Holi celebration at Vrindavan

Holi festival known as festival of colours is played in a very different style in Vrindavan. It is a unique style were flower petals are used in place of colours.

Artists dressed as Lord Krishna and his consort Radha are showered with rose petals during Holi celebrations in the northern Indian city of Vrindavan.

A long forgotten tradition of playing Holi with flowers, brought alive at Keshi ghat, Vrindawan. People threw petals of marigold, jasmine and chrysanthemums on each other.

People from all corners of India, rather, world gather at Mathura-Vrindavan every year to feel the essence of Holi in the land of Krishna. People relive the legends of Holi associated with Radha and Krishna and play pranks the young Krishna played with the cowgirls called gopis. The underlying feeling of this fun-frolic was love and devotion. Even today, romance can be experienced in the very atmosphere in the Krishna-nagari. One just needs to breathe in this air and drench oneself in the feeling of love and romance. Myriad colours of Holi are simply a facade on this.

Keshi Ghat is the principal bathing place in the town of Vrindavan. It is little east of Chir-ghat on the banks of the Yamuna. Keshi Ghat is one of the most beautiful ghats of Yamuna with stone inlaid palaces on the banks and massive Madanmohan temple visible in the backdrop. Here the sacred river Yamuna flows very graciously and extends herself to everyone without discrimination. Anyone who touches, drinks, sees, smells and bathes in her waters become infinitely purified. This ghat (series of steps leading down to a water body) is named after the pastime of Lord Krishna killing the demon Keshi.

Source : http://www.holifestival.org & http://www.iskcondesiretree.com
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