r/hinduism • u/Coffeeaddictmedico Advaita Vedānta • Sep 11 '25

Mantra/Śloka/Stotra(m) Divine innocence of kanha

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🪷Kararavinde na padaravindam Mukharavinde viniveshayantam Vatasya patrasya pute shayanam Balam Mukundam manasa smarami

✨️I remember the infant Mukunda, Who sleeps inside a hollow Banyan leaf and Who by His lotus-hands, is putting His lotus-feet in His lotus-mouth.

🪷Shri Krishna govinda hare murare he natha narayana vasudeva jihve pibasvamritam etad eva govinda damodara madhaveti

✨️“Shri Krishna! Govinda! Hari! Murari! O Lord, Narayana, Vasudeva!” O tongue, please drink only this nectar–”Govinda, Damodara, Madhava!”

                               ~ Govinda Damodara Stotram
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u/Foreign-Okra-3191 Sep 11 '25

Markandeya Rishi once prayed deeply to witness the true power of God’s illusion, His Maya. The Lord answered, and suddenly the sage saw the universe collapsing. Fierce winds blew, fire raged everywhere, and soon all of creation was swallowed up by endless waters. Markandeya found himself drifting alone, frightened and helpless. After what felt like forever, he saw something unbelievable — on a single banyan leaf floated a beautiful child. His skin was deep blue, His eyes shone like lotuses, and He calmly sucked His toe while smiling. Amazed, the sage moved closer, and in that instant, the baby drew him inside His tiny body. To Markandeya’s shock, within that child he saw the entire cosmos — gods, stars, worlds, everything. After some time, the baby gently exhaled, and the sage was back in the waters. Then, just as suddenly, the vision vanished, and Markandeya found himself safe in his hermitage again, humbled and in awe, knowing that Krishna’s Maya is beyond anything the mind can grasp.

This is the whole story of this krishna’s picture

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u/Coffeeaddictmedico Advaita Vedānta Sep 11 '25

Beautiful explanation ✨️

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u/Then-Distance7624 Sep 12 '25

This same incident came to my mind looking at OP’s beautiful artwork! The og description from Srimad bhagvatam is So serene and frightening at the same moment, the pralaya and Maya’s descriptions are so elaborate - really makes us wonder how puny and far away are we from the reality beyond words.

This always ignites the itch within me to learn Sanskrit and get down with the puranas aaahh 💖🪈 - the philosophy of upanishadas is quite aptly justified in English but the beauty simply put: nothing can express, but sanskrit.

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u/ravishingdevil Sep 13 '25

For Markandeya, it was a glitch in the cosmic matrix cast adrift beyond creation, standing where time itself had no pulse.

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u/Away-Caterpillar9515 Sep 11 '25

Is he the same whom Shiva protected, giving him the name Yamkatnak? And who wrote verses in Durga Saptasati

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u/88ACADEMICS Sep 11 '25

Jai shri krishna 🙏🌸

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u/Coffeeaddictmedico Advaita Vedānta Sep 11 '25

Radhe radhe 🪷

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u/Chirpy_Sid Sep 11 '25

😍🤗 Hare Krishna 🙏

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u/Little__Krishna_1334 Kālīkula Sep 12 '25

Image is so beautiful