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Sri Aurobindo on the Historicity of Sri Krishna









                      The historicity of Krishna is of less spiritual importance and is not





                      essential, but it has still a considerable value. It does not seem to me that




                      there can be any reasonable doubt that Krishna the man was not a legend





                      or a poetic invention but actually existed upon earth and played a part in




                      the Indian past. Two facts emerge clearly, that he was regarded as an





                      important spiritual figure, one whose spiritual illumination was recorded




                      in one of the Upanishads, and that he was traditionally regarded as a





                      divine man, one worshipped after his death as a deity; this is apart from





                      the story in the Mahabharata and the Puranas. There is no reason to




                      suppose that the connection of his name with the development of the





                      Bhagavata religion, an important current in the stream of Indian




                      spirituality, was founded on a mere legend or poetic invention.





                                                                                                                                                                                           (CWSA, 28: 482-483)
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