who is god shri krishan

There is God in Hinduism. He is considered the 8th incarnation of Vishnu. He is also known by the names Kanhaiya, Shyam, Gopal, Keshav, Dwarkesh or Dwarkadhish, Vasudev etc. Krishna was an unrelenting Karmayogi, an ideal philosopher, a wise man and a great man equipped with divine wealth. He was born in Dwaparayuga. He has been given the position of the best man of this era, Yugpurush or Yugavatar. Krishna's character is written in detail in Srimad Bhagwat and Mahabharata composed by Krishna's contemporary Maharishi Vedvyas. The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, a text that is still popular all over the world. Krishna is also given the honor of Jagatguru for this sermon.

Krishna was the 8th child of Vasudev and Devaki. Devaki was the sister of Kansa. Kansa was a tyrannical king. He had heard from the sky that he would be killed by the eighth son of Devaki. To avoid this, Kansa put Devaki and Vasudev in prison in Mathura. He was born on the Ashtami of the Krishna Paksha of the month of Bhado in the prison of Mathura. Fearing Kansa, Vasudev took the newborn child to Yashoda's place in Gokul across the Yamuna at night. He was brought up in Gokul. Yashoda and Nanda were his foster parents.

In his childhood, he did big things which were not possible for any normal person. Shortly after his birth, he killed the demon Putna sent by Kansa, after that he killed the demons Shaktasur, Trinavarta etc. Later, after leaving Gokul, Nand came to village, there also he performed many pastimes, in which Gocharan Leela, Govardhan Leela, Raas Leela etc. are the main ones. After this he killed maternal uncle Kansa in Mathura. Established the city of Dwarka in Saurashtra and established his kingdom there. Helped the Pandavas and protected them from various dangers. In the war of Mahabharata, he played the role of Arjuna's charioteer and preached to him in the battlefield itself. He ended his pastimes after a lifetime of 124 years. Immediately after the end of his incarnation comes the period of Parikshit's kingdom. The Kali Yuga is believed to have started from the time of King Parikshit, who was the son of Abhimanyu and Uttara and the grandson of Arjuna.