Tell Me Why Krishna

By Dr. Hare Krishna Chandrasekaran

For the past 5200 years, children have been raising questions and discussing within themselves as to why Krishna did such and such things and why He did not do some other things. They never could never get the right answer. Now the author gives 36 enchanting stories about Krishna and answers the naturally arising doubts with three bullet points in each case.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
• Release date: Jun 14, 2022
• ISBN: 6580555008432

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Table of Contents

From the Editor’s desk

INTRODUCTION

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

1. Baby’s magic show

2. Secret transfer of a valuable treasure

3. Winding up the whirlwind

4. Beyond space vision

5. A fruitful transcation!

6. Black serpent’s dark venom

7. Silent escape of calves

8. Truth looks like lies

9. A swinging pet

10. Footprints as a clue

11. Operation white-loot

12. Lord for a day

13. Mid-night fire in mid-forest

14. Hunger strikes the brothers

15. Case of the mystery cave

16. Case of the missing laddus

17. Melodious mesmerising music

18. Fight against rain God

19. Under a huge umbrella

20. Journey to another world - another age

21. A monster in the moon-lit light

22. Invitation with a plot

23. Double role?

24. The two go off to the city

25. End of tyranny

26.Who’s the next king?

27. Deep-sea diving

28. Sleeping duty

29. Message from Heaven

30. Food generator!

31. Peel the banana before eating!

32. The surprise return gift

33. Case of the jewel theft

34. No piece of land - No peace of mind.

35. Inter-planetary adventure

36. A strange scratch

FORTHCOMING BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR

CHILDREN

1.Impossible Krishna Stories

2.Simplest Gita in the world

3.Gita’s Treasure Hunt

4.Krishna Gita Jokantakshari

5.Do you know?

ELDERS

6.Impossible Mahabharata

7.Reliable assurances from Gita

8.Krishna meets world champions

9.Timeless Gita for ‘Time-less’ people

10.Guinness records of Krishna

From the Editor’s desk

Ahouse built on a solid foundation alone can withstand for a long time. If the foundation is not strong, it will collapse anytime. In the same way in bhakti or devotion to the Lord, if not backed up with full knowledge, may cause us to stray from the path of Bhakti when the conditions become unfavorable.

While reading the Mahabharata or watching it on television, there are many questions which arise in the young minds of children. Questions like Lord Krishna stole butter. Is stealing right? Krishna was telling lies to his mother. Is telling lies correct? These are very important questions, whose answers have to be given precisely so that the young minds are shaped correctly and they move forward in the right direction. This will then become a strong foundation of knowledge which will help them in their bhakti or devotion to the Lord.

Not always do parents have the answers to these. So, where do they fallback on? This book ‘Tell me why Krishna’ is an excellent way for parents to learn and explain to children, our historic epic Mahabharata/Bhagavatam and its lessons in a Q&A format. Elderly kids can read the book themselves and get their questions clarified.

The stories in the book are structured like in an adventure novel. These stories are the real adventures of Lord Krishna taken from Bhagavatham. This again is a novel idea of the author to present the classic stories in a new perspective of thriller and adventure without losing original content. Through this adventurous thread of stories, the author also brings out moral values that need to be incorporated within us. Emphasis has been made on traits like controlling anger, smiling, speaking the truth and above all, being a good human.

Just like Abacus helps with Mental Maths and Science workshops help with applying Science, the lessons from Mahabharata and Bhagavatham will help mould the personality, moral values and behavioral traits of the child. They will become more responsible to their parents and society.

CHIEF EDITOR

SRIVIDYA CHANDRASEKARAN

INTRODUCTION

To understand Krishna is a very difficult thing. It is like understanding the sky, measuring the depth of the ocean or analysing the infinite. In the simplest way, to say that it is impossible, would be making sense. Does it mean that we should not try? Definitely no. Man has always been trying to learn the unknown, break open the secrets of nature and grasp the impossible. Though limited, he uses his senses and thinking capacity to the extent possible, to go into the illumination phase of knowing from the darkness phase of the unknown. It is worth recalling here what we have learnt in our school life which is valid even today. That is how the Vedas are, guiding us in every phase of life:

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Tamasomajyotirgamaya means From darkness, lead me to light

(BrhadaaranyakaUpanisad 1.3.28)

Man with an inquisitive mind has always tried to reach out to new things hitherto left untouched. Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that four types of people surrender to Him. One of the four is, ‘jignyashu’, means, the inquisitive.

We can declare ourselves to be in that category, because we want to know. Not from time immemorial, but for the past five thousand two hundred years, since the time Sri Krishna came to the earth, we have been trying to understand Him and the six types of absolute qualities He displayed, viz., Beauty, Fame, Knowledge, Renunciation, Strength and Wealth. He was 100% in each of them.

In our life (again in a restricted way), we have seen each of the above qualities in people, but in an extremely limited way.