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It is a common belief among devotees that Nidhivan still witnesses the rasa-lila (dance) of Radha and Krishna during the night and thus, to protect the forest's sanctity, Nidhivan is closed with barricades during the night. [2] Sri Bansichori Radharani Temple in Nidhivan, the shrine is dedicated to the event when Radha stole Krishna's flute.
Krishna and Radha dancing the rasalila, a 19th-century painting, Rajasthan. The Raslila (Sanskrit: रासलीला, romanized: Rāsalīlā), [1] [2] also rendered the Rasalila or the Ras dance, is part of a traditional story described in Hindu texts such as the Bhagavata Purana and Gita Govinda, where Krishna dances with Radha and the gopis of Braj.
The Radhika Krishnashtaka is a hymn within the Swaminarayan Sampradaya. It is said that the reciter can get to Krishna via his consort Radha by chanting it. As it is composed of eight verses it is known as ashtak and is embedded into the Satsangi Jivan [1] The BAPS does not recite this but instead recite the Shri Swaminarayan Ashtakam.
Meanwhile, Ayan, Radha's friend loves Radha and he tries to separate Radha from Krishn. Krishn defeats Vyomasura, a demon whose marriage was fixed with Radha. Krishn removes all humanly weaknesses like bhaya (fear), moha (greed), krodha (anger), irshya (envy), ahankara (pride), grihna (hatred) and heenbhavna (lack of self-confidence) out of Radha.
The bansuri-like flute is depicted in ancient Buddhist, [4] Hindu [5] and Jain temple paintings and reliefs, and is common in the iconography of the Hindu god Krishna. [6] [7] It is intimately linked to the love story of Krishna and Radha. [8] The bansuri is revered as Lord Krishna's divine instrument and is often associated with Krishna's Rasa ...
Notable English translations are: Edwin Arnold's The Indian Song of Songs (1875); Sri Jayadevas Gita Govinda: The loves of Krisna and Radha (Bombay 1940) by George Keyt and Harold Peiris; [17] S. Lakshminarasimha Sastri The Gita Govinda of Jayadeva, Madras, 1956; Duncan Greenlee's Theosophical rendering The Song of the Divine, Madras, 1962 ...
Radha-Krishna (IAST rādhā-kṛṣṇa, Sanskrit: राधा कृष्ण) is the combined form of the Hindu god Krishna with his chief consort and shakti Radha.They are regarded as the feminine as well as the masculine realities of God, [7] in several Krishnaite traditions of Vaishnavism.
The songs have been known to portray a wide range of topics however, they are most commonly sung to a set of stock tunes that often portrays the love of the Hindu god Krishna and goddess Radha. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The term rasiya is the Hindi word for “epicure” [ 5 ] which refers to the male suitors, or the god Krishna himself as depicted in the songs.