Baigram is situated two km north of Jaitapura & 1.5 km from Basai. From this place Varunadeva took Sri Nanda Maharaja to the abode of Varuna. Seeing this, the villagers became very frightened, hence this village is named Bhayagrama (bhaya = fear). Nowadays it is known as Baigram.

How to get there: You can easily go to this place by Auto from Vrindavana.

Releasing Nanda Maharaja from the Clutches of Varuna

    The Govardhana Ceremony took place on the new moon day. After this, there were torrents of rain and hailstorms imposed by King lndra for seven days. Nine days of the waxing moon having passed, on the tenth day King lndra worshiped Lord Krishna, and thus the matter was satisfactorily settled. After this, on the eleventh day of the full moon, there was Ekadashi. Maharaja Nanda observed fasting for the whole day, and just early in the morning of the Dwadashi, the day after Ekadashi, he went to take bath in the River Yamuna. He entered deep into the water of the river, but he was arrested immediately by one of the servants of Varuna Deva. These servants brought Nanda Maharaja before the demigod Varuna and accused him of taking a bath in the river at the wrong time. According to astronomical calculations, the time in which he took bath was considered demoniac. The fact was, Nanda Maharaja wanted to take a bath in the River Yamuna early in the morning before the sunrise, but somehow or other he was a little too early, and he bathed at an inauspicious time. Consequently he was arrested.

     When Nanda Maharaja was taken away by Varuna Deva’s servants, his companions began to call loudly for Krishna and Balarama. Immediately Krishna and Balarama could understand that Nanda Maharaja was taken by Varuna, and thus They went to the abode of Varuna, for They were pledged to give protection. The inhabitants of Vrindavana, the unalloyed devotees of the Lord, having no shelter other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead, naturally cried to Him for help, exactly like children who do not know anything but the protection of their parents. Demigod Varuna received Lord Krishna and Balarama with great respect and said, “My dear Lord, actually at this very moment, because of Your presence, I am materially defeated. Although I am the proprietor of all the treasures in the water, I know that such possessions do not make for a successful life. But this moment, as I look at You, my life is made completely successful because by seeing You I no longer have to accept a material body. Therefore, O Lord, Supreme Personality of Godhead, Supreme Brahman and Supersoul of everything, let me offer my respectful obeisances unto You. You are the supreme transcendental personality; there is no possibility of imposing the influence of material nature upon You. I am very sorry that by being foolish, by not knowing what to do or what not to do, I have mistakenly arrested Your father, Nanda Maharaja. So I beg Your pardon for the offence of my servants. I think that it was Your plan to show me Your mercy by Your personal presence here. My dear Lord Krishna, Govinda, be merciful upon me here is Your father. You can take him back immediately.”

    In this way Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, rescued His father and presented him before his friends with great jubilation. Nanda Maharaja was surprised that, although the demigod was so opulent, he offered such respect to Krishna. That was very astonishing to Nanda, and he began to describe the incident to his friends and relatives with great wonder.

    Actually, although Krishna was acting so wonderfully, Maharaja Nanda and mother Yashoda could not think of Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Instead, they always accepted Him as their beloved child. Thus Nanda Maharaja did not accept the fact that Varuna worshiped Krishna because Krishna was the Supreme Personality of Godhead; rather he took it that because Krishna was such a wonderful child He was respected even by Varuna. The friends of Nanda Maharaja, all the cowherd men, became eager to know if Krishna were actually the Supreme Personality and if He were going to give them all salvation. When they were all thus consulting among themselves, Krishna understood their minds, and in order to assure them of their destiny in the spiritual kingdom, He showed them the spiritual sky. Generally, ordinary persons are engaged simply in working hard in the material world, and they have no information that there is another kingdom or another sky, which is known as the spiritual sky, where life is eternal, blissful, and full of knowledge. As it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, a person returning to that spiritual sky never returns to this material world of death and suffering.

     Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is always anxious to give information to the conditioned soul that there is a spiritual sky far, far beyond this material sky, transcendental to the innumerable universes created within the total material energy. Krishna is, of course, always very kind to every conditioned soul, but, as stated in the Bhagavad-gita, He is especially inclined to the devotees. Hearing their inquiries, Krishna immediately thought that His devotees in Vrindavana should be informed of the spiritual sky and the Vaikuntha planets therein. Thus Krishna led all the cowherd men, headed by Nanda Maharaja, to the lake where Akrura was later shown the Vaikuntha planetary system at Akrura Ghata. They took their bath immediately and saw the real nature of the Vaikunthalokas. After seeing the spiritual sky and the Vaikunthalokas, all the men, headed by Nanda Maharaja, felt wonderfully blissful, and coming out of the river, they saw Krishna, who was being worshiped with excellent prayers.

Jiva Goswami’s stay at Nanda Ghata

Shrila Jiva Goswami spent some time staying at Nanda Ghata where he lived inside an old disused crocodile hole on the bank of the Yamuna. Due to his youthful enthusiasm, he was banished from Vrindavana by Shrila Rupa Goswami because he dared to challenge Vallabha Bhatta, thus displeasing Rupa Goswami, his uncle and spiritual master. One day Vallabha Bhatta, who was later known as Vallabhacharya, paid a visit to Rupa Goswami’s bhajana kutira at Seva Kunja. When he arrived, Rupa was working on the invocation to his book Bhakti-rasamrita–sindhu (Nectar of Devotion). On glancing at the mangalacharana or invocation, Vallabha, who was a greatly learned Sanskrit scholar, pointed out what he thought were some slight discrepancies in the text and offered to edit it. Although Rupa accepted this criticism by Vallabha with great humility, Jiva was disturbed that Vallabha had the audacity to find fault with Rupa Goswami’s writing.

      Therefore, when Vallabha went to the Yamuna to bathe, Jiva followed him and raised the issue of Vallabha’s critique regarding the invocation written by Rupa Goswami. Jiva then systematically refuted with shastric evidence each of the points raised by Vallabha, thus proving to Vallabha that he was wrong in his opinions and that what Rupa had written was actually perfect and needed no editing. Confronted by Jiva’s superior knowledge of Sanskrit grammar, Vallabha was defeated and forced to admit his critique was misguided. On returning to Rupa’s kutira, Vallabha mentioned his encounter with the young sannyasi and the discussion that had ensued, informing Rupa that the original invocation was perfect and needed no correction. Sometime later, when Jiva returned, Rupa Goswami was very upset that Jiva had dared to challenge such a senior devotee and greatly learned scholar like Vallabha Bhatta. Admonishing Jiva for being too proud and lacking in proper Vaishnava humility, Rupa ordered him to return to his home in Bengal until he had learned more about Vaishnava etiquette and humility. He further said that Vallabha Bhatta was only trying to help and that due to his passionate nature; Jiva had unnecessarily challenged him.

     After being rejected by Rupa Goswami, Jiva was on his way out of Vrindavana when he decided it was better to remain in the holy Dhama and undergo severe penance in order to redeem himself in the eyes of Rupa Goswami. He then went to Nanda Ghata and remained there living in an old crocodile hole. Later the Vrajavasis built him a kutire of thatched leaves. He subsisted by performing madhukari, begging a little flour from the local Vrajavasis and after mixing it with water from the Yamuna, ate it raw. No one in Vrindavana knew the whereabouts of Jiva until one day; Sanatana Goswami was traveling to some of the holy places nearby, when someone mentioned to him about a young and much renounced sannyasi living at Nanda Ghata. Sanatana was informed that the young sannyasi was very frail and thin due to subsisting only on raw flour and water. Sanatana could immediately understand that the young sannyasi must be his nephew Jiva. After going there and meeting Jiva at Nanda Ghata and hearing everything from him, Sanatana returned to Vrindavana to meet Rupa, whose writing work was suffering due to not having Jiva there to help him. It was Jiva who used to make the paper for writing and also edit all the Rupa’s books.

     On arriving in Vrindavana, Rupa Goswami was talking with other Vaishnavas on the subject of giving mercy to all the jivas (living entities). After the talks, Sanatana spoke to Rupa and enquired about the work on his most important book the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu. Rupa explained that his book was finished, but since their nephew Jiva’s absence, the editing work was incomplete and not going so well. Sanatana then told Rupa that although he was lecturing others about giving mercy to all the jivas, he himself was not. Rupa Gosvami could immediately understand the meaning of Sanatana’s comment.

     After hearing about Jiva’s whereabouts from Sanatana, without further delay, Rupa Goswami made arrangements to bring Jiva Goswami back to Vrindavana and after nursing him back to full health, immediately entrusted him with the task of editing the Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu, the most important book on the science of devotional service ever written. While staying at Nanda Ghata Sri Jiva Goswami wrote his six Sandarbhas. Under the direct guidance of his two uncles Rupa and Sanatana, Jiva Goswami went on to become the greatest ever Sanskrit scholar and philosopher that has ever lived. After the disappearance of both Rupa and Sanatana, Jiva Goswami was the undisputed leader amongst Lord Chaitanya’s followers and became the next acharya of the Gaudiya Vaishnava Sampradaya. He went on to write over twenty-five important books of which Sat Sandharba and Gopala-champu are the most well known.

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The Village of Basai is situated half a km north east of the village of Mai. Here Brahmaji was astonished for the first time by seeing Sri Krishna together with His cows and calves. Lord Krishna killed Bakasura demon in this village.

How to get there: You can easily go to this place by Auto from Vrindavana.

The Liberation of Bakasura

All the cowherd boys would daily go to the bank of the River Yamuna to water their calves. Usually, when the calves drank water from the Yamuna, the boys also drank. One day, after drinking, when they were sitting on the bank of the river, they saw a huge animal which looked something like a duck and was as big as a hill. Its top was as strong as a thunderbolt. When they saw that unusual animal, they became afraid of it. The name of this beast was Bakasura, and he was a friend of Kamsa’s. He appeared on the scene suddenly and immediately attacked Krishna with his pointed, sharp beaks and quickly swallowed Him up. When Krishna was thus swallowed, all the boys, headed by Balarama, became almost breathless, as if they had died. But when the Bakasura demon was swallowing up Krishna, he felt a burning fiery sensation in his throat. This was due to the glowing effulgence of Krishna. The demon quickly threw Krishna up and tried to kill Him by pinching Him in his beaks. Bakasura did not know that although Krishna was playing the part of a child of Nanda Maharaja, He was still the original father of Lord Brahma, the creator of the universe. The child of mother Yasoda, who is the reservoir of pleasure for the demigods and who is the maintainer of saintly persons, caught hold of the beaks of the great gigantic duck and, before His cowherd boy friends, bifurcated his mouth, just as a child very easily splits a, blade of grass. From the sky, the denizens of the heavenly planets showered flowers like the chameli, the most fragrant of all flowers, as a token of their congratulations. Accompanying the showers of flowers was a vibration of bugles, drums and conchshells.

The previous life of Bakasura demon mentioned in Garga Samhita

Sri Bahulasva said: “Who was this demon before? Why did he become a duck? Why was he able to enter Sri Krishna, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the mater of all?”

Sri Narada said: “O King, he was a demon named Utkala, who was Hayagriva’s son. He defeated many demigods in battle and he stole Indra’s parasol.

Stealing from the kingdoms of many human kings, for one hundred years, this powerful demon ruled a kingdom full of all opulence.”

    “One day, the demon came near Jajali Muni’s leaf hut, at the place where the Ganga meets the ocean. Casting a fishhook into the water, the demon caught a fish. Although forbidden again and again, the wicked-hearted demon gave no respect to the sage’s words. The perfect sage, Jajali, cursed him, saying, ‘O demon, because you eat fish like a duck, become a duck!’ In a moment the demon became a duck. His powers lost and his pride and arrogance gone, he fell with folded hands at the sage’s feet and spoke to him.”

     Utkala said: “O sage, save me! I did not know the power of your austerities. The wise know that association with great saints like yourself is the door to liberation. Saints like yourself see friends and enemies equally. They see that honor and dishonor, gold and a clod of earth, and happiness and unhappiness are all the same.”

      “O Sage, what does one not obtain by seeing great saints? By seeing them, one obtains Brahma’s kingdom and Indra’s position. O Jajali, O tiger among sages, what is the use of the three goals of life? By the mercy of great saints, one can attain the Supreme Brahman.”

      Sri Narada said: “Becoming pleased, Jajali Muni, who had performed austerities for sixty thousand years, spoke to him.”

      Sri Jajali said: “In the Vaivasvata-manvantara, during the twenty-eight yuga cycle, at the end of Dvapara-yuga, in Bharatavarsa, at Mathura, in the circle of Vraja, Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, will herd many calves in Vrindavana forest. At that time, you will enter Lord Krishna’s existence. Of this there is no doubt. Even by hating Him, many demons, such as Hiranyaksa, have already attained the Supreme.”

     Sri Narada said: “In this way, by Jajali’s blessing, the demon, Utkala, became Bakasura and entered Sri Krishna’s existence. What is not possible by the association of great saints?

Vatasavana

In the same area around 1.5 km from Basai, halfway between the villages of Mai and Sei was called Vatsavana, Lord Krishna killed Vatsasura demon at this place. I spoke to many people to find the area but they no longer know where it is.

While Sri Krishna was staying in Mahavana and after He had broken the two Arjuna-trees Sri Nanda Maharaja left Mahavana, being afraid of Kamsa’s atrocities, and stayed at Chatikara for some days while on the way to Sri Nandagrama. At that time, while wandering through the forests with His friends, tending the cows, Sri Krishna came here. Just then Kamsa sent the Vatsasura demon here to kill Sri Krishna, but instead, Vatsasura found his death at the hands of Sri Krishna.

The Liberation of Vatsasura (mentioned in Garga Samhita)

Handsome Krishna and Balarama, as well as the other gopa boys, were given the duty of protecting the calves in Vrindavana. Accompanied by the boys, Krishna and Balarama herded the calves on the sacred outskirts of the village near the Yamuna’s shore.

Passing here and there through many groves and gardens, enjoying many pastimes as They went, and sometimes even crawling on the ground, Krishna and Balarama, walked in the forest.

Wearing a network of tinkling ornaments and tinkling anklets, wearing garments of blue and yellow, decorated with necklaces and bracelets, throwing things with the boys, intently playing Their flutes, along with the boys making an array of noises with their mouths, and chasing the birds’ shadows, Krishna and Balarama, decorated with flowers, leaves, and peacock feathers, were very splendid and glorious.

Aware that the demon Vatsasura had entered among the calves on Kamsa’s order, Krishna stealthily approached him. Moving his tail as he ran among the gopas, with his hind legs the demon struck Krishna on the shoulder.

As the boys fled, Krishna grasped the demon’s two legs, whirled him about, and threw him to the ground. Picking him up again, with both hands Krishna threw the demon into a Kapittha tree. When the demon died the great Kapittha tree made the other Kapittha trees fall. As the astonished boys called out “Well done! Well done!”, the demigods in heaven showered flowers amid shouts of “Victory!” Then from the demon came a great light then entered Lord Krishna.

Shri Bahulashva said: O sage, what pious deeds did Vatsasura do in his previous life so that now he is able to enter Lord Krishna, the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than the greatest?

Shri Narada said: He was a great demon who was named Pramila and was the son of Muru. After conquering the demigods, he entered Vasistha Muni’s ashrama and saw a cow named Nandini.

Desiring that cow, the demon transformed himself into a brahmana and begged for the beautiful cow. As Vasistha, who had divine vision, stood silent, the cow spoke.

Shri Nandini said: You are a demon, Muru’s son, and you have assumed the form of a brahmana to steal the sages’ cow. Therefore, O wicked-hearted one, now you become a calf!

The great demon that was Muru’s son at once became a calf. He circumambulated Vasistha and the cow, bowed down, and said, “Please save me!”

The cow said: O great demon, at the end of Dvapara-Yuga, when you go among many calves, you will attain liberation.

Shri Narada said: For this reason, in Vrindavana the demon Vatsasura entered Lord Krishna, the original Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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The village of Āṭhāsa is situated 2 km from Ramtal, Sunarasa. In this village Sri Astavakra Muni performed his penances here.

Astavakra Muni was a very learned Sage, His name literally means “eight bends”, reflecting the eight physical handicaps he was born with. Due to disfigured physical body he was not good looking.

Once Shankhacuda’s son Agha, when he saw the disfigured sage Astavakra Muni walking by the Malaya Hills, Agha laughed and said, “Who is this ugly person?”

Then the sage cursed the demon Agha: “O wicked-hearted one, you will become a snake. You will be the ugliest snake in the circle of the earth.” This pastime I have explained in detail in Parasauli. 

How to get there: You can easily go to this place by Auto from Vrindavana. While returning to Vrindavana you can also visit Ramtal & Sri Garuda Govinda.

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The village of Sunarasa is situated three km north east of Chatikara & two km from Vrindavana. East of this village, is the Ramtal, or some people also call as Nagalokoka. Sunarasa village is called the place where Sri Saubhari Muni performed penances.

Saubhari Rishi was amongst the greatest sages of Satyug. Ramtal is the place where he performed austerities for ten thousand years in the waters in Vrindavana.

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According to ‘Rig Veda’ Lord Brahma has a son by the name Angira whose son was Ghor, who had Karnav as his son. Subhari Rishi was the descendent of Karnav Rishi.

During this period, Ayodhya was ruled by King Mandhata, whose kingdom was fighting drought from the past many years. Narad Muni advised the King to seek help of Saubhari Rishi who could do Yagna which would end drought in Ayodhya.

The King followed the instruction and performed the Yagna along with Saubhari Rishi. As a result it rained heavily in Ayodhya ending long standing drought.

In Satyug, Yamuna used to flow near to this place and Saubhari Rishi used to feed flour-balls daily to the fishes of holy river. The Rishi was also known to provide shelter to the needy.

On the other side, when Garuda, the ride of Lord Vishnu, started feeding on the snakes and fishes of Ramanaka-dvipa, then Ananta Shesha guided them to go under the shelter of Saubhari Rishi. Post then many snakes including the venomous serpert Kaliya took shelter here (which I have explained in detail in another article Kaliya Snake). The Rishi cursed Garuda that he will die as soon as he will enter this area. That’s how the fishes, snakes and other aquatic animals lived here in peace.

Once, Saubhari Rishi was meditating under water in Yamuna when he saw the King of fishes copulating with his wives which raised Rishi’s desire to also get married.

He went to meet King Mandhata, as guided by Lord Vishnu. After seeing the Rishi, all hundred daughters of the King expressed their desire to marry him. King Mandhata accepted the desire of his daughters, married them to the Rishi and gave them lots of gifts before departing.

Yogamaya then built hundred different castles here for the Rishi and his wives, where he used to spend time with all his wives simultaneously, using the power earned from austerities.

Once when King Mandhata visited this place Saubhari Rishi preached him to sacrifice lust, greed, material world attachments and ego. Over a period of time, Rishi was blessed with five thousand offsprings, post which he went back for meditation leaving the materialistic pleasures behind.

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The village of Chomuha is situated one and a half kilometers northeast of Ajhai. Here the four-faced Brahma was defeated after stealing the cows and calves (which I have explained in Sei), and here he begged Sri Krishna for forgiveness with many praises. Hence this village is named Chowmuha (Caturmukha – four-faced). I am very happy to see this place is being developed.

How to get there: You can easily go to this place by auto from Vrindavan.

Brahma’s Prayers (Mentioned in the Garga Samhita)

Shri Brahma said: Obeisances to Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, greater than the greatest, holding a flute, wearing a peacock feather, staying in His brother’s company, His form a monsoon cloud, His garments lightning, and His words sweet as nectar.

Krishna is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, the perfect and complete supreme master, who stays above the material energy. We demigods, who are the parts of the parts of His incarnations, create this world with the aid of His potencies.

You are the same Lord Krishnacandra. You have come to the earth and become the son of Maharaja Nanda. Appearing like an ordinary cowherd boy, and herding the calves in the company of many gopas, You are splendidly manifest.

In this forest grove, I offer my respectful obeisances to handsome and dark Lord Hari, more playful and charming than millions of Kamadevas, decorated with yellow garments and glistening Kaustubha gem, clutching a flute, the king of Vraja and the Lord of Shri Radha.

With devotion, purity, and renunciation, worship Krishna, the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, pure as a cloudless sky, His limbs splendid, the master of sacrifices, the master of consciousness, the all-knowing Supersoul.

O wise one, when the mind is influenced by passion it accepts the materially pleasant and rejects the materially unpleasant. By these two actions material desires and arrogant pride breed in the heart. In this way, intelligence is gradually disfigured.

Like a fleeting lightning flash, a ripple on the water, the passing seasons, and the false, blurred line of a moving spark, the face, filled with sufferings, of the material world are temporary and untrue. The whirl of sense happiness is the seeming-stationary circle of a quickly-moving spark.

When water moves, the trees reflected on it seem to move also. When the eyes are tossed to and for, the earth seems to move. O Krishna, bewildered by the modes of material nature, the people say material sense pleasures are real.

Pains and pleasures are created by the mind. A person awake knows what he saw in a dream is false. A wise man knows the entire material world is a dream.

A wise man who stays aloof from material deeds, renounces the world, and tastes the nectar of spiritual love, can see, as one sees with the light of a lamp, the spiritual glory of the Supreme Lord, who stays as the Supersoul in this world.

A devotee like a smokeless flame free from the touch of the material modes, who worships Lord Vasudeva in his heart and sees the one Lord Vasudeva present in everyone’s heart as one moon is reflected in many pots of water, is perfect, the best of swan-like saints.

Although they always praise Him, the Vedas do not understand even one-sixteenth of Lord Hari’s glories. Who in the three worlds has the power to describe His qualities?

Ananta praises Him with a thousand mouths, Shiva with five mouths and I with four mouths. We serve Lord Hari.

Lord Vishnu who stays in Vaikuntha, Lord Hari who stays on the milk-ocean, and Narayana Rishi, the son of Dharma, all worship You, the master of Goloka.

Lord Krishna’s glories are very great. Even in their dreams the sages, humans, demigods, demons, manus, and philosophers do not see His feet.

I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Hari, greater than the greatest, a jewel mine of transcendental virtues, the giver of liberation, the master of the goddess of fortune, the master of transcendental virtues, and the master of Vraja.

I offer my respectful obeisances to smiling, sweetly speaking Lord Hari, His mouth handsome with betelnuts, His lips Bimba fruits, His teeth white jasmine flowers, and His handsome cheeks covered by curly black locks and decorated with swinging gold earrings.

May Your dark handsome form, decorated with shark-shaped earrings and stealing Kamadeva’s heart, appear before my eyes.

I bow my head before Goloka’s handsome king, who plays as a gopa, enjoys in Vaikuntha, and receives the demigods’ obeisances.

Glory to Lord Hari, who walks in fragrant Vrindavana forest, which is filled with sweet-throated spring cuckoos, newly-budding trees, and gentle, playful, nectar breezes. May He always protect the devotees.

Worship Krishna’s sidelong glance, which eclipses the pride of the lotus and the moving string of pearls, which travels almost to His ears, which is Kamadeva’s arrow, and which, laden with gifts for they who taste nectar in this world, is expert at giving charity.

I worship handsome Lord Vishnu’s delightful reddish jewel nails, which fill the heart, break the darkness, crush the sins of everyone in the universe, and are praised on the earth and by the demigods in heaven.

Is this a circle of light around a great lotus flower, a great rumbling chariot wheel, the Sudarshana-chakra, the sun with its hundred points of light, or the graceful anklets on Lord Hari’s lotus feet?

I worship the splendid, charming, decorated with small bells yellow garment on the hips of Lord Krishna, whose every act is full of bliss.

On Lord Krishna’s chest I worship Bhrigu Muni’s footprint, Lakshmi-Devi’s home, the mark of Shrivatsa, the splendid golden Nikasha line, and, suspended from His neck, the many necklaces of diamonds, gold, jewels, and pearls splendid as glistening stars, and the many flower garlands filled with buzzing bees.

Remember Krishna’s hands, decorated with a flute, expert at giving charity to the Brahmanas, the color of Sindura, an expert at playing the bamboo flute, with gold rings and moon like fingernails, and fragrant with a Kadamba flower.

On the slowly-moving swan of Lord Hari’s neck, again and again, I worship two black crow-feathers, which remove the pride of the black monsoon clouds.

Please worship the delightful young prince splendid as a glistening mirror, handsome with jewel earrings and curly locks of hair, and glorious as the sun and moon, that is Lord Hari’s cheeks.

I praise Lord Vishnu’s crown, decorated with a peacock feather, glorious as a red moon, splendid as millions of suns, the home of gold, pearls, and Vaidurya jewels, and the rasa circle of all of Kamadeva’s playful handsomeness.

I worship Krishnacandra, the master of the universes. Karttikeya, Indra, Ganesha, Candra, and Surya cannot enter the door to His realm. Without His permission, no one can enter the circle of His forest.

After speaking these prayers, Brahma folded his hands and begged the Supreme Personality of Godhead: O Lord of the universe, I was born from the lotus of Your navel. As a mother forgives her son’s offense, please forgive me.

What am I, the king of one planet, in comparison to You, the ruler of many millions of universes? O master of Vraja, O Lord, O Krishna, please save me!

By Your illusory potency, the demigods, demons, humans, and other living entities are bewildered. Bewildered by Your illusory potency, I diligently perform my duties.

O Govinda, O Hari, You are Narayana. I am not Narayana. You are the same Narayana that in ancient times created the universe and then rested on Ananta Shesha.

Puitana and her family entered the same Brahman effulgence the yogis attain when they leave this life.

O Madhava, after creating the forms of the calves and gopas, You wandered in the forest. O Lord, please forgive my offenses.

O Govinda, please forgive me. Please be merciful to me. As a father does not consider his son’s actions an offense, please do not take offense with me.

They who are not devoted to You but instead are earnestly engaged in impersonal speculation gain only trouble for all their efforts. They are like farmers that thresh empty husks.

As many yogis and sages became devoted to You and attained You, so the residents of Vraja also became devoted to You and attained You.

Love is created in two ways: by hearing and by seeing. O Lord Hari, bewildered by Your illusory potency, I have not attained love for You.

Speaking these words, bowing before Krishna’s lotus feet, and tears gliding down his face, Brahma earnestly begged for forgiveness.

When I take birth among the residents of these cowherd villages, and when I worship Your lotus feet, then I will attain auspiciousness. Nothing else will be auspicious for me.

When we demigods, who have Shiva as our leader, enter the lands of the gopas and once gaze on Lord Krishna, then we will be fortunate.

O Lord, how fortunate are Your parents, the gopas, and the gopis, who see You in Your original form in Vraja!

May Lord Krishna, who wears a pearl necklace, in whom everything rests, who creates and maintains all the universes, and who, enjoying by the Yamuna, is the playful abode of transcendental pastimes, protect me.

O Shri Krishna, O lotus growing in King Vrishni’s family, O son of Nanda, O Lord of Radha, O enchanter of Kamadeva, O master of the demigods, O king of Vraja, O king of Gokula, O Govinda, please protect, please protect me, who am now bewildered by Your illusory potency!

A person who circumambulates Lord Krishna attains the result of visiting all the holy places in the universe. He will go to Your Krishnaloka, the best of spiritual realms.

After offering these prayers and bowing down, three times Brahma circumambulated Lord Govinda, the glorious master of Vrindavana.

First becoming invisible, and then offerings blessing to the calves and boys, grandfather Brahma asked permission to leave.

With a glance, Krishna gave His permission. Then Brahma bowed again and returned to his own world.

Then Krishna quickly led the calves from the forest to the Yamuna’s shore, where Krishna was in the midst of a glorious circle of gopas.

Bewildered by Krishna’s Yogamaya potency, when they saw Krishna with the calves, the gopa boys thought He had been gone for only half a moment.

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This village is situated two kilometers north of Bajana. Here Brahma was bewildered by the Maya of Sri Krishna. To test Sri Krishna Brahma stole His cows, calves, and friends here.

How to get there: You can easily go to this place by auto from Vrindavan.

When Lord Brahma saw Sri Krishna eating contaminated food at Parakhama, He decided to test Sri Krishna.

After saving His friends from the mouth of Aghasura and killing the demon (which I have explained in Parasauli, Vraja Mandal, UP, India), Lord Krishna brought His friends to the bank of the Yamuna and addressed them as follows: “My dear friends, just see how this spot is very nice for taking lunch and playing on the soft, sandy Yamuna bank. You can see how the lotus flowers in the water are beautifully blown and how they distribute their fragrance all around. The chirping of the birds along with the cooing of the peacocks, surrounded by the whispering of the leaves in the trees, combine and present sound vibrations that echo one another. And this just enriches the beautiful scenery created by the trees here. Let us have our lunch in this spot because it is already late and we are feeling hungry. Let the calves remain near us, and let them drink water from the Yamuna. While we engage in our lunch-taking, the calves may engage in eating the soft grasses that are in this spot.”

On hearing this proposal from Krishna, all the boys became very glad and said, “Certainly, let us all sit down here to take our lunch.”

In the picture you can see the spot where Lord Krishna ate lunch with His friends, the area is very beautiful, filled with natural beauty. Right side of this place is Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Baithak, where the Lord sat when He came to this place and left side is Brahma Bavari. During rainy season the area is surrounded by Yamuna River.

To come to this place you have to walk from Bachpan Bihari Temple.

As the boys, for whom Krishna was the Lord of their lives, ate, the calves, greedy for more grass, went far away, deep in the forest.

Seeing that the gopas were frightened, Krishna said to them, “Don’t go. I shall bring the calves here.”

Saying this, Krishna stood up, took a morsel of food in His hand, and left to search the calves in the forest.

Then the demigod Brahma, who had already seen the liberation of Aghasura came and gazed at Krishna happily eating lunch with the boys on the riverbank.

As he gazed at Krishna, Brahma said in his mind, “This must be a gopa. He cannot be Lord Hari, the Personality of Godhead. Why would Lord Hari enjoy such wretched food with the gopa boys of Vraja?”

After speaking these words, Brahma became bewildered by the Lord’s illusory potency. As he stood in the sky, Brahma, and who was very surprised to see Aghasura’s liberation, stole all the calves and boys and disappeared.

Local pujari said at Brahma Bavari Brahma hide calves and cowheard boys.

Not seeing the calves, returning to the riverbank and not seeing the gopas, and then searching in the forest for them both, Krishna thought, “This must be Brahma’s work.”

Then, to please the cows and gopis, Lord Krishna, who is the creator of the universes, made Himself into the calves and boys.

Whatever were the gopas’ and calves’ forms, with their hands, feet, and other parts, whatever were their sticks, horns, and other possessions, whatever were their characters, qualities, and other features, and whatever were their clothes, ornaments, and other things, Lord Krishna perfectly copied. In this way, He proved the Vedic statement: “Sarvam Vishnumayam Vishvam” (The entire universe is Lord Vishnu).

As the sun was setting on the western horizon, Krishna, herding calves that were in truth Himself, and accompanied by gopas that were also Himself, playfully entered Nanda’s village.

The many gopas, who were all Krishna, led the various calves, who were also Krishna, to their respective barns. Then the gopas entered their own homes.

Hearing the flute, the gopis fainted and then suddenly stood up. As milk flowed from them, each embraced her son. Seeing their calves, the cows mooed. They licked the calves with their tongues and made the calves drink their milk.

In this way, all the gopis and cows became Krishna’s mothers. Their love for their children became four times what it had been.

As they embraced, bathed, massaged, and in other ways served their sons, the gopis now gazed on Lord Krishna.

Then the millions of gopi girls, who were all deeply in love with Krishna, were married to the many gopa boys, who at that time were all forms of Krishna.

In the circle of Vraja, one year passed with Krishna disguising Himself as both the calves and gopas. He was the calves and He was the gopas protecting the calves.

On the day when there were only five nights remaining to complete the year, Krishna and Balarama went to the forest as They herded the calves. From far away on the summit of Govardhan Hill the cows ran to their calves, licked their bodies, gazed on them, and made them drink the nectar of their milk.

The cowherd men saw the calves, who had already drunk their (mothers’) milk, staying below Govardhan Hill, and they saw the cows, overcome with love for their calves, also staying there.

As the men came down from the hill to hit the cows, they suddenly came upon their own sons. Meeting them, the gopa men immediately placed their sons on their laps. Young and old were flooded with tears of love. The men embraced their sons and grandsons and sat down with them.

Seeing everyone so affectionate, powerful Balarama had many doubts. In His mind he said:

“I do not understand what has happened for the past year. Everyone is so affectionate, and their love increases day after day. Is this an illusion made by the devas, Gandharvas, or rakshasas? Only Krishna can bewilder Me.”

Thinking this, Balarama closed His eyes. Then with transcendental eyes, He looked at the past, present, and future. He saw that all the calves and gopas had become dark boys, each decorated with a flute and stick, peacock feathers, Bhrigu Muni’s footprint, necklaces of flowers, jewels, gunja, lotuses, and water lilies, turbans, crowns, and splendid earrings, endowed with curly locks of hair, making showers of bliss with the glances of their autumn-lotus eyes, more handsome than millions of Kamadevas, their noses decorated with pearls and their heads and hands decorated with many ornaments, having two arms, glorious with yellow garments, belts, bracelets, and anklets, and more glorious than millions of rising suns.

Balarama saw that all these forms on top of Govardhan Hill, and in Vrindavana forest south of the Yamuna were all Krishna.

Understanding what Brahma had done and what Krishna had done, and looking again at the calves and gopas, Balarama said to Krishna: “The devotees Brahma, Ananta, Yama, Indra, and Shiva always worship the Supreme Lord, who is the controller of everything, who is self-satisfied, whose desires are always fulfilled, and who has the power to create many millions of universes in the sky.”

As Balarama was speaking, Brahma came there and saw Krishna, Balarama, the calves, and the gopas.

Saying, “Krishna brought back all the (calves and gopas) I took away,” Brahma left and saw them all still there (where he had hidden them).

Seeing them all still asleep, he returned to Vraja and gazed again at Krishna and the gopas. Astonished, in his mind, he said: “This is a great wonder. From where did all these boys come that now they are playing with Krishna just as before? What is for me only a moment is a year on earth. I don’t understand how they are still manifested as before.”

In this way, Brahma, who bewilders the entire universe, was so blinded by Krishna’s illusion that he could not see even his own body. The creator Brahma became like a firefly standing before the sun of Shri Krishna. As Brahma stood, stunned and bewildered, Krishna mercifully removed His own illusory potency and revealed Himself.

With eyes of knowledge, Brahma devotedly gazed at the calves and gopa boys and saw that they were all Shri Krishna. Brahma then saw that the entire universe, including all that was inside and outside his body, and including his own self, was all the potency of Lord Vishnu.

Gazing at this, Brahma became stunned. He looked like an unmoving Tulasi plant in Vrindavana forest. Thinking ei sei sei ei (he is that that is he). Hence this village is at present named Sei.

After visiting Brahma Bavari, you have to walk further inside to see Brahma Kund. In the Sei village you can take darshan of Gyan Kund temple and Gyan Kund.

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The village of Parakhama is situated 10 kilometres from Chatikara.

Mentioned in Sri Bhakti Ratnakara – “Behold this place here named Parakhama. Here four faced Brahma tested Krishna.”

How to get there: You can easily go to this place by auto from Vrindavan.

After rescuing the calves and gopas from death in Aghasura’s mouth (which I have explained in Parasauli), Shri Krishna went to the Yamuna’s shore and spoke the following delightful words:

“O gopas, let us go to this beautiful and pleasing riverbank of soft sands, which is flooded with pollen from the lotuses blossoming in autumn, fragrant with a breeze carrying three scents, and filled with trees, vines, and the humming of bees, and, now that three hours have passed and it is time for lunch, let us take our lunch here. I see that this place with soft sands is a very good place for our lunch. The calves will drink the water here, and then they will go to the new grasses there.”

Hearing Krishna’s words, the boys said, “So be it.” They all sat down on the riverbank to take lunch.

Some boys, who had not brought lunch, whispered in Krishna’s ear: “We did not bring any lunch. With the calves we have come very far from Nanda’s village.” Hearing this, Krishna said: “Dear friends, don’t lament. I will carefully give lunch to everyone. All you boys just follow My words.”

On Krishna’s word all the boys assembled around Krishna, put down their gopa-ropes, and ate their lunch in Krishna’s company. With the gopa boys dressed in garments of many colours, Krishna made a royal circle, with Himself, dressed in yellow, in the centre.

Surrounded by the gopa boys as Indra is surrounded by the demigods or a lotus whorl is surrounded by many soft petals, Krishna shone with great splendour. Making lunch-trays out of flowers, grass, twigs, leaves, fruit, or their hands, the boys ate.

Then one boy suddenly gave a morsel to Krishna. Krishna ate it, glanced at everyone, and said: Showing the others, Krishna said: “Friend, I do not know of anything more delicious than this.”

The boy said: “It is so.”  Then the boy gave morsels of that food to the others.   

Joking and laughing, the boys ate. Then Subala gave a morsel of food to Krishna.

Krishna tasted the morsel and laughed. All the boys that tasted that food laughed aloud.

The boys said: “O son of Nanda, his bewildered grandmother does not know how to cook. That was not delicious.”

Then Sridama gave a morsel to Krishna and the other boys. All the boys of Vraja declared, “This is the best.”

Then Varuthapa earnestly gave a morsel to Krishna and all the other boys. When they ate it, Krishna and all the boys of Vraja laughed. The boys said, “This is like Subala’s food.”

Laughing and making each other laugh, the boys enjoyed pastimes. Tucked into the cloth about His waist His flute, stick, and horn, in His left hand a morsel of food, on His fingers pieces of fruit, on His head a crown, over His shoulder a yellow cloth, on His chest a forest garland, on His hips a belt, on His feet anklets, on His chest a Kaustubha jewel and Srivatsa mark, staying in the midst of the gopas and making them laugh with His joking words as the people of Svargaloka and the other planets gazed with wonder, Lord Krishna, the enjoyer of sacrifices, enjoyed many pastimes.

As the boys, for whom Krishna was the Lord of their lives, ate, the calves, greedy for more grass, went far away, deep in the forest.

When Lord Brahma saw Sri Krishna eating contaminated food here with His friends he doubted His Godhead, therefore he stood here and decided to test Sri Krishna. “Everyone accepts Sri Krishna as Bhagavan, but nevertheless I see that His friends are feeding Him contaminated food. Let me therefore steal His cows and calves and see what will happen!” Following this resolution this village was named Parakhama.

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