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15. GITA
Dwaraka
That was the sad end of the Playboy town of Dwaraka which Krishna conceived as the City of God with his theology of Gita. If it gives any lesson we seem to have missed it and we are still teaching the Gita as the greatest ideal of mankind.
Incidentaly according to the Yuga theory, the death of Krishna inaugurated the Kali Yuga and the dharma left for us in this Yuga is the Gita dharma. The purpose of avatar according to Gita is to regain dharma where dharma has declined. Now that Krishna came as an Avatar to put it right, the dharma of the Yuga is Svadharma which is the god given dharma of this Kali Yuga. It is probably meant by the Supreme Personality to lead the present world to its end and to its destruction. That is the leela of the th Supreme Personality. He used the same technique in his Buddha Avatar.
"Then, in the beginning of Kali-yuga [he] will become the Buddha by name, the son of Anjana, in Bihar, for the purpose of confusing those who were enemies of the devas" srimad-bhagavatam 1.3.24
As the purpose of Buddha Avatar was to delude the masses into error, was the purpose of Krishna Avatar also the same? After all in the Sri Dasavatara-stotra and Upaaya from the Gita-govinda, Jayadeva Gosvami substitutes Buddha in place of Krishna as the ninth avatar just before the final Kalki avatar. Krishna's death inaugurated the Kalki Yuga for which Gita is the Dharma. Was Krishna
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| SR No. | 007303 |
| Book Title | Development of Hinduism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | M M Ninan |
| Publisher | M M Ninan |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 582 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |