All 16 Uses of
Krishna
in
Life of Pi
- Two pictures rest behind a small altar: to the side, Ganesha again, and in the centre, in a larger frame, smiling and blue-skinned, Krishna playing the flute.†
Chpt 13-16
- He identifies them for me with a pointed finger: Lakshmi; Shakti, the mother goddess, in the form of Par va ft; and Krishna, this time as a playful baby crawling on all fours.†
Chpt 13-16
- Now we call it Shiva, Krishna, Shakti, Ganesha; we can approach it with some understanding; we can discern certain attributes—loving, merciful, frightening—and we feel the gentle pull of relationship.†
Chpt 13-16
- I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd.†
Chpt 13-16
- But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes.†
Chpt 13-16
- It was Lord Krishna speaking.†
Chpt 17-20
- And in his wisdom and perfect love, Lord Krishna led me to meet one man.
Chpt 17-20 *Krishna = important Hindu god incarnated as a handsome young man playing a flute
- I couldn't imagine Lord Krishna consenting to be stripped naked, whipped, mocked, dragged through the streets and, to top it off, crucified—and at the hands of mere humans, to boot.†
Chpt 17-20
- There is the story of baby Krishna, wrongly accused by his friends of eating a bit of dirt.†
Chpt 17-20
- Krishna does as he is told.†
Chpt 17-20
- She sees in Krishna's mouth the whole complete entire timeless universe, all the stars and planets of space and the distance between them, all the lands and seas of the earth and the life in them; she sees all the days of yesterday and all the days of tomorrow; she sees all ideas and all emotions, all pity and all hope, and the three strands of matter; not a pebble, candle, creature, village or galaxy is missing, including herself and every bit of dirt in its truthful place.†
Chpt 17-20
- If Brahman is to have only one son, He must be as abundant as Krishna with the milkmaids, no?†
Chpt 17-20
- I'll stick to my Krishna, thank you very much.†
Chpt 17-20
- Then I raced down the hill on the left and raced up the hill on the right—to offer thanks to Lord Krishna for having put Jesus of Nazareth, whose humanity I found so compelling, in my way.†
Chpt 17-20
- As for Ravi, if Lord Krishna had held a cricket bat rather than a flute, if Christ had appeared more plainly to him as an umpire, if the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, had shown some notions of bowling, he might have lifted a religious eyelid, but they didn't, and so he slumbered.†
Chpt 21-24
- I was a disconsolate Arjuna in a battered chariot without the benefit of Krishna's words.†
Chpt 73-76
Definition:
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(Krishna Hindu God) Hindu Religion: 8th and most important avatar of Vishnu; incarnated as a handsome young man playing a flute