Friday, April 19, 2024
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Krishna Questions and Gopis Answers
"Welcome, ye great ones! What good can I do for you? Are all safe in Vraja? Tell me the object of your coming here. The night is fearful and wild animals are treading around. Go back to Vraja. This is not the place for women. You have got your mothers, fathers, sons, brothers and husbands. They are searching you. Do not cause pain to anybody. What more, you have now seen this forest adorned with flowers and illumined by the tender rays of the full moon, where the trees and their tender branches, gently moved by the breeze from the Yamuna, stand in all their splendour. Now go back, O virtuous girls, speedily to your house and look after your husbands. The calves and your children are weeping. Go and let them have their drink. If you have come here, forced by your love for me, it is only meet and proper, for all people have their love for me. Devotion to husband is the one great religion for women. They should seek the well-being of their friends and bring up their children. The husband may be wicked, old, diseased or poor. But those who wish for higher Lokas should not give up their husbands. The connection with one who is not the husband is disreputable and unbecoming. You may bear love for me in other ways than by such a near approach. Therefore go back to your houses."
The Gopis were struck dumb for a time. They were overcome with sorrow. They had given up everything for the sake of Krishna and they could ill bear to hear these harsh words. At last they broke forth: "O Lord, it is not for Thee to utter these unkind words. We have given up all objects and sought Thy feet. O Thou, difficult to be reached, do not forsake us but please think of even as the First Purusha thinks of those that seek Moksha. Thou speakest, O Love, of our duties to husbands, sons, and friends as if Thou art a religious teacher, but Thou art Thyself the goal of those religious injunctions. So let them rest in Thee. Thou art the greatest friend of all beings, for Thou art verily their own Self. What do we care for husbands or sons, sources of misery as they are; we are attached to Thee, the constant source of happiness." In these words the Gopis expressed their deepest affection for Lord Krishna. We find in the Gopis complete self-surrender (Atma-Nivedan) in its true sense. They cared not even for their lives. How could they care then for their relatives, friends and cattle?
Monday, April 8, 2024
Sunday, April 7, 2024
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Text 183 Now please hear the names of Sri Radhas thirty-three gopi friends who are beyond description.
Text 184 They are Susila Sasikala Yamuna Madhavi Rati Kadambamala Kunti Jahnavi Svayamprabha.
Text 185 Candramukhi Padmamukhi Savitri Sudhamukhi Subha Padma Parijata Gauri Sarvamangala.
Text 186 Kalika Kamala Durga Bharati Sarasvati Gangambika Madhumati Campaparna Sundari.
Text 187 Krsnapriya Sati Nandani and Nadana their forms were like Sri Radhas Their asramas were made of jewels.
Text 188 decorated with many wonders beautiful splendid with many domes of priceless jewels.
Text 189 splendid and made with the best of jewels This world is beyond the material world There is no world higher than this.
Text 190 Above this there is nothing What exists culminates in this world In the same way there is nothing below the seven realms of Rasatala.
Text 191 Below them is only impassable and invisible water and darkness Now you have heard from me all about the boundaries of the universe and what lies beyond the universe.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Monday, April 1, 2024
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
Sunday, March 24, 2024
6 Vedanaga Gopis With Krishna
- Shiksha (śikṣā): phonetics, phonology and morphophonology (sandhi)
- Kalpa (kalpa): ritual
- Vyakarana (vyākaraṇa): grammar
- Nirukta (nirukta): etymology
- Chandas (chandas): meter
- Jyotisha (jyotiṣa): astronomy
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Asta Sakhis
http://www.vrindavan.de/varistha.htm
Quotes
http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Category:Names_of_Gopis_(The_asta-sakhis)
Desire Tree
http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/main/search/search?q=Asta+Sakhis
Mayapaur
http://www.mayapur.com/tag/asta-sakhis/
Vrindavan
http://8vri.blogspot.com/search/label/AstaSakhis
Slides
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Asta+Sakhis
leader
rādhācandrāvalīmukhyāḥ proktā nityapriyā braje ।
कृष्णवन्नित्यसौंदर्यवैदग्ध्यादिगुणाश्रयाः ॥
kṛṣṇavannityasauṃdaryavaidagdhyādiguṇāśrayāḥ ॥
same
The Ujjval Neelmani depicts:
haraiḥ sādhāraṇaguṇairupetāstasya vallabhāḥ ।
पृथुप्रेम्णा सुमाधुर्य सम्पदाञ्चाग्रिमाश्रयाः ॥
pṛthupremṇā sumādhurya sampadāñcāgrimāśrayāḥ ॥
celestial
Shri Krishna says to the Gopis –
na pāraye ’haṁ niravadya-saṁyujāṁ sva-sādhu-kṛtyaṁ vibudhāyuṣāpi vaḥ
या माभजन् दुर्जरगेह श्रृंखला: संवृश्च्य तद् व: प्रतियातु साधुना ॥
yā mābhajan durjara-geha-śṛṅkhalāḥ saṁvṛścya tad vaḥ pratiyātu sādhunā ॥
Thursday, March 7, 2024
younger
Campakalata ( one day younger than Radha); Complexion like the yellow campaka flower. Garments the color of a blue-jay’s. Expert at collecting fruits, flowers and roots from the forest. Expert cook and can skillfully fashion things from clay with her hands.
Citra-devi (younger than Radharani by 26 days); Complexion like saffron. Garments the color of crystal. Expert in playing music on pots filled with varying degrees of water. Especially expert at herbal gardening. She is the leader of the gopis who collect transcendental herbs and medicinal creepers from the forest. She can nicely make various kinds of nectarean beverages.
Tunga vidya (15 days younger than Radha); Complexion color of kumkuma. Wears white garments. Seva is dancing and singing, she is a celebrated music teacher expert at playing the vina and singing in the style known as marga. Expert in dancing, drama, literature and all other arts and sciences.
Indulekha (3 days younger than Radha); Has a tan complexion. Wears the color of pomegranate flower. Often serves Krishna by bringing nectar - like delicious meals. Expert at stringing various kinds of wonderful necklaces, gemology and weaving various kinds of cloth. Seva is fanning with chamara fan.
