Happy Janmashtami

Krishnastu Bhagavaan SwayamHappy Janmashtami

""Yadã ya yã hi dharmasya, glãnirbhavati Bhãratah, Abhiyutthãnam adharmasya, tadãtmãnam srijãmyaham| Paritrãnãya sãdhunãm, vinãshaya cha dushkritãm, Dharmasamsthãpanãrthãya, sambhavãmi yugè yugè||"" ~ Lord Krishna to Arjuna (Shrimat Bhagavat Geetã)

""Yadã ya yã hi dharmasya, glãnirbhavati Bhãratah,

Abhiyutthãnam adharmasya, tadãtmãnam srijãmyaham|

Paritrãnãya sãdhunãm, vinãshaya cha dushkritãm,

Dharmasamsthãpanãrthãya, sambhavãmi yugè
yugè||""

~ Lord Krishna to Arjuna
(Shrimat Bhagavat Geetã)


~ Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion--at that time I descend Myself. To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I, Myself, appear, ages after ages.



In the Bhagvat Geeta, this is what the Lord Himself promised. The Lord never failed to keep His promises down the ages. He incarnated down to the earth from His heavenly abode at the Vaikuntha, to save his devotees. In different forms, Lord Vishnu, the sustainer and the Supreme Soul, came down to the earth, one after another, just like "the waves in an ocean". But, His Avatãr (incarnation) Lord Krishna is said to be God Himself incarnated. It was the eighth day of the new-moon fortnight (krishnapaksha) of the month of Shrãvana.

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