#16 THE ESSENTIAL KRISHNA

“What would be the essence of Krishna’s teachings?”

“Essentially Krishna posed three main questions about life: What is God? What is a human? What are we here for? He then set about answering those questions. His teaching could be condensed into two concepts: honour and decency. Once he described honest and decent behaviour and he tried to inspire others to follow it, although his sexual mores would shock a Victorian because he was prolific and generous with his sexual favours. I heard you say he had sixteen thousand wives. Well, this is somewhat of an exaggeration; he treated women with honour and respect and this ensured he had hundreds of descendants and his fecundity was part of his purpose. His genes had to flow into the Chosen People. He didn’t greatly influence his offspring because he didn’t have the lifestyle to care for them. He also taught that the death portal was not disastrous. Human life could be taken up and laid down easily.”

“Krishna is described as having miraculous powers of healing. Did he have any miraculous powers?”

“He had commonsense powers of healing. For example, when battles ended he demonstrated basic hygiene and disinfected wounds. He encouraged his fighters to urinate on open wounds and to gather earth moulds from the mouldy earth in mossy caves to fester wounds and use silk to plug bleeding wounds; simple stuff really, but miraculous to those who did not know it.”

“Are there any parallels between Krishna’s life and Christ’s life? Did he, for example, die painfully or was he crucified?”

“Krishna didn’t make any claim to be the Son of God, but only God’s messenger. The similarities are seized on by those who want to make Krishna a former life of Christ. Most world teachers have parallels in their lives, except Buddha and Mohammed who are different. Krishna died by impalement. He was captured by a minor chieftain in Burma, a Mnong chieftain.”

“What was he doing in Burma?”

“Many Indian war elephants were captured in the jungles of Burma and trained there. He was selecting new war elephants and their handlers because the Burmese were the best Mahouts. A sharpened stick was driven up his anus. It was excruciating, agonising and a very slow death. The smaller the stake the faster you die. It is forced through the body and it pierces the aorta or you die from suffocation. His was a slower death on a larger stake; it would take him three days to die”.

“Did he, like Christ, forgive his murderers?”

“Krishna sang his death song which is traditional amongst warriors, a tradition which is almost universal. Krishna’s song was a self-eulogy. Usually an opportunity to blame or curse your enemies, in Krishna’s death song he did not blame or curse, he forgave them asking God that his death was not laid on the burden of their karma. It is doubtful they knew or understood his song, but it was witnessed by his companions who had escaped into the surrounding jungle and by others who were captured, enslaved and subsequently escaped. He died surrendering to the Divine and his spirit, but not his body, ascended.”

“What was the purpose of such an excruciating and prolonged death?”

“In his life Krishna had to experience first, being born in passion into a life of poverty and last, extreme pain in order to progress the concept of the servant king. The servant king concept was dependent on the brevity of his life, because he was only forty-two, the humility of his upbringing, his royal descent and the extreme pain of his death. It was his path to perfection.”

“Why is it not commonly believed he died of impalement, but rather that he died like Achilles, by an arrow in the heel?”

“How could you revere someone who was impaled? You would have to be Daoist to see where the flaw in the god makes the god more god-like! The truth is contained in the paradox of his death as many great truths are.”

“Did Krishna, like Christ, harrow hell after his death?”

“Krishna descended into a limbo, went as we all do, to the Halls of Judgement before he could be reborn. Most souls have to go through these Halls and examine themselves, experience nothingness, contemplate their mistakes as part of the building for the next life.

If death was like changing trains, our learning and Krishna’s learning would have been short-circuited. He had to spend some time feeling the agony of the widows, the grieving of the parents and the loneliness of the orphans of the people he had killed in battle. Did he not teach Arjuna about loving others? He may go through one thousand years of expiation but return a day or two later to the Earth!”

“Where was Arjuna when Krishna needed him in Burma?”

“Arjuna, to his great guilt and sorrow, was not with him at the time. Krishna bade him to stay behind at the base to protect his supply lines.”

“There is a legend that his body was buried in Puri in India.”

“Krishna’s body was taken down by his captors and buried. It was subsequently retrieved, wrapped in linen and spices in a decomposed state, and returned to … ” Here, the Gatekeeper paused and seemed to be in discussion with others before he announced “… to an unknown place where he was buried. It will not be revealed at this moment where his bones are but they are not at Puri. His location is locked to me and to you because of a greater need for security in that region and much depends on the location remaining secret and unknown.”

The Gatekeeper made it clear he was not going to enter into any speculation about Krishna’s resting place with an abrupt request; “Your next question, please?”

“Why did St Germain and Hilarion choose this life?”

“It was a choice of unbounded importance because the Indus Valley is one of the nurseries of humankind, a wellspring of migration, from which Europe would eventually be formed. There were three main races and Krishna was of the first one. He spread his genes as far as he spread his teaching. He founded an Indian empire and exerted influence beyond India which enabled Indian culture to spread through South East Asia where there are remnants of it still in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Krishna spread civilisation wherever he went because he was a highly evolved, civilised and cultured man.”

“Did Krishna have a queen, as legend suggests?”

“He did have a favoured mistress, but he never married her or anyone else. Her name was Rani, which means queen. He had one son with her who was raised by Arjuna. He was one of his four hundred children; remember, he was starting a race of people. His descendants are Hebrew patriarchs and they even reached Ireland in one migration. They founded Troy, Rome, Carthage and Barcelona and gave Britain its name.”

“Why did St Germain choose this life? What was the thinking behind the two of them combining in one life?”

“St Germain founds empires. You will be exposed to his pattern during our conversations and be able to observe it for yourself. Krishna had many of St Germain’s characteristics because he was the dominant energy; even St Germain’s certain elements of confusion, mystery, or panic. As well, we’ll come to recognise some of Krishna’s characteristics as being typical of St Germain. He was multi-faceted, intelligent, sensitive, artistic, charming, and highly cultured. He was also an efficient soldier and a killer; that was what he had to be because his war-like nature enabled him to spread the Indian culture. Krishna was flash and glamour and courage, but he was also… flute and romance.

Hilarion tempered St Germain. First, by providing balance which is never going to be St Germain’s strong point; and secondly, by his overriding passion for justice, honour and decency, which led to Krishna’s almost Solomon-like sense of judgement. Let me give you an example. Krishna takes over a city in Southern India, the governor surrenders and wishes to preserve his life and the lives of the men, so he sends to Krishna all their wives and daughters so they and their sons will not be hurt. Krishna marched in and sold all the men as slaves and bestowed on their wives and daughters the rights to their husband’s wealth and land in perpetuity. And Hilarion’s third contribution was in government. After taking over a city, a regent was appointed from within the city, not from an outsider. He answered to a vizier who was appointed by Krishna and answered to him personally. He showed wisdom and maturity in government. This ruling authority comes directly from Hilarion. And one further trait, I’m being prompted to tell it to you; Hilarion brings in a sense of joyousness and gives Krishna a radiant internal joy.”

“What was Krishna’s life purpose?”

‘His main life purpose was the creation of India as an entity; to it give an identity common to all Indians. This was largely reinforced by Hinduism giving it a national self-belief so strong it survived Islam. Another purpose was to create balance in Asia otherwise the slumbering giant of China would have been and would be all-pervasive. Of course, he was looking four thousand five hundred years ahead in fulfilling that purpose and remember because we are outside time; we can do that easily when we design our lives. A minor purpose was the creation of a musical liturgy for Hinduism. Another purpose was the creation of genetic material for the important migration from the Indus Valley while allowing for several special lives of Indian descent. There are several Indian and Pakistani leaders yet to emerge who are descended directly from him. Jawaharlal Nehru (St Germain) was his descendent as was his daughter Indira Gandhi (Mary). So was Benazir Bhutto (Mary). A minor purpose or a spinoff of this life was to get the Comte de Saint-Germain and Hilarion used to working together before they return as the brothers Aaron and Moses and when they join as Edward de Vere.”​

“I think it interesting what you didn’t say their purpose was to defeat the Dark in the battle with the ‘Ape’ King.”

“Life purposes are always big picture and positive, they are not scripted by Hollywood!”

“Who decides them?”

“It is the Circle of Masters who hands down the broad purpose for the detailed work to be done elsewhere. Once completed certain circumstances are then arranged on Earth so that the purpose can be fulfilled.”

“What did St Germain and Hilarion learn from this life?”

“St Germain learned to be more balanced and maybe he recognised his tendency to irresponsibility and Hilarion, he learned to dance. Think of Libra, it is not really the sign of balance it is the sign of searching for balance. St Germain searches for inner balance especially in those lives like Rudolph Nureyev and Julius Caesar where although he has the gift of superb physical balance he does not have the matching inner or spiritual balance.”

“What was Krishna’s greatest achievement?”

“In a narrow spectrum he achieved so much. He, that is St Germain and Hilarion speaking together as Krishna, say their greatest achievement was laying the foundations for Indian sacred music. Today India resonates with this music. Krishna thinks this is the most important. To which I add much of what Krishna sang was taken to Persia and repeated there. It surfaces eventually in the Hebrew psalms and incidentally in Broadway musicals. Such cross-pollination was inevitable and desirable. There is no such thing as a pure idea.”

“And his spiritual challenge?”

“He learned to accept a difficult death with equanimity.”

“Did he pray?”

”He talked to the gods like all Indians of his time; he lived in a time when the gods were real and present. His was in constant dialogue, always connected to God. He practiced yoga and meditated every day for between half an hour to two hours.”

“What was his most endearing quality?”

“He has not one but two qualities: first, his charm … he was unbelievably charming and secondly, he was highly, highly intelligent.”

“Where do we go next?”

“To Maya, mother of Buddha, then Lao Tzu and finally to Noah. That way we begin with Hinduism, then Buddhism then Daoism and finally Judaism. It is not correct chronologically, but it sets some spiritual framework.”