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Re: Paintings of Krishna
sadananda@anvil.nrl.navy.mil (K. Sadananda) wrote:
>In article <4rejr8$r0b@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, jackphel@ix.netcom.com (Jack
>Phelan ) wrote:
>> In <4qa46r$las@babbage.ece.uc.edu> chj65@CNSVAX.ALBANY.EDU (CAROL H.
>> JEWELL) writes:
>> >
>> >Does anyone know why, in paintings of Krishna, his face is often blue?
>> >
>> >TIA,
>> >Carol
>> >
>> I was taught that Lord Krishna, as a great spiritual Being, had an aura
>> that was a light blue color. Some people interpreted this as meaning
>> that He had blue skin.
>>
>> Jack
>Krishna stands for infiniteness. Anything infinite looks blue to the human
>eye- sky, the sea etc. It is symbolic to indicate the infiniteness.
>Hari Om
>Sadananda
>--
>What you have is His gift to you and what you do with what you have is your
>gift to Him. - Swami Chinmayanada
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With all due respect, you are mistaken. Krishna doesn't stand for or
symbolize anything. Krishna is a being, with a form, and that form has
a color, just like most everything else. Krishna is not a human being
and never has had a human body. He always appears in His spiritual
form, even when He came to this earth. The color of Krishna's body is
called shyam, the color of a monsoon cloud. Incidentally, certain
parts of His body are not shyam, but reddish. Look closely at His
picture to find out which ones.
Hari bol!
Randy
http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~leighton
http://home.earthlink.net/~rleigh
