The Bhagavad Gita is not a mythological story.
Brought up as most children are, on a diet of comics and super-heroes, it is
natural for us to speak of Krishna as one more fictional and mythic hero.
Nevertheless, Krishna is not a myth. He is not the figment of the
imagination of Veda Vyasa. He is not like Superman, Batman, or a hero from
Star Wars. He is a genuine historical personality who walked on this earth
more than 5,000 years.
Off the coast of Saurashtra, an Indian archeological expedition extensively
explored a submerged city, several thousand years old. Dr. Rao, the Chief
Archeologist declared, "This underwater city cannot be anything other than
Krishna's Dwarka!"
Another archeologist from the former Soviet Union, Professor A.A. Gorbovsky
unearthed from the fields of Kurukshetra (north of New Delhi) - a human
skull. He took this skull back with him to his country to study and carbon
date it.
His evidence revealed that this skull belonged to a man who died in a war
5,000 years ago - the approximate date of the battle of Kurukshetra.
Amazingly, the skull emitted radiation similar to that of an object exposed
to a nuclear blast.
In the Mahabharata, there is a graphic description of the explosion that
follows the use of a Brahma-astra (nuclear weapon). The vivid Sanskrit prose
describes in great detail the classical mushroom shaped cloud, the intense
heat and radiation, the nuclear winter that follows, and the horrible
effects on its miserable survivors.
It is only recently after Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the modern world was
able to understand all the horrors of nuclear war that Veda Vyasa recorded
in the Mahabharata 5,000 years ago.
Krishna is not a myth but a historical personality. The battle of
Kurukshetra that took place 5,000 years ago, is an ancient conflict fought
with nuclear weapons. And the Bhagavad Gita is an actual conversation
between Krishna and Arjuna, faithfully recorded in a historical text
(itihaasa) - the Mahabharata.
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