Taru Krišnasta

by Nigel Frith, Paavo Lehtonen (Translator)

Taru Krišnasta on kiehtova runollinen kertomus Intian rakastetuimmasta jumalolennosta, huilua soittavasta sinisestä jumalasta, hänen rakkaudestaan Radhaan ja taistelustaan sortoa vastaan keskellä jumalien juonittelua.
Intian lukuisista jumalhahmoista Krišna on länsimailla tunnetuin. Intiassa hän on loputtomien tarinoiden, runojen ja myyttien aihe. Hänen estoton eroottisuutensa vetoaa moniin, toisiin taas maine suurena opettajana, soturina tai kansa vapauttajana. Intiassa Krišnaa pidetään mahtavan Visnun, maailmankaikkeuden säilyttäjän ruumiillistumana. Länsimaissa Krišnan hahmossa nähdään yhteyksiä kristinuskon vapahtajamyyttiin.
Englantilainen Nigel Frith, Intian ja hindulaisuuden tutkija, on kirjoittanut Tarun Krišnasta muinaisten intialaisten runoelmien Bhagavad Gitan ja Mahabharatan sekä elävän hindulaisen perinteen pohjalta. Teos on jännittävä kertomus mielikuvituksellisista seikkailusta ja uroteoista. Se on myös oivallinen opas rikkaaseen intialaiseen mytologiaan ja hindulaisuuden pyhiin opetuksiin.

Genres: Fantasy, Spirituality

273 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Cherie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this page-turner would be different tales about Krishna's life, but it tells of Krishna's defeat of Kamsa. It goes into some horrible depth about what Kamsa did to Braj, to Radha and her brother. I haven't heard this version of the story, Radha going to hell, and I did a little digging and didn't see so many mentions of this. When I eventually read "The Krishna Book," I'll compare. Really enjoyed overall. Very graphic sex scene I was not expecting. !!!

[Michael Alan Grapin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author elected to write the story in the style of an epic poem that might have been written centuries ago. I'm no expert on Krishna but I detected similarities to Achilles in Homer's Iliad and some modern details that just didn't fit with the period in my imagination. Considering how short a book it is, I often found the prose ponderous and difficult to follow but it definitely had its moments.

[Katie Daniels · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was deceptively beautiful, capturing the language and style of the myths easily, and then completely misinterpreting them. It is suprising to me that I found this book at a college library--two college libraries in fact, for anyone who picks it up to learn more about Krishna will walk away with a completely different picture than the authentic one. The bones of the story remain true to the puranas, but the interpretation is subtly different, and very western. It has an ENDING for crying out loud. Anyone who knows anything about Hindu mythology knows that there is no ending to Radha and Krishna! There are also no sources cited--so figuring out exactly how much was accurate and how much is fiction is a tangled mess I don't care to dive into. And as if that's not enough, have you ever wanted to read an explicit sex scene in the formal prose of a fairytale? No! Nobody wants to read that! Just because you use the word "lingam" doesn't make it Indian! I would throw the book out the window if the interlibrary loan policies weren't so strict.

[Spz0 · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story of Krishna.
Watch out for the wording in this book. Almost every sentence starts off with the word "And,". Its a hard thing to get past for me. I felt like the author was talking down to me like I was a child in a reading circle.
Once you learn to filter out the "and" barrage, the story is really amazing.