Core Insight:
According to Osho, calling Krishna ‘glorified by abductions’ misreads his age. In that era, abducting a consenting beloved signified valor and the primacy of love over rigid social rules; not doing so could insult the woman. Krishna’s actions (and encouraging elopements like Rukmini’s and Subhadra’s) reflected a culture of daring love, not criminality—modern norms cannot be retrofitted onto that context.