When I started my spiritual journey…..this was my first question. Why Krishna?

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There are so many Gods, so why should I just follow Hindu God and not consider the names of God like Allah, Christ etc… So I found a simple solution. If there is a creation, there has to be a creator. Just like there are different names of Sun in different languages, but Sun is one. Similarly creator is one and has different names. So I told the creator, I give you the name Krishna but when I say Krishna I mean you, the creator.

I started reading various scriptures but found no one who walked on Earth claimed to be God.

Muhammad called himself prophet or messenger of God. Jesus called himself son of God. Saibaba called himself servant of God. Then who is God? Well as I mentioned above, the name doesn’t matter really. But Krishna who walked on earth about 5000 years ago called himself God and showed his universal form as per Bhagvad Gita the oldest scripture that exists.

 

Archaeology,  astronomy and literary sources have been used to establish the fact that Lord  Krishna was definitely a historical character. "The  sea, which had been beating against the shores, suddenly broke the boundary  that was imposed on it by nature. The sea rushed into the city. It coursed  through the streets of the beautiful city. The sea covered up everything in the  city. Arjuna saw the beautiful buildings becoming submerged one by one. He took  a last look at the mansion of Krishna. In a matter of a few moments it was all  over. The sea had now become as placid as a lake. There was no trace of the  beautiful city which had been the favourite haunt of all the Pandavas. Dwarka  was just a name; just a memory." – Mausala Parva, Mahabharata.

 

Does this account from the ancient Indian epic have a true  historical core? Did Lord Krishna, the youthful, playful God, indeed the  favorite Indian deity, walk the streets of ancient Dwarka? Did Krishna,  considered the Lord of the universe by a billion Hindus, rule the Yaduvanshi  clan thousands of years ago?

 

Archaeological  Evidence:

The key, to the Krishna story is  Dwarka. The strongest archaeological support comes from the structures  discovered in the late 1980's under the seabed off the coast of modern Dwarka  in Gujarat by a team of archaeologists and divers led by Dr S.R. Rao. An  emeritus scientist at the marine archaeology unit of the National Institute of  Oceanography, Goa, Rao has excavated a large number of Harappan sites,  including the port city of Lothal in Gujarat.

 

In his book The Lost City of Dwarka, published in 1999, he  writes about his undersea finds: “The discovery is an important landmark in the  history of India. It has set to rest the doubts expressed by historians about  the historicity of Mahabharata and the very existence of Dwarka city.”

 

Conducting 12 expeditions during 1983-1990, Rao identified  two underwater settlements, one near the present-day Dwarka and the other in  the nearby island of Bet Dwarka. This tallies with the two Dwarkas mentioned in  the epic. The underwater expeditions won Rao the first World Ship Trust Award  for Individual Achievement.

 

Another important find by our divers was a seal that  establishes the submerged township's connection with the Dwarka of the  Mahabharata. The seal corroborates the reference made in the ancient text, the  Harivamsa, that every citizen of Dwarka should carry such a seal for  identification purposes. Krishna had ruled that none without the seal should  enter it. A similar seal has been found onshore as well.

 

In his book, Search for the Historical Krishna, N.S.  Rajaram, a mathematician and former NASA scientist, writes that names of people  and places contemporaneous to Krishna are found on some Harappan seals. For  example, words like Paila (Ved Vyasa's pupil), Akrura (Krishna's friend),  Vrishni (Krishna's clan), Yadu (Krishna's ancestor), Sritirtha (old name for  Dwaraka) are found on seals, some of which go back 5000 years.

 

Literary  Evidence:

The west coast of Gujarat was the traditional land of the  Yadavs, or Yadus. According to the Bhagavad Puran, Krishna led the Yadavs  thousands of kilometres west to establish Dwarka, so they could start a new  life, safe from their many enemies in the Gangetic Valley.

 

The Mahabharata says, Dwarka was reclaimed from the sea.  Rao’s divers discovered that the submerged city's walls were erected on a  foundation of boulders, suggesting that land indeed was reclaimed from the sea.

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Of course, there are thousands of references to Krishna in  other Hindu as well as Buddhist texts but Dwarka is the key. For, one cannot  separate Dwarka from Krishna. If the city existed, then it is true that Krishna  ruled over it.

 

Astronomical  Evidence:

Dr Narhari Achar, professor of physics at the University of  Memphis, Tennessee, has dated the Mahabharata war using astronomy, using  regular planetarium software. According to his research conducted in 2004-05,  the titanic clash between the Pandavas and the Kauravas took place in 3067 BC.  Using the same software, Dr Achar places the year of Krishna’s birth at 3112  BC.

 

Dr Manish Pandit, a nuclear medicine physician in the UK,  after examining the astronomical, archaeological and linguistic evidence,  agrees with Dr Achar’s conclusions. Dr Pandit, who is also a distinguished  astrologer and has written several books on the subject, traced the route of  Krishna’s journeys to shoot the documentary, “Krishna: History or Myth?”

 

Dr Pandit says there are more than 140 astronomy references  in the Mahabharata. Simulations of the night sky on the planetarium software  show the stars as they would align over the Saraswati river in northern India.  These simulations have been combined with geographical descriptions to arrive  at various dates. According to historian S.M. Ali, the author of Geography of  Puranas, “The geographical matter contained in the Mahabharata is immense. It  is perhaps the only great work which deals with geographic details and not  incidentally, as other works.”

 

A beautiful video by Dr Manish Pandit on Sri Krishna, Explaining scientifically about the Krishna's existence in the history of Mankind: