna is the sister soul of Adam, who remained in the world of souls as an angel-like being after the Fall. From the beginning, she stood in close relationship to the Christ, who worked through her and was thus able to accomplish the preliminary steps to the Mystery of Golgotha. Shortly before the dawn of the Kali-Yuga, the dark age in which natural clairvoyance was extinguished in most people, she appeared in the form of Krishna, through whom Vishnu-Christ revealed himself. At the turn of the age, she was born on earth as the Nathanian Jesus boy, whose bodily shells made possible the bodily incarnation of the Christ with the Jordan baptism. It was also through the light of this sister soul of Adam that Paul of Tarsus recognised the Risen Christ during his Damascus experience. (Lit.:GA 142, p. 121ff)

The sacred scriptures describe Krishna's body tone as comparable to a fresh thundercloud. He always has a flute with him and wears a peacock feather in his hair. Although he is not considered historical in the scientific sense, Hindus assume that he actually lived. Indology investigates historical traces.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Die Bhagavad Gita und die Paulusbriefe, GA 142 (1982), ISBN 3-7274-1420-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die okkulten Grundlagen der Bhagavad Gita, GA 146 (1992), ISBN 3-7274-1460-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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