[Note: We are sorry to write this article in such way where we criticize from a neutral point of view. There are also quotations which are filled with vulgarity. Our aim is not to hurt anyone or spread impure words, but to show the truth, we have to analyse like this way]
The Hindus in general consider "Krishna" as an incarnation of god "Vishnu". Many people also consider Krishna as the Supreme Lord. Krishna also calls himself as the "Supreme Personality of Godhead".
"O Arjuna, as **the Supreme Personality of Godhead**, I know everything that has happened in the past, all that is happening in the present, and all things that are yet to come...."
(Bhagavat Gita, 7:26)
Swami Prabhupada comments about Krishna like this way,
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Kṛṣṇa, personally appeared as the son of Vasudeva. Before He appeared, all the demigods, along with their wives, appeared in different pious families in the world just to assist the Lord in executing His mission."
("Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead" - by A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
Bhaktivedanta purport of the First Chapter of Kṛṣṇa, "Advent of Lord Kṛṣṇa.")
[Source - http://krsnabook.com/ch1.html]
But in the view of Swami Vivekananda, Krishna was a spiritual leader.
"This Krishna preceded Buddha by some thousand years. ... A great many people do not believe that he ever existed. Some believe that [the worship of Krishna grew out of] the old sun worship. There seem to be several Krishnas: one was mentioned in the Upanishads, another was king, another a general. All have been lumped into one Krishna. It does not matter much. ***The fact is, some individual comes who is unique in spirituality***. Then all sorts of legends are invented around him."
(Complete Works of Vivekananda, Volume 1)
Though we can see such holy things about Krishna, there's something behind this holiness. And that is the sexual activities of Krishna. Here the Hindus will object to say that one can not compare Krishna with the material world. Krishna is above all worldly limitations. Again if we do not accept Krishna as the Supreme Power, then Krishna himself is abusing telling us ignorant, unintelligent or having lack of knowledge.
"**Unintelligent men**, who know Me not, think that I have assumed this form and personality. Due to **their small knowledge**, they do not know My higher nature, which is changeless and supreme."
(Bhagabat Gita, 7:24)
However, from a neutral point of view, a person is not bound to accept Krishna as the eternal entity or the Supreme Power. The Hindus can explain Krishna with theology, philosophy, science and many more things, but it will only present their point of faith, nothing else. If we do not believe Krishna as an eternal entity, then we are not also bound to accept that Krishna was unattached with the material desire and lust of this world. So here is our point of view that the worldly acts done by Krishna must be judged from a neutral position just by considering Krishna's works as the works of a human being. So let's see.
Though Krishna did a lot of works in the field of religion, spirituality, rights for human being and so on, yet his personal character can not be said to be free from illegal sexual activities. The illicit relationship made by Krishna can be clearly understood from the Hindu scriptures.
=> Krishna snatched the cloth of Radha and enjoyed her infront of all Gopis:
Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Krishna Janma Khanda 28.117-132 says,
"…**Hari snatched away the cloth of Radha** and thus denuded her. Then **he tore her wreath and loosened her chignon**…**Hari embraced the naked Radha**, sank into the water and after having played therein got up again along with her. Then **Krishna after having displayed the abashed, naked Radha to the cowherdesses threw her again at a distance into the water**….Then Radha dragged Hari and gave him a push whereupon the Lord of the universe was immersed in deep water at a distance. But shortly afterwards he emerged from the liquid with a smile, **kissed and embraced the naked Radha, again and again**…After the play was over, **the naked Lord and Radha** both came to the coast and demanded their clothes from one another….” Tr. Rajendra Nath Sen
=> Krishna stole the garments of young unmarried virgin girls to enjoy their naked bodies:
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.22.16-17 says,
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: If you girls are actually My maidservants, and if you will really do what I say, then ***come here with your innocent smiles and let each girl pick out her clothes***. If you don’t do what I say, I won’t give them back to you. And even if the king becomes angry, what can he do? Then, shivering from the painful cold, ***all the young girls rose up out of the water, covering their pubic area with their hands.***"
Swami Prabhupada says in his book, "Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead",
"According to Vedic civilization, **unmarried girls from ten to fourteen years of age** are supposed to worship either Lord Śiva or the goddess Durgā in order to get a nice husband. ***But the unmarried girls of Vṛndāvana were already attracted by the beauty of Kṛṣṇa.***.......**all the unmarried gopīs** of Vṛndāvana began to worship goddess Durgā with a vow...."
("Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead" - by A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhaktivedanta purport of the Twenty-second Chapter of Kṛṣṇa, "Stealing the Garments of the Unmarried Gopī Girls.")
[Source: http://krsnabook.com/ch22.html]
So, we clearly see that the Gopies were unmarried virgin girls of 10 to 14 years old. In the same chapter of this book, we see how Krishna enjoys those girls getting the opportunity.
"Early in the morning, the gopīs used to go to the bank of the Yamunā to take bath. They would assemble together, capturing each other's hands, and loudly sing of the wonderful pastimes of Kṛṣṇa. It is an old system among Indian girls and women that when they take bath in the river they place their garments on the bank and dip into the water completely naked...........
Appearing on the scene, ***Kṛṣṇa immediately collected all the garments of the gopīs, climbed up in a nearby tree***, and with smiling face began to speak to them.
"My dear girls," He said. "***Please come here one after another*** and pray for your garments and then take them away. I'm not joking with you. I'm just telling the truth. I have no desire to play any joke with you, for you have observed the regulative principles for one month by worshiping goddess Kātyāyanī. ***Please do not come here all at once. Come alone; I want to see each of you in your complete beauty, for you all have thin waists***. I have requested you to come alone. Now please comply."...........
They(the Gopis) began to tell Kṛṣṇa, "Dear son of Nanda Mahārāja, please do not joke with us in that way. It is completely unjust to us. You are a very respectable boy because You are the son of Nanda Mahārāja, and You are very dear to us, but You should not play this joke on us because now we are all shivering from the cold water. Kindly deliver our garments immediately, otherwise we shall suffer." They then began to appeal to Kṛṣṇa with great submission. "Dear Śyāmasundara," they said, "we are all Your eternal servitors. Whatever You order us to do, we are obliged to perform without hesitation because we consider it our religious duty. But if You insist on putting this proposal to us, which is impossible to perform, then certainly we will have to go to Nanda Mahārāja and lodge a complaint against You. If Nanda Mahārāja does not take action, then we shall tell King Kaṁsa about Your misbehavior."
Upon hearing this appeal by the unmarried gopīs, Kṛṣṇa answered, "My dear girls, if you think that you are My eternal servitors and you are always ready to execute My order, then My request is that, ***with your smiling faces, you please come here alone, one after another***, and take away your garments. If you do not come here, however, and ***if you lodge complaints to My father, I shall not care anyway, for I know My father is old and cannot take any action against Me***."
When the gopīs saw that Kṛṣṇa was strong and determined, they had no alternative but to abide by His order. ***One after another they came out of the water, but because they were completely naked, they tried to cover their nakedness by placing their left hand over their pubic area***. In that posture they were all shivering. ***Their simple presentation was so pure that Lord Kṛṣṇa immediately became pleased with them***. All the unmarried gopīs who prayed to Kātyāyanī to have Kṛṣṇa as their husband were thus satisfied. A woman cannot be naked before any male except her husband. The unmarried gopīs desired Kṛṣṇa as their husband, and He fulfilled their desire in this way."
("Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead" - by A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhaktivedanta purport of the Twenty-second Chapter of Kṛṣṇa, "Stealing the Garments of the Unmarried Gopī Girls.")
[Source: http://krsnabook.com/ch22.html]
So, here it is clear that the unmarried virgin girls fell in love of Krishna and getting the opportunity of their weakness, Krishna, in a very clever way, enjoyed the young Gopies' complete naked body!!!
Yet some people give the excuse that Krishna was a little child and did not understand sexuality, but this is a bogus claim. If Krishna did not understand anything, then he would not behave in such manner and would not force those unmarried virgin girls for sexual enjoyment like this way.
Some people try to defend saying that Krishna actually wanted to teach the Gopies that they should not bath like this way. This is a lame excuse given by the Hindus, Swami Prabhupada's explanation is enough to show the fact.
"(Krishna says) "My dear girls, you have committed a great offense by going naked in the River Yamunā. Because of this, the predominating deity of the Yamunā, Varuṇadeva, has become displeased with you. Please, therefore, just touch your foreheads with folded palms and bow down before the demigod Varuṇa in order to be excused from this offensive act."..........
Although **Kṛṣṇa cheated** the young unmarried gopīs and made them **stand naked before Him** and **enjoyed joking words with them**, and although **He treated them just like dolls** and stole their garments, they were still pleased with Him and never lodged complaints against Him."
("Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead" - by A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhaktivedanta purport of the Twenty-second Chapter of Kṛṣṇa, "Stealing the Garments of the Unmarried Gopī Girls.")
[Source: http://krsnabook.com/ch22.html]
I think it's enough to refute such baseless claim.
=> Krishna's sexual enjoyment with the girls and women by dancing:
Krishna not only enjoyed the unmarried girls, but also wanted to find pleasure from the married women of other persons.
Swami Prabhupada says,
"It appears that Kṛṣṇa enjoyed the rāsa dance with the gopīs when **He was eight years old**. At that time, **many of the gopīs were married**, because in India, especially in those days, girls were married at a very early age. There are even many instances of a girl giving birth to a child at the age of twelve. Under the circumstances, all the gopīs who wanted to have Kṛṣṇa as their husband were already married. At the same time, they continued to hope that Kṛṣṇa would be their husband. ***Their attitude toward Kṛṣṇa was that of paramour love.*** Therefore, ***the loving affairs of Kṛṣṇa with the gopīs is called parakīya-rasa. A married man or a wife who desires another wife or husband is called parakīya-rasa.***"
("Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead" - by A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhaktivedanta purport of the Twenty-ninth Chapter of Kṛṣṇa, "The Rāsa Dance: Introduction.")
[Source - http://krsnabook.com/ch29.html]
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.33.2 says,
”There on the Yamuna’s banks Lord Govinda(Krishna) then began the pastime of the rasa dance in the company of those jewels among women, the faithful gopis, who joyfully linked their arms together. [7-8] As **the gopis sang in praise of Krishna**, their *feet danced*, their *hands gestured*, and their *eyebrows moved with playful smiles*. With their braids and belts tied tight, their waists bending, their faces perspiring, **the garments on their breasts moving this way and that**, and their *earrings swinging on their cheeks*, Lord Krishna’s young consorts shone like streaks of lightning in a mass of clouds. ***Eager to enjoy conjugal love***, their throats colored with various pigments, **the gopis sang loudly and danced.** They were overjoyed by Krishna’s touch, and they sang songs that filled the entire universe. [10-12] When one gopi grew tired from the rasa dance, She turned to Krishna, standing at Her side holding a baton, and grasped His shoulder with Her arm. The dancing had loosened Her bracelets and the flowers in Her hair. Upon the shoulder of one gopi Krishna placed His arm, whose natural blue-lotus fragrance was mixed with that of the sandalwood pulp anointing it. As the gopi relished that fragrance, her bodily hair stood on end in jubilation, and **she kissed His arm**. Next to Krishna’s cheek one gopi put her own, beautified by the effulgence of her earrings, which glittered as she danced. Krishna then carefully gave her the betel nut He was chewing. [17-18] Their senses overwhelmed by the joy of having His physical association, ***the gopis could not prevent their hair, their dresses and the cloths covering their breasts from becoming disheveled***. Their garlands and ornaments scattered, O hero of the Kuru dynasty. The wives of the demigods, **observing Krishna’s playful activities from their airplanes, were entranced and became agitated with lust**. Indeed, even the moon and his entourage, the stars, became astonished. [22] Lord Krishna’s garland had been crushed during **His conjugal dalliance with the gopis** and **colored vermilion by the kunkuma powder on their breasts**…” Tr. Swami Prabhupada
Swami Prabhupada again says,
"When some of the gopīs became very tired from dancing and moving their bodies, they placed their hands on the shoulders of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Then their hair loosened and flowers fell to the ground. When they placed their hands on Kṛṣṇa's shoulder they became overwhelmed by the fragrance of His body which emanated from the lotus, other aromatic flowers, and the pulp of sandalwood. ***They became filled with attraction for Him, and they began to kiss one another. Some gopīs touched Kṛṣṇa cheek to cheek, and Kṛṣṇa began to offer them chewed betel nuts from His mouth, which they exchanged with great pleasure by kissing.***..........
The gopīs became tired after long singing and dancing. Kṛṣṇa was dancing beside them, and to alleviate their fatigue ***they took Śrī Kṛṣṇa's hand and placed it on their raised breasts.*** ***Kṛṣṇa's hand, as well as the breasts of the gopīs, are eternally auspicious; therefore when they combined, both of them became spiritually enhanced***. The gopīs so enjoyed the company of Kṛṣṇa, the husband of the goddess of fortune, that they forgot that they had any other husband in the world, and upon being embraced by the arms of Kṛṣṇa and dancing and singing with Him, they forgot everything."
("Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead" - by A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhaktivedanta purport of the Thirty-second Chapter of Kṛṣṇa, "Description of the Rāsa Dance.")
[Source - http://krsnabook.com/ch32.html]
=> Krishna's sexual life with his wives:
Swami Prabhupada writes,
"***Kṛṣṇa had 16,108 wives***, and in each of them He begot ten sons, all of them equal to their father in the opulences of strength, beauty, wisdom, fame, wealth and renunciation."
("Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead" - by A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhaktivedanta purport of the Second Volume, Sixth Chapter, of Kṛṣṇa, "The Genealogical Table of the Family of Kṛṣṇa.")
[Source - http://krsnabook.com/ch60.html]
Hindu scriptures are describing the lustful life of Krishna with his wives like this way,
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.90.10-11 says,
"**Under the drenched clothing of the queens, their thighs and breasts would become visible.** The flowers tied in their large braids would scatter as they sprayed water on their consort, and on the plea of trying to take away His syringe, **they would embrace Him**. **By His touch their lusty feelings would increase, causing their faces to beam with smiles**. Thus Lord Kṛṣṇa’s queens shone with resplendent beauty. Lord Kṛṣṇa’s flower garland would become smeared with kuṅkuma from their breasts, and His abundant locks of hair would become disheveled as a result of His absorption in the game. As the Lord repeatedly sprayed His young consorts and they sprayed Him in turn, **He enjoyed Himself like the king of elephants enjoying in the company of his bevy of she-elephants.**"
Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Krishna Janma Khanda 112.34-46,
”O Narada, later on, **Lord Krisna in due order by turns committed sexual intercourse on the auspicious day prescribed by the Vedas with seven women**, viz., Kalindi, Satyabhama, Satya, NagnaJiti, sati, Jambavati and Laksmana. In course of time, each of these seven women bore ten sons and one daughter…” Tr. Rajendra Nath Sen
=> Krishna's marriage with cousin sisters:
Hindus views marriages with cousin as incesteous, but Krishna himself is said to have married his paternal aunt’s daughter. Mitravinda was the daughter of Rajadhidevi who was the sister of Krishna’s father Vasudeva making Mitravinda the first cousin of Krishna,
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.58.31,
“My dear King, Lord Kṛṣṇa forcibly took away Princess Mitravindā, the daughter of His aunt Rājādhidevī, before the eyes of the rival kings.” Tr. Swami Prabhupada
Krishna is said to have married another cousin named Bhadra.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.58.56,
“Bhadrā was a princess of the Kaikeya kingdom and the daughter of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s paternal aunt Śrutakīrti. The Lord married Bhadrā when her brothers, headed by Santardana, offered her to Him.” Tr. Swami Prabhupada
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.83.15-16,
“Śrī Bhadrā said: My dear Draupadī, of his own free will my father invited his nephew Kṛṣṇa, to whom I had already dedicated my heart, and offered me to Him as His bride. My father presented me to the Lord with an akṣauhiṇi military guard and a retinue of my female companions. My ultimate perfection is this: to always be allowed to touch Lord Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet as I wander from life to life, bound by my karma.” Tr. Swami Prabhupada
=> The Kidnapping of Rukmini:
The Hindu scripture lists several forms of marriages, one of them is known as Rakshasa marriage. Rape and abduction of females is legitimized under this form of marriage.
Swami Prabhupada writes,
”…There are other kinds of marriage, such as gāndharva marriage and marriage by love, which are also accepted as marriage. Even ***if one is forcibly kidnapped and later on accepted as a wife, that is also accepted***…”
(A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on Srimad Bhagawatam 3.22.15) [ http://vanisource.org/wiki/SB_3.22.15 ]
This form of marriage is permitted for the Kshatriya caste,
Manusmriti 3.24 says,
”The four forms (of Marriage) the seers have ordained as proper for Brahmanas; only the Rakshasa form as proper for Kshatriyas, and the A’sura form as proper for Vais’yas and S’udras.” Tr. M.N. Dutt
Krishna as a Kshatriya, kidnapped her lover Rukmini from the wedding ceremony and fought against her family members. It is because Rukmini wanted to marry Krishna and King Bhīṣmaka was not very enthusiastic about handing his daughter over to Śiśupāla, but he was obliged to accept the marriage settlement due to his affectionate attachment for his eldest son, who had negotiated it. However, doesn't the system of such kind of kidnapping for Rakshasa marriage violate the peaceful situation among families??? Should it be the standard of solution of woman's rights??? See the situation yourself.
Swami Prabhupada writes,
"After hearing Rukmiṇī's statement, Lord Kṛṣṇa was very pleased. He immediately shook hands with the brāhmaṇa and said: "My dear brāhmaṇa, I am very glad to hear that Rukmiṇī is anxious to marry Me, since I am also anxious to get her hand.........
Kṛṣṇa, upon being informed of the specific date of Rukmiṇī's marriage, became anxious to leave immediately. He asked His driver, Dāruka, to harness the horses for His chariot and prepare to go to the kingdom of Vidarbha. The driver, just after hearing this order, brought Kṛṣṇa's four special horses..........
The roads of Kuṇḍina were arranged with colored flags and festoons, and gates were constructed at particular crossings. The whole city was decorated very nicely. The beauty of the city was enhanced by the inhabitants, both men and women, who were dressed in washed cloth, decorated with sandalwood pulp, pearl necklaces and flower garlands. Incense was burning everywhere, and fragrances like aguru scented the air. Priests and brāhmaṇas were sumptuously fed and, according to ritualistic ceremony, were given sufficient wealth and cows in charity.........
When King Bhīṣmaka heard that Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma had come, he invited Them to see the marriage ceremony of his daughter. Immediately he arranged to receive Them, along with Their soldiers, in a suitable garden house. As was the Vedic custom, the King offered Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma honey and fresh washed cloth..........
In the meantime, Rukmiṇī, being very nicely dressed and protected by bodyguards, came out of the palace to visit the temple of Ambikā, the goddess Durgā.........
After the business of deity worship was finished, Rukmiṇī caught hold of the hand of one of her girl friends and left the temple, accompanied by the others. All the princes and visitors who came to Kuṇḍina for the marriage were assembled outside the temple to see Rukmiṇī........
Śrīmatī Rukmiṇī, however, was not interested in any of them; in her heart she was simply expecting Kṛṣṇa to come and carry her away. As she was adjusting the ornaments on her left-hand finger, she happened to look upon the princes and suddenly saw that Kṛṣṇa was present amongst them. Although Rukmiṇī had never before seen Kṛṣṇa, she was always thinking of Him; thus she had no difficulty in recognizing Him amongst the princely order.
****Kṛṣṇa, not being concerned with the other princes, immediately took the opportunity of placing Rukmiṇī on His chariot, marked by a flag bearing an image of Garuḍa. He then proceeded slowly, without fear, taking away Rukmiṇī exactly as the lion takes the deer from the midst of the jackals. Meanwhile Balarāma appeared on the scene with the soldiers of the Yadu dynasty.****
Jarāsandha, who had many times experienced defeat by Kṛṣṇa, began to roar: "How is this? Kṛṣṇa is taking Rukmiṇī away from us without any opposition! What is the use in our being chivalrous fighters with arrows? My dear princes, just look! We are losing our reputation by this action. He is just like the jackal taking away the booty from the lion.""
("Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead" - by A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhaktivedanta purport of the Fifty-second Chapter of Kṛṣṇa, "Kṛṣṇa Kidnaps Rukmiṇī.")
[Source - http://krsnabook.com/ch52.html]
So we see how Krishna violated the peaceful situation and the dishonoured the Kings and others by kidnapping Rukmini from her marriage ceremony.
Not only that, Krishna started to fight against Rukmini's elder brother Rukmi during the time of kidnapping. How will you feel if such situation creates in your house?? Should this kind of attitude be the standard of an ideal personality??? See the situation below.
"All the princes led by Jarāsandha became very angry at Kṛṣṇa's kidnapping Rukmiṇī. Struck by the beauty of Rukmiṇī, they had fallen from the backs of their horses and elephants, but now they began to stand up and properly arm themselves. Picking up their bows and arrows, they began to chase Kṛṣṇa on their chariots, horses and elephants. To check their progress, the soldiers of the Yadu dynasty turned and faced them. Thus terrible fighting between the two belligerent groups began. The princes opposing Kṛṣṇa were led by Jarāsandha and they were all very expert in fighting. They began to shoot their arrows at the soldiers of Yadu just as a cloud splashes the face of a mountain with torrents of rain. Gathered on the face of a mountain, a cloud does not move very much, and therefore the force of rain is much more severe on a mountain than it is anywhere else..........
As the fighting progressed, the princes and soldiers of the enemy camp began to fall from their horses, elephants and chariots. Within a very short time, it was seen that millions of severed heads, decorated with helmets and earrings, had fallen on the battlefield. The soldiers' hands were cut up along with their bows and arrows and clubs; one head was piled upon another, and one horse was piled upon another. All the infantry soldiers, as well as their camels, elephants and asses, fell down with severed heads........
***Having seen his sister forcibly taken away by Kṛṣṇa after he had planned to marry her with Śiśupāla, Rukmī was frustrated. So he and Śiśupāla, his friend and intended brother-in-law, returned to their respective homes. Rukmī, very much agitated, was determined to personally teach Kṛṣṇa a lesson***............
.....***Rukmī immediately got on his chariot and told his chariot driver to pursue Kṛṣṇa. He said, "I want to fight with Him immediately. This cowherd boy has become very proud because of His tricky way of fighting with the kṣatriyas, but today I shall teach Him a good lesson. Because He has the impudency to kidnap my sister, I, with my sharpened arrows, shall teach Him very good lessons indeed."......****
...."Stop for a minute and fight with me!" After saying this he drew his bow and directly shot three forceful arrows against Kṛṣṇa's body. Then he condemned Kṛṣṇa as the most abominable descendant of the Yadu dynasty and asked Him to stand before him for a minute so that he could teach Him a good lesson. "You are carrying away my sister just like a crow stealing clarified butter meant for use in a sacrifice. You are simply proud of Your military strength, but You cannot fight according to regulative principles. You have stolen my sister; now I shall relieve You of Your false prestige. You can keep my sister under Your possession only as long as I do not pinion You to the ground for good with my arrows."
Lord Kṛṣṇa, after hearing all these crazy words from Rukmī, immediately shot an arrow and severed the string of Rukmī's bow, making him unable to use another arrow. Rukmī immediately took another bow and shot another five arrows at Kṛṣṇa. Being attacked for the second time by Rukmī, Kṛṣṇa again severed his bowstring. Rukmī took a third bow, and Kṛṣṇa again cut off its string.
***This time, in order to teach Rukmī a lesson, Kṛṣṇa personally shot six arrows at him, and then He shot another eight arrows. Thus four horses were killed by four arrows, the chariot driver was killed by another arrow, and the upper portion of Rukmī's chariot, including the flag, was chopped off with the remaining three arrows.***
***Having run out of arrows, Rukmī took the assistance of swords, shields, tridents, lances and similar other weapons used for fighting hand-to-hand, but Kṛṣṇa immediately severed them all in the same way. Being repeatedly baffled in his attempts, Rukmī simply took his sword and ran very swiftly toward Kṛṣṇa, just as a fly proceeds toward a fire. As soon as Rukmī reached Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa cut his weapon to pieces.***
****This time Kṛṣṇa took out His sharp sword and was about to kill him immediately, but Rukmī's sister Rukmiṇī, understanding that this time Kṛṣṇa would not excuse her brother, fell down at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and in a very grievous tone, trembling with great fear, began to plead with her husband.****"
("Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead" - by A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhaktivedanta purport of the Fifty-third Chapter of Kṛṣṇa, "Kṛṣṇa Defeats all the Princes and Takes Rukmiṇī Home to Dvārakā.")
[Source - http://krsnabook.com/ch53.html]
It is natural that a brother will fight with the person who is kidnapping her sister. But Lord of the Hindus, the Krishna is showing us as if there is no problem to take the girl-friend from her father's house for enjoyment and if any of the family members comes forward to protect their female child from such worse lover, the lover should start fight and even kill the family members of his girl-friend !!!
=> The unnatural death of Krishna:
A human would have a limited life and would die someday. Krishna grew old and died too, but in an unnatural way. A hunter named Jara shot arrow on Krishna’s leg. And the story later may have been twisted to show that it was Krishna himself who wanted it.
Krishna was actually cursed !!
Vishnu Purana 5.37 says,
"Respecting the words of the Brahman, the imprecation of Durvásas, the illustrious Krishńa sat engaged in thought, resting his foot upon his knee.
Then came ***there a hunter, named Jará***, whose arrow was tipped with a blade made of the piece of iron of the club, which had not been reduced to powder; and ***beholding from a distance the foot of Krishńa, he mistook it for part of a deer, and shooting his arrow, lodged it in the sole***.
Approaching his mark, he saw the four-armed king, and, falling at his feet, repeatedly besought his forgiveness, exclaiming, “I have done this deed unwittingly, thinking I was aiming at a deer! Have pity upon me, who am consumed by my crime; for thou art able to consume me!” Bhagavat replied, “Fear not thou in the least. Go, hunter, through my favour, to heaven, the abode of the gods.” As soon as he had thus spoken, a celestial car appeared, and the hunter, ascending it, forthwith proceeded to heaven. Then the illustrious Krishńa, having united himself with his own pure, spiritual, inexhaustible, inconceivable, unborn, undecaying, imperishable, and universal spirit, which is one with Vásudeva, abandoned his mortal body and the condition of the threefold qualities."
As per Skanda Purana II.ii.12.118, The hunter shot arrow which pierced *the heart of Krishna.*
Srimad Bhagavatam 11.1.23-25 says,
“The fish was caught in the ocean along with other fish in a fishermen’s net. The iron lump in the fish’s stomach was taken by the hunter Jarā, who fixed it as an arrowhead at the end of his shaft.
Knowing fully the significance of all these events, ***the Supreme Lord, though capable of reversing the brāhmaṇas’ curse***, did not wish to do so.
Rather, in His form of time, He gladly sanctioned the events.” Tr. Swami Prabhupada
So we see, the Krishna who is considered to be the Supreme Power, how unnaturally died in this world for the brāhmaṇas’ curse!! Isn't this an degradation of Lord's supreme position???
We are leaving it upon the readers to judge the truth by themselves. We will now end the article with an Quranic quotation.
"Yet the unbelievers have taken besides Him(Allah) other gods which can create nothing but are themselves created, which can neither harm nor help even themselves, and which have no power over life or death, or raising the dead to life."
[The Noble Quran, 25:03]
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