This chapter focused mostly on the story of how Krishna saved his village from a giant storm by holding up a mountain like an umbrella. This chapter consisted of several smaller stories. If I had to pick a general idea tying all of them together, it would be the process of the people coming to respect and even worship Krishna.
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| Krishna lifting up the mountain taken from the Bhagawat |
Krishna does a lot of things that would get anyone else in trouble, but according to the narrator, he is just testing the villagers. So, when they find out, they end up thanking him in the end. It's a little weird, and I don't know if I can take the idea that Krishna does all the things he does without any other motive than to test his followers. It seems to me like he does a lot of it for fun.
Anyways, it was kind of funny how he fooled the whole village into thinking that their local mountain was a deity. I guess Indra was a little arrogant in expecting worship from the villagers, but I don't think that it was a good idea to get them to expect help from an inanimate object. I feel like I'm split on the reasoning for most of Krishna's actions.
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