Lord Krishna, did He really existed or is He a myth ? Is there any scientific evidence of it?

Answer 1

The Vibhutis or Powers of the Lord
Uddhava said: “Thou art the Supreme Brahman without beginning or end, uncovered, by anything. Thou art the cause of the protection, maintenance, death and birth of all beings.

“O Lord! the Brahmins who know the true sense of the Vedas worship Thee in Thy true form, and as the Truth in all beings great and small, high and low; but Thou art unknown to those who have not controlled their mind or have no training.

“Tell me of the several points in respect of which the great Rishis or sages worship Thee in devotion in the several beings and hereby attain to perfection.

“O Creator of all beings; O Antaryamin or Inner Ruler; Thou actest and dwellest in them concealed from their view. Deluded by Thee they do not see Thee, but Thou seest all.

“O Lord of boundless glories! Pray tell me of those glorious forms which are manifested by Thyself severally on the earth, in the heavens, in the nether world and in all quarters. I bow to Thy lotus feet which are the source of all holy waters, which are the source of all purity and in which are centred all sacred places.”

The Lord said: “O best of those who can make enquiries and are able in putting questions. This very question was put to Me by Arjuna, who was about to fight with the enemies on the field of Kurukshetra.

Believing that the slaying of his relatives for the sake of kingdom was reproachful and unrighteous and thinking, ‘I am the slayer, he is slain by me,’ Arjuna with the sense of an ordinary man desisted from fighting.

Then, on the eve of battle, he was made to understand by Me through reasoning, and he then spoke to Me in the same way on the battlefield as thou hast now done.

O Uddhava! I am the Atman, friend and the Supreme Ruler of all beings. I am Myself all the beings. I create, protect and destroy them.

I am the motion of those that move and I am Time of those who bring things under their influence. Of virtues I am even-mindedness, and in things possessing properties, I am their essential and natural attribute.

Among those that are endowed with Gunas I am the cosmic Prana, and I am the cosmic Intelligence (Maha Tattva) among all vast or big things. I am the subtle Jiva or soul among all subtle things, and of all that are invincible I am the mind.

Of the Vedas I am Brahma or Hiranyagarbha, the teacher who first taught them; of Mantras I am OM or Pranava consisting of A, U, and M. Of all the letters I am ‘A’ and of all the metres I am the Gayatri.

I am Indra among the Gods, Agni among the Vasus, Vishnu among the Adityas and Nilalohita among the Rudras. Among Maharshis (Brahmin sages) I am Bhrigu; among Rajarshis (royal sages) Manu; among Deva Rishis (celestial sages) I am Narada and among cows Kamadhenu.

Among the great Siddhas I am Kapila, among birds I am Garuda; among all progenitors I am Daksha; among Pitris I am Aryaman.

Know Me, O Uddhava, to be Prahlada, the king of the Asuras, among Daityas; to be moon (Soma) among stars and plants; to be Kubera among Yakshas and Rakshasas.

I am Airavata among the great elephants; among the aquatic creatures I am Varuna their Lord; I am the sun among objects that give heat and light; and I am the king among men.

I am Ucchaisravas (Indra’s horse) among horses and gold among metals, Yama among those who control and Vasuki (their king) among serpents.

I am Ananta (their king) among the Nagas; I am the lion among all beasts with horns or tusks; I am the fourth Ashrama (Sannyasa) among the four periods of life and I am the first or Brahmin among castes, O sinless One.

I am the Ganga among the rivers, the ocean among the reservoirs of water. I am the bow among weapons, and Siva—the destroyer of the three cities—among those who wield the bows.

I am Mount Meru among abodes and the Himalayas among inaccessible places. I am the Asvattha (pipal tree) among trees; I am Yava (barley) among all the plants that yield food.

I am Vasishtha among priests and Brihaspati among preceptors or knowers of Brahman. I am Skanda among generals and Brahma among the righteous or those who put people in the righteous path.

I am Brahma-Yajna or the study of the Vedas among sacrifices; of all the vows I am the vow of harmlessness or non-injury; of purifying agencies I am the wind, fire, sun, water, speech and Atman; of all things that are pure I am the purity.

I am the perfect control of mind (Samadhi) among the Yogis; I am the counsel or policy of those who seek to conquer; I am the justice in all laws or ordinances; I am discrimination—between Atman and Anatman—among the discerning faculties; and I am the doubt of those who enter into the debate in the theory of perception.

I am Satarupa (wife of Manu) among women and of men I am Svayambhuva Manu, the son of Brahma. I am Narayana among sages or saints and Sanatkumara among celibates or Brahmacharis.

I am renunciation (Sannyasa) among virtues and I am the promise of protection against fear of all virtuous duties; of all causes of security I am contemplation or introspection. Of secrets I am sweet words and silence; and of the pairs I am the Prajapati (Brahma) who out of his body created the first pair Manu and Satarupa.

Of those that are regular I am Samvatsara (the year); of the seasons I am the Vasanta (spring); of months I am Margaseersha (latter half of December and first half of January) and of stars I am the Abhijit.

I am the Kritayuga or Satya Yuga among Yugas and of the wise, brave and the steady-minded I am Devala and Asita; of the dividers of the Vedas I am Dvaipayana and of men of wisdom I am Sukra, possessed of self-control.

I am Vasudeva among the Lords or Avataras and of the devotees I am thyself. I am Hanuman among the Kimpurushas; and of Vidyadharas I am Sudarsana; (I am Chakra or Sudarshana among weapons).

I am the sapphire (blue stone or ruby) among precious stones; of the beautiful I am the lotus-bud; I am the sacred Kusa among the many varieties of grass; and of oblations I am the clarified butter or cow’s ghee.

I am the fortune of the persevering and the fraud of the deceitful; I am forbearance or fortitude of the plodding or the painstaking, and I am the Sattva (purity or goodness) of those who have Sattva.

Know that I am firmness and resistance in the strong and devotion among the devotees; of the nine forms worshipped by devotees, I am the first and the most important manifestation, Vasudeva.

I am Visvavasu among Gandharvas and Purvachiti (Urvasi) among Apsaras. I am the firmness of mountains and am the smell in abstract of earth.

I am the sweet taste in water, and the sun among the resplendent; I am the brilliance in the sun, moon and stars and the sound in ether.

I am Bali among the worshippers of Brahmanas and I am Arjuna among warriors. I am indeed the origin, sustenance and dissolution of all beings.

I am the motion, speech, excretion, talking, enjoyment, touch, sight, taste, hearing and smelling of the organs. I constitute their functions. I am indeed the sense of all the senses.

Earth, air, ether, water, light, egoism, intelligence, the sixteen modifications of Prakriti viz., the five Tanmatras, the ten organs and mind, Purusha and Prakriti; Sattva, Rajas and Tamas and the Supreme Brahman—all these I am. I am also their enumeration, their knowledge and realisation of Truth.

Nothing exists without My presence in My twofold aspect, of the Lord and the Jiva, attribute and substance, the indwelling soul and gross or subtle body just as a thing cannot be without its property.

I can count the atoms of the elements in course of time but My powers and glories displayed in creating crores of worlds are indeed beyond counting i.e., infinite.

Wherever there are majesty, fortune, prosperity, power, beauty, fame, wealth, modesty, liberality, sacrifice, prowess, forbearance, fortitude, subtle understanding and knowledge—there I am manifested.

I have thus described to you shortly all these manifestations of Mine. They are only modifications of the mind and are somehow expressed through speech. They are only a part of Myself. My real nature is beyond the description of words or the grasp of the mind.

Control the speech, control the mind, control the breath and the senses, control also the impure mind by the pure mind, control the self by the Self. Then you will no more return to the world.

For the man who has not perfectly controlled his speech and mind, his vows, austerities and gifts leak out as water does from an unburnt pot.

Therefore with devotion to Me one should control speech, mind, and the Pranas. He should fix his mind in Me with firm devotion. Then he will attain the final goal easily.”

The Duties of the Brahmacharin and the Householder
Uddhava said: “Thou hast already described the Dharma or the righteous course called Bhakti or devotion as beneficial to all human beings who observe the rules laid down for the different castes or orders of life. O Lord of lotus-like eyes! Please tell me in detail of the Dharma peculiar to each by practising which a man may develop devotion to Thee.

“O Mighty-armed Lord! O Madhava, the knowledge of the Eternal Truth, Brahman, the righteous course of the highest character that Thou expound to Brahma in the form of a swan, is not perhaps remembered in the mortal world, O Slayer of foes, as it was taught long ago.

“O Achyuta! Other than Thyself there is none to teach, to practise and maintain Dharma on earth, and even in the court of Brahma where the sciences and all the deities presiding over the disciplines are personally present.

“O Madhusudana! When Thou, the originator, defender and expounder of it, leavest the earth, religion and Dharma too will die. Who, O Lord, will then expound the lost Dharma?

“Thou knowest all the Dharmas. Pray explain to me, O Lord, the Dharma that leads to Thy devotion, how and for whom it is laid down?”

The Lord said: “O Uddhava, your question is righteous, for it will have the way to Moksha for men who observe the duties of caste and order of life. Listen to my exposition of the same.

In the beginning, in the Krita or Satya Yuga, men had but one caste which was known as Hamsa. Men attained the consummation of their desires from their very birth. They had by nature all their objects accomplished. They were in full touch with Me and knew that the object of their lives was to worship Me. Hence it was called the Krita Yuga (the time that makes everything ready for men, achieved).

In that primeval age, the sacred syllable OM was the Veda and I was Dharma in the form of a bull having four feet. Men of that age were pure and firm in Tapas. They meditated on Me, the pure one.

In the beginning of Treta, O blessed one! The Vedas became revealed from My heart through the Prana, out of which I became the sacrifice with its three main characteristics viz., the Hota, Adhvaryu, and Udgata who perform the different functions of a Vedic sacrifice.

The four castes Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Sudra with their separate duties and callings were created from the face, hands, thighs and legs of the Virat Purusha respectively. The householder’s life had its origin from My thighs, the student life from My heart, the life of a Vanaprastha in the forest from My chest and the life of Sannyasa from My head.

The natural characteristics or tendencies of the different castes and orders of life among men were according to the place of their origin; those born of the lower members had inferior tendencies and those born of the higher had superior characteristics or tendencies. Control of the mind and the senses, meditation, cleanliness, contentment, patience, forbearance, straightforwardness, devotion to Me, compassion and truthfulness—these are the characteristics of the Brahmana.

Majesty, strength, fortitude, heroism, endurance, liberality, exertion, firmness, devotion to the Brahmana and ruling power, honesty, these are the characteristics of a Kshatriya. Faith, a strong disposition to give, absence of hypocrisy, service to the Brahmins, to be ever on the look out for amassing wealth—these are the characteristics of the Vaisya.

Service to the twice-born, to the cows, to the gods, to be contended with what he gets therefrom—these are the characteristics of the Sudra.

Uncleanliness, falsehood, theft, lack of faith, atheism, quarrelsomeness without cause, lust, anger, greed—these are the characteristics of a fifth class who are beyond the pale of the four castes.

Harmlessness, truthfulness, freedom from theft, lust, anger, covetousness and an effort to do what is agreeable and beneficial to all beings—this is the course of Dharma or common duty of all castes.

Having had the regular course of purificatory rites and the second birth of initiation known as the sacred thread ceremony, a Dvija or twice-born should dwell in the house of his preceptor with control over his senses, and study the Vedas when called upon to do so by him.

He should wear a girdle or waist-band made of sacred grass, deerskin as upper garment, rosary of Rudraksha beads and the holy thread and carry a staff, water pot and some Kusa grass. He should wear matted hair, must not waste his time in beautifying his face and body and avoid coloured seats.

He should observe silence while bathing, eating, offering oblations to the fire, repeating His Mantra and answering calls of nature. He should not cut his hair in the arm-pits and private parts.

He should observe strict Brahmacharya and never make any conscious break. If he becomes unconsciously impure, he should have a bath and repeat the Gayatri, controlling the breath or practising Pranayama.

After attending to cleanliness in the morning and evening, he should silently repeat his Mantra with concentration and offer his worship to the fire, the Sun, the preceptor, cows, Brahmins, superiors, elderly people and the gods.

He should regard the preceptor as Myself and never disregard or look down upon him as a man. He should not find out defects in the preceptor taking him to be a man, for the preceptor represents all the gods and he is the abode of all the gods.

In the morning and evening he should bring his alms or whatever else he may have received, to his preceptor and eat with moderation whatever is permitted by the preceptor.

He should always worship the preceptor serving him as a servant, by following him when he is going somewhere, resting near him when he is asleep, sitting by his side to shampoo his limbs when he is tired and being near him with folded palms ready to carry out his commands.

Conducting himself thus he should live in the house of his preceptor shunning comforts and maintaining perfect celibacy till the course of learning is finished.

[Note: There are two types of Brahmacharins—the Upakurvana and the Naishthika. The former enters the household life after the completion of his study. He generally gives presents to his preceptor, returns to his house and enters the Grihasthasrama. The Naishthika maintains life-long celibacy. The above is the description of the duties of the former. Now the duties of a Naishthika Brahmachari are described.]

If he wishes to attain the Brahmaloka, he should observe rigid celibacy and surrender his body to his preceptor as a tribute for the instructions he received from him.

Being sinless and possessed of the lustre of Brahman, he should worship Me, the Supreme Being, in the fire, the preceptor, his own Self, and in all beings with a feeling of identity or oneness.

He who is not a householder should avoid seeing, touching, conversing or joking etc., with women and also seeing other animals in sexual intercourse.

Cleanliness, the sipping of water preparatory to religious functions (Achamana), bathing, offering prayers in the morning, noon and evening, straightforwardness, visiting of holy places, repetition of the Mantra, avoidance of things not to be touched or eaten, and of persons not to be talked to, devotion to Me present in all beings, and control of mind, speech and body—these, O Uddhava, are the observances or rules of discipline (Niyamas) which are common for all the orders of life.

Thus, the Brahmin who practises rigid celibacy shines like fire, and he is unselfish, his desires are burnt by intense austerities and he attains devotion to Me.

Answer 2

Well Hindus hold that he did exist in bodily form during the last Yuga. There is evidence that Dwarka did exist in the time that Krishna was supposed to have existed on earth. That's pretty solid evidence.

As time goes on, religious personalities fall further and further into the mythological category. We all know today that Jesus did live 2000 years ago, but who knows what people will say several millenia down the line.

Answer 3

Excellent question.The basic question an atheistic should know.Lord Krishna is only Bhagavan,meaning all potent.
If anybody has chance to visit place called Sri Vrindavan Dham near Delhi,Mathura dist. all the required evidence are available.Why scientific?,we can find the sensible & real evidence.In case anybody wants to reach this place you can contact any ISKCON centers,devotees can help you.
LIke this so many other places in India & other places in this world we can see the real evidence.There is a place where kne cap of demon Bhakasura who was killed by Bhima sena,during their exile,can be seen.This is scitifically proven by the archialogy.This location is available near Kolkota,Mayapur.
If kne cap of a demon is available to see at this moment,who was killed by the Bhima sena,devotee of lord Krishna,why not Lord Krishna really exist,who is the creater of all these people.If you want to see the picture of this kne cap,please mail [e-mail],I can forward it.
We can not compare everything to science,because doubts like this is a big science to understand.I suggest to study Srimad Bhagavat Gita,Srimad Bhagavatam,where we can get right answers.One should study all these scriptures under the shelter/help of a bonofied spiritual master,then only un adultrated info,will be available.

Answer 4

Centuries later there would be no evidence of your existence too. Does that make you a myth?

A few archeological sites were found which are dated back to the regime of Krishna. One of these sites include the splendid city of Dwarka. Ancient scriptures were found. You cannot just ignore them, can you?

:-)

Answer 5

Mythology means myths moves beyond times.
times infinite knows nowhere.
hence whether the existence of Lord Krishna counts or not; but the essence of knowledge spreads by him goes forever.
read Bhagavad Gita.

Answer 6

Krishna is mentioned in different holy books, including the Reg Veda, the Bhagavad Gita. According to recent calculations, Krishna's birth date has been approximately calculated to be 3228 B.C.E. In the article I read, there are artifacts dealing with temples and representations of Krishna, but no actual archaeological evidence of Krishna's life on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna

Answer 7

By visiting Vrindavana, the pastime places of Krishna one can see much related to Krislhna's various pastimes. Dwarakaouri, submerged under the ocean also can be visited. Jaganntha Puri, Sridham Mayapur in Nadia, West Bengal (birth place of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) also can be visited.

Scientific evidence! Which Science?. Who is the authority?. Do you mean by it,just experimental science which at first says that atoms are indivisible, later divisible containing neutron, proton, elcetrion and much later much more. . .

There are two sciences
1. Material Science(chemistry, physics etc...)
based on experiments and keeps changing.
2. Spiritual Sceience
not based on experiments, but are eternal truth based on the Vedas. Also called as Sanatana Dharma(eternal religion) based on the Vedas.
Generally, people think of only one science commonly known to them which is based on experiments, observation and conclusions that are dependent on the particular person's subective experiments which always changes or there is always room for further improvments. It is not conclusive truth.

Materialistic science deals with material knowledge, chemistry, physics, biology, etc... and not spiritual science. Very recently there are studies among the scientist about consciousness. The scientists are only at best trying to study the symptom of the spirit soul which is consciousness. Material Science is

In contrast the Material Science, the Vedas, give spiritual science, which apart from giving the knowledge of the matter is giving the knowledge of the spirit soul. The same Vedas give the knowledge about Lord Krishna and it is been confirmed by great authorities in the practise of Spiritual Sciences. Great authorities such Vyasadeva,Madhvacharya, Sri Chaitanya, Ramanujacharya, Nimbarkacharya,Jivagosvami Vishnuswami,Shankaracharya, Visvanatha Cakravarti, Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Gaurakisora, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and Prabhupada have accepted Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Krishna Himself has declared as much in many places of the authentic literatures and especially in Gita.

The materialistic scientists cannot know Krishna by the experimental knowledge because krishna is beyond the grasp material senses. Therefore He is also called as Ahoksaja, which means beyond the observation of sense perception. Material science is cannot observe everything and anything, but can only observe things under certain material conditions only, which are also beyond their control.

One knows about one's father by hearing from the authority of one's mother.In the same way, one can know Krishna(God or father) by hearing from the the authority of Veda (mother).

Answer 8

They really existed as great personalities who were elevated to the level of Gods because of their divine character exemplary lives. the miraclkes atributed to them are as true and as false as those attributed to any gods in any country and in any religion.In th eolden days before the alphabets were invented , messages wereconveyed to the people and progeny through songs and peotry through oral tradition.It is poetry with embellished with figurs of speech and rymes hat wer eeasy to remember and repeat .Ijn all countries that was the pracice . That is why all literature in the ancient world were in the form of poetry. Even today we see people singing songs in languages they do not know . Even without knowing the meaning og any song in the unknown language people are ale to produce the full song the same wayit is spoken by the people who know the language .So all the narrationof helives of those great men and kings were in the formof poetry with all sorts of metaphers and ohter figures of speech for poetic and musical effect ,So we may not have to take the all that is said literally.The period of theior existence is too veryh ancient and stretch back to certin yugas .Ramayan is reported to have happend in dhwabhara Yuga and mahabharath is reported to have occured in the dreytha yuga .Now we are in kaliyuga . One yuga is said o be of 43, 28 000 years ., Dredha yuga shoud have run out before the Mahabharatha happend .Dredha yuga has also gone -another 43,28000 years and as you can see from the almanac , in India , the kali yuga has runniing its 5107the year .So this yuga has still 42, 22893 years to go.Satellit imaging by NASA of the south Indian peninsula has revealed the existence of a man made bride between India and Sri Lanka as reported to have been built by Rama for his invasion of Sri lanka consequent on the abduction of sita by Ravana .So also scientific evedences of the places of description whre the wars of krushetra wer econducted are found in the northern India .Considering the antiquity of the incidents narrated in the Great epics , it is impossible to locat all the evidences one need to establish something .What is great is the scientific facts narrated in the Bhagavad Gita about the nature of the universe and its creation and annihilation and the chacter of space and all things in iot is something that is astounding and revealing the leerl of atainments of the people of this sub continent at a time when even alphabets had not been invented some 6000 years ago.

Answer 9

Yes - Lord Kirshna really existed and it is not a myth. Only one evidance, the Bhagawat gita presented this world is by Lord Kirshna. Bhagavad-Gita, Sanskrit poem incorporated into the Mahabharata, one of the greatest religious classics of Hinduism. The Gita (as it is often called) consists of a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Prince Arjuna on the eve of the great battle of Kurukshetra. Arjuna is overcome with anguish when he sees in the opposing army many of his kinsmen, teachers, and friends. Krishna persuades him to fight by instructing him in spiritual wisdom and the means of attaining union with God (see yoga). The main doctrines of the Gita are karma-yoga, the yoga of selfless action performed with inner detachment from its results; jnana-yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination between the lower nature of man and his soul, which is identical with the supreme self; and bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion to a particular god—in this case, Krishna, who reveals himself to Arjuna as the avatara (incarnation) of Vishnu, Lord of the Universe. The Bhagavad-Gita is essentially Upanishadic in content, but it differs significantly from the brahman-atman doctrine of the Upanishads in teaching that the highest God is personal and that love and surrender to God's grace is a better and easier spiritual path than that of pure knowledge. The Gita has been the subject of many commentaries and has been much translated. Its translators include Annie Besant, Sir Edwin Arnold, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Mohandas Gandhi.

This itself is sufficiant to to prove the world about Krishnas existance-

Answer 10

Nah theres no scientific evidence on his existance at all.many r kinda how can u expect science to exist so many years back n stuff........but they dont realise that The Holy Quran cantains innumerable scientific facts and many more that scientists r yet to find out despite the fact that it was revealed about more than 1400 years b4.You can confirm this from amny sources like "Allah Is Known Through Reason" by Harun Yahya and other bks by Dr.Zakir Naik. The queston is how did they know these facts?It is because it ws revealed by The Almighty God Himself to our Dear Prophet(p.b.u.h) and so unto the whole of humanity.

Answer 11

He really existed. And what more scientific evidence is required than the discovery of the legendary city Dwaraka itself