Radhakund Hindu Pilgrimage Tour India - Just 5 km north of Govardhan and 26 km west of Mathura, Radhakund is a large lake, where Shri Krishna is said to have killed Arishta- the bull demon. To commemorate this event, every year on the 8th day of the dark half of the month of Kartik (October / November), a large fair is held at this spot.

Radhakund Hindu Pilgrimage Tour India - Vrindavan is a maze of small streets. Everywhere you walk there are temples. The Govindaji and Ranganatha temples are in the eastern part of town. Radhakund Sightseeing Tour, In the middle of the downtown area is Loi Bazaar, a main shopping bazaar to get devotional items and clothing.

Religious Places Radhakund Tour, from the Delhi-Agra highway near Mathura, one can see the red temple that marks the place of Krishna’s birth. However, it is only when one ventures a few miles down to Vrindavan that Krishna’s real home is discovered.

It is a town that bears the characteristics of a village with its narrow streets and many cows that wander freely around, unmolested and even revered by the Hindus who live here.

Although Vrindavan is not actually where Krishna is believed to have been born, it is here that he is said to have spent a great deal of time in play and indulged in the playful act of hiding the clothes of cowherding girls (the gopis) as they bathed in the rive.

The river has now meandered away and the woods that once flourished here have long since disappeared although the town maintains some wooded parkland. The details of Krishna’s life have similarly been obscured by the myth that now surrounds him.

Religious Places Radhakund Tour, However, Krishna’s validity as a historical figure is borne out by ancient scriptures like the Mahabharata that records great battles that were once waged in this region.

Of the many roads into Vrindavan, one of these takes the traveler past the towering temple of Pagal Baba. This gleaming white temple has eleven stories in all and is one of the more modern pieces of architecture. The temple’s creator, Pagal Baba, died only a few years ago.

His infectious spirit lingers on in the playfulness of his disciples who are ready to welcome one into the temple interior. It is possible to ascend to the ninth storey if the monsoon heat and one’s constitution allow. Radhakund Sightseeing Tour, from here there is a good view over the surrounding area but at the ground floor of the temple one can see something of more peculiar interest.

Radhakund Sightseeing Tour, Around the sides of the foundations, there is an exhibition of puppets, some mechanized to move occasionally making simple gestures; they depict scenes from two great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the latter being the record of Krishna’s time.


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