Radhe KRsna

  

Radhe Krsna

  

Jai shri Radhe

  

Radhe Krsna

  

Hare KRsna

  

Jai shri Krsna

  

Radhe Krsna

  

Hare Krsna

  

Hare Krsna

  

Radha-Govind

  

Hare Krsna

  

Hare Krsna

  

Jaganath Bhagwan

  

Radhe Krsna

  

Radhe Krsna

  

Hare Krsna

  

Hare Krsna

  

Jai Shri Radhe

  

Nitai Gauranga

  

A Holi Festival - Krishna Radha and Gopis

  

Love Play of Radha & Krishna - Holi

 

Lord Krishna has often been portrayed as a naughty prankster in his childhood and a lover-boy in his youth. His beloved Radha and the cowherd girls 'Gopis' in general loved him even more for his pranks and eve teasing. The Holi of Braj is famous all over India for its intimate connection with the divine deities and their love plays. It is said that when Krishna was a young boy, he asked the reason for his dark color while Radha was so fair. His mother Yashoda playfully suggested that he should smear color on Radha's face too and change her complexion to any color he wanted. Captivated by the idea, Krishna proceeded to do so and thus, introduced the play of colors on Holi.

Even today, Holi is one of the most important festival of Braj, where the men of Nandgaon and women of Barsana play 'latthmar Holi' in the remembrance of the playful throw of colors by Krishna on 'Gopis' and their resistance. The trace of eroticism and romance pervades Holi as depicted in the love plays of Krishna and Radha. In Mathura, Vrindavan, Gokul and Barsana, Holi is a two-week long festival featuring play of colors, folk songs called 'Hori', folk dances such as Raas-Lila, staging the various aspects of Radha and Krishna's love.