Sacred Places of
Interest
Introduction
Krishna Balarama Mandir and ISKCON
Kaliya Ghata
Radha Madan Mohan Banke
Bihari Radha Vallabha
Seva Kunja
Imli Tala Radha
Damodara, Jiva and Rupa Goswami's Samadhi's and Bhajan Kutira
Radha Syamasundara Radha
Raman Radha Gokulanada
Kesi Ghata
Radha Gopinatha Gopisvara
Mahadeva Vamsi Vata
Radha Govinda
Nandagram Varsana
Parikrama Map
Imli Tala
This tree was a favorite place of
Srimati Radharani. Once, during a rasa
dance performance, Srimati Radharani suddenly left and finding Her missing,
Krishna went in search of Her. As he was unable to find Her, He came and sat
beneath this tree. Due to intense feelings of separation from His beloved Radha,
Krishna's body started to turn the same golden hue as Srimati Radharani's body.
At that moment, Radharani came there accompanied by Her girl friends and had darsana of that golden complexioned form of Lord Krishna.
Radharani asked Krishna the meaning
of this golden form and He explained to Her that after searching for Her, He
came and sat here and in a mood of deep separation, after chanting the name of
Radharani, His body started to turn a golden color just like Hers. Then His own
feelings and sentiments were replaced by Hers, and He began to experience Her
mood of separation from Himself. Krishna then told Radharani that in the Kali-yuga,
He would again take on Her mood and complexion and distribute love of God to all
the conditioned souls.
Almost 5,000 years later, Krishna
again came in the form of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the incarnation of Krishna,
known as the ‘Golden Avatara’ due to His golden complexion. When visiting Vrndavana, He
came here regularly, and sat beneath this same tree and chanted the holy names
of Krishna. Feeling deep separation from Krishna, Sri Chaitanya's body would
turn the same blackish hue as Lord Krishna's body and He would continually shed
tears of love in spiritual ecstasy.
Timings:
Summer/Winter same—Darsana 5:30 am-12 pm and 4 pm-8 pm
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