Radha: Our Girl With Low Blood Pressure 🥰

Women all around the world have created traditional dishes and dances and sewn the clothing and organized the parties and preserved the photos and created the rituals and practices and customs and decided on the decor and set the trends of their communities and I am very proud to descend from them. Women make the world vibrant and warm. People say, oh but you haven’t invented as many machines and gadgets or you haven’t written as many classic books or you haven’t built the architecture but guess what? I don’t care because I will always take pride in how women have contributed to coloring the world in various unique ways

"You never loved me." She wails, her eyes a bleeding red that he can't face. She's kneeling at his feet and he's frozen in the light of the accusation that marks his skin whipped with every word.

She doesn't see it, of course. Her grief and ache blinds her.

He kneels, eyes burning with tears as he holds her as desperately as she sobs. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

His and her pain are both entwined and it's a physical ache in his heart.

"You are the perpetrator of the universe," she says,"Help me. I beg of you. Please."

He holds her tighter still, for she needs to be held together as she breaks apart. "I am here. Here. I won't leave you. I will never leave you. I will always, always be with you."

"Then love me!" She screams, and the kaustubh jewel on his chest leaves an impression on her forehead as she slumps in his arms. "Protect me! Let me be happy. Please, just love me, please, please. Please. Love me."

She's sniffling as he begs her to believe him. Believe in him. "I do. I've loved you for yugs, I've loved you since before you were born, I've loved you before you knew of me and I will love you even if you never love me. You are a part of me. I love you, beyond illusions and beyond doubt."

Her nails are leaving tiny red scraps down his arms but she's trembling still. "You are a God. How can you ever love me?"

"I am your Krishna first." He says and she sobs harder.

It's guilt instead of grief now, but he holds her all the same.

hey bros/sakhis/sakhas

so usually when my friends have misunderstandings between themselves that don't involve me I stay sort of neutral... like when i know or trust that ppl are genuinely good and it's a misunderstanding/clash of personalities I stay neutral... but it's so hard to navigate or to not feel snakey about it!!

my friends are all so lovely and usually say they trust that I am not being snakey but it's that like internal feeling of guilt...I feel like it's even more snakey to take sides...idk I just feel bad haha:( I wish I could sort peoples problems out by literally being a mediator... even tho ik it's not my responsibility...I just always try to see both sides yk... like if the person is truly being malicious or horrible then obviously I take the hurt/good persons side.

but my worry is that who am I to decide who's good or bad with my limited understanding? most of the time I feel like i can genuinely sense when ppl have a good heart and naturally drift away from those that are insincere, all of my friends are extremely sweet. and i know just cos ppl have a good heart they can still make mistakes cos everyone does, and be mean, have differences etc, and its not that i excuse them...but when it doesn't directly involve me what more can I do than be neutral...I'm not peoples parents that can force ppl to create an understanding between them...

still don't understand how i can properly respect kanha as literal origin of everything ever but still say wassup bro to him in my head

THIS IS AMAZING FAM!!!!!! IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!! 🥹🥹💙💙💙💙💙

After seeing @stardustkrishnaverse 's post about how our Kanha shares our grief and helps us to overcome them, I just wanna share this incident where this EXACT thing happened with me.

So, many of you may be aware that I've gotten into the Western dance society of my college. Soooo yeah. It was time to contribute to the funds. After doing so, you become official members of the society.

Now, here's a thing about my family: Dancing is not seen as something deserving of respect. Especially Western dance forms.

Sooo yeah, naturally my mom revolted. Like, how I'd spoil my academics for something insignificant, how I'd side-line my academics for my passion and stuff. I don't blame her. But then again, the fact that she just assumed I wouldn't be able to juggle the two things together hurt me.

In my childhood, I was barred from learning to dance at the age of eight because my father hated dancing (He still does). Since then till now, I have never asked them to let me dance professionally. And now when I had this golden opportunity, I was being asked to just let it go.

It may not seem like a big deal, but it WAS a VERY big deal for me.

I tried making my mom understand, but then she threw the final weapon, "Talk to your father".

And I knew it was impossible to make him understand. So, I just considered all my paths leading me to dead ends. I felt so freaking lost, I just cried my heart out. Then I legit called for Keshav. I requested him, more like begged him, from all my heart to help me through this mess. Like, I just simply surrendered.

And help he did. I texted my father about the situation. He called me the next day and talked to me about how I would handle both academics and dance and then he agreed for me to join the society officially.

A man who is simply repulsed at the idea of dancing agrees for his daughter to join a Western dance society.

Now tell me my Keshav isn't right beside me 24/7, listening to all my problems and waiting for me to ask for his help. From that day on, I feel more than reassured and loved knowing that my sakha is there for me every single moment <3

honestly the n° 1 thing that helped me get more disciplined and stick to my word for myself was imagining that I had a kid. like if I said they were supposed to do homework and then take a bath and go to bed, would I let them walk all over me day in and day out just ignoring what I said to do? no I wouldn’t. I would go in there, turn the tv off, and make them go do homework like I said bc there is nothing on that tv that is more important right now. so if I as a parent would enforce this, why am I so lackadaisical with myself? am I not someone’s child? am I no more important than my hypothetical child who needs structure? sometimes you have to “parent” yourself, put your foot down, and make your “child” do what needs to be done for their own good bc you know that when they get older they will appreciate you for not letting them run amok like the kids on super nanny. bc a lot of us truly are behaving like the kids on super nanny but to ourselves and it’s not looking good!

we yell at the screen like “they wouldn’t eat so much junk if the parents would stop buying it for them! 😡” but what about yourself? “I can’t believe they let that little boy just play on the phone all night instead of getting sleep he needs!” but what about yourself? stop being your own brat and start parenting yourself better.

Navratri Mahotsav 2023

MahaAshtami Day 8

या देवी सर्वभूतेषु माँ महागौरी रूपेण संस्थिता। नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः॥

@navratri2k23 welcomes you all on the MahaAshatami night And invites you all to celebrate garba tonight with all the positivity, peace and faith in divine power And blessings which Maa Durga Shower on us always in shades of Peace as white

For every re-incarnation of Mahagauri , Garba Raas is an honorary stage where she dances to embrace her imperfections, love and accept herself as she is .

Ninth day of Navratri

Maa Sidhdatri

सृष्टि के निर्माण से पूर्व रुद्र देव ने आदि पराशक्ति मां से प्रार्थना कर सृष्टि की रचना की प्रार्थना की। क्योंकि माता निरंकार थी, वे भोलेनाथ के बाएँ भाग में प्रकट हुईl शिव शंकर को उनका अर्धनारीश्वर स्वरूप यूं प्राप्त हुआ।

Maa Sidhdatri is the primordial Saakaar form of the Divine Feminine. She is dynamic energy as well as the source of every action and reaction.

Hii you are a dancer too?! What form do you practice?

hiii! firstly i love your writing so much!! and yeee, I've learnt a few styles and danced for a lot of my life, but would mostly consider myself a freestyle/street kinda person:D I'm also comfortable with e.g. bollywood as it's kind of similar to that... ive had a little bit of practice in contemporary and bharatnatyam asw, but I haven't been formally trained in a specific style to a really advanced level. I've found im most comfortable with freestyle/bollywood/street and love to challenge myself!! in the future I aspire to learn kathak:)

and how about you? :)))