janmashtami

Today is janmaastami the day when lord vishnu took the avatar of shri krishna on this planet earth to destroy all evil…well right from my childhood i have always been wat u can say a great bhakt of lord krishna..i dont know but somehow his entire personality whether it be his childhood or his later years always had an impact on me…i remember when i used to stay in bandra at my grandparents place we had an entire temple room and the only murti there was of radha krishna..even in the living room there were all paintings of lord krishna…..so there has been a profound influence of him in my life….even my aunt is a member of ISKON…i go there only on sundays for the evening aarti…and today being janmashtmi i will definitely go today..even though according to them janmashtmi is celebrated tomorrow….my naani used to tell me kahanis of shri krishna and i remember in my childhood i used to eat butter like that only just exactly the way shri krisna used to do it…even today sometimes i do it…u know i have got a big murti of shri krishna at my place and sometimes when i am depressed i just sit infront of it…nowadays i have been doing it quite often due to my break up with my gf whom i loved very much…i remember when we had gone to mathura because earlier we used to travel quite a lot i was in awe..there we visited the mathura temple and vsited vrindanvan where the famous raas leela had happened…i just didnt want to come out of there…there was so much of peace over there …it was just as if i wanted to stay over there forever…there are some people who say that every night in vrindavan the raas leela happens at 12:00 midnite…no one can see it but everyone can hear the beautiful music and its soothing to the ears….i even have got a photo in my childhood dressed up as lord krishna

Right from my childhood, i have been fasting on this day….fasting means not the normal way.. i will not be eating anything today , i will be breaking my fast only tomorrow..and i will be eating absolutely nothing during the entire day…at midnight there will be a puja and i always make a point to start reading the gita every year on this particular day…so much knowledge so much wisdom in those words which we can apply in our daily life also..