Vrindavana yatra part 4

Respected Swamiji and all Vaisnavas,

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

Jaya Visnupada Srila Prabhupada!

Jaya Visnupada Swami Gaurangpada!

All glories to the guru parampara!

All glories to the Vaisnavas!

I will continue to post pictures of my Vrindavana yatra last year. This part includes Radha Kunda, Syama Kunda and Govardhana Hill. I am sorry as I was unaware of all the samadhis near the 2 kundas. We had no one to guide us and our trip was cut short as well. This was actually our last day of the trip. If I am fortunate to go there once more, I will try to make a more extensive coverage.

To the external eye and for the sake of providing some information to those who go to Vrindavana, Radha Kunda and Syama Kunda are 21 km away from Vrindavana and the Yamuna. Varsana (place of Radharani's father, King Vrshabhanu)  and Nandagaon (place of Nanda Maharaja) (next post) are another 21 km and 28 km respectively away along the road.  That is a very great distance.

Some materialists ask (I have been asked before....) that how can we give empirical evidence to show that Lord Krishna and his devotees enact superhuman pastimes. The distance scale mentioned above means that is up and down distance of a 100 km or more if we see that Lord Krishna and all his associates would go to Govardhana, the Yamuna, then back again, then enact their other lilas at Radha Kunda, Syama Kunda, in the 12 forests, etc..etc.. coming from Varsana and Nandagaon If we consider that in Krsna's pastimes, all the lilas occurred daily across such huge distance scales, that itself is enough to convince any materialist that this is clearly divine. No ordinary man can walk distances so far up and down every day. Of course, the devotees know the truth and don't need these explanations. But this paragraph was for others. The Gosvamis used to circumbulate Govardhana thrice daily and see the length of their parikrama path!

Mathura - Vrindavana = 7-8 km

Vrindavana - Radha Syama Kunda = 21 km

Radha Syama Kunda - Govardhana = 6 km

Govardhana Parikrama = 1 round = 7 km (shorter path)

Govardhana Parikrama =  1 round = 22 km (Full distance, longer path)

Govardhana to Varsana = 21 km

Varsana to Nandagaon = 7 km

Govardhana to Nandagaon (direct) = 21 km

The locals say that Govardhana is at the centre of Vraja Dhama being equally located (21 km) from Vrindavana, Varsana and Nandagaon.

 

Radha Kunda

Radha Kunda

Syama Kunda

Radha Kunda

Radha Kunda

Syama Kunda

Govardhana Sila - made of stones from Govardhana

 

I am not aware of the names or significance of these holy places in the next few photos. If anyone knows their names and importance, please tell me. Looks like some repair work is going on here

The temple at Govardhana. Govardhana hill starts right opposite to this temple. From the other side of the road to be precise! This temple is a few km away from Radha Syama Kundas.

Govardhana parikrama (We did it by car, so please excuse us)

End of parikrama, back at the temple next to Govardhana

Start of Govardhana Hill. To mundane eyes it grows smaller by the volume of a seasame seed daily and it was a lot taller (2 km high) when Lord Krishna was there. At its highest, today it is only 70-80 ft high.

Thank you for your patience.

Aspiring to be your servant,

Srinath

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