According to scriptures, when the goddess of earth Bhudevi had become tormented with the excess of sin on the planet, she implored Lord Vishnu for help.

According to scriptures, when the goddess of earth Bhudevi had become tormented with the excess of sin on the planet, she implored Lord Vishnu for help. He promised her that he would be incarnated in human form and destroy evil. Thus, as an eighth Avatar, he was born as Krishna, the eighth son of Vasudeva and Devaki. But his birth too wasn’t without impediments.

Devaki’s brother, Kansa had ascended the throne of Mathura by imprisoning his own father. It was prophesised that Kansa would meet his doom at the hands of the eighth child of Devaki. Terrified of the ominous prediction, Kansa imprisoned Devaki and Vasudeva and cruelly slaughtered six of their children. To protect her seventh child, Devaki faked her miscarriage while the child, Balrama, was miraculously transported to the womb of Rohini (many hail this to be one of the earliest references to embryo transfer). And when Krishna was born, his father, Vasudeva, took the little infant to Gokul, crossing the treacherous waters of river Yamuna, which made way for him to safely pass through. Upon reaching Nanda’s house, he secretly exchanged his son with Nanda’s daughter. Thus, Krishna grew up with his foster parents, Nanda and Yashoda. Years later, Krishna killed Kansa, thus freeing Mathura from his evil tyranny.

Janamashtmi , The festival of Krishna’s birth is celebrated In Maharashtra as Dahi Handi, in which the participants called “Govindas” compete to break an earthen pot (Handi) filled with buttermilk, hung at a difficult height. This is held to celebrate Krishna’s fondness for butter as he was called “makhanchor” in his childhood.

Krishna was a mischievous child, and very fond of butter. He often tiptoed over to his mother Yashoda’s store of it and helped himself liberally when her head was turned the other way and ate freshly-churned butter.

One day she admonished him for eating soil and asked him to open his mouth, he refused and kept it firmly shut. So Yashoda took his chin in her hand and opened it herself. What she saw completely blew her mind. Inside her little boy’s mouth was not the soil, but the entire universe.! ✨👁🌀🕉🐚🎨🙏🏻

Hari Om Tat Sat ~ Jai Shri Krishna ! 🌀👁🌀
Shubh Ratri 🕉🙏🏻🕉