I have a story about the birthmark of Krishna, which he is supposed to have in his pursuant human lives. He will have a birthmark, you know? It will be in the bottom of his second toe from his big toe on the right foot. It’s a small reddish mark like, a light clotting of the blood, making a blue blister about 1.5 cms and another one about 1cm right next to it.
It’s from poison in the arrow.
You know the story about how Krishna was killed? All that time back. He had lived one remarkable life. He had contributed greatly to human kind in many ways. And he was an ultimate Yogi you see. 🧘🏾♂️ He was a pre-attained being in a human body after all. So if you prick him with a poison arrow, he can easily heal himself. That was the rumour. “So how the hell to kill this guy?”, the dissatisfied among human kind who wanted things to remain the same as they were, didn’t like all this change Krishna was bringing. Mad people. “What about our livelihoods? What about the industries and ego built around all our religion, politics, society and culture?”
Meanwhile this guy Krishna is not stopping. He doesn’t care only. He’s ruining all the prevalent power structures.
Did you know he introducied vamanas to less esoteric circles. Only great king’s knew about flying machines and all. And they kept it a top secret, like the CIA does nowadays with their technological breakthroughs and scientific knowledge. But Krishna flew a Vamana around for all the city people to see. Casual, like, “This ‘n’ all is nothing, ma.” These kind of antics freaked the elite and the priests and Kings out.
But how to kill him. He is an accomplished Yogi. He can simply heal himself.
So the plot was hatched.
This is after Krishna had already done quite a lot. Had children also. Yeah, he had already lived quite a life. You know the war and all that. Besides that also. Him just being himself was such an elevating experience for others on the planet. You know we’re all connected. Right?
So, but how to kill him? The plotters plotted. The only way is to fool him. He can only heal themself if he knows where the poison penetrated, right? So what if we made him think he is wounded in one place but actually he is wounded somewhere else. And we have to make it far from his brain, the bra(hm)iniacs of the time added, so it will take some more time for him to know what’s happened. They thought the brain is everything, you see. Even back then.
A “Royal Yogi” also chimed in that it should be the second toe from the big toe. Maybe he had less feeling in that toe and thought this is normal for everyone. Could be from those ridiculous wooden clogs they used to wear back then. You needed to pinch two toes together just to hold the dam things on your feet. It was a status symbol back then, you know? Could be his big and second toes got damaged from wearing that. Who knows. Anyway… It’s a story.
So they got a skilled elite hunter/assassin, so it would be his physical act, not theirs, see how conniving, and without telling him who he has to kill, so he wouldn’t have time to find out who, because then he might refuse.
And they told the hunter to use a double-arrow. One head would contain poison another would not. The one without poison should strike the bottom of his middle toe. And the poison one should strike the second toe after the big toe. The victim should think that he is pierced in the centre toe. But actually the shorter poisoned arrow will enter his other toe just a fraction later. Krishna will try to heal from his centre toe. But it’s his second toe that will actually send the poison into his body. This was the plan.
And they told the hunter the place and time, since Krishna had certain “me time” things he liked to do. They used that. He would do crazy things like sit leaning on a tree listening to the birds for some time. You know? Chilling out like. No YouTube, No music, nothing. Just the wild forest environment. So they took that chance.
When the arrow struck, Krishna felt it. Painful. Foot and heart also little bit. After doing so much for humanity, still. Then he thought of the plot. Ofcourse he understood immediately what had transpired. And he wanted them to know that there was nothing like that. He would heal like anyone else would, except maybe a little faster because he kept a clear head, and with access to good healthcare too ofcourse. Because not all kingdoms were of the time were vedic. And the speed of his healing may seem magical. And ofcourse, if he wanted, the creator would simply bend reality for him, maintaining a degree of cadence ofcourse. But he would use that kind of help very judiciously. In this case, healing will take time. But he’ll be fine. What’s a little poison that the body doesn’t already know.
“And what is this brain-brain” all in the mind” thing you have going on! The brain is a receiver-transmitter-processor. The more access to more brain, the more complex signals you can receive, transmit and process. But perception, knowing, learning is happening on another level. All the available koshas are involved in the process of being. During physical life, there is Annamayakosha (consumption/material abundance manifestation functional attribute), then Manomayakosha (mind manifestation functional attribute), Pranamayakosha (life intensity / life force energy / life exuberance manifestation functional attribute), Sankalpamayakosha (intent manifestation functional attribute), Vigyanamayakosha (knowledge / learnings functional attribute, also can be called pure intelligence since, what does intelligence do? It learns and grows with knowledge; not to be confused with an intellect, which only analyses ad nauseum in the context of an existing identity, unlike intelligence which not only holds knowledge but also simply, fluidly changes in total identity with new learning and new knowledge), and then, “Anandam Amaya” (blissfulness manifest, which is more a grandly equanimous, extremely pleasant plane of existence rather than a body, but we can claim it as a layer or state of being). The brain is just an organ of the body. And you are not just a body.”
Krishna had a natural urge to teach, you see. Even those he killed, he would keep teaching and trying to turn them and save them till there was really no hope, only then would he end them.
And now this. They want him dead.
Then he thought about his life, how he had lived, all the struggles and joys, loves and love lost, his strapping children… It was a truly fulfilled life time. Then he thought about the situation of the world, and the choice its elite had taken, to try and kill him. Tch.
And decided, fine, it’s time. I’ll go then!
“Yuvas and Yuvis, it’s your world now. Treat it well”.
(I’ll be back.😉) “May the gentler inherit the earth”
And gradually, he floated off, leaving his body behind and heading to other worlds.
So now, when he returns, if you really want to find him, look at the person’s right foot. There should be a blueish blister like blood clot where the poison entered. If you find someone with that birthmark, you’re either looking right at him/her or a piece of him, here to keep human consciousness from descending into the hellish madness of untruth
Then I say,
“Namasukkara, I am forever grateful”. 🙏🏾 Or rather, “I’m forever glad with gratitude” which is a preferable way to be, compared to just rotten devotion, no?
Try to remember that these are all stories. What matters is not if it’s factual but whether you got the message or not. The messenger is the form; you can only make an idol of him/her. Even the name becomes an idol. Even the book becomes an idol. Prove it’s not by keeping it in the book shelf with all your other regular books. What! 😏 What a disservice, to build statues and make people bow down to it, instead of living by the ideals. One must choose function, not form. The message is the function. The message is truth.
And now, in the absence of wild forest environment, here is some music on YouTube! 😀