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  LALITA AND KRSNA IN A SWING FESTIVAL 🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆 Narada Muni, being a great devotee of the Lord, was visiting Srimati Rādhārāṇi regularly. Krsna noticed these frequent visits and warned Radhārāṇi that She should be careful about associating too closely with Narada Muni, as he was expert at instigating disputes between people. Krsna's apprehension was that Narada might also create some misunderstanding between Srimati Rādhārāṇī and Himself, and thus create quarrel. But Radhārāṇi did not take Krsna's words seriously. She was thinking that Her love for Krsna was so strong that no one could create any kind of dispute between Her and Krsna. Krsna said, "Obviously You do not care for My warning, but one day You will see the result of Your association with Narada Muni!" Once, Narada Muni visited Vraja-bhumi, playing on his viņa. Pleased with Narada's beautiful music, Krsna wanted to give him a boon. Narada Muni said, "Now I do not have any wish to be fulfilled. P...

Shri Yudhisthira Maharaja said, "Oh Madhusudana, Oh killer of the Madhu demon, please be merciful to me and describe to me the Ekadasi that occurs during the light fortnight of the month of Shravana (July-August)." The Supreme Lord, Sri Krishna, replied, "Yes, Oh king, I shall happily narrate its glories to you, for just by hearing about this sacred Ekadasi one attains the merit of performing a horse sacrifice. "At the dawn of Dvarpara-yuga there lived a king by the name of Mahijita, who ruled the kingdom of Mahismati-puri. Because he had no son, his entire kingdom seemed utterly cheerless to him. A married man who has no son gains no happiness in this life or the next.  The Sanskrit word for 'son' is putra. Pu is the name of a particular hell, and tra means 'to deliver.' Thus the word putra means 'a person who delivers one from the hell named Pu.' Therefore every married man should produce at least one son and train him properly; then the fa...