VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna

[Joseph Tracy]

Good  quotes about Krishna in VL. In my experience , every group  
needs a Krishna or two to keep the peace.
Here is where this is getting weird for me personally. I am working  
with my daughter and son in law on a graphic novel that has a flute  
player who is a birdman robot from another solar system.  It is based  
on a dream I had.  This discussion has made me realize the that there  
is quite a bit of Krishna in my  dream.
There are different interpretations of Krishna's life, ( he figures  
into Jain and Buddhist stories too)but all agree he was black,  
beautiful, usually accompanied by  goddess or milkmaid(in my dream  
the robot had male female aspects) , ageless and musical. Early Jazz  
musician, Miles in a previous incarnation?

The Krishna character also gives some context to Weed's last name,  
Atman. Atman is a concept common to the religions of the sub  
continent  also.

But perhaps it would be good to look  first at Brock Vond and his  
name first since that is where the cameras point at the end of  
chapter10.



On Feb 16, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Josiah Miller wrote:

> Here's from Chapter II - "Esoteric Music" from the book The  
> Mysticism of Sound and Music by Hazrat Inayat Khan:
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> "All actions and movements made in the visible and invisible world  
> are musical.  That is:  they are made up of vibrations pertaining  
> to a certain plane of existence" (pg. 9).
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> Pertaining to Oriental Music:
> "Its inventor was Mahadeva, the Lord of Yogis, and its great  
> performer Parvati, his beloved consort.  Krishna, the incarnation  
> of God, was an expert musician who charmed both worlds by the music  
> of his flute, making the Yogis dance" (pg. 9).
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> "Fine vibrations through action become grosser in their degrees,  
> which form the different planes of existence, ending in the  
> physical manifestation" (pg. 9).
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> "Spirit descends into matter by the law of vibration, and matter  
> may also ascend toward spirit" (pg. 9).
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> Now we have Krishna appearing in the 24fps in Vineland:
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> "...the task of trying to keep everybody 'happy' fell to  
> Krishna" (pg. 198).
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> "...it was always Krishna who found the right music" (pg. 198).
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> "...it was Krishna who led everybody to the bathroom and served as  
> counselor for as long as it took" (pg. 198).
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> Josiah
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>> There is a Gandhian point where
>> 24fps realizes the danger of their actions, in the sense
>> that Gandhi said only when fighters for peace were as
>> committed as armies in confronting injustice can they
>> succeed.
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>>> "Paying attention, in a quite different usage, is
>> a positive Zen(like) attitude.
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