Udupi Shri Krishna Matha - Karnataka

Udupi Shri Krishna Matha is a famous Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Krishna located in the town of Udupi in Karnataka, India. The Matha means the area resembling a holy place for daily devotion and living. This Krishna Matha was founded by the Vaishnava saint Shri Madhwacharya in the 13th century.

As legend, once there was a storm in the sea at Malpe. At the same time Shri Madhwacharya present on the shore saw a ship which was in trouble. He helped the ship to reach the shore safely. The sailors were very thankful to him and as an appreciation gave him deities of Lord Krishna and Lord Balarama. He installed the deity of Lord Balarama near Malpe and now this temple is known as Vadapandeshwara. He brought the deity of Lord Krishna and installed at Udupi, which is known as the present day famous Krishna Matha. Surrounding the Sri Krishna Matha are several temples known as the Udupi Anantheshwara Temple which is supposed to be over a 1,000 years old.

The deities of this temple along with lord Krishna deity are facing western side. There is one more story about this temple. Kanakadasa was a very spiritual worshipper and devotee of Lord Krishna. Once he was stayed in front of Krishna Matha during a makeshift hermitage. There was an earthquake in the night and the outer temple wall cracked such a way that there was a wide enough opening for Kanakadasa to get the glimpse of the idol. Later on that part was decorated and named after him, Kanakanakhindi. Till today devotees offers their prayers through the same window and seek blessing from Lord.

Udupi Shri Krishna Matha - Karnataka in India

Deity of Udupi Shri Krishna Matha 

Goshala at Udupi Shri Krishna Matha

Change Is The Law Of The Universe- Krishna

These beautiful lines are from Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta, a devotional teaching of Lord Krishna to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshestra during the war of Mahabharata. The essence from Geeta is said to have global relevance.

The English translation of these lines:

Whatever happened, happened for the good

whatever is happening, is happening for the good

whatever will happen, will also happen for the good only.

What did you lose that you are lamenting about?

What did you bring with you that you have lost?

What did you produce (gave birth to) that got destroyed?

Whatever you have, you received from here

Change Is The Law Of The Universe

Lord Krishna teaching Geeta to Arjuna

Krishna Radha Flower Holi

Image of Lord Krishna with Radha playing flower Holi. Holi is a very famous Hindu festivals of colors.

Krishna Radha Flower Holi Image

Lord Krishna with Radharani

Beautiful image Lord Krishna with Radha.  Lord Krishna was very naughty and full of fun in his youth time. This image revives all those funny pranks that Lord Krishna did in his youth time especially with Radha.

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Image of Lord Krishna with Radha

Holi with Radha- Krishna

Radha-Krishna’s image playing Holi, the Hindu festival of colors. This image depicts the colorful celebration and the enjoyable prank of Lord Krishna where he is applying color on Radha and other gopis using water jets called Pichkari. These water jets gained so much of acceptance and popularity that today these Pichkaris has become a tradition. Today use of color and pichkaris is very common in celebrating Holi festivals.

Holi with Radha- Krishna

Krishna Radha Holi Image

Holi is a Hindu festival of colors. Holi and Lord Krishna had very close relation. In Holi festival the people gets drenched in beautiful color to celebrate the immortal love of Krishna and Radha. 

Holi Festival with Radha-Krishna

Meera temple of Chittorgarh

Kumbha Shyam Temple or Meera temple of Chittorgarh is dedicated to a mystic poetess and a great devotee of Lord Krishna – Meera Bai. This temple has very attractive deity of Lord Krishna along with the statue of Meera Bai in right side.

Meera Bai was the daughter Ratan Singh Rathore born in Kurki village near Merta. Later on she was married to Bhojraj, son of Maharana Sangram Singh I of Chittorgarh. Raja Bhoj Died soon and Meera Bai continued her devotion for Lord Krishna. On request of Meera Bai this temple was built by her Father-in-law, Maharana Sangram Singh. In this temple only Meera Bai started spending her time by praying and singing Bhajans in Glory of Lord Krishna.

When Rana Vikramaditya the step brother of Raja Bhoj became the king of chittorgarh, he didn’t like the devotional attitude of Meera for Lord Krishna. He tried to kill her by sending her a bowl full of poison on the name of Charnamrit (The holy water ). Meera offered her prayers to Lord and happily drunk poison. It was surely her great devotion that the poison turned to nectar. This incident with many other great stories happened in this temple make this temple a unique one.

The ceiling of the cenotaph have beautifully carved figure of five human bodied with one head. The figure conveys the message of equality that all castes are equal and have right to attain God equally.

Meera temple of Chittorgarh

Deity of Krishna and Meera

Krishna-Meera's Devotional Love

MeeraBai was a great devotee of Lord Krishna and had her unconditional love for him. We had heard lot of stories about MeeraBai; still we have one inspired story to tell.

Meerabai once was standing on the banks of Yamuna River busy in singing bhajan in glory of Lord Krishna. Same time some Hindu saint passing by recognized Meerabai. Knowing her great devotion, they went to Meera and said that they came from Dwaraka. They said that the doors of the Dwarka temple are closed for some time now and we are of the mutual belief that only a person of your stature can get the doors open. Meera agreed to come as she didn’t wanted to refuse saints and also wanted everyone to have darshan of Srinathji-the presiding deity of Dwaraka.

Along with priest Meera went Dwaraka and offered her prayers to Srinathji-the presiding deity of and sang devotional bhajans. In her words she said to Lord that in this whole world she only know and believe him as everything like father, mother, husband and guru. Meera said you are only the protector in this whole world as I suffered a lot of trials and tribulations here.

Suddenly the doors opened and MeeraBai immediately ran into the temple and embraced her Lord and with a flash of bright light she became one with the lord and her form vanished.

Krishna-Meera's Devotional image

Raja Gopala Temple, Mannargudi

Raja Gopala Temple of Mannargudi is a vast temple with a 1000 year old history. This temple is located in the town of Mannargudi in Thanjavur district, Tamilnadu, India. The temple is also known as Dakshina Dwarka which means Southern Dwarka by Hindus

The presiding deity of this temple is Rajagopalaswamy, a form of Lord Krishna. The deity of this vast temple is 12 feet tall. There is another Deity of Santana-gopalakrishna. Devotee believes that cradling the Deity of Santana-gopalakrishna in one’s lap, would bless barren couple with progeny.

The temple was first built by Kulothunga Chola I with bricks and mortar.Earlier the place Mannargudi was termed as Sri Rajathi Raja Chathurvedhi Mangalam. Later on town started growing around the temple. Successive kings of the Chola Empire, Rajaraja Chola III, Rajendra Chola III and kings of Thanjavur Nayaks, Achyuta Deva Raya] expanded the temple.

Beautiful temple of Raja Gopala

Deity of Raja Gopalaswamy

Rukamani prominent queen of Krishna

Rukmani is the first and most prominent queen of the Lord Krishna the king of Dwarka.Rukmani is considered as the incarnation of goddess Lakshmi who wanted to marry and stay with her husband Lord Vishnu on earth. It is believed that Rukmani was the only woman who was just as beautiful and virtuous as Radha. This story depicts how Lord Krishna heroically abducted her and eloped with her to prevent an unwanted marriage at her request and saved her from an evil Shishupal.

Rukmini was the daughter of Bhishmaka, the King of Vidarbha. She secretly developed the love for Lord Krishna in her heart. Her brother Rukmi was a friend of Jarasandha, who was an enemy of Krishna. Rukmi wanted Rukmani to marry his friend Shishupala the crown prince of Chedi and also a friend of Jarasandha and was against Krishna. Rukmi arranged for Rukmini's wedding by convincing his father to marry her with Shishupala, who actually wanted Rukmini to marry Krishna. When Rukmini heard this news she wrote a letter to Lord Krishna about her love for him and her brother's plans and sent it through a Brahmana. She asked Lord Krishna to kidnap her on her way to temple or back. Lord Krishna after reading the letter at once left for Vidarbha along with his brother Balarama.

Meanwhile, Shishupala was over the moon at the news from Rukmi that he could simply go to Kundina (present day Koundanyapur) Amravati district and claim Rukmini. Jarasandha felt something wrong and doubt that Krishna might interrupt the wedding thus sent all his vassals and allies along with him. And other hand when Bhishmaka heard about Krishna's arrival he joyfully set up a furnished mansion for Krishna to take rest on his way.

Rukmini went to the Parvati temple but could not see Krishna anywhere, she prayed to goddess Parvati that Krishna takes her away. Rukmini when she stepped out of the temple she saw Krishna waiting for her, he soon swept her into his chariot with him. They both started to ride off when Shishupala noticed them and instantly Jarasandha's forces started chasing them. Balarama tried to stop and occupied most of them but Rukmi almost caught Krishna.

Lord Krishna and Rukmi fought with the predictable result of Krishna's victory. When Krishna was about to kill him, Rukmini fell at the feet of Krishna and begged to spare her brother's life. Lord Krishna generously agreed but as punishment, shaved Rukmi's head and let him go free. There was no greater shame for a warrior than a visible sign of defeat.

Lord Krishna came to the village of Madhavpur Ghed with Rukmini and got married to her at this very place. In the memory of that event now there is a temple built for Lord Madhavrai. In memory of this marriage a celebration is held at Madhavpur every year. Later in Dwaraka, Lord Krishna was married to Rukmini with big ceremony.

Krishna marrying Rukamani

Lord Krishna marriage with Mitravinda

Mitravinda was the fifth of the Ashtabharya the eight principle queen-consort of Lord Krishna the Hindu deity. She was the daughter of Rajadhidevi and King Jayesena the ruler of Avanti Kingdom, present day Ujjain in India. Rajadhidevi was the sister of Kunti and cousin sister of Krishna's father Vasudeva.
Mitravanda’s brother wanted her to marry Duryodhana and arranged the Swayamvara ceremony. But intentionally they did not invite Lord Krishna and Balarama. Balarama knowing of Mitravinda's love for Krishna advised Krishna to kidnap her. When Krishna came to know of this, he went to the venue of the svayamvara. Complying with her wishes, Lord Krishna kidnaped her from the venue of the svayamavara where he was challenged by her brothers, Duryodhana and other princes who wanted to marry Mitravinda. After defeating the princes of Avanti, Duryodhana and other suitors Lor Krishna kidnaped her and married her. Mitravinda had ten sons: Vrika, Harsha, Anila, Gridhra, Vardhana, Unnada, Mahamsa, Pavana, Vahni and Kshudhi.

Lord Krishna Image 

16100 wives of Lord Krishna

Lord Krishna is a Hindu deity, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. As legend Lord Krishna was married to 16100 women. Lord Krishna mainly had eight wives and thus he was also called Ashtabharya (Ashta means eight and Bharya means wife) According to Bhagavata purana the eight wives of Lord Krishna were Rukmini, Satyabhama, Jambavati, Kalindi, Mitravinda, Nagnajiti, Bhadra and Lakshmana. This article depicts the story that how Lord Krishna got married to rest 16100 wives.

Narakasura named demon kidnapped 16100 women for the sake of his comfort and imprisoned them in his capital city Pragjyotisha. Narakasura is believed to be the son of mother earth thus he was also called Bhaumasura (Bhumi means earth and Asura means demon).

Once Narakasura stole the ear-rings of Aditi, the daughter of Lord Brahma. Her son’s demigods were not able to fight back against Narakasura. They asked Lord Krishna for help and on their request Lord Krishna along with his wife Sathyabhama attacked Pragjyotisha on his vehicle Garuda (eagle). Lord Krishna and Sathyabhama fought a fierce battle against the demons and slayed many powerful demons including Mura and Narakasura. Narakasura had the curse of being killed by his own mother, Sathyabhama is considered as the incarnation of Mother earth, and thus she killed him.

After killing Narakasura Lord Krishna released 16,100 women asked them to return to their houses which they refused. They knew very well that the society of that age would not accept them with honor and good reputation as they were taken by another man. When Lord Krishna asked them what they wanted to do, they all wanted Krishna to marry them.

Seeing they were left with nowhere to go Lord Krishna married them all at the same auspicious time. It was impossible to live with each of them so he created 16100 forms of himself so each could gain status of married women and live in the society with honor again. Lord Krishna created them each a palace with huge gardens full of colorful flowers. Legend say that each of them had 10 sons and 1 daughter,

Lord Krishna with Sathyabhama

Lord Krishna with his wives

Lord Krishna with Arjuna

Lord Krishna high definition wallpaper with Arjuna the Pandav prince. This image depicts the story of Kurukshestra war where Lord Krishna driving the chariot of Arjuna.

Lord Krishna with Arjuna photo

ISKCON Temple Chennai

ISKCON Temple Chennai is a Vaishnava temple dedicated to Hindu deity Lord Krishna. ISKCON temples all over the world are famous for their amazing architectural beauty, high standards of worship, hygiene and satisfying spiritual vibrations. This temple is situated on the East Coast Road at Akkarai, Sholinganallur in southern Chennai.

This temple is built on 1.5 acres of land and is the largest Radha Krishna temple in Tamil Nadu. This temple was designed under the guidance of Sri Bhanu Swami having various attributes from Vedic scripture and inspiration from the Pallava and Kalinga architecture. ISKCON Chennai was formally inaugurated on 26 April 2012.

This temple enshrines beautiful deities Lord Radha Krishna along with their friends Lalita and Vishaka, Lord Jagannath-Baladev-Subhadra, and Lord Chaitanya & Lord Nityanand (Gaur-Nitai).

Lord Radha Krishna with their friends Lalita and Vishaka-ISKCON Chennai

 Lord Jagannath-Baladev-Subhadra-ISKCON Chennai

 Lord Chaitanya & Lord Nityanand (Gaur-Nitai)-ISKCON Chennai

Night view of ISKCON Chennai

ISKCON Temple Chennai

Devotees thronging in ISKCON Temple of  Chennai

Lord Krishna-Radha playing flower holi

Holi is a Hindu festival of colors and joy. It is one of main festival celebrated in India with the arrival of spring while the colors used in Holi are reflect of the various hues of spring season. As per legends of Holi is associated with Radha and Krishna and the underlying feeling of their love and devotion. Flower holi is famously played in the land of Lord Krishna-Vrindavan. Flower holi is just not safe and eco –friendly but also avoid wastage of water also. 

Beautiful image of Lord Krishna-Radha playing flower holi

Young Radha-Krishna water color painting

This is a image of Lord Krishna playing flute and his Love Radha enjoying the song. it's very eyes soothing view to see Lord Radha-Krishna together. This image depicts the young innocence love between two.

Water color painting of Young Radha-Krishna 

Iskcon Temple-NVCC in Pune

ISKCON New  Cultural Center (NVCC) is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Krishna .This temple is situated in Kondhwa about 12 kilometers from Pune Maharashtra India. This temple provides an amazing scenic view of the mountains as located in pleasant and calm outskirts of Pune.

This temple was inaugurated recently on the auspicious day of Nityananda Tryodshi as per Hindu calendar- 23 February 2013. And on February 24 NVCC was inaugurated by Pranab Mukherjee  President of India

Deity of Radha-Krishna and Gaura- Nitai

Deities of Jagannth-Baladeva-Subhadra

Beautiful building  of NVCC Pune

Night view of NVCC Pune

ISKCON temple- NVCC in Pune

ISKCON Sri Jagannath Mandir Bangalore

This beautiful and devotional images of lord Krishna is from ISKCON Sri Jagannath Mandir or ISKCON Seshadripuram. This temple is Gaudiya Vaishnava temple of Krishna and Radha situated at Seshadripuram, in the North Bangalore, India. This temple is a second official ISKCON temple of Bangalore built after Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON.

ISKCON Sri Jagannath Mandir of Bangalore

Lord Krishna photo painting

A very beautiful canvas painting in black and blue hues of Lord Krishna. In this Lord Krishna can be seen playing flute.

Lord Krishna Painting

Devotional painting of Lord Krishna

A very devotional image of Lord krishna with Radha. Lord krishna in this image is busy with his flute and his beloved Radha admiring Lord and listening the melodious notes sung by Krishna.

Devotional painting of Lord Krishna with Radha