If you were a famous incarnation in the last 3500 years, who were you?

Answer 1

It was Lord Krishna... the Avatar of the Era. Now all are awaiting the incarnation of god Vishnu... Bhagavan Kalki who shall annihilate the darkness of the present kali yuga (metal age) and usher the humanity from darkness to light.


Lord Krishna is to a spiritual seeker what God is to a normal human being. Lord Sri Krishna is the culmination of all things spiritual. Lord Krishna is the end of the spiritual journey itself.

Sri Krishna an avatar of the era (Almighty God manifest in human form) came about 3500 years before. The coming of Sri Krishna was laden with a great responsibility. He upheld Dharma at a stage of time when the society was at its lowest ebb.

Adharma was prevalent all over. King Duryodhana had announced an exile of 14 years for the Pandava kings. It was practically a banishment of the Pandavas from the kingdom with the hope that the whole kingdom could be usurped by King Duryodhana himself.


The Pandavas were the rightful owners of the throne and Justice was denied to them. It was only Sri Krishna who could have set the system in order. The sooner Pandavas returned from the exile... Lord Sri Krishna exhorted the Pandavas to fight back King Duryodhana. No further exile... no further banishment!

King Arjuna who was the head of the Pandava camp refused to fight. Any amount of urgings by his companions and the countrymen lay waste. He refused to fight the enemy which consisted of his cousin brothers, relatives and friends. According to him it would be an enormous bloodshed without a purpose.

It was this time when Lord Krishna imparted to King Arjuna the doctrine of Bhagvad Gita. Lord Krishna simply stated to King Arjuna that the fight was between Dharma and Adharma. It was a fight for justice. As King Arjuna represented his countrymen... he could not behave like a coward at this stage.


Lord Krishna exhorted Arjuna to fight for a cause... the cause of justice and Dharma. Lord Krishna emphasized on Arjuna that it was not Arjuna fighting the war (Mahabharata). He was merely an instrument in the hands of God. He had to fight the war (Mahabharata) and ultimately win it. Dharma had to be won at all costs.

Lord Krishna enthused that nothing belonged to anybody existing on Mother Earth. Everything belonged to God. Every living being (Jiva) was merely a body for the soul (the man within). In fighting the cousins, relatives and friends it was not to be a fight between bodies. It was to be a fight between Dharma and Adharma.

Lord Krishna again exhorted Arjuna with the fact that in the present life whomsoever he may be related to... in the past life he may have been related to somebody else and also in the future manifestations he would be related to different people. Then where does the question arise of not fighting the war of Dharma (Mahabharata) against those who have manifested the present bodies.


It was Arjuna and only King Arjuna during the times of Lord Krishna who could have understood the sermon of Bhagvad Gita. It was only King Arjuna who could have deciphered the sermon of Bhagvad Gita in its entirety. For this matter came Arjuna had an edge over the other Pandava kings.

Lord Krishna knew that only one who was dutifully bound to his countrymen... was absolutely truthful by nature could be made to logically understand the sermon of Bhagvad Gita. He was right for in the end King Arjuna agreed to fight the enemy from within.

Bhagvad Gita encompasses the complete wisdom of the Cosmos that is requisite of a serious seeker of spirituality. The knower of Bhagvad Gita becomes omniscient... there is nothing more to learn other than contained in Bhagvad Gita.


The sermon of Bhagvad Gita by Krisna contains within it all ingredients for one to gain enlightenment within one's life. If one were to realize God in this life... one had to ceremoniously follow the dictates of Bhagvad Gita. There was no other remedy!

In no other religion, dogma or creed shall one find such precise clear path of reaching God within one's lifetime. Bhagvad Gita the doctrine dictated by Lord Sri Krisna forms the core of all that we call religion and spirituality. It is an end in itself. Understanding the pearls of wisdom contained in Bhagvad Gita by Sri Krisna one reaches the end of the cosmic journey... liberating the self (our atman within) for ever from the cycle of birth and death.

Bhagvad Gita by Sri Krishna is a one-man university. One need not go to a school or read or follow any other sacred literature existing on mother earth... yet, following the dictates contained in Bhagvad Gita by Krisna... one reaches the *** end of the earthly abode. One gains enlightenment and finally Salvation Moksha in Hinduism. More on lord krishna here- http://www.godrealized.com/Krishna.html

Answer 2

I wasn't. What I know of my previous incarnations is a) I drowned in one at a young age and b) I caused an important person's death through my own cowardice. Nice ones, huh?

I have had a few people tell me I was Oscar Wilde, but I think that's asking a bit too much.

Answer 3

I' ve been dead for a lot longer than that mear mortal. If on the other hand, i could've been anyone in that time period, it would've been a tie between Rowland Rat, Danger Mouse, Gean Simmons, 2PAC or Biggie, Marilyn Monroe, Julius Caesar, Hugh Heffner, Banana Man, Gengis Khan and Sun Tzu, who wrote the book , The Art Of War.

Answer 4

Rameses 2

Answer 5

I'm not sure. I hope nobody like Adolph Hitler or Bloody Mary. But I think that my last time around I was a guy. I have way to much sympthy for guys who get hurt. LOL. Anyways, I'm hoping Queen Elizabeth or Emily Dickinson. Maybe Shespeare even.

Answer 6

Florence Nightingale

Answer 7

King Solomon

Answer 8

Andres Kenter

Answer 9

John Lennon!

Answer 10

I was a chinese woman, I had the clearest picture of myself thru meditation. On that previous life I painted. I was somewhere near the mountains.

Not famous but interesting!!

Answer 11

Da Vinci