Rukmini krsna

Rukmini worshipped Krsna as a boy with this deity in Dwarka 5,000 years ago. He carries a churning stick and a rope. Over the centuries he ended up buried in the mud of coast near Dwarka. Merchants unwittingly dug him up with the loads of dirt they were using for ballast. The ship ran into trouble off the coast near Madhavacarya's home village near Udupi, where he was meditating by the shore. Seeing the trouble, Madhacarya waved one of his garments, calming the storm and saving the ship and crew. The grateful captain offered Madhacarya gifts, but he would only accept a heap of balast dirt. Inside was this deity Who has been worshipped in Udupi ever since.

Gopinath

Tota Gopinath is the Deity worshipped by Sri Gadadhara pandit. Sacimata and Gadadhara's mother were friends as close as sisters, so Gadadhara was Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's friend since earliest boyhood. When Sacimata noticed that Gadadhara could soothe Nimai's moods of intense separation from Krsna, better even than she could, she asked him to stay always at Nimai's side. Gadadhara took a vow to serve Tota Gopinath in His temple and never leave. The diary of a devotee in Orissa at that time says that when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu left the planet everyone first thought he had gone missing inside the Gundica Matha. Devotees searched Puri in every direction for a sign of him. Finally his outer garment was found on the ground outside Tota Gopinath's temple and a small crack or mark had appeared in the Deity's right knee. Devotees understand that Sri Mahaprabhu merged with this Deity.

Gadadhara was the appearance of Srimati Radharani, and after Sri Caitanya's disappearance his longing for Mahaprabhu was so great that every day he aged another year. He got so frail that he couldn't reach up to garland the Lord properly, so Sri Gopinatha obligingly knelt and He remains kneeling to this day. He is flanked on either side by Radha and Lalita.

The fourteen lokas

athala
vithala
suthala
talAtala
rasAtala
mahAtala
pAthAla
bhooloka
bhuvarlOka
suvarlOka
tapOlOka
mahAlOka
janarlOka
sathya

Forests of Vraja

Twelve Divine Forests...of vraja
Madhuvana
Tälavana
Kumudavana
Kämyavana
Bahulävana
Bhadravana
Khadiravana
Mahävana
Lohajaìghavana
Bilvavana
Bhäëòiravana
Våndävana