Krishna Janmashtami celebrated worshipping and recalling his teachings

Devotees gather at the temples of Lord Krishna in Nepal and rest of the world to celebrate the birth anniversary of the God who is also taken as the incarnation of Lord Vishnu.

There are a lot of temples dedicated to Lord Krishna in Nepal. The Krishna Mandir at Patan Durbar Square is one of the important shrines and exclusive celebration organized there at this temple. The head of the state also visit this place on the occasion of Shree Krishna Janmashtami.

The Krishna Mandir is a 21 gajur (pinnacle) Shikhara Style temple in Patan was built in 1667 during the reign of King Siddhi Narasimha Malla.This temple built with stones laying is one of the most revered Krishna temples in Nepal and a master piece of temple architecture in Nepal.

Lord Krishna was a God, who saved this earth from the cruel clutches of Kansa and Kaurava both. This saviour of the world gave humanity a message of love and affection. He preached to the great warrior Arjun in the battlefield of Kurukshetra that this world is transitory and there is no such thing called permanent relation. 

According to scriptures like the Mahabharat, Krishna told Arjun, who was unwilling to war against his own relatives”You can liberate this world from injustice”. You will not be called a warmonger but a true lover of mankind. So you have to fight this great war of Mahabharat at any cost to free yourself from the tyranny and terror of the Kauravas. 

Krishna became the focus of numerous Bhakti (devotional) cults, which have over the centuries produced a wealth of religious poetry, music, and painting. They relate how Krishna (literally “black,” or “dark as a cloud”) was born into the Yadava clan, the son of Vasudeva and Devaki, who was the sister of Kamsa, the wicked king of Mathura (in modern Uttar Pradesh). Kamsa, hearing a prophecy that he would be destroyed by Devaki’s child, tried to slay her children, but Krishna was smuggled across the Yamuna River to Gokula (or Braja, modern Gokul), where he was raised by the leader of the cowherds, Nanda, and his wife Yashoda.

The child Krishna was adored for his mischievous pranks; he also performed many miracles and slew demons. As a youth, the cowherd Krishna became renowned as a lover, the sound of his flute prompting the Gopis (wives and daughters of the cowherds) to leave their homes to dance ecstatically with him in the moonlight. His favourite among them was the beautiful Radha. At length, Krishna and his brother Balarama returned to Mathura to slay the wicked Kamsa. Afterward, finding the kingdom unsafe, Krishna led the Yadavas to the western coast of Kathiawar and established his court at Dwaraka (modern Dwarka, Gujarat). He married the princess Rukmini.

In context to Mahabharata, Krishna refused to bear arms in the great war between the Kauravas (sons of Dhritarashtra, the descendant of Kuru) and the Pandavas (sons of Pandu including Arjuna), but he offered a choice of his personal attendance to one side and the loan of his army to the other. The Pandavas chose the former, and Krishna thus served as charioteer for Arjuan, one of the Pandava brothers. On his return to Dvaraka, a brawl broke out one day among the Yadava chiefs in which Krishna’s brother and son were slain. As the god sat in the forest lamenting, a huntsman, mistaking him for a deer, shot him in his one vulnerable spot, the heel, killing him.

Krishna’s personality is clearly a composite one, though the different elements are not easily separated. His worship preserved distinctive traits, chief among them an exploration of the analogies between divine love and human love. Thus, Krishna’s youthful dalliances with the Gopis are interpreted as symbolic of the loving interplay between God and the human soul.

It is also worth remember that Mahabharata was authored by Rishi Veda Vyasa in Sanskrit. The Mahabharata is the longest epic that has ever been written. It has been translated into several languages by different writers.