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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Rivals and Friends

Radha s rivals spat out the following words, which were like a great coil of smoke from the growing fire of envy burning within her: "

Saintly girl, look! The footprints of this wicked-hearted girl no longer follow Lord Krsna's delightful footprints, That girl must have been very bold. First She sipped the nectar of Lord Krsna's lips, nectar we all find to be delightful, and then She suddenly disappeared."

To these words Sri Radha's gopi friends gave the following reply:

"Aha! Why are Radha's footprints marked with auspicious signs no longer visible here gopi-friends, Holding Her to His chest, dear Krsna must have begun to carry His delicate-limbed beloved."

To those words, Sri Radha's rivals gave this reply:

"Look! For a long time amorous Krsna carried that gopi on His chest. When Her garments and other
things became disarrayed, He became aroused. Here His footprints are pressed very deeply. Here are sprinkled drops of His perspiration, drops mixed with kunkuma and flower-garland fragments. Here He pushed aside the vines as He walked on the path."

To these words Sri Radha's friends replied,

"Here the footprints become faint. Here, averse to Her beloved, the beautiful gopi must, with gracefully bent
knees, rested on Sri Krsna's thighs."

Then Sri Radha's rivals said,

"Here amorous Krsna must have rearranged amorous Radha's flower crown when it became disrrayed and begun to fall apart."

Then they also said, "These crooked footprints on path after path reveal Sri Sri Radha and Krsna's pastimes, pastimes that stand beyond the boundary of ordinary shyness and modesty.

Source
http://christmuslim.blogspot.com/2015/05/gopala-champu.html

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