Gokul and Mahavan are also sacred to the Hindus as it is believed that Lord Krishna spent some years of his childhood and early adulthood here. There are so many mythological stories about the deeds of Lord Krishna attached to these places that devotees get absorbed in His greatness.

Some time after this aerial prophecy, Kesi and other demons began to cause a disturbance in Nandagaon. Parjanya Gopa together with his family and all of his relatives moved here to Gokul. The Yamuna flows close by Gokul or Brihadvan, or Mahavan. 

This forest is beautifully decorated with different kinds of trees, creepers, and flowers, and there are lush, green meadows for the cows to graze in. Beholding this beauty, the Vrajvasi gopas became very pleased and happily began to reside here.

Mother Yashoda gave birth to the twins Krishn and Yogamaya at midnight, in the delivery room at Nand-Palace in Gokul. The umbilical cord was cut and other Vedic purificatory rituals were performed here.

Krishn killed the demons Putana, Trinavart, and Shakatasur here, thus liberating them. Krishn and Baladeva’s name-giving ceremony also took place at Gokul, in the nearby cowshed (goshala) of Nand Maharaj. It was here that Balram and Krishn started to crawl on Their knees, and Mother Yashoda tied the naughty baby Krishn to a mortar, and Krishn delivered the Yamal-Arjun trees. The childhood pastimes of Krishn and Balram up to the age of two-and-a-half to three years took place here in Gokul.