I was introduced to the Hare Krishna religion some years ago. It seemed cool to me at first, but over the years I have developed quite a few doubts about the existence of Krishna and find much of the belief system to seem alot like mythology. So far no one I have talked to really given me any good explaination why I should believe in Krishna. I have read all of Prabhupada's books, and some of them several times, and I find that I am not convinced byt his arguments. I used to chant Hare Krishna but I quit because after many years, there was still no results. Someone told me I must have not been doing it correctly, but that seems like a cop out answer. I have met many devotees in this life time and I have never met anyone who has really experienced any kind of realization of Krishna which increases my doubt.
So i am posting this message up here to ask anyone who might like to reply some questions.
Why should I accept that Krishna is real? I will no longer blindly just "believe" in him.
How do we know that the Indian scriptures were not simply just stories written down by men as oppossed to divinely inspired. Or how do we know they are not just some kind of folk lore or just plain fiction? I hear Hare Krishna people subject other religions like Chritianity and Islam to historical scrutiny all the time, but they don't seem to want to subject the vedas to the same scrutiny, but how do we know it isn't all just made up? Many people don't think the vedas and especially the Puranas and mahabharata are really 5000 years old but were written in the 300-700's AD. The Bhagavatam itself talks about things that happened in the Mauryan empire (8th and 9th centuries BC?)using the past tense (meaning that it was written afterward). So why should I accept they are really 5000 years old?
Thanks for your time.
