Standing in a graceful pose as if caught in a moment, the idol of Lord Krishna as Ladoo Gopal stands on an upturned lotus, holding a half-eaten ladoo in one hand and his divine bamboo flute in the other. The Supreme Lord appeared in this form to a boy named Raghunanda, who was the son of a man named Mukundananda. When it came to offering food to the lord for bhog, it was usually the duty of Mukundananda. However, one day he had to leave to help one of his disciples remember the lord's name as he lay on his deathbed, so he passed the duty to his son. Raghunanda took the plate of laddoos his mother gave him and asked the lord to eat it.
In his childish innocence, he thought that the lord would appear before him to finish the plate of ladoos. But when that didn't happen, it deeply upset him and he wept. To calm him, the lord appeared in the form of a child and began eating ladoos. This began to happen every time and Raghunanda would always come back with an empty plate, baffling his parents. Mukundananda hid behind the door one day to see what happened and when he saw the lord eating ladoos, he was surprised. The lord, hearing him, turned back to stone, ladoo still in hand. Thus, he was named ladoo gopal.
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