Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita ( 4.6)
ajo ‘pi sannavyayātmā
bhūtānāmīśvaro ‘pi san
prakritimsvāmadhishthāya
sambhavāmyātma-māyayā
TRANSLATION
Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living entities, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form.
Though unborn and eternal, the Supreme Lord, by His free will and causeless mercy, incarnates to deliver the pious and annihilate the miscreants. Lord Krishna is worshipped in thousands of temples across the world. Some of them have special significance because they are associated with the pastime places the Lord and others are important because of the aura of spirituality associated with them. Sri Krishna appeared over five thousand years ago in Mathura as the eighth child of Devaki and Vasudeva. The temples at Krishna’s pastimes places are located at Mathura, where Krishna was born, Vrindavana. where He spent most of His childhood days and Dwarka where He revealed most of His laterpastimes.
Lord Krishna is known by many different names in various traditions. The word “Krishna” means all attractive, one who is attractive to everyone. Historically, Sri Krishna appeared on the midnight of the 8th day of the dark half of the month of Bhadra.
Lord Krishna Janmashtami is celebrated very gorgeously in all the ISKCON temples around the world. On the event of Janmashtami, an adhivasa ceremony is performed during the previous evening to invoke auspiciousness and help devotees prepare themselves for the next day’s festival. The devotees keep fasting the till midnight of Janmashtami and perform many spiritual activities commemorating the pastimes of Radha and Krishna.
A grand Abhisheka is performed at midnight for the Deities of Radha and Krishna with auspicious items like milk, yogurt, ghee, honey, sweet water and fresh juices etc. The devotees honor anukalpa-prasada , without grains, after midnight.
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