Rukmini's eldest brother Rukmi though was a friend of evil King Kamsa, who was killed by Krishna, and was set against the marriage.

Rukmini's parents wanted to marry Rukmini to Krishna but Rukmi, her brother strongly opposed Bhishmaka and changed his father's mind.

While Balarama occupied most of them and held them back Rukmi had almost caught up with Krishna and Rukmini.

The image captures the elements of the verse and arranges them in tidy registers around the fluting Krishna, with gods riding on boatlike vessels above, ascetics seated to the right, and women in conversation at the left.

The new Viceroy Gilbert Minto and the new Secretary of State for India John Morley consulted with Congress leader Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

One such singer who has merged the Bhakti sangeet tradition of India with the western non-India music is Krishna Das and sells music records of his musical sadhana.

Moreover, Hindus have found it easier to focus on anthropmorphic icons, because Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 5, that it is much more difficult to focus on God as the unmanifested than God with form, due to human beings having the need to perceive via the senses.

Krishna Menon ( to whom Nehru had delegated the task of integrating the princely states into India ) negotiate with hundreds of princes.

Krishna fought a fierce battle with Jāmbavān to restore his reputation and gave the jewel back to Satrajit.

Freas was commissioned to paint the Skylab I insignia design and posters promoting the space program ( used by NASA and now hanging in the Smithsonian Institution ); pinup girls on bombers while in the United States Army Air Forces ; comic book covers ; the covers of the GURPS worldbooks Lensman and Planet Krishna ; and many others, such as more than 500 saints ' portraits for the Franciscans executed simultaneously with his portraits of Alfred E. Neuman (" What?

Being perfectly in love with God or Krishna makes one perfectly free from material contamination.

It should be however noted that although it is usual to speak of Vishnu as the source of the avataras, this is only one of the names of the God of Vaishnavism, who is also known as Narayana, Vasudeva and Krishna and behind each of those names there is a divine figure with attributed supremacy in Vaishnavism.

Thus other than the prophets mentioned in the Quran, Ahmadis, with support from theological study also recognize Buddha, Krishna, founders of Chinese religions to be divinely appointed individuals.

Exhausted by touring, Poly Styrene left the band in mid 1979, though she is seen performing with the band in the 1980 film, D. O. A .. She released a solo album, Translucence, before joining the Hare Krishna movement ( as did Logic, who left the band aged 16 in 1977 to form a new group called Essential Logic ).

Apart from these, Vishnu is depicted in any of his ten avataras, which include Vishnu sitting on Anantha ( the celestial snake and keeper of life energy ), Vishnu with Lakshmi seated on his lap ( Lakshminarayana ), with the head of a lion disemboweling a demon on his lap ( Lakshminarasimha ), with head of a boar walking over a demon ( Varaha ), in the Krishna avatar ( as Venugopala or the cow herder playing the Venu ( flute ), dancing on the head of the snake Kaliya, lifting a hill such as Govardhana ), with his feet over head of a small figure ( Vamana ), with Lakshmi seated on Garuda, and the eagle ( stealing the parijata tree ).

Mahabharata speaks of Paundraka Vasudeva who was lord of the Pundrasand who allied himself with Jarasandha against Krishna.

His most extended work was his " Viagens Interplanetarias " series, set in a future where Brazil is the dominant power, particularly a subseries of sword and planet novels set on the planet Krishna, beginning with The Queen of Zamba.

He was eager for reconciliation with Congress and had abandoned his demand for direct action and settled for agitations " strictly by constitutional means "-a line advocated by his rival Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

Also Regulation 368 does not forbid interference with Krishna culture by travelers as long as that interference is not technological in nature.

Then Krishna said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world.

Composer Baird Hersey and his group Prana with Krishna Das ( overtone singing and Hindu mantra ), Canadian songwriter Nathan Rogers has become an adept throat singer and teaches Tuvan Throat Singing in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

* Spono, 1965 ( with Krishna Shah )

The Yoga-Kundalini Upanishad is eighty-sixth among the 108 Muktika Upanishads, associated with the Krishna Yajurveda from India.

The Mahabharata, describing the life and times of the Pandavas, occurs in the Dvapara Yuga, a period associated with Lord Krishna ( the eighth avatar of Lord Vishnu ).

5 ) When Karna shot Nagastra on Arjuna, Krishna applied pressure to the chariot by his foot and thus sunk it, as a result of which the astra missed Arjuna's head and hit his crown instead.

American Brahman cattle was the first breed of beef cattle developed in the United States in the early 1900s as a result of crossing four different Indian cattle breeds ( Gyr, Gujarat, Nelore and Krishna Valley ).

Krishna told him it was a result of his reticence and silence towards Draupadi's cheer-haran which was a maha-papam ( great Sin ).

Legend has it that Krishna is Lord Vishnu himself as a result of a curse on the trimurtis by Savitri.

Later, the Yaksha takes birth as Barbareek and Lord Krishna seeks his head in charity as a result of this curse.

The story tells of the Hindu Lord Krishna advising Arjuna to perform his duty as a warrior regardless of the result.

Later, the Yaksha takes birth as Barbarika and Lord Krishna seeks his head in charity as a result of this curse.

For instance, to many devotees of Krishna, Shiva is seen as having sprung from Krishna's creative force.

Krishna left his native place at the age of twelve for study at gurukul. The Mahabharata does not describe Krishna's earlier life in Vrindavan in much detail, and focuses more on the later battle of Kurukshetra but within the Bhagavata Purana the child-hood pastimes of Krishna are described very vividly.

In the Vaishnava devotional or bhakti traditions of Hinduism that focus on Krishna, Radha is Krishna's friend and advisor.

Within the Bhagavata Purana it is described that Yasoda later became the foster-mother to Krishna, who was born to Devaki but was given to Yashoda and Nanda in Gokul, by Krishna's father Vasudeva on the night of his birth, for his protection from Devaki's brother, the king of Mathura, Kansa.

Upon this divine intervention, Mother Yashoda faints only to be revived by Lord Krishna and attended by Sage Narada, who explains to her about Krishna's Life., Krishna stealing the butter, Krishna tied to mortar especially in couplets written by poet-saint Surdas, where her deep affection for Krishna becomes an epitome of ' Vatsalya Prema ', Mother's Love and even ' Vatsalya Bhakti ’, Mother's Devotion ,.

In the mean time, both Sun and Moon got shocked by lord Krishna's thought and appeared before Krishna stating that this will create a huge imbalance in the entire Universe.

15 ) When both Arjuna and Duryodhana ask for Krishna's assistance in the war Krishna asks Arjuna first.

Shringar or erotic aspects of Krishna's life — his Leela, his pranks with the Gopis in Braj, and the description of the physical beauty of Krishna and Radha ,( Krishna's Consort ).

* Samba ( Krishna's son ), son of Lord Krishna

As if Surdas attained a mystical union with Lord Krishna, which enabled him to compose the verse about Krishna's romance with Radha almost as he was an eyewitness.

Aspects of Krishna as svayam bhagavan in original Absolute Truth, sat chit ananda, are understood originating from three essential attributes of Krishna's form, i. e., " eternal existence " or, related to the brahman aspect ; " knowledge " or chit, to the paramatman ; and " bliss " or ananda in Sanskrit, to bhagavan.

He was trained by Pradyumna, the son of Sri Krishna, as well as Krishna's kinsmen Kritavarma and Satyaki.

Kunti ( also called Pritha ), Arjuna's mother was the aunt of Krishna and the sister of Krishna's father, Vasudeva.

In other versions of the epic, the Brahmin is said to be Krishna who asks for Karna's punya or merit and when Karna does so he is rewarded by sighting of Krishna's Vishwaroopa.

Most popularly, this worship takes the form of singing Radha and Krishna's holy names, such as " Hare ", " Krishna " and " Rama ", most commonly in the form of the Hare Krishna ( mantra ), also known as kirtan.

A particularly distinct part of the Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy espoused by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is the concept of Achintya Bheda Abheda, which translates to " inconceivable oneness and difference " in the context of the soul's relationship with Krishna, and also Krishna's relationship with his other energies ( i. e. the material world ).

Since Vasudeva knew Krishna's life was in danger, Krishna was secretly taken out of the prison cell to be raised by his foster parents, Yasoda and Nanda, in Gokula ( in present day Mathura district ).

In addition, the cooking of prasada is done without tasting, for it is not for their own consumption, but to offer to Krishna — they will receive the remnants of Krishna's food ( which they consider to be non-different to Krishna ).