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Krishna and Radha

Known as the dark one due to his complexion, Krishna narrowly escaped death at an early age. Krishna's mother, Devaki, was married to a clansman named Vasudeva. Soon after their marriage, a prophet told Devaki's brother, Kansa, that her ninth child would kill him.

He proceeded to lock up the newlyweds and massacre every single child that they had. One night when Devaki was pregnant, a storm killed every single guard. Devaki escaped and gave her ninth child to a friend. Thus, Krishna was born.

Radha was a milkmaid that Krishna fell in love with. With her help, Krishna foiled every single one of Kansa's attempts to kill Krishna and later killed the evil Kansa in a wrestling match.

When Krishna opened His mouth wide by the order of mother Yasoda, she saw within His mouth all moving and nonmoving entities, outer space, and all directions, along with mountains, islands, oceans, the surface of the earth, the blowing wind, fire, the moon and the stars. She saw the planetary systems, water, light, air, sky, and creation by transformation of ahankara. She also saw the senses, the mind, sense perception, and the three qualities goodness, passion and ignorance. She saw the time allotted for the living entities, she saw natural instinct and the reactions of karma, and she saw desires and different varieties of bodies, moving and nonmoving. Seeing all these aspects of the cosmic manifestation, along with herself and Vrindavana-dhama, she became doubtful and fearful of her son's nature." (Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.8.37-39)

In the village of Vrindavana Krishna enjoyed Himself with His mother, brother and friends, and when He played the role of a naughty butter thief, all His associates enjoyed celestial bliss by His stealing. The Lord's fame as a butter thief is not reproachable, for by stealing butter the Lord gave pleasure to His pure devotees. Everything that was performed by the Lord at Vrndavana was performed for the pleasure of His associates there. The Lord created these pastimes to attract the dry speculators and the acrobats of the so-called hatha-yoga system who had come to find the Absolute Truth.

"One day a fruit vendor approached Nanda Maharaja's house, and Krishna gathered some food grains with His little palms and went to the vendor to exchange the grains for fruit. On the way, almost all the grains fell from His palms, only one or two grains remaining, but the fruit vendor, out of full affection, accepted these grains in exchange for as much fruit as Krishna could take. As soon as she did this, her basket became filled with gold and jewels." (Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.11)

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After Kamsa's wrestlers expressed their determination, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the killer of Madhu, confronted Canura, and Lord Balarama, the son of Rohini, confronted Mustika. Krishna and Canura and then Balarama and Mustika locked themselves hand to hand, leg to leg. The fighting increased as they pushed one another from one place to another. One captured another and threw him down on the ground, and another rushed from the back to the front of another and tried to overcome him with a hold. The fighting increased step by step. All the arts of wrestling were perfectly exhibited by the parties, as each tried his best to defeat his opponent."

Kamsa was prepared for Krishna's attack, for he knew from the beginning that He was to be the supreme cause of his death. He immediately unsheathed his sword and prepared to answer the challenge of Krishna with sword and shield. As Kamsa wielded his sword up and down, hither and thither, Lord Krishna, the supreme powerful Lord, caught hold of him with great force. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the shelter of the complete creation and from whose lotus navel the whole creation is manifested, immediately knocked the crown from the head of Kamsa and grabbed his long hair in His hand. He then dragged Kamsa from his seat to the wrestling dais and threw him down. Then Krishna straddled his chest and began to strike him over and over again. Simply from the strokes of His fist, Kamsa lost his vital force."

Krishna has asked Radha to teach Him how to play the flute. This is a sweet fruit of the eyes, watching the lovers play their music. The gopis see Radha tell Krishna

So Krishna gives Radha the flute and she plays better than Him. Rupa and Raghunatha Gosvamis have described this pastime in their poetry.

The whole process is to accept Krishna and His instructions and therefore to render devotional service unto Him. It is Srimati Radharani who is the very embodiment of perfect devotional service. In the Brahma-samhita Radharani is described as Krishna's expansion of His spiritual potency. In this way, She is nondifferent from Krishna. The gopis, who tend Radha and Krishna, are not ordinary women or girls; they are expansions of Krishna's pleasure potency.