AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada translated and wrote many commentaries on Krishna, but more specifically on what he is like in his original personal form.
They also discuss how you are doing in the eternal spirit world. In the temporary world of multiple sufferings, one will understand his transcendental activities that can reach the transcendental plane of eternal existence in full bliss and knowledge. Krishna books tend to provide much more fascinating stories and invaluable spiritual knowledge.
Once you see Krishna’s books, you may like many others that express doubts. In fact, they wonder if they are mythology or if they are supposed to take their messages literally. Some feel that Krishna is as imaginary as Superman or the mythological gods of the ancient tradition. These people, instead of rejecting Krishna as imaginary, need to understand who He is, because He is much more than a hero or a myth. His hobbies are described in these books and they are momentous. They are concerned with the philosophical understanding of the cause of all causes.
Many wonder how the ultimate truth can be a person, but Krishna’s personality is not limited or material. He possesses the opulences of wealth, fame, beauty, knowledge, strength, and renunciation. Since so many people have had bitter experiences with imperfect and deadly people, this is why it is so easy to come to the conclusion that truth cannot have a personal form. Jiva Gosvami informs us that if we do not accept the truth as inconceivable, we will never begin to understand it.
Krishna is a person, but he is not limited, frail, or mortal like us. Another compelling objection to taking Krishna consciousness seriously is that the concept of God as supreme is valid and understands how important it is to us today. We are faced with practical and urgent problems of economic and class struggles, and there is the imminent threat of nuclear war. He wonders how Krishna can help us with our daily difficulties.
Unless we know the truth, we can never solve problems that arise from immediate relative truths. An experienced physician knows that certain symptoms indicate a specific disease, and by curing the disease, he can cure all the symptoms. Similarly, the world’s problems of conflict, scarcity, oppression, disease, etc., are simply symptoms of our ignorance of the real purpose of life, which is to know, serve, and love him.
Unless our leaders enlighten themselves in God consciousness and attack the root causes of social ills, not to mention widespread spiritual ignorance, no mitigating measure can succeed in curing the body politic. The human propensity for love must be satisfied in terms of his real and spiritual needs. Our fundamental need is to understand our intimate loving relationship with Krishna, who is not irrelevant. In fact, trying to solve our problems without Him is irrelevant.
To forget it is to disobey. His codes of universal religion are the causes of all suffering. Careful study of Krishna’s books is not a waste of time, but an extremely important activity. For those of us who are not interested in reading extensive treatises on transcendental philosophy, Srila Prabhupada has presented Krishna’s books in the attractive form of short stories comprising ninety chapters.
The Krishna books are actually a summary study of the Tenth Canto of the Sanskrit scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam, which describes all the attractive pastimes of Lord Krishna. They make the essence of this most sublime Vedic literature accessible to modern readers around the world. The relevance to our modern difficulties becomes even clearer when we consider the setting of the original Srimad-Bhagavatam narrative, which was a sacred forest in India five thousand years ago.
The sage narrated the pastimes of Lord Krishna to Emperor Parikshit, who had been cursed to die in seven days. By their practical example, these two exalted persons teach us that the ultimate purpose of life is to hear about, glorify and remember the Supreme Personality of Godhead. King Parikshit was especially determined to hear about Krishna, because he knew that he would die in a matter of hours. He was sure that by hearing about Krishna during his last moments, he would reach the eternal spiritual world and thus escape the cycle of birth and death.