In many Vaishnava traditions, Radha isn’t simply one of Krishna’s lovers, she is his inner potency, his shakti. She personifies bhava, the intense, yearning feeling of devotion. According to Chaitanya ...

Mirabai was four years old, by most accounts, when a wandering sadhu passed through her family's haveli in Merta, Rajasthan, carrying a small idol of Krishna. She asked her mother who the beautiful ...