* Govinda-nandini-She who gives happiness to Govinda ( Krishna )

Satyabhama gives Krishna away in charity in spite of the other wives ’ pleadings.

He mentions the devotees of Heracles ( Lord Krishna ) and Dionysus ( Lord Shiva or King Lord Indra ), but he does not mention Buddhists, something that gives support to the theory that the latter religion was not widely known before the reign of Ashoka.

On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Krishna gives the famed warrior Arjuna a series of teachings, and it is obvious that Krishna is no mere mortal.

Krishna gives Surdas vision allows him to ask for a boon.

Krishna, destroyed by her loss, has suicidal thoughts but gives them up for the sake of his daughter, Leela.

He gives Samhkhya and Yoga as the way of overcoming the dream, with the goal of Samhkhya as Bhagavan himself in the aspect of Krishna.

Near the Yamuna River Vidura meets Uddhava, who gives him the news of the Kurukshetra War and about Krishna leaving this world.

Though a great devotee of Lord Krishna, Kanakadasa gives his own interpretation.

Ultimately Prabhupada gives the conclusion that society should be " Krishna conscious " -- enlightened by devotion ( bhakti ) to Krishna ( God ).

The Antya-lila gives a survey of the devotional plays composed by Rupa Goswami, activities of various devotees and occasional critics and their interactions with Caitanya ; Caitanya ’ s interactions with Raghunatha dasa Goswami, and Jagadananda ; Caitanya's increasing experience of the searing agony of separation from Krishna ( viraha or vipralambha bhava ) and concludes with the famous Siksastaka ( eight verses of poetic instruction ), the only thing personally written by Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu himself.

It is believed that Shiva at Rajarajeshwara temple assures the child a high status, Sri Krishna of Trichambaram bestows it with good nature and mental qualities and the deity at Kanjirangad temple gives the child long life.

In the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita Krishna refutes the pacifist ideas of Arjuna and uses various arguments to convince him that he must fight and kill in the impending battle.

His charioteer, Krishna ( an avatar of god ), explains to Arjuna the concept of dharma ( duty ) among other things and makes him see that it is his duty to fight.

Krishna displays his Vishvarupa ( Universal Form ) to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.

Krishna, Arjuna at Kurukshetra, 18 – 19th century painting.

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.

Spoken by Krishna to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra

The most famous of these chapters is the Bhagavad Gita ( Sanskrit: The Celestial Song ) in the Mahabharata, in which Lord Krishna explains the concepts of duty and righteousness to the hero Arjuna before the Battle of Kurukshetra.

After his death, the Pandava counselor Krishna smiled, as he considered the war to have been won for the Pandavas now that Karna no longer had a divine weapon to use in fighting Arjuna.

He plays the listener in the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita which is a philosophical conversation between Arjuna and Krishna.

Arjuna, considered the finest archer and a peerless warrior by many notable figures in the Mahabharata such as Bhishma, Drona, Krishna, Vidura, Sage Naradha and Dhiritharashtra, played a key role in ensuring the defeat of the Kauravas in the Kurukshetra War.

Arjuna was an avatar of Nara, who along with the avatar of Narayana, Krishna, established Dharma in the Dvapara Yuga.

Arjuna had, in his childhood, heard about Krishna ’ s ravishing sister, Subhadra.

Krishna knew of Arjuna ’ s yearning and devised a plan to arrange their meet.

Once when roaming in the Khandava Vana, Arjuna and Krishna met the God of Fire, Agni.

Agni requested Krishna and Arjuna to help him realize his goal.

Together with these weapons, Arjuna and Krishna waged a successful battle against Indra and helped Agni burn down the entire Khandava Vana including all its demons and evil spirits.

In their demolition of Khandava Krishna and Arjuna had saved one demon, Mayasura.

A statue of Arjuna and Lord Krishna, with Krishna as the sarathi or charioteer

It was then that Krishna took charge and explained the necessity and inevitability of the war to Arjuna.

However Krishna created an artificial eclipse by using his Sudarshana Chakra to hide the sun, forcing Kauravas to believe the day was over and Arjuna ’ s death was imminent.

The epic states that Arjuna, always righteous, hesitates to attack his foe at this juncture but Krishna commands Arjuna to attack Karna and reminds Arjuna of all the atrocities that Karna committed against the Pandavas, such as, his instigation and participation of their wife Draupadi's public humiliation and disrobing, and his participation in the treacherous and cowardly killing of Arjuna's son Abhimanyu.

Krishna reminds Arjuna that Karna sided with adharma ( unrighteousness ) and had no right at this point in his life to invoke dharma ( righteousness ).

The Bhagavad Gita, which contains the spiritual teachings of Krishna, is one of the most widely read scriptures in Hinduism.

The first occurs when the warrior Arjuna being overcome with compassion against killing his opposing relatives in war, receives counsel ( see Bhagavad-Gita ) from Krishna about his spiritual duty (" work as though you are performing a sacrifice for the general good ").

The International Society of Krishna Consciousness ( ISKCON ), has set up a number of schools-gurukulas, as well as modern day schools-which concurrently provide a traditional material and spiritual Vedic education.

For a number of years, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness established gurukulas for children, providing academic as well as Gaudiya Vaishnava spiritual instruction in a boarding-school environment.

) In the Mahabharata, Lord Krishna, in his youth, goes to the ashram of Sage Sandipani, to gain knowledge of both intellectual and spiritual matters.

Hazrat Mazahar Jane Jana Sahib, Huzur Maharaj Fazal Ahmed Khan Sahib, Hazrat Ramchandra Ji Maharaj, Hazrat Shri Krishna Lal Ji Maharaj, Hazrat Shri Basant Ji Maharaj ( present living spiritual master ) are prominent spiritual master of this sufi branch.

Some of the later spin-off bands delved further into ascetic spiritual ( particularly Hare Krishna ) and political interests.

There's a legend that when Lord Krishna ran away with Goddess Rukhamini from her wedding ceremony, he used a tunnel laying from Ambadevi temple to Koundinyapur ( another spiritual place near Amravati ).

This leads to Krishna ’ s journey in search of enlightenment, with the stranger acting as a medium to Susila in the spiritual world.

* Malati Dasi, senior spiritual leader on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

Prior to his joining of Shelter John Porcelly took interest in the spiritual movement ' International Society for Krishna Consciousness ' and has maintained interest in it since ; he is an active member of ISKCON.

According to Vaisnava belief, the Bhagavad Gita is the ultimate statement of spiritual knowledge since it was professed by Lord Krishna who was an Avatar of Vishnu.

Members of this sect typically dress themselves as women in order to reinforce their identity as sakhis or girlfriends of Krishna and to attain the esteemed spiritual emotion known as sakhi-bhava.

Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna.

He was initiated in Gaudiya Vaishnavism tradition in 1997 and has a spiritual Hare Krishna name Krishna Kantha dasa.

In 1995 the Dharmacharya ( spiritual head of the Hindus belonging to the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, the only Hindu organisation in the Caribbean, Pundit Krishna Maharaj, refused to accept the Trinity Cross from Prime Minister Patrick Manning, for his social work on the grounds that it didn " t represent a true national award involving all religious denominations of Trinidad and Tobago

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, a spiritual descendant of Narottama through Krishna das Babaji, had often cited his prayers as many of Gaudiya Vaishnava acharyas did: " The prayers of Narottama dasa Thakura ," he said.

Swami Haridas ' spiritual disciples included Vitthal and Krishna Das who fostered his tradition of devotional music.

A Hare Krishna festival is held there every year, in May or June, celebrating the visit of a spiritual guru, Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja.

According to Princeton University website, the book " explores the life and mission of His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami ( 1950-2005 ), an African-American seeker who rose from impoverished conditions in the Cleveland ghetto to become a global spiritual leader of the Hare Krishna movement ".

Within two weeks of meeting him, Gopal Krishna Khanna decided to accept Prabhupada as his spiritual master.