A photo has been shared thousands of times alongside the false claim it shows a heart-shaped wooden sculpture "containing the live, beating heart" of the Hindu god Krishna which is kept in a temple in eastern India. But the sculpture was in fact created by Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov in 2001, who told AFP his artwork -- part of an installation called Anatomy -- is kept in a Paris art gallery.

The claim was shared on Twitter on June 16, 2023 by Shri Aacharya Ji, a self-styled guru with over 137,000 followers on the platform.

The post includes a photo of the well-known guru and another that appears to show a wooden heart.

The lengthy caption claims the wooden sculpture contains the heart of the Hindu god, Lord Krishna, which is still alive.

"His heart is still safe, which lies inside the wooden statue of Lord Jagannath and beats the same way. Very few people know this," the Hindi-language tweet reads in part. Both Krishna and Jagannath are said to be incarnations of the Hindu god Vishnu.

It goes on to detail a popular belief that Krishna's living heart has been kept inside the Jagannath temple in Odisha state -- a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Jagannath (archived links here and here).

The post has been retweeted more than 6,500 times.

A screenshot of the false post captured on June 20, 2023

Other users left comments offering praise to the Hindu god, suggesting they believed the claim was true.

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