Reading Notes B: Week 14, The Lifting of the Mountain

I picked the Lifting of the Mountain by Sister Nivedita.

Cowherds of Brindaban would offer a sacrifice to Indra, God of Sky and King of Deities.  The sacrifice was so he would make it rain and restrain it when necessary.

Krishna notices the trend and is upset because he was born to put an end to the worship of Indra and put faith in Narayan, God Himself, Lord of the Souls, not of the fortunes of men.  So he tells Nanda, his foster father, and the cowherds to realize the sacrifice and worship would be better served to the mountain they used for shelter.  He decides they should celebrate the forest, the priesthood, and the cows.

Indra is Not Pleased. He sends down a really bad rainstorm.  It was probably like a hurricane or something of that magnitude, also can be drawn in connection with the Great Flood of the Christian Bible.


Krishna isn’t bothered at all and just tells his peeps to follow him.  He lifts up the mountain “holding it up with a single finger” for seven days and nights until Indra has to stop making it rain so much because its tiring being angry.  This begins Krishna’s praise as the savior by the rest of the people.

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