While living in that very locality (viz. Vrndāvana, Vraja) in the company of Balarama, even the glorious Lord Krishna feigned as if he did not notice the cowherds engaged in preparation for the Indra-yaga (worship of the rain,god Indra). Despite… Read More ›
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KRISHNA EPISODE 32 – Spiritual Emancipation of the Wives of Brahmana Sacrificers
One day the glorious Lord, the son of Devaki, accompanied by Balarama and surrounded by cowherds, went to a great distance from Vrndāvana, grazing the cattle. Perceiving that the trees served as umbrellas by spreading their shade in the scorching… Read More ›
KRISHNA EPISODE 30 – Gopis glorifying krishnas flute – venu geet
In this beautiful forest, with its waters made crystal clear by the Autumn, and caressed by a breeze surcharged with the fragrance of beds of lotuses, Lord Krana entered deep, along with his cows and cowherds. While grazing the cattle,… Read More ›
KRISHNA EPISODE 29 – Description of the Rainy Season and the Autumn
Then after the summer, there was the advent of the rainy season which is favourable to the regeneration of all beings, and during which, the sky appears beautiful with refulgent circles round the Sun and the Moon, and is resounded… Read More ›
KRISHNA EPISODE 28- Swallowing up of a Forest Fire.
While the cowherds were deeply engrossed in playing, their cows roamed to a great distance, grazing at will, and lured by green pasture, strayed into an inaccessible part of the dense jungle. Entering from one forest area to another, the… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 27 – Slaying of the Demon Pralamba
Surrounded by his kinsmen whose hearts were full of delight, Krishna, whose glories were sung by them, entered Vraja looking beautiful with herds of cows. While Balarama and Krishna, assuming through their Mäyä power, the guise of cowherds, were… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 26 – Story of Kaliya Coming to Haunt of Kaliya
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 ›
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 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 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 16 – Krishna’s Naming ceremony
At the request of Vasudeva, Garga, the family priest of Yadus, noted for rigid asceticism, visited Nanda’s Vraja. Nanda was highly pleased to see Garga. He stood up to show respect to him and folded his palms. He worshipped… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 12 – Celebration of Krishna’s Birth
Delighted at the birth of a son, the noble-minded Nanda too took a bath, got purified and adorned himself. He sent for Brāhmaṇas well versed in astrology and made them recite the Svastyayana (prescribed benedictory Vedic hymns) and got the… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 11 – Kansa apologizes to Devaki Vasudev and discusses with his ministers
Having warned kansa thus, when the goddess (disappeared).Kamsa was extremely flabbergasted to hear her pronouncement. He set Vasudeva and Devaki at liberty and apologised in humility: “Alas! My sister! Oh my brother-in-law! Like a cannibal preying on his own… Read More ›
Krishna Episode 9 – Taking Krishna to Gokul by Vasudeva and bringing Yogamaya in the form of a girl
In the prison of Mathura, the Supreme Lord Shri Krishna had incarnated to put an end to the demons who were born as kings on earth. At the same time in Gokul, from the womb of Nanda’s wife Yashoda… Read More ›