Promise of Lord Krishna

Lord Krishna promising a human with all his blessings but only if human is ready to trust and believe in him. Human beings are blessed with lot of things but still leaving an unsatisfied and miserable life, why? God has provided everything, we just need to learn, believe, trust and respect him.

Promise of Lord Krishna

Krishna marriage with Lakshmana and Rohini

Lakshmana was the wife of Lord Krishna and the last of the Asthabharya the eight principal queen-consorts. She was the daughter of an unnamed ruler of Madra provinces. The King organized the swayamvara ceremony, where the archer had to shoot the target to win the hand of bride for marriage. Among all the princes gathered, Duryodhana and Jarasandha miss the target. Arjun the Pandava prince and Krishna's cousin, described as the best archer at times, missed his aim at the target intentionally. Arjun’s brother Bhima refused to participate in deference to Krishna. Ultimately, Lord Krishna wins by hitting the target and got married to her. Rohini is also Krishna’s wife and one of the Asthabharya.
Whereas in The Bhagavata Purana it is mentioned that Lord Krishna abducts Lakshmana from the swayamvara.

Lord Krishna with Lakshmana

Lord Krishna With Sudaama

A very beautiful Image of Lord Krishna with his childhood friend Sudama. Sudama also known as Kuchela was an incarnation of Narada. He was a childhood friend of Lord Krishna from Mathura born in a poor family in order to enjoy the transcendental pastimes of Lord Krishna.

Lord Krishna image with Sudaama

Lord Krishna with Sudarshan Chakra

A beautiful painting of Lord Krishna with Sudarshan Chakra.

Lord Krishna painting with Sudarshan Chakra

Devotional photo of Meera bai

A very beautiful and devotional image of Meerabai- an ardent devotee of Shree Krishna. 

Meerabai singing for Lord Krishna

Poison turned to Nectar for Meera

Meera Bai was the passionate devotee of Lord Krishna and believed Lord Krishna as her only true husband. Once her father–in-law not happy with devotional attitude of Meera towards Lord Krishna tried to kill her. He sent Meera Bai Poison with the message that it was nectar. Knowing it as nectar she offered that drink fito Lord Krishna and drank the entire as Prasad. But due to her and devotion to Lord Krishna the poison became real nectar to her.

Meera Bai drinking poison

Meera Bai drinking poison thinking it as a nectar 

Radha-Krishna Temple- Talwandi Kota

Lord Radha-Krishna Temple of Kota Rajasthan is a famous religious and cultural center of Kota. It is located in a Talwandi, about 12 Km from Kota Railway Station. This temple was inaugurated on 28.4.1993 and on 15.3.1994 a religious library was inaugurated. The dome of the temple was built in 1995.
This temple enshrines the beautiful deities of Shri Radha Krishna along with the deities of Lord Ganesh, Goddess Durga, Lord Ram-Lakshmana-Sita and Lord Hanuman.

Radha-Krishna Temple of Talwandi Kota

Mass of devotees in Radha-Krishna Temple- Talwandi Kota

Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi temple -ISKCON Delhi

ISKCON Delhi or Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi temple is a famous Vaishnav Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Krishna and Radharani in the form of Radha Parthasarathi. Among 40 temples belonging to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the ISKCON Temple in Delhi is one of the most extravagant temples in the cityl. This temple was built in the year 1998 and is located at Hare Krishna Hills, in the East of Kailash area of New Delhi, India.

The ISKCON temple designed and built by Achyut Kanvinde have been beautifully decorated with works of Russian artists depicting the various phases of life of Radha-Krishan and Sita-Ram. This temple is a fine example of artistic splendor and has one of the largest temple complexes in India with a large number of rooms and halls.The atmosphere inside the temple is very blissful and illuminating especially at the time of Prayers when the melodic hymns and euphonious rhythm of the drums mesmerize your senses and brings you more closely to God.

ISKCON has very high standard of worship as twenty four trained pujaris worship the Deities as per strict spiritual regulations which also includes complete purity and auspiciousness of pujaris, mentioned by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada. Daily six Aratis are offered to the Deities in different times which are-
• Mangala Aarti
• Tulsi Aarti
• Dhoop Aarti
• Raj-Bhoga Aarti
• Pushpa Aarti
• Sandhya Aarti

Deity of Lord Krishna with Mother Yashoda

Deities of  Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi  -ISKCON Delhi

shrine of Gaura-Nitai at -ISKCON Delhi

Deity of Lord Ram ,Sita and Lakshman-ISKCON Delhi

 Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi temple -ISKCON Delhi

Baby Krishna image with parrot

Very cute wallpaper of Lord Krishna watching parrot. It seems they are doing conversation and having good time together.

Baby Krishna admiring nature

Lord Krishna with Mother Yashoda

Lord Krishna the Hindu god is supposed to be an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He was Born to Devaki and Vasudev but brought up by his foster mother Yashoda. The love between Yashoda and Krishna was unconditional. Irrespective of all complains of Lord Krishna from villagers Krishna was very lovable to Yashoda and  even to villager also. Here are few glimpse of Krishna's childhood. Very nice images can be set as desktop wallpaper.

Mother Yashoda holding Lord Krishna 

Vision of Universal form by Krishna

Lord Krishna stealing butter

Sakshigopal Temple Puri India

Sakshigopal Temple is a medieval temple dedicated to Lord Krishna also known as Gopal. This temple is situated in the town of Sakshigopal on the Puri-Bhubaneshwar highway in Odisha India. The architecture of this temple is done in the Kallinga style.

The story of this temple is related to two brahimins. The younger one was poor but fell in love with the daughter of the second brahimin who was the village headman. Due to higher economic status the headman opposed the marriage. Once the villagers went on a pilgrimage to Kashi including the headman and the young man where the headman fell ill and was abandoned by fellow villagers. The young man served and took care of him so well that he soon got well and finally they reached Vrindavana. Pleased with the service of the young man, the headman in gratitude promised his daughter’s marriage with him.  But the headman went back on his promise asking the young man to produce a witness in support of his claim.

Young man returned to Vrindavana and asked Lord Gopal for help. Pleased by the young man's devotion lord agreed to come and bear witness to the promise on condition that he would follow the path the young man lead but the young man should never look back. The young man started leading the Lord but near the village they passed through the dune of sand, where the young man could not hear the Lord's footsteps and turned back. As the young man turned the Lord turned into a stone statue immediately. The villagers along with the headman were however so impressed that Lord himself came to back the young man's claim.  The young man got married to headman’s daughter and appointed as the first priests of the temple built in honor of Lord Gopal. Witness in Sanskrit means Sakshi and Lord Gopal himself came to bear witness, due to this fact this place famously known as Sakshigopal or “The Witness Gopal". 

The Temple is famous for celebrating the annual Amla Navami Festival. Amla means Gooseberry and Navami means Ninth day in a lunar cycle. This festival is related with the practice of touching of Radha's feet the mythological lover of Lord Krishna .As per legend originally the temple was without a statue of Radha. But when a girl named Lakshmi claimed to be the incarnation of Radha a statue from northern India was brought and installed here as it is believed that Lord Krishna should not be without his true love Radha. The statue was adorned originally with Ghagra and Choli but when the statue was attired with the traditional Sari of Odisha, the feet of the statue were visible which was taken as holy sign by the priests. From that day the festival of Amla Navami started and devotees are allowed to touch the Goddess's feet inside the temple. The food offerings at Sakshigopal temple are made of wheat instead of rice is one of exceptional fact among the Vishnu temples all over the world.

Sakshigopal Temple of Puri India

Lord Gopal with Radha

Abstract painting of Lord Radha-Krishna

A very beautiful abstract and geometrical painting of Lord Krishna and Shri Radha. The blue color depicting Krishna face and red for Radha enhances the beauty of paintings. This beautiful painting depicts the divine love of Krishna Radha.

Abstract painting of Lord Radha-Krishna playing flute

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Young Krishna Photo

This image depicts the young Krishna playing flute. 

Radhe Krishna 

Radhe Krishna

Young Krishna playing Flute

Oil painting of Radha-Krishna

A very beautiful and eye soothing oil painting of Lord Krishna and his beloved Radha. The colorful painting depicts the divine love between Krishna and Radha. A very nice photo to set as wallpaper on desktop screen.

Lord Krishna-Radha oil Painting

Lord krishna calendar 2014

This is an awesome image of Lord Krishna calendar for year 2014. Lord Krishna always gives his blessing to his true devotees. May this year Lord blessing always remain with us.

Happy New Year with Lord krishna 

Lord Krishna marriage with Jambavati and Satyabhama

The story of Lord Krishna’s marriage with Jambavati and Satyabhama is closely related with story of Syamantaka. Syamantaka was a precious diamond which was secured by a nobleman of Yadava dynasty Satrajit from Lord Surya. When Lord Krishna came to knew about Syamantaka he asked Satrajit for the jewel to present it in front of king Ugrasena for safe hand. But Satrajit refused.

Satrajit gifted that precious jewel to his brother Prasena, the ruler of a Yadava province who once went to forest for hunting wearing Syamantaka but was killed by a lion. The lion fled with the jewel and entered into the mountain cave of Jambavan. Jambavan, known for his role in the Ramayana, killed the lion and gave the jewel to his son to play. When Prasena did not return, Satrajit set an accusation on Lord Krishna of killing Prasena for the sake of the jewel

Lord Krishna, in order to remove the stain of false allegation on his reputation, set out in search of the jewel with his brother Balarama and reached to Jambavan's cave. They saw a child playing with the priceless jewel. Child cried aloud seeing the strangers which warned Jambavan. Jambavan attacked Krishna and both of them fought fiercely with each other for 28 days. When Jambavan, his whole body terribly weakened from the hammering of Krishna's fists, he recognized him as Lord Rama and surrendered.

Jambavan regretted for having fight with Lord Krishna, Jambavan returned the jewel to Lord Krishna and also gave his daughter Jambavati for marriage. Lord Krishna returned the jewel to Satrajit, who in turn apologized for his false accusation. He promptly offered Lord Krishna to have the jewel and his daughter Satyabhama for marriage. Lord Krishna accepted Satyabhama as his wife but refused to take the jewel.

Lord Krishna marriage with Jambavati and Satyabhama 

Jambavan humbly offering his daugher Jambavati hand to Lord Krishna

Jugal Kishore Temple Vrindavan

Jugal Kishore Temple of Vrindavan is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Krishna. Jugal Kishore Temple is one of the oldest temples in Vrindavan. The construction of this temple was accomplished in 1627. This temple is also known as the Kesi Ghat Temple being situated next to Kesi Ghat. Kesi Ghat is a place where Lord Krishna had killed Kesi, the horse demon.

During the rule of King Akbar in 1570 Gaudiya Vaishnava community from Vrindavan asked permission to establish some temples in Vrindavan. King Akbar permitted four temples in Vrindavan - Mandan Mohan Temple, Govind Dev Temple, Jugal Kishore Temple and Shri Gopinath Temple. But latter on King Aurangzeb attacked three out of these four temples and original deities were move to somewhere else. Only Jugal Kishore Temple remained in Vrindavan with its original temple and original deity.

Jugal Kishore Temple of Vrindavan 

Jugal Kishore Temple building

Keshav Dev Temple, Mathura

Keshav Dev Temple is a temple dedicated to Hindu god Lord Krishna. This temple is situated beside the main Krishnabhoomi complex in Mathura, India. Keshav Dev (Lord Krishna) is the main deity of this temple which was Installed by Bajranabh. Bajranabh was the great-grandson of Lord Krishna.

This temple celebrates its own festival like "Lathamar Holi", "Chhappan Bhog", and “Krishna Janmashtami" among other festivals with full enthusiasm which are the main attraction and provides exclusive hue to this temple. Deepotsav, (celebration of lights), is prearranged in the temple on day before Diwali, which is also well-known as Narak Chaudas. Lord Keshav Dev’s Ride (sawari) is held from Gatashram Ghat to Keshav Dev temple on Rang Bharani Ekadashi , according to Hindu calendar.

Lord Keshav Dev has 24 incarnations (Avatars) which are open for devotees once in a year on the day of Akshaya Teej according to Hindu calendar. While rest of the year Chaturbhuji Avatar of Lord is seen for devotees’ offering prayers.

Deity of Lord Keshav Dev -Mathura

Keshav Dev Temple-Mathura

Exterior of Keshav Dev Temple-Mathura

Boise Hare Krishna Temple, Idaho

These beautiful images are from Boise Hare Krishna Temple and Vedic Cultural Center ,situated in Boise State University, Boise, Idaho of United States. Initially this temple was built in 1986 in one of the member’s home. The Boise Hare Krishna Temple was the first Lord Krishna Temple in the town as there was no Krishna temple in town before.

A new temple was established between two brick duplexes in 1999. The Beautifully designed brick exterior of the temple merges in with the duplexes and the neighborhood. The temple was designed by Boise architect Bruce Poe. The golden Dome, very beautifully painted ceiling and crafted glass window are main attraction of this temple which are well designed and crafted by local artists.

There is one hand carved teakwood stage located in center of the temple which is believed to be abode of the supreme temple Deities, Sri Radha-Bankebihari. This Wooden stage was brought from Jaipur, India. Other than the deity of Sri Radha-Bankebihari, the temple has the beautiful deities of Sri Jagannath Baladev Subhadra and Sri Gaur Nitai. In south side of the temple is a painted glass window created by Meridian artist Michael Booth which highlights the "Ten Incarnations."

Hare Krishna Temple, Idaho

Sri Gaura Nitai

Sri Jagannath Baladev Subhadra

Painted Glass window

Idaho temple premises

Phool Bangla Festival at Banke Bihari Temple

The Phool Bangla celebration is very interesting and important to know for all Krishna devotees. This festival is held in Banke Bihari Temple of Vrindavan from Chaitra Shukla Ekadasi up to Haryali Amavasya (Shravan Amavasya) according to Hindu calendar.

On this auspicious day, the Banke Bihari Temple along with Nidhivan is attractively decorated with summer flowers by thousands of Lord Krishna’s devotees. The main reason behind this festival is to protect Shri Banke Bihari from scorching summer’s high temperature. The main attraction along with all decoration is that cloths and ornaments of deity are also made by using flowers and leaves only. The ritual of Panchamrit abhishek (ceremonial bathing with cow dung, milk, curd, honey and water) is also done at Nidhivan in the morning.

 Devotees throng Nidhivan as well as the Banke Bihari Temple in mass to offer prayers and to seek Lord's divine blessings even in burning summer.

                                      

Shri Banke Bihari 

Baanke Bihari at Phool Bangla Festival

Decorated Banke Biahri Temple at Phool Bangla Festival