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Asura Muni
Sri Narada said "There was a very austere saint named Asuri Muni, who was a king of sages and a great devotee of Sri Krishna. He performed austerities on Narada Mountain
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and in his meditation
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he always saw handsome Sri Sri Radha-Krishna
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standing in a circle of light on the lotus of his heart.
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Then, one night, Krishna was suddenly no longer present in his meditation. Again and again he meditated. The great sage felt frustrated and depressed. Yearning to see Lord Krishna, he came out of his meditative trance. When the sage went to badari-decorated Narayana asrama, he could not find Lord Krishna in His form as Sri Nara-Narayana Rishi.
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Then the brahmana sage went to Lokaloka Mountain where, to his great surprise, he could not find thousand-headed Lord Sesha.
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When he asked the Lord's associates there, "Where did the Lord go?" they said, "We do not know." Then the sage became morose at heart. When he went to glorious Svetadvipa in the milk ocean, again he could not find Lord Krishna reclining on the couch of Sesha.
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Depressed, and the hairs of his body erect with spiritual love, the sage asked the Lord's associates there, "Where did the Lord go?" They said, "We do not know." Then the sage became anxious. He thought, "What should I do, or where should I go in order to see the Lord?" Thinking in this way, he traveled at the speed of mind to the spiritual world of Vaikuntha.
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There he could not find Lord Narayana and goddess Lakshmi. Not finding Them, Asuri Muni, who was the king of sages and yogis, went, O king, to the world of Goloka.
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Even in Vrindavana forest he could not find the Supreme Lord. Then, separated from Lord Krishna, the sage became filled with anguish. When he asked the Lord's gopa friends there, "Where did the Lord go?" they said, "The Lord went to the beautiful material universe where Vamana and Prisnigarbha appeared." Asuri Muni went at once to that universe. Not finding Lord Krishna in that universe, the sage went to Mount Kailasa,
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where he did find Lord Shiva, who was rapt in meditation on Lord
Krishna. Unhappy at heart, the great sage bowed down before Lord Shiva and
spoke.
Sri Asuri said "O Lord, I have looked in all the universes and I went even
to Vaikuntha and Goloka looking for Him, but I could not find the Supreme Lord
anywhere. Where is the Lord now? O best of all-knowing philosophers, please
tell.
Sri Shiva said "O brahmana Asuri, you are fortunate. You are a pure
devotee of Lord Krishna. O great sage, I know the trouble you have taken to
find Lord Krishna. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, whom the materialistic
philosophers cannot enjoy as the working senses cannot enjoy the objects of the
knowledge acquiring senses, and who, being beyond the modes of material nature,
cannot be seen by the people in genaral, went to save Hamsa Muni from great
troubles in the great ocean.
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Now Lord Krishna has become the king of the rasa dance. Now He is enjoying a rasa dance with many gopis in Vrindavana forest. By His maya potency the Lord has transformed the middle of the night into a period of six months. With the Lord's blessings I will now go there to see that dance. O sage, if you wish, you may also go."
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Thinking in this way, Shiva and Asuri went to the circle of Vraja to see Lord
Krishna.
Near the Yamuna they went to a splendid transcendental place filled with
splendid groves of trees, vines, and archways. Many very powerful,
stick-wielding women of Goloka guarded the entrance. Blocking the path, and
forbade them to enter.
The two of them said, "Yearning to see Lord Krishna, we have come
here". O tiger of kings, as they blocked the path, the entrance guards
spoke to them. The entrance guards said "There are many millions of
millions of us everywhere in Vrindavana. Appointed by Lord Krishna, we
eternally guard the rasa dance. In this secluded rasa-dance circle Krishna is
the only male. Except for Him there are only gopis here. O sages, if you wish
to see Lord Krishna, then please bath in the Mana-sarovara lake. In that way
you will become gopis, and then you may enter."
Bathing in Mana-sarovara, and at once becoming gopis,
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Lord Shiva and Asuri Muni
went to the circle of the rasa dance. In a beautiful place paved with gold and
rubies, shaded by kadamba trees and flowering madhavi vines, filled with all
beauty, splendid with spring moonlight, glorious with arches and jewel
stairways leading to the Yamuna, filled with cooing peacocks, swans, datyuhas,
and cuckoos, fanned by the Yamuna's breezes, beautiful with newly-blossoming
trees, filled with meeting houses that had courtyards with rows of pillars,
splendid fluttering flags, and golden domes, filled with flower-palaces of red
and white blossoms, the buzzing of bees, and sweet sounds of musical
instruments, and fragrant with pure and cooling breezes carrying the scent of
thousand-petal lotuses, bowing down to the lotus feet of Lord Krishna, who in
that forest grove was splendid as as ten million moons, who was decorated by
lotuslike, swan-graceful Sri Radha's company, who, surrounded by jewellike
women, eternally stayed in the middle of the rasa-dance circle, who was
handsome as ten million Kamadevas, whose form was dark and handsome, who was
dressed in yellow garments, who held a flute and stick in His hand, who bore
the mark of Srivatsa, who was decorated with the Kaustubha gem, who was
splendid with a forest garland, who was decorated with tinkling anklets, belt,
and armlets, and with necklaces, bracelets, and earrings splendid as two rising
suns, who wore a crown splendid as ten million suns, who with generous sidelong
glances stole the gopis' hearts, and whom the gopis gazed at from afar.
Lord Shiva and Asuri Muni, now overcome with happiness, spoke. The two of them
said "O Krishna, O Krishna, O great yogi, O master of the demigods, O Lord
of the universes, O lotus-eyed one, O Govinda, O Lord who carries a flag with
the emblem of Garuda, obeisances to You! O savior from miseries, O Lord of the
universes, O lotus-naveled one, O Lord who took three steps, O Lord bound at
the waist with a rope, O master of the senses, O son of King Vasudeva,
obeisances to You! O Supreme Personality of Godhead, leaving all Your
transcendental abodes and making them devoid of Your presence, You have now
come to Nanda's home to remove the earth's great burden and to bring
auspiciousness to Your devotees. You are the original and perfect Supreme
Personality of Godhead, glorious with incarnations that display a part, a part
of a part, or a part of a part of a part of Your power. With Your many
empowered inacarnations You maintain the universe. With the sweet rasa dance
You decorate the forest of Vrindavana. O master of Goloka, O master of the king
of mountains. O supreme master, O master of Vrindavana, O enjoyer of eternal
pastimes, O master of Radha, O master whose glories are sung by the girls of
Vraja, O master of Gokula, O Govinda, all glories to You! You are decorated
with beautiful flowers taken from Vrindavana's vines. You are the ornament Sri
Radha wears on Her neck and over Her heart. You are the master of the
rasa-dance circle. You are the master of the circle of Vraja. You are the
protector of the circle of the universes."
Sri Narada said "Pleased and gently smiling as He stood by Sri Radha's
side, with words like thunder Lord Krishna spoke to the sage. The Supreme
Personality of Godhead said "Renouncing everything, the two of you
performed austerities for sixty-thousand years in order to see Me. You do not
crave material wealth, you are peaceful, you do not think anyone your enemy,
and you are my friends. Therefore, please choose a benediction. Choose whatever
your hearts desire."
Lord Shiva and Asuri Muni said "O Lord who resides in Vrindavana, we
eternally offer our obeisances to Your lotus feet. Nothing other than Your
lotus feet gives us any happiness. O Sri Sri Radha-Krishna, we offer our
respectful obeisances to You!"
Lord Sri Krishna then said, "So be it."
From that moment Lord Shiva and Asuri Muni made their residence there, at
Vamsivata, where the forest grove by the Yamuna's shore is decorated with the
circle of the rasa dance.
Since then Lord Shiva was known as Gopisvara the gate keeper of Vraja and the
Rasalila. Then Lord Sri Krishna enjoyed a rasa dance with the gopis in
Padmakara forest, which was filled with buzzing bees and fragrant flower
pollen. O king of Mithila, although in truth it lasted for six months, the night
Lord Krishna enjoyed the rasa dance with the gopis seemed to Them only a single
moment of great happiness when it was over. At sunrise all the gopis, their
desires fulfilled, returned to their homes. Lord Krishna went to Nanda's palace
and Sri Radha hurried to King Vrishabhanu's palace. Thus I have described to
You Sri Krishnacandra's beautiful and sacred rasa dance, which removes all
sins, fulfills all desires, brings auspiciousness, gives to the people the
three goals of life, and gives to they who yearn for liberation the highest
kind of liberation. What more do you wish to hear?
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