Fourteen chapters, from a midnight prison in Mathura to the eternal song of the Gita. Open any chapter to read it in full.
Mathura
Born in a prison cell at midnight, Krishna was carried across a flooding Yamuna to safety in Gokul.
Read the chapter →Gokul
The mischievous child who stole butter, broke pots, and revealed the universe in his mouth.
Read the chapter →Gokul & Vrindavan
Putana, Trinavarta, Aghasura and more — each sent to kill the child, each destroyed at play.
Read the chapter →Vrindavan
Krishna danced on the hoods of the serpent who had poisoned the river, and set him free.
Read the chapter →Govardhan Hill
A seven-day storm from a wounded god, answered by a hill held up on one small finger.
Read the chapter →Vrindavan
On autumn full-moon nights the flute called, and Krishna danced with every gopi at once.
Read the chapter →Barsana & Vrindavan
The eternal pair whose love is worshipped as the highest form of devotion.
Read the chapter →Mathura
Krishna returned to the city of his birth, broke the great bow, and ended the tyrant's reign.
Read the chapter →Ujjain & Dwarka
Krishna the student, and the friendship with a poor brahmin that became the model of grace.
Read the chapter →Dwarka
To spare Mathura endless war, Krishna built a fortified island city on the western sea.
Read the chapter →Indraprastha & Hastinapura
Cousin, counsellor and protector — and the envoy whose peace mission the Kauravas refused.
Read the chapter →Kurukshetra
Between two armies, Krishna answered Arjuna's despair with 700 verses on duty and the soul.
Read the chapter →Kurukshetra
Krishna carried no weapon, yet guided every turn of the great war.
Read the chapter →Prabhasa
The Yadava clan destroyed itself, and Krishna left the world beneath a pipal tree.
Read the chapter →“You have the right to your actions, but never to their fruits.”
“Whenever dharma declines, O Arjuna, I manifest Myself to protect the good.”
“The soul is never born and never dies; it is eternal, ever-existing, and primeval.”
“Abandon all varieties of dharma and simply surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sin.”
“A person is made by their faith. As their faith is, so are they.”
“For one who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends.”