Mark Gagnon

All right, this is not time for jokes.

All right, Christos, we're talking about Krishna.

Now, Krishna is a fascinating, I guess you could say, avatar, god, incarnation.

And I think that there are so many parallels here within the sort of mythos between Krishna and how Hindus interface with this avatar, Vishnu, and Krishna.

ultimately how Christians almost interface with Jesus.

It's not the exact same, and I don't even want to say that they're the same thing because I think that's completely intellectually lazy, but I will say that there are certain mystical traditions that sort of tie them together in a way that I think you'll realize as we're going through.

And then at the very end, we can do a wrap up and discuss even further.

Now, before we dive into the story of Krishna, we should give some context as to what an avatar is and who Vishnu is and how all of this really works.

Now, I also just want to point out, I'm not a theologian.

I also wasn't raised in a Hindu tradition.

So first off, I want to apologize if my pronunciation is wrong.

And secondly, if there's anything I missed, please don't hesitate to comment.

This is, again, my opportunity and chance to try to

learn as much about these different religions and philosophies as I can.

So if there's anything that I completely skip over, I get wrong, please just let me know in the comments.

I would love to know the truth.

Now, most of what people know about Krishna comes from later Sanskrit literature, specifically the Mahabharata.

Now, this is a massive epic text that contains the Bhagavad Gita within it.

And then much later, the Bhagavata Purana.

This is composed roughly between