Love & Relationships

During the cowherd boys' carrying game, the demon Pralamba disguises himself as a village boy and joins in. When he tries to kidnap Balarama, carrying him away from the group, Balarama reveals his divine strength and kills the demon with a single punch to the head.

When Arjuna falls in love with Krishna's sister Subhadra, there's a problem: Balarama wants her married to Duryodhana. Krishna secretly arranges an elopement, helping Arjuna abduct the willing Subhadra during a festival. He then persuades the furious Balarama that this match is far better than alliance with the Kauravas.

When Narada gives Krishna a celestial parijata flower that he gives to Rukmini, Satyabhama is jealous. To appease her, Krishna travels to heaven and uproots the entire divine tree. When Indra tries to stop him, Krishna easily defeats the king of gods and brings the tree to plant in Satyabhama's garden.

The gopis of Vrindavan loved Krishna so completely that they abandoned all duties when he called. Their devotion surpassed all scholarship—when Uddhava came to teach them philosophy, he realized their love achieved what his learning could not. Pure devotion itself is the path.

Abandoned while pregnant, Sindhutai Sapkal gave birth alone in a cowshed. Instead of despair, she began adopting abandoned children. Over 50 years, she has mothered more than 1,400 orphans—embodying karma yoga in its purest form.

Princess Mirabai declares Krishna her only husband and refuses worldly marriage. Despite persecution, poison attempts, and social rejection, her complete devotion protects her. She eventually merges with Krishna's idol—demonstrating that total surrender to divine love transcends all worldly power.

Low-caste Shabari waits decades for Rama, daily preparing berries and cleaning her ashram. When he finally arrives, she offers berries she has tasted to ensure their sweetness—a ritual violation that Rama accepts with joy, declaring her love more purifying than any ceremony.

Tulsidas's obsessive love for his wife led him to cross a river on a corpse. Her rebuke—'Love Rama with half this devotion and be free'—transformed him. He renounced not because the world was bad but because his attachment was too strong. Emptied of one love, he filled with another and wrote the Ramcharitmanas.

Hanuman carved his own perfect Ramayana on Himalayan rocks. When Valmiki wept that his version was now obsolete, Hanuman erased his masterpiece entirely—so Rama's story could spread through Valmiki's accessible work. True devotion creates and destroys with equal love, keeping nothing for ego.

Savitri followed Yama and through clever discourse obtained boons that forced him to restore her dead husband to life. Her devotion conquered death itself.

The remarkable story of Balarama's marriage to Revati, who traveled to Brahmaloka and returned to find millions of years had passed - a tale exploring the relativity of cosmic time.

Chitrangada was King Chitravahanas only daughter, raised as a son and trained in warfare due to Manipurs matrilineal tradition. When Arjuna fell in love with her during exile, her father agreed to marriage on condition their son would remain as heir. She bore Babhruvahana and raised him alone, later reuniting with Arjuna during the Ashvamedha Yagna.

Hidimba was a man-eating Rakshasa who sent his sister Hidimbi to lure the Pandavas for food, but she fell in love with Bhima. When Hidimba discovered her betrayal, Bhima killed him in combat. Hidimbi then requested permission to marry Bhima, which was granted on condition he stay only until she bore a son - their child Ghatotkacha became crucial to the war.

Vijaya was the daughter of King Dyutimata of Madra and Sahadevas maternal cousin, who chose him in a Swayamvara. According to legend, she was a Gandharva princess in her previous life who took birth on earth to be with Sahadeva. She bore him a son Suhotra and lived harmoniously with Draupadi.