The symbolic love between Lord Krishna, and the Mortal Radha, has been celebrated through art, lyrical poetry, and many a statue. But the devotional Sanskrit chant Govinda Jai Jai, quite literally, has wings. The mythology behind the chant goes like this: God Vishnu had attracted the jealousy of King Kamsa of Mathura, who had vowed to do away with his eighth son. But when Vishnu’s wife, Devaki, gave birth, Vishnu aided in swapping the baby with that of a cowherd’s. The cowherd and his wife raised the baby as their own, and Krishna was safe. Whilst growing up, Krishna proved his divinity by fighting off the demons Kamsa sent him, as well as sucking out the life of an ogress to defeat her, and parting the water of a raging river. All ring a bell in the collective conscious of god-myths and the hero’s journey, and, ogress or now, Krishna reached enlightenment as a deity in mortal skin. During his time as a cowherd; the lowliest, humblest of careers, Krishna flirted with many milkmaids. But it was Radha, perhaps the humblest, meek and most human of them all, who caught his eye. The symbolic relationship between them is thought by devotees to represent the two aspects of our souls, united in a divine marriage. Where Radha is our gentleness, Krishna is our strength realized. Here are some of the names depicted in the chant explained