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The whole cosmic order is under Me. Under My will it is automatically manifested again and again, and under My will it is annihilated at the end. ~Bhagavad Gita [9.8]

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"Rāmānanda Rāya continued, “The Supersoul within everyone’s heart speaks not externally but from within. He instructs the devotees in all respects, and that is His way of instruction.”

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ONLY GOD / KNOWS / I’M GOOD BY TRACEY EMIN 2009

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Vishnu & Krishna

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☀ 𝐒𝐇𝐑𝐈 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐍𝐔 𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐀𝐍𝐀 ॐ ☀  

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, is the original Supersoul, the father of all living entities. Consequently there are no impediments to pleasing Him or worshiping Him under any conditions, whether one be a child or an old man. The relationship between the living entities and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always a fact, and therefore there is no difficulty in pleasing the Lord."~Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.6.19

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Happy Janmashtami 2023

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Jai Shri Janmashtami ki jay!

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II Krishna Balarama II Artist: Arka Patra. Acrylic painting.

Arka Patra wrote : Kamsa had already killed the first six children of Devaki by smashing the newborns on a stone. Vishnu intervened when Balarama was conceived and his embryo was moved from Devaki’s womb into the womb of Rohini, Vasudeva Anakadundubhi’s first wife. In some texts, this movement gives Balarama the epithet Sankarshana (one who was dragged away).

When Krishna is born, Vasudeva secretly carries the infant Krishna away across the Yamuna and exchanges him. When Kamsa tries to kill the newborn, the exchanged baby appears as the Hindu goddess Durga, warning him that his death has arrived in his kingdom, and then disappears, according to the legends in the Puranas.

Balarama grew up with his younger brother Krishna with foster parents, in the household of the head of cowherds Nanda and his wife Yashoda. Balarama is depicted as light skinned, in contrast to his brother, Krishna, who is dark skinned. Balarama carries the plough hala, usually called Balachita.

Balarama almost always supports Krishna in form and spirit. However, there are occasions where the dialogues between Balarama and Krishna present different viewpoints, with Krishna’s wisdom establishing him to be the ultimate divinity. Balarama’s constant symbolic association with Krishna makes him the protector and supporter of dharma. In Dutch bengal art they were usually depicted with a herd or cattle in a field. In my version I decided to put them on pedestal in a lotus pond, common in north Indian miniature paintings.

(via Instagram: Arka_patra_art)

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In temples across India, amongst the many attires of Krishna is one called Stri-vesha, where he dresses as a woman. Krishna is shown wearing a sari and women’s jewelry. Some identify this as a form of Mohini, the divine enchantress, an avatar of Vishnu and Krishna. Some say this is Krishna dressing up like his mother Yashoda to amuse her. Some say this is Krishna being punished by the Gopikas.

The story goes that, tired of the pranks of Krishna, the women of Gokul once got together and decided to dress him as a girl. The lyrics “Nar ko Nari banao”  (make the lad a lass) is a popular Thumri composition. They grab Krishna and make him wear a skirt and blouse and paint his hands and feet with alta. To their surprise, rather than being upset or angry, Krishna participates in the activity. “More jewelry,” he demands, “and better make up.” Thus what begins as a punishment ends up as a joyful activity, a game, a leela.

In another story known as “gore gvala ki leela” (the game of the fair cowherd), Radha and Krishna one day exchange each other’s clothes. Krishna dresses up as Radha and Radha dresses up like Krishna. This is done at Radha’s insistence, as she wants to feel like Krishna. But then she realizes even though she wears Krishna’s clothes her heart is still Radha’s. “Oh Krishna, you can look like me but you will never know the pain in my heart when we separate.” To remember his beloved Radha, some say, Krishna wears Stri-vesha.

In still another explanation for stri-vesha, it is said that after a night of intimacy, when it was daybreak, Radha and Krishna hurriedly put on their clothes only to find that they had worn the other’s. And everyone in the village wondered who this beautiful new dark milkmaid was, and who was this handsome new cowherd.

The mood that Krishna evokes with this feminine adornment is one of love and affection and play, a breakaway from the rigidity of those who control and comment on society today. Little wonder then that the poet-saint Tukaram referred to Vithal, Krishna’s form popular in Maharashtra, as Vitha-ai, Mother Vithal.

– Devdutt Pattanaik, Krishna, the Girl

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Sri Sri Prahlad Narasimhadev at Sri Dham Mayapur, West Bengal.

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Krishna and Radha, Kishangarh, 1770. VMFA