Supreme Personality Lord Sri Krishna

When I sat down to write this article, I was not sure on how I was going to write it.  But one thing I was sure.  I wanted to write about the cow herd boy in blue color.  

The one who attracts all towards him.  The one who gets the maximum votes for favourite God.  Yes, you guessed it correctly.  I want to write about Krishna.  The term Krishna means ‘one who attracts everything’.  I want to talk about the endless stories of Lord Krishna, the types of relations which he has with different kinds of people, devotional life of Bhaktas and the miracles which he does to his devotees. Above all, I want this to be the best article I have ever written.  For that, I need not have anything to do.  I just need his mercy and he will do the rest.  

Devotees worship Lord Krishna in various forms.  For some, he is Krishna the grown up youth.  For some others, he is in the Narayana form, as in Guruvayoor.  
Even others worship the Lord as Maha Vishnu, the creator of the Universe.  Yet another form of worship is that of the cow herd boy Krishna.  Indian women wish to have a son like him.  Girls love him for his mischievous pastimes.  Boys love him as a friend and a great warrior.  

Whatever relationship we want, God is there to come in that form.  If a person loves Krishna as a son, God will come as his son.  If somebody want the Lord to be his friend, Lord will be there as his friend.  If somebody need him as a lover, Krishna will be there as a lover.  We just have to desire and he is there to sanction it. 

For me, I consider him as the Supreme Soul.  Still I call him Kanna, as if he is my pet, a younger brother or a friendly kid.  Repeatedly telling “Kanna, I have told you not to do this to me”.

It is said that even if one think of Krishna all the time without devotion, for example hatred or fear, he will also be given liberation because he was thinking about the Lord all the time.  The best example is that of Kamsa.

When we make one step towards Krishna, he will do the rest.  He just pushes us in the path of devotion.  When we make the first step he just runs to you to take you with Him.  The only thing needed is our willingness or desire to love Krishna.

Here you can find the numerous names of Lord Krishna and Lord Vishnu explained with meaning.  Check out this space to download different Hindu mantras and Krishna Bhajans, lyrics of Hindu prayers and Krishna Bhajans and develop spiritually.

Try chanting Hare Krishna Maha Mantra and be happy. 

Types of Avatar

                                Types of Avatar

Lord Vishnu has taken innumerable number of incarnations.  Or we can say, the number of incarnations is infinite. The number of incarnations of The Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna is like the number of waves in ocean -infinite.   He has taken avataar in all the species of life.  Among the foremost incarnations, we know about fish, pig, varaha, narasimha, vamana, parashurama, sreerama, balarama, buddha and kalki.  So, we are familiar with the ten avatar's of Vishnu.  But I am going to tell you about the different types of incarnations (avatar).  In which category each avatar will fall. 

We all have heard about different incarnations (avataars) of Gods.  Do we know what they actually represent?  Here is a classification of different types of incarnations in general.

1. Purusha avatar 

These are also known as original avatar of Vishnu.  Examples of purusha avataar are  Kaaranodakasayi Vishnu, Garbhodakasayi Vishnu  Ksheerodakasayi Vishnu, Anirudha etc.

2. Guna avatar

There are three guna avatar.  Each guna avatar represents one guna.  It is represented by the trimurthis i.e trinity.  Satvik gun is represented by Lord Vishnu, Rajo guna is represented by Lord Brahma and Tamo guna is represented by Lord Siva.  Thus we have three guna avatars namely - Brahma, Vishnu, Siva.
Satva guna represents goodness, rajo guna represents passion and tamo guna represents darkness or ignorance.

3.Leela avatar

Each leela avatar is famous for its leela.  Lord Krishna is a leela avatar.  The main objective of Lord Krishna's incarnation is to have pastimes with his devotees.  Examples of leela avatar are Krishna, Narasimha

4. Shakthyavesha avatar

When the Lord does not appear on his own, he sends some one else to represent God.  Parashurama is the best example of Shakthyavesha avatar.  Lord Buddha is also considered a Shakthyavesha avatar.

5. Manvanthara avatar

One manvantharam is equal to 1/14 th of a Kalpa.  Each manvantharam has one particular avatar i.e manvanthara avatar. So there are infinite number of such avataars.

6. Yuga avataar

Each yuga has got its own avatar 
The first four avatars of Vishnu came in Satya yuga, the Golden age.  The next three appeared in Treta Yuga.  Then came the Eighth and Nineth in Dwapara yuga.  It is quoted in scriptures that Kalki will appear in Kali yuga.

7. Gupta avataar

Apart from all these we have secret avatars from time to time.

All the avatars are predicted in the scriptures such as Srimad Bhagavatam and various Purana.