Суд над Бхагавад-гитой / Attempt to ban Bhagavad-gita

63. How many wives did Krishna have?

16,108.

Many people say “Krishna was immoral as he had 16,108 wives”. This is a foolish and dumb statement. If one accepts that Krishna had 16,108 wives then he accepts that Krishna is the one and only God. The fact that he had 16,108 wives is simple proof that he is God.

If one were to get married to one wife a day, it would take 16,108 days to marry the 16,108 girls, this is 44 years. Who can take 44 years off from work to get married? Who can take 44 years off from their business to get married? The fact that Krishna could marry the 16,108 girls is simple proof that he is God.

These foolish persons only mention part of the story and not the full story. The full story is that Krishna had 16,108 wives, but there were 16,108 Krishnas. There was one wife for each of the 16,108 Krishnas. Is there anything wrong with one man having one wife?

As Krishna was God, he could do things that we cannot even imagine and especially the foolish persons who deride Krishna. Krishna expanded his one body into 16,108 identical bodies and then each Krishna married each of the 16,108 girls.

The 16,108 couples (one Krishna and one wife make one couple) lived in their own palace, thus there were 16,108 palaces. This is another proof that Krishna is God, because he is the richest person. Do you know anyone who can maintain 16,108 homes? If you find that person, he is God.

64. Why did Krishna have so many wives?

Krishna was God, but he was playing the role of a Prince and in ancient times all over the World, it was normal for the Kings and Princes to have many wives, this is even true today in some parts of the World.

As a Prince he had 8 wives and on one occasion there were 16,100 girls who got kidnapped by some demonic person. Krishna got these girls released and then asked the girls to go back to their homes, but the girls were too afraid to go back home. According to Vedic culture, a girl must stay with the father until married and then stay with the husband. If an unmarried girl spends one single night away from her father’s home, then the father has the right to assume she has become a prostitute and reject her.

The 16,100 girls didn’t want to go back home, because their fathers would reject them for the reasons just explained. Krishna also knew that they could not go back home, as he is the creator of the Vedic culture. Krishna asked the girls what they wanted to do. The 16,100 girls asked Krishna to marry them. How can Krishna refuse, as he is God, the one who takes care of his followers. If Krishna had said no then the lives of these girls would be completely ruined.

This is how Krishna had 16,108 wives.

Now days, the fathers are very proudly sending their unmarried daughters far away from home to work or study, and most of them become degraded by having boyfriends. These girls would be the rejects of society in the ancient World but now days, the fathers are very proud of these very degraded daughters.