STORIES OF KRISHNA

Stories of Krishna — The Ones Worth Telling Again and Again

Every culture in human history has understood that stories are not just entertainment. They are how values are transmitted, how the imagination is shaped, how a child — or an adult — comes to understand what kind of world they live in and what kind of person they want to be. The stories we grow up with become part of how we see everything else.

That's why the Stories of Krishna matter beyond any single reading. These are not just narratives about events that happened thousands of years ago in ancient India. They are stories about the nature of reality — about how God plays, how God loves, how God protects, how God demonstrates through action what the Srimad Bhagavatam teaches through philosophy. And they have been doing what the best stories do — staying with people long after the book is closed — for five millennia.

Authored by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and published by The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, this large-format hardcover edition brings those stories to readers in a form worthy of their content.

Stories of Krishna — What Makes Prabhupada's Telling Different

There is no shortage of Krishna stories in print. They appear in children's books, in graphic novels, in simplified retellings, in academic collections. What makes Stories of Krishna different is the source — Srila Prabhupada, who understood these stories not as mythology to be admired from a distance but as descriptions of actual events involving the Supreme Personality of Godhead, presented with the full faith and full philosophical depth of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition.

When Prabhupada tells the story of Krishna lifting Govardhan Hill, it is not a fairy tale about a miraculous event. It is an account of God demonstrating, with perfect clarity, that he is the ultimate shelter of those who love him — and that the structures of material power, however impressive, have no claim over those who have chosen his protection instead.

That understanding runs through every story in this collection, giving each one a depth and a resonance that simplified retellings cannot achieve.

A Book Built for the Stories It Carries

The format of this edition reflects its content. At 21.5 × 28 cm — considerably larger than a standard book — the hardcover Stories of Krishna has the presence on a shelf and in the hands that these stories deserve. The generous page size allows for illustrations that can breathe, that can give readers a visual experience of the Vrindavana world — the forests, the river, the cowherd community, and Krishna moving through all of it with the effortless grace that his devotees have described across centuries.

At 82 pages and 700 grams, this is a substantial, well-made object. It is the kind of book that survives being loved — read and re-read, handed to children, placed into the story rotation that families build over years.

Who This Book Is For

Stories of Krishna works across a wider age range than most books. Children from around five years upward will be drawn into the stories by their vivid action and the qualities of the characters — the courage, the playfulness, the devotion of Krishna's friends and the villagers of Vrindavana. Older children and adults will find the same stories resonating at a different level as their understanding deepens.

It is also a natural gift for families who want to introduce Krishna consciousness to younger members in a way that begins with wonder and delight rather than instruction. The philosophy comes later. The love for Krishna, in these stories, comes first.

Published by BBT — Available at ISKCON Mayapur

Authored by Srila Prabhupada and published by The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT), Stories of Krishna is a hardcover edition of 82 pages, sized at 21.5 × 28 × 1.2 cm, weighing 700 grams. Ref: 10010032. Priced at ₹350, available through the official ISKCON Mayapur store.

Some stories are worth telling again and again. These are those stories.