Krishna ExperienceKrishna Experience is an independent website made with love for Krishna and for Vrindavan. It has two halves: interactive experiences that let you take part in Krishna's leelas and walk the Vrindavan Parikrama, and guides that help you understand the stories and plan a real visit to Braj.
How we research
- Stories are retold in our own words from the Bhagavata Purana (mostly its tenth canto) and the Mahabharata. Each story links to the chapter it comes from, and we note where popular tradition adds to the text.
- Temple timings come from temples' own sites where they exist, cross-checked against recent news reports and several current guides. Timings in Vrindavan change with the seasons and sometimes by court order, so every timing page shows the date we last checked it.
- Festival and Ekadashi dates are for India and follow the standard panchang (Drik Panchang's New Delhi calendar). Where traditions differ by a day, we say so.
- Scripture translations of the Bhagavad Gita verses are our own, kept simple and close to the Sanskrit.
The illustrations and sound
The scenes are drawn in code in the spirit of Nathdwara pichwai painting. The kirtan is generated in your browser: harmonium, mridanga, kartals and bansuri, with the Hare Krishna mahamantra sung by synthesised voices.
Found a mistake?
Temple timings and festival days change. If you have been to Vrindavan recently and something here is out of date, we want to know.