Stories from Indian Mythology provided Husain with a storehouse of subjects for his art and he had mastered the technique of visualizing such stories and paint the same in a manner that has hardly any parallel in World Art. Bala Gopala Krishna has been such a favourite. Stories of the naughty kid playing his pranks without malice of any kind is taken up in this painting by Husain to communicate an even larger message of pain, of loosing one's homeland. This was Husain's creative method of painting his significant series of The Lost Continent. In this painting Husain had visualized a scene in which Lord Krishna, still a kid in Yasoda's lap, reveals his penchant for toying with the affection of mother Yasoda. Once the kid did manage to slip out of his cot and hid himself behind a tree amidst fallen leaves and thereby causing untold agony in the household for his brief disappearance. Husain took up the story and painted the Bala-Gopala in dark-blue echoing the shade of rain-clouds commonly seen during the Indian monsoon. The artist has included a leave as his bed and the flowing hair ofhis mother also sheltering his bed. It is said that Gopis of Vrindavana including Mata Yasoda were ready to even lay their lives to protect the kid and the real intensity of their love is metaphorically illustrated by Yasoda's hair protecting him. A curved trunk of a tree separates the kid from his loving mother and hints at the pangs of separation awaiting him in future when he will have to leave Mathura to seek shelter in Dwaraka. Great wisdom is often communicated using simple means. This painting surely is one of Husain's best efforts in effectively proving the truthfulness of such a statement.