Lord Krishna’s birthday, Shri Krishna Janmashtami, is celebrated with great reverence and enthusiasm all over India in the month of July or August. It is also known as Janmashtami or Gokulashtami, in which Hindus celebrate the birth of Lord Krishna as the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. It is celebrated on the eighth day (Ashtami) of Sri Krishna Paksha in Shravan or Bhadrapada according to the Hindu lunar calendar.
It is one of the holiest festivals of the Hindus, especially the followers of the Vaishnava tradition. According to the life story of Shri Krishna described in the Bhagavata Purana, this festival is celebrated in the middle of the night to commemorate the birth of Shri Krishna through fasting, night awakening and dance-theatrical performances and midnight devotional singing.
The center of Janmashtami celebrations is especially Mathura and Vrindavan but now it has become a global festival. It is a group of major Vaishnava and non-sectarian communities found in all other states of India including Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur, Assam, Bihar, West Bengal Odisha, Important festival. Shri Krishna Janmashtami festival comes after Nandotsav, it is celebrated in memory of the day when Nand Baba distributed gifts to people in celebration of Shri Krishna birth.
All Vaishnava traditions regard Sri Krishna as the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu; Others identify Sri Krishna with the god Vishnu, while some traditions of Hinduism consider Sri Krishna to be a self-styled god in the same form as the concept of Brahman in Hinduism.
Jainism tradition has the concept of 63 Shalakapurushas or ecclesiastical figures, including twenty-four Tirthankaras (spiritual teachers) and nine triad groups. One of these triads regards Sri Krishna as Vasudeva, Balarama as Balarama, and Jarasandha as Prithvi-Vasudeva.
The story of Shri Krishna is found in the Jataka tales in Buddhism. The Vidurpandita Jataka mentions Madhura (Sanskrit: Mathura), the Ghat Jataka mentions Kansa, Devagabha (Sanskrit: Devaki), Upasagara or Vasudeva, Govadhana (Sanskrit: Govardhan), Baladeva (Balarama) and Kanha or Keshava.
The Dasam Granth, traditionally and historically written for Guru Gobind Singh, mentions Krishna as one of the twenty-four incarnations.
The Bahá’ís believe that Sri Krishna was “an incarnation of God” or one of a series of missionaries who have progressively revealed the Word of God to a slowly maturing humanity.
Among all the incarnations of Lord Vishnu, Shri Krishna and Shri Ram are those incarnations on this land of India in which they have shown people the path of righteous conduct through their deeds. This is the land where whenever there is erosion of Dharma, the Lord incarnates according to the circumstances on this land for the restoration of Dharma. In Treta Yuga, people used to follow Dharma by looking at the example of ideal life, so in that era, Maryada Purushottam Shri Ram was incarnated, who followed the ideals of life even after keeping his relationships apart. In the Dwapara Yuga, it was not enough just to show examples, it was also necessary to teach the way to prepare the dharma to punish the unrighteous. Therefore Shri Krishna stood on the side of religion and helped the Pandavas to win in Kurukshetra.
We can understand many aspects depending on when we look to God and how we worship Him. A person who is a devotee of Sri Krishna, makes Sri Krishna everything in his life, fills his life with love, swims in the ocean of happiness and finally attains salvation. We are not talking about them. Since there is a history of Sri Krishna’s life, how he behaved, what steps he took to achieve certain things, it helps us to learn many things.
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