KRISHNA WAS A god, the reincarnation of Lord Vishnu. When he was born in human form, his foster parents, Yashoda and Nanda, brought him up in Vrindavan, a village on the plains of North India. Most of the people who lived there were dairy farmers. But, apart from his family, no one knew that the mischievous boy who just loved to eat butter had divine powers.
Every day, Krishna would set out for the pastures with his father’s herd of cows. While the cows grazed, Krishna and his fellow herders whiled away their time playing games.
One day Krishna and the other boys were tossing a ball around on the banks of the Yamuna River. One of them flung it so high into the air that no one could catch it. The ball sailed