Radha Kunda

Krishna teased gopis after creating Shyama Kunda. In response, gopis decided to create a more magnificent pond, Radha-kunda.

After creating Shyama kunuda, Krishna boasted and mocked the Gopis. Feeling challenged, the gopis decided to make a more beautiful pond. Radharani and the gopis started creating a large hollow using clumps of soft clay from a ditch made by Aristasura’s hooves and started filling it with pure water from the nearby Manasi-ganga. To spare Radharani and Her friends the heavy labour of transporting thousands of pots of water from there to here, Krishna gestured to His pond. Then a representative of all the holy rivers emerged from Shyam-kunda and humbly requested Radha, “Our lives would be successful if we could come to Your pond.” With a smile and a sideways glance at Krishna, Radha invited them. Thus gaining the grace of Radha, the holy rivers and lakes in Shyama-kunda forcibly broke through its boundary walls and swiftly filled Radha-kunda with their waters.

One attains the same love of Srimati Radharani for Krishna by taking a bath in Radha-kunda even once.