Is Krishna Real

Recently there has been an article by Dr. Manish Pandit in lots of news paper, wherein he put forward his argument in support of the existence of Krishna & actual dating of the Mahabharata war. He has based his research on the basis of various astrological references that are found in the Mahabharata Epic. Going by those references the date arrived at is around 3067 BC for that epic war. This is a 5000 years old event & no doubt we dont find any other physical proof of that history other then the names of various places (like Hastinapur, Gandhar, Dwarka etc.) which from our current knowledge & continuing traditions know are there.

So the point is that when we talk of any thing which is separated from our current age by thousands of years, then the basis of verifying them should be your living & continuous traditions as against the physical proofs. By the same means, we can then establish that maybe Ramayan is also not a plain moral story, but a great collection of history which happenned thousands of years before even the Mahabharata happenned.

Let me briefly mention here about the concept of dimensions. Till about 100 years back, humans were only aware of 3 dimensions in universe which is length, breadth & height. I would say even till today 99% of us are only aware of this 3 dimensions in the universe. But let me tell you that the scientific world now readily accept the fourth dimension as well & that is the dimension of Time-Space. This came out after Einstein proposed his Special Theory of relativity & General theory of relativity. Over the decades, with numerous experiments done over by the scientists all over the world, the fourth dimension is now a very much accepted phenomenon. As you see, even time is one of the dimension. As we can move freely from one point to the other in the generally accepted 3 dimensions of the world, so too we can freely move in time (atleast theoretically this is found to be possible as per general theory of relativity). Maybe in future, the human race will be so developed so as to actually start moving in time & then maybe we would be actually able to verify all our historical facts without any bias. Till that time, we need to rely on our living traditions & take them as a proxy to this fourth Time-Space dimension & trust them on the facts as said by them about Ramayana, Mahabharata etc.