Re: Trying to find my place within the Hindu religion
Originally Posted by
satay
when you make statements like these please don't forget to mention that this is ISKCON view and not a sanatana dharma view. Normal hindu view on this is that Vishnu is supreme and krishna is one of the avatara just like Rama.
It is always to funny to see the "original" word appended to Krishna everytime. I think it is a way they use to assert it. By the way, such a belief would not offend most Vaishnavites. Most of us see no differences whatsoever between Krishna and Vishnu. Avatar of God is non different in any way from God. If somebody wants to put Krishna over Vishnu that does not hurt Vaishnavites in anyway, except that it is a wrong beleif. It relies on a selective reading of Bhagavatam while totally ignoring the scriptural evidence in favour of Vishnu(Narayana) in the vedas. Even if Bhagavatam is stating so, it cannot override any shruti view - there simply is none higher than Narayana, and Krishna is the same as that. But holding that Krishna is the cause of Narayana is not supported by vedas at all. ( The word original is their own insertions into the translations)
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