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Re: Paintings of Krishna
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To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Paintings of Krishna
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From: sadananda@anvil.nrl.navy.mil (K. Sadananda)
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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 10:58:40 -0400
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Followup-To: soc.religion.hindu
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: Naval Research Lab, Code 6323
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References: <4qa46r$las@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <4rejr8$r0b@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <ghenDu7HqL.A37@netcom.com> <ghenDu9s1A.qM@netcom.com>
In article <ghenDu9s1A.qM@netcom.com>, rleigh@earthlink.net (Randy
Leighton) wrote:
> sadananda@anvil.nrl.navy.mil (K. Sadananda) wrote:
>
> >In article <4rejr8$r0b@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, jackphel@ix.netcom.com (Jack
> >Phelan ) wrote:
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> >> In <4qa46r$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
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> >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
> >--
> >-------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
I still think it is symbolic - since I have not seen Him how he looks!
Krishnas paintings vary from one end of the country to the other and I
donot know which I have to look closely - these all depends of the vision
of the artist. All of them are Krishnaas but none of them are!
mayya tatam midam sarvam jagadavyaka muurthinaa - I pervade this entire
universe in unmanifested form. Krishnas statement in B.G. 9-4 - That is
the infiniteness that I was refereing too.
Hari Om!
Sadananda
