Teachings 7-9 (Krishna Superstar)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm88Blmlwjk

I chose this video from the popular video game: God of War. Lord Krishna always says how he is god, and how he is part of everything but nothing is part of him. Throughout the teaching you can sense that although Krishna can seem humble at times by his lessons and techings in life about dicipline, knowledge and many other aspects you should learn to adapt to your life, he does come off as a bit of an ego-maniac and a condescendent person. I think this is how Lord Krishna relates to the main character in "God of War" because they both try to obtain or achieve things they are not supposed to. In god of war you can see him struggling to achieve ultimate greatness, and in a sense he thinks he is the most powerful who can defeat anyone. Lord Krishna also thinks he is the most powerful when he says that everyone tries to reach him and be like him. Another aspect they both have in common is that they cannot be proven wrong!!! because in god of war as well as in Bhagavad-Gita they are both the most powerful character introduced, but in a way we can kind of tell that they're not!

Krishna comes off as a very secure person who stand by what he believes, but we see that during the techings he changes his mind and considers some things again. We see that Krishna treated re-birth as a good thing that should be pursued by everyone, but then he says that any man that reaches him should suffer no re-birth. By that he is implying that a man who shall face re-birth is because he has led a "wrong" life. He also ends up presenting the war "issue" on fighting or not fighting as a lesson rather than the advice on which the conversation was headed towards. He also mentions two paths,the bright and the dark pathways, where one is light and leads to heaven and one is shadows and leads to re-birth. Here the egotistical part is shown again, where he presents himself as the "light" passage and how Aejuna should take the right path and follow him, or in his words: "devote yourself to me".