LORD SRI KRISHNA - MANIFESTATION OF DIVINE LOVE

          

                                        

 LORD SRI KRISHNA -  MANIFESTATION  OF DIVINE  LOVE

Lord Sri Krishna from the Indian epic "Mahabharatha" is a deity widely worshiped and adored by India's majority religion, the Hindus.  Sri Krishna is the avatar of Lord Vishnu the Hindu god.

 

Krishna was the son of Vasudeva and Devaki but, when his maternal uncle Kamsa, the wicked king of Mathura, tried to kill him, he was smuggled across the Yamuna River to Gokula and raised by the leader of the cowherds, Nanda and his wife Yashoda.

 

Lord Sri Krishna had his share of childhood pranks.  He used to steal butter from the kitchen.  As a teenager he stole the clothes of "Gopikas" (milkmaids) from the river bank and hide in a tree.  He asked the Gopikas to come out of the water without wearing clothes. 

 

Lord Krishna had eight wives and an eternal lover "Radha".  Radha was married to a transgender known as "Ayan" who could not satiate her love.  Radha remained Krishna's love interest without tying the nuptial knot or the sacrament of marriage. 

 

Lord Krishna spent time with Radha in Vrindavan and they enjoyed being together.  Radha was Krishna's childhood friend and soul mate.  Radha and Krishna's love was divine and they were inseparable.

It is believed that Lord Krishna and Radha used to meet each other secretly in Vrindavan.  Lord Krishna used to play the melodious flute every day by the lakeside that used to captivate Radha to come and meet Lord Krishna.

 

Though Radha was married to Ayan, her heart-throb was Krishna.  Radha was madly in love with Krishna.  Once her husband Ayan saw her going to the jungle and doubted may be because he is impotent Radha is having an extramarital affair. So one day he followed Radha along with some people to see where she actually goes.  Krishna already knew about this and took the form of Goddess Kali (as Ayan was a devotee of Kali) to save Radha from the image of an unfaithful wife.

 

                        

                            

                               

 

According to the believed facts, Radha is never separate from Lord Krishna. The bond of love between Lord Krishna and Radha was not physical, rather it was a spiritual and pure form of devotion. So, it is said that Lord Krishna and Radha are two different manifestations of the divine principle.

 

                                                                                    

 

Once Sri Krishna rescued 16000 captive girls from the demon "Narakasura".  When they sought refuge he told them to marry him in their mind and thus they became his wives.  

It is believed that Lord Sri Krishna had 16008 wives as explained above.  He wedded eight wives namely  Rukmini, Satyabhama, Jambavati, Kalindi, Mitravinda, Nagnajiti, Bhadra, Lakshmana, and rescued wives of 16000.

Lord Krishna was born in Mathura but  Dwarka is believed to be Lord Krishna's kingdom; it is believed that Krishna moved to Dwarka with his subjects after defeating Kansa.

 

The Radha-Krishna amour is a love legend of all times. It's indeed hard to miss the many legends and paintings illustrating the Radha-Krishna affair is the most memorable. Krishna's relationship with Radha, his favorite among the 'gopis' (cow-herding maidens), has served as a model for male and female love in a variety of art forms, and since the sixteenth century appears prominently as a motif in North Indian paintings. The allegorical love of Radha has found expression in some great Bengali poetical works of Govinda Das, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and Jayadeva the author of Geet Govinda. Krishna's youthful dalliances with the 'gopis' are interpreted as symbolic of the loving interplay between God and the human soul. Radha's utterly rapturous love for Krishna and their relationship is often interpreted as the quest for union with the divine. This kind of love is of the highest form of devotion in Vaishnavism, and is symbolically represented as the bond between the wife and husband or beloved and lover. Radha, daughter of Vrishabhanu, was Krishna's lover during that period of his life when he lived among the cowherds of Vrindavan.  Since childhood they were close to each other - they played, they danced, they fought, they grew up together and wanted to be together forever.

 

Lord Sri Krishna wears a Peacock feather on his crown.  

 

It is amusing to note that India's national bird Peacock never mates with its female but eats the semen discharged by the male to conceive babies.