The arrival of spring is a metaphor for renewal, fresh starts, and everything positive, sunny, and full of life. The festival of colors, or "Holi" as it is known in India, is a time when both people and nature come together to celebrate the end of winter and the arrival of spring.
Holi was first celebrated as an agricultural festival to welcome the blossoming season. like all other indian holidays, holi also carries a healthy dose of mythological significance. The most astonishing thing is that people from different regions of India each have their own favored names for this event and unique myths about its meaning.
Raslila recounts the tale of the gopis' covert meeting with lord krishna in the forest one night in vrindavan. The gopis danced all night long with the Lord while He played the flute in the forest. However, by some miracle, lord krishna extends the night to 4.32 billion years—equivalent to one night of brahma. According to the bhagawata puarana, if one performs the raslila with complete devotion, suddha bhakti will be attained.
The most well-known justification for how we observe this occasion is shri krishna playing holi with radha and other gopis on the banks of the yamuna river.
Holi is commemorated in mathura and vrindavan as a way to remember radha and krishna's heavenly love. According to legend, when lord krishna was a child, he frequently complained to mother yashoda about his dark skin and questioned why radha was so fair. One day, his mother jokingly suggested that he may paint Radha's face to modify the hue of her skin.