Starting today, for next few weeks I will be talking about the life story of Lord Krishna and the things that we need to learn from his preaching.
To start off Lord Krishna was born on 13th of July in the year 3229 BC in Rohini Nakshatram at 12:24 am in the midnight. It was Bhadrapada maasam, Krishna Paksha and as per Hindu calendar it was Ashtami. Lord Krishna’s childhood life as we all know was very notorious and filled with memories. Lord Krishna spent his first 11 years of life in the Brindavan and then a mystery took him to Mathura for 10 years.
Talking little bit about the Childhood of Lord Krishna, Krishna was given too many names by the neighbours especially girls. All because of his unbelievable naughty acts and irritating the ladies of the Brindavan. In his fun filled life when he was only 1 year 2 months old, he had killed a Rakshasi called as Putana. Putana comes as a foster mother of Krishna to breast feed Lord Krishna. Putana was killed by Lord Krishna as he knew that Putana was trying to breast feed poison along with her milk. Lord knowing the fact that Putana is planning to kill him, Krishna drinks all the milk and kills her. His naughtiness is still intact and one day to put it to an end, Yashoda ties him to a Mortar so that he doesn’t move. But the little kid moves all over and Yashoda is shocked how the little one was able to carry that mortar which weighs at least a 100 kilos. Historically this event had happened on October 17th 3226BC. Fearing threat from demons who are out to kill their little son Krishna, Nand and Yashoda decides to move from Gokul which is a small place located on banks of river Yamuna to Vrindavan, which is about 30 kms from Gokul. Vrindavan was a turning point in his life, as he meets his childhood friend Radharani or Radha there.
Radharani was a simple village girl, who in age was slightly elder to Krishna. She is said to be 3 years 11 months elder to Krishna, was born on the 8th day of the Bhadrapada masam of the year 3232 BC. Krishna is drawn towards Radha when he meets her he was just 7 years old. Friendship develops fast and Radha and Krishna play various games together. The most famous and well known amongst them is “Rasaleela”. It’s not a game of romance or love as many would believe, but it’s a play of an 8 year old innocent boy and a 11 year old girl. So describing the Rasaleela as Romance is not at all right as it was only a celebration of two young ones, who just know that they are best friends and are happy in the company of each other. This Rasaleela happened on the full moon day of 3rd October 3222BC. Slowly the friendship between Radha and Krishna turned into tender love of a young boy and a just matured girl.
Krishna can do anything for the sake of his love for Radha. He can even lift the Govardhan mountain when the entire Vrindavan was flooded win incessant rains and all the animals and humans were looking for a refuge. Coming back, the relationship continued for 3 years. Krishna was 11 and Radha is 14 years when they decided that it’s time for them to get married. The thought of marriage would have come to Krishna because 14 was the good enough age for girls to get married off. Radha obliges for the same but she asks Krishna to take permission from the both the parents. When asked Yashoda, she disagrees as she felt that Radha is elder to Krishna and when it comes to caste she comes from lower caste. Yashoda conveys the message to her husband Nandh. Nandh being the father of Krishna tries to probe into Krishna and then asks him not to go with Radha as she doesn’t fit the caste of Krishna. Krishna completely disagrees and continuously says he chose Radha as his wife for rest of his life. This leads to arguments between Krishna and Nandh.
Nandh finally says that he can’t argue and asks him to get the opinion of Guru ji. The name of the Guru ji was Sage Garg and he knows everything about Krishna. Guruji tells Krishna the story that didn’t knew. Guruji reveals that his actual parents are Devaki and Vasudev. Both of them live in Mathura. Guruji asks Krishna to leave the place and asks him to meet the parents immediately. Krishna then tells Guru ji about Radha and says that he is very compatible and close to her. Sage Garg then advises Krishna that physical compatibility is seen only in animals, but in humans, responsibility is more important than compatibility. He says that the purpose of his life is to achieve something much bigger than just marrying Radha and settling down in Vrindavan. Lord Krishna takes all the points given by Guruji and then decides to move to Mathura. He then plays flute for one last time, Radha comes running and so does all his friends. He tells everyone that the time has come for him to move out of Vrindavan and he would not be returning anytime soon. Radha sees him disappear and silently sheds tears at the loss of her lover. The date was Friday, 5th January 3219 BC.
