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Christmas, Krishn, krishn Christ Jesus Herod Kamsa Vrindavan Bethlehem Putana Moksha Matrika, Virgin Mary
On the eve of Christmas, here is an interesting COINCIDENTAL EVENT.
As story goes, KAMSA heard a prophesy that his death lay at the hands of Devaki’s 8th child. Whereupon Kansa killed all of Devaki’s newborns. However, 
when he learnt that 8th child was safe & sound in Vrindavan, he ordered a massacre of all babies in VRINDAVAN.
One of his first emissaries was ogress Putana. She took on a beautiful form and breastfed poison instead of milk. However, her murderous spree came to a halt when baby KRISHN suckled the life out of her.
Now cut across from Vrindavan to BETHLEHEM.
Jesus CHRIST was born to Virgin Mary. The Magi (wise old men) knew he lay helpless and vulnerable in a barn.
King HEROD had heard of various prophesies about divine Christ. He considered baby Christ as a personal threat. Consequently, he ordered the deaths of all children less than 2 years of age.
This terrible scene is depicted in many paintings titled ‘The Massacre of the Innocents.’
Mothers: While Virgin Mary is associated with Christ, Putana is classified amongst ‘Matrikas’. It is said that even her brief venomous breast feeding act elevated her to the level of Krishn’s foster mother!
Krishn proves that even the vilest have scope for improvement and can achieve Moksha on contact with him.
It is really nice how you related stories from two different cultures. 🙂
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There are so many parallel tales in Indian * Greek mythology too. Odyssey & Krishn, Achilles & Arjun etc. Sometimes one doesn’t know if one got ‘inspired’ by the other, or did great minds think alike simultaneously across the world.
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I feel the similarity may have roots somewhere in the Aryan race which got settled in India. I have noticed that many rituals are similar as well. 🙂
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Quite possible. Many of us ‘Indians’ may have ‘Aryan ‘ roots. Infact, in Mahabharat the word ‘Arya’ comes frequently. So maybe the invasion began much earlier.
Many queens call their royal husband as ‘Arya’. In B. Gita , Krishn says not performing one’s duty is ‘un-Arya’.
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Beautiful post apt for Christmas. Wish you a Merry Christmas and to all your near and dear ones. 🙂
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Thank you. Wishing joy, peace and pleasure to you & family!
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Tuzhe man aani buddhi che nave nave pailu ,mala keval achanbit karatat ! Chhaaan !
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The mind is a mystery even to oneself. Even I don’t realize how many thoughts wander around it. I can only take credit for capturing, imprisoning and penning them down in coherent form.
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Very well written. Happy holidays.
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Thank you. What holidays? We just have one day off for Xmas and then back to work. Do you celebrate in the company of the Xmas tree?
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Not theory – it is an interesting amalgamation of 2 cultures with synchronized events. The world is smaller than we think!
AND Indiblogger, am so delighted you chose my blogpost for ‘Indiebloger Weekly Diary’ of Dec 2014!
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Loved the connection 🙂 And congrats on being chosen for the weekly diary. You deserve it.
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Thank you! I love to hear visitor’s opinions and discussions.
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That was a relative comparison, Never thought this could be a possibility
This also reminds me of my history teacher who used to say if you read history, you can relate events of Mahabharata to various Kings and Dynasty
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Hello, yes. I am so glad you agree that Mahabharata is History, and not mythology. Yes, the beauty of Mahabharata is that even amidst the curses, boons, miracles, demigods and celestial weapons – the lasting impression is made by very human emotions.
Yes, family feuds and animosity amongst dynasties will relate back across 5000 years.
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It’s all about Karma. Putna in her last incarnation was King Bali’s wife. When Lord Vishnu took Vaman avatara, by finding him charming, she wished to breastfeed him in her next birth but when she saw him killing her husband, her next wish was to mix poison in her breast-milk and feed him. Both her wishes were fulfilled in her incarnation as Putna,
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Very interesting! I was totally unaware of this connection.
But somehow, don’t you think reincarnation tales get created in retrospect/ hindsight? I mean, someone tries to connect i’s and cross t’s.
Like, for example, Narayana-Rama-Krishn heritage running parallel to Nara-Vali-Arjun?
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Thought provoking post.
It is interesting when similar creative leaps happen in different cultures, countries and time periods, your Kamsa and Jesus stories for example.
Brings to mind Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious, his symbolic archetypes that he believed all humans share, and his concept of synchronisity.
The contemporary research of The Consciousness Project illustrates this too. They are collecting stories of people who have been resuscitated and the stories show remarkable similarites across cultures, age groups, and time. Check out Bosch’s Ascent to the Empyream. It could be that certain people, artists, visionaries, spiritual empaths, etc., are open to perceptions that other people cannot receive.
Jung at 17 nearly died and it was this experience that led him to his theories.
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Truly. We often find mirror images in most unexpected sites!
My fellow blogger Aquileana http://aquileana.wordpress.com/ writes about Poseidon – and I find echoes of Krishn’s sunken city Dwarka. Ditto for war-Hero Achilles and Indian warrior Arjun.
I had heard of the near-death syndrome. I agree that some people are gifted an extrasensory perception.
I also believe Ayn Rand’s words -“Some things are just not a co-incidence”
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