A long time back when I had just began visiting the nearby temple and talking to the panditji there I asked him what he thought Krishna looked like. He looked at me with awe and began his whole explanation how Krishna was only a soul and that souls didnt have a body attached to it and it didn't look like anything. I was possibly 5-6, so whatever he said made no sense to me at the time.
Years on I went back to the man asking him the question again and he reminded me I had already asked the question when younger. To that I asked him why he thought god decided to come amongst us looking like all of us and not just a voice or a larger man, or perhaps a man with a very large stick to impress his authority and stature.
The panditji smiled again this time a looking a little miffed by my constant inquisitiveness. He said, "Krishna is very kind, he made it a point to look like every one else because he wanted to not have people be intimidated by him. He wanted to look like everyone else around." When I asked the panditji what the basis for his explanation were, he said it was our holy book, Bhagvat Gita.
If what this panditji said has any weight-age how does he explain Krishna born off a virgin Devaki? Doesn't that sorta make him stand out a little. Very curious!
*panditji: monk or priest (Indian)
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