Week 11 Story: The Great War

The demons had flooded the earth once again. They were everywhere. Nonstop. Once the floodgates of hell had opened, it never stopped. There was evil and temptation everywhere. People couldn't leave their houses. It was a never ending nightmare that people could never wake up from. The idea of life and death had been altered. Dying wasn't the worst thing that could happen, it was more of a saving grace idea. You either went to the heavens and the pain had ended, or you went to hell where the pain just came and came and never left. The idea of living had altered, because it wasn't so sunny and rosy as people had believed. There was individuals who fought back, but the balance was never restored to how it used to be. There was supposed to be two brave warriors sent to earth from the supreme deity, but that day never seemed to come. Until it did.

The Great War began which lead to many deaths, loses and wins. At one point it seemed like neither side would win, it would just be a slaughter until there was no one left. But then the tides changed. The deities gave the warriors the upper hand, powerful weapons that could slay the demons with one blade crash. The warriors took this weapon and defeated the demons of the earth. The floodgates of hell closed and order had been restored within the land. It was the miracle no one saw coming, all except the heavens and the deities. The earth eventually went back to some type of normal and as time went on The Great War became a fable. A story to tell your children to keep them from doing wrong. Only the heavens and hell knew what had happened so long ago and why things had become the way they were. Ignorant bliss.

Author's Note: I had a hard time incorporating as many original details and story lines from the original story as I wanted to, so I kinda went free fall. I focused more on the aspect of death and going into a heaven rather than the actual characters. I also wanted to incorporate the ideas of demons living on earth, so rather than create characters and a storyline, I wanted to create an abstract story of the ideas of life and death.

Source: Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories by C. A. Kincaid


(Grim Reaper: pixabay)

Reading Notes: Krishna Part B

In order to tell the coming of Krishna, we have to then tell The Passing of Krishna. Krishna had returned from Indraprastha at this point. Prince Samba and some other young nobles decided to go to Pindaraka. They ran into Vishvamitra and other powerful sages and Samba wanted to trick them. So Samba dressed up as a young married woman and approached Vishvamitra. Sambra's friends tried to trick Vishvamitra, but he saw right through them. In anger he cursed Sambra and they all ran back to Dwarka and to tell their story. The curse was that the club Sambra had been given would destroy their entire race, so King Ugrasena destroyed the club. It came back together and fell into the hands of Jara.

Years later, Dwarka began to fall apart. Prince Krishna told everyone to leave the city and find shelter elsewhere. Krishna and the men went to Prabhasa in order to worship the goddess Saraswati so the terror would end. Krishna and the Yadavas went along to Prabhasa, but they were a prideful group of men. They ignored Krishna's commands and instead of worshipping Saraswati, drank the wine of the land. The man all suddenly irrupted into a large fight between each other, and after Krishna and Balarama failed to stop the war, they joined in. All of the Yadava nobles killed each other and only Krishna and Balarama were left. Balarama was eventually killed and Krishna was all alone. Krishna was injured in the foot and had no way to move. His chariot arrived with his horses and his servant, who sprung to Krishna's side when he saw what had happened. Krishna knew he was destined to returned back to the heavens so he told his servant to go back to Dwarka and tell the story of what had happened that day. His servant did as he was told and Krishna's spirit flew high into the sky.

Source: Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories by C. A. Kincaid


(The Death of Krishna: wikimedia)

Reading Notes: Krishna Part A

The story of Krishna is very fascinating. The Coming of Krishna was by far the most interesting story to me of how Krishna came to be. Lord Vishnu was a fearless deity and a supreme leader of the world. The Earth had begun to suffer and came to Lord Vishnu for help. Lord Vishnu listened and created two humans, Balarama and Krishna, who were destined to slay all the demons that walked the earth. Kansa was the strongest demon of all, who tormented the Earth and human race. The heavens declared though that Vasudeva, Kansa's cousin, and Devaki's eighth child would kill Kansa, so the demon prince panicked. Vasudeva swore to Kansa that he would not allow his children to kill him, so he sacrificed his children to Kansa.

Prince Kansa flew into a blind rage over time, killing the eldest six kids of Vasudeva and Devaki and threw them into a dungeon. Vasudeva and Devaki became pregnant with their seventh child, who was Balarama. Lord Vishnu had to protect this child though, so he placed the child in the womb of Vasudeva's other wife. It came time for Vasudeva and Devaki's eighth child and Krishna was born a righteous soul. The heavenly baby spoke to Vasudeva and told him before King Kansa awoke to take him to the wagon of one Nanda. The prison gates swung open and the guards all fell into a heavenly sleep, so Krishna escaped with his father's help. In the wagon was a woman who had just given birth, so they switched the heavenly Krishna for the newly-born infant. The guards awoke the next morning to this baby girl by Devakis side and Kasna killed her. The baby's spirit though informed Kasna that his true enemy had escaped and would come for him one day.

Source: Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories by C. A. Kincaid


(Krishna: wikimedia)