In the past, there was animosity between the Vinata mother of Garud, the vehicle of Lord Vishnu, and Kadru, the mother of the serpents. Remembering the animosity of his mother, Garuda would eat any snake that he found. Distraught… Read More ›
Bhagwat Puran
Krishna Episode 25 – Expulsion of Kaliya
In the Yamuna, there was a certain pool, the haunt of Kaliya, the waters whereof were boiling with the serpent’s fiery poison and even the birds flying over it, fell dead due to poisonous vapours. Beings, mobile and immobile,… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 24 – Slaying the demon Dhenuka
After attaining the pauganda stage (boyhood from the age of six to nine), those two brothers (Balarama and Kṛṣṇa) were approved (by Nanda and others) as suitable for the job of tending the cows’. While grazing the cows and their… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 23 – God Brahma eulogizes Krishna
I submit my eulogium unto you, Oh praiseworthy Lord (in the form of) the child of the cowherd Nanda-The Lord whose personality is dark-blue like a rainy cloud, in complexion; (who is) clad in silken garments refulgent like lightning;… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 22 – Infatuation of God Brahma
Having saved the cowherd boys from death in the mouth of the demon Agha in the aforesaid manner, the Lord brought them to the sandy bank of the river, and spoke as follows: “Extremely beautiful is this bank of… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 21 – Slaying of Aghasura
One day, intending to have his break-fast (first meal) in the woods, Hari got up early in the morning and woke up his fellow cowherd boys (tending the calves) by the charming sound of his horn, and proceeded from… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 20 – Exodus from Gokula and Destruction of demons Vatsa and Baka
Glorious Lord of the Universe though he was, he sometimes danced like a child, sometimes sang loudly and behaved like a wooden doll under the control of the Gopis (cowherd women), when they encouraged him with their clapping of… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 19- Redemption of Yamala Arjuna Trees
On becoming the attendants of god Rudra, those two sons of Kubera, grew puffed up with vain gloriousness. Dead drunk with the liquor called Varuņi, thoroughly inebriated with their eyes rolling through intoxication, they, in company of singing women, were… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 18 – Krishna tied to the mortar
One day, when the female servants were directed to do some other work, Yasoda, the wife of Nanda, began to churn the curds personally. At the time of churning the curds, she recalled whatever acts of her child were… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 17 – Krishna showing universe in mouth to mother yashoda
When they attained to the age when the sports of boys become attractive to women to see, the damsels of Vraja witnessed how both of them, holding the tails of calves, were dragged behind them hither and thither. Forgetting… Read More ›