Hare Krishna Prabhu, always deal intelligently with the non-devotees and neophyte devotees.Sometimes, they imitate Lord Shiva by smoking Ganja. If so, why can't they imitate Lord Shiva by drinking a pinch of poison or why can't these Sahajias--the cheap imitator--can't imitate of lifting Govardhan Hill with their little finger or even with whole of their bodily strength?
SB 10.33.1 — Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When the cowherd girls heard the Supreme Personality of Godhead speak these most charming words, they forgot their distress caused by separation from Him. Touching His transcendental limbs, they felt all their desires fulfilled.
SB 10.33.2 — There on the Yamunā’s banks Lord Govinda then began the pastime of the rāsa dance in the company of those jewels among women, the faithful gopīs, who joyfully linked their arms together.
SB 10.33.3 — The festive rāsa dance commenced, with the gopīs arrayed in a circle. Lord Kṛṣṇa expanded Himself and entered between each pair of gopīs, and as that master of mystic power placed His arms around their necks, each girl thought He was standing next to her alone. The demigods and their wives were overwhelmed with eagerness to witness the rāsa dance, and they soon crowded the sky with their hundreds of celestial airplanes.
SB 10.33.4 — Kettledrums then resounded in the sky while flowers rained down and the chief Gandharvas and their wives sang Lord Kṛṣṇa’s spotless glories.
SB 10.33.5 — A tumultuous sound arose from the armlets, ankle bells and waist bells of the gopīs as they sported with their beloved Kṛṣṇa in the circle of the rāsa dance.
SB 10.33.6 — In the midst of the dancing gopīs, Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared most brilliant, like an exquisite sapphire in the midst of golden ornaments.
SB 10.33.7 — As the gopīs sang in praise of Kṛṣṇa, their feet danced, their hands gestured, and their eyebrows moved with playful smiles. With their braids and belts tied tight, their waists bending, their faces perspiring, the garments on their breasts moving this way and that, and their earrings swinging on their cheeks, Lord Kṛṣṇa’s young consorts shone like streaks of lightning in a mass of clouds.
SB 10.33.8 — Eager to enjoy conjugal love, their throats colored with various pigments, the gopīs sang loudly and danced. They were overjoyed by Kṛṣṇa’s touch, and they sang songs that filled the entire universe.
SB 10.33.9 — One gopī, joining Lord Mukunda in His singing, sang pure melodious tones that rose harmoniously above His. Kṛṣṇa was pleased and showed great appreciation for her performance, saying “Excellent! Excellent!” Then another gopī repeated the same melody, but in a special metrical pattern, and Kṛṣṇa praised her also.
SB 10.33.10 — When one gopī grew tired from the rāsa dance, She turned to Kṛṣṇa, standing at Her side holding a baton, and grasped His shoulder with Her arm. The dancing had loosened Her bracelets and the flowers in Her hair.
SB 10.33.11 — Upon the shoulder of one gopī Kṛṣṇa placed His arm, whose natural blue-lotus fragrance was mixed with that of the sandalwood pulp anointing it. As the gopī relished that fragrance, her bodily hair stood on end in jubilation, and she kissed His arm.
SB 10.33.12 — Next to Kṛṣṇa’s cheek one gopī put her own, beautified by the effulgence of her earrings, which glittered as she danced. Kṛṣṇa then carefully gave her the betel nut He was chewing.
SB 10.33.13 — Another gopī became fatigued as she danced and sang, the bells on her ankles and waist tinkling. So she placed upon her breasts the comforting lotus hand of Lord Acyuta, who was standing by her side.
SB 10.33.14 — Having attained as their intimate lover Lord Acyuta, the exclusive consort of the goddess of fortune, the gopīs enjoyed great pleasure. They sang His glories as He held their necks with His arms.
SB 10.33.15 — Enhancing the beauty of the gopīs’ faces were the lotus flowers behind their ears, the locks of hair decorating their cheeks, and drops of perspiration. The reverberation of their armlets and ankle bells made a loud musical sound, and their chaplets scattered. Thus the gopīs danced with the Supreme Lord in the arena of the rāsa dance as swarms of bees sang in accompaniment.
SB 10.33.16 — In this way Lord Kṛṣṇa, the original Lord Nārāyaṇa, master of the goddess of fortune, took pleasure in the company of the young women of Vraja by embracing them, caressing them and glancing lovingly at them as He smiled His broad, playful smiles. It was just as if a child were playing with his own reflection.
SB 10.33.17 — Their senses overwhelmed by the joy of having His physical association, the gopīs could not prevent their hair, their dresses and the cloths covering their breasts from becoming disheveled. Their garlands and ornaments scattered, O hero of the Kuru dynasty.
SB 10.33.18 — The wives of the demigods, observing Kṛṣṇa’s playful activities from their airplanes, were entranced and became agitated with lust. Indeed, even the moon and his entourage, the stars, became astonished.
SB 10.33.19 — Expanding Himself as many times as there were cowherd women to associate with, the Supreme Lord, though self-satisfied, playfully enjoyed their company.
SB 10.33.20 — Seeing that the gopīs were fatigued from conjugal enjoyment, my dear King, merciful Kṛṣṇa lovingly wiped their faces with His comforting hand.
SB 10.33.21 — The gopīs honored their hero with smiling glances sweetened by the beauty of their cheeks and the effulgence of their curly locks and glittering golden earrings. Overjoyed from the touch of His fingernails, they chanted the glories of His all-auspicious transcendental pastimes.
SB 10.33.22 — Lord Kṛṣṇa’s garland had been crushed during His conjugal dalliance with the gopīs and colored vermilion by the kuṅkuma powder on their breasts. To dispel the fatigue of the gopīs, Kṛṣṇa entered the water of the Yamunā, followed swiftly by bees who were singing like the best of the Gandharvas. He appeared like a lordly elephant entering the water to relax in the company of his consorts. Indeed, the Lord had transgressed all worldly and Vedic morality just as a powerful elephant might break the dikes in a paddy field.
SB 10.33.23 — My dear King, in the water Kṛṣṇa found Himself being splashed on all sides by the laughing gopīs, who looked at Him with love. As the demigods worshiped Him by showering flowers from their airplanes, the self-satisfied Lord took pleasure in playing like the king of the elephants.
SB 10.33.24 — Then the Lord strolled through a small forest on the bank of the Yamunā. This forest was filled to its limits with breezes carrying the fragrances of all the flowers growing on the land and in the water. Followed by His entourage of bees and beautiful women, Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared like an intoxicated elephant with his she-elephants.
SB 10.33.25 — Although the gopīs were firmly attached to Lord Kṛṣṇa, whose desires are always fulfilled, the Lord was not internally affected by any mundane sex desire. Still, to perform His pastimes the Lord took advantage of all those moonlit autumn nights, which inspire poetic descriptions of transcendental affairs.
Jake Jah Rose > 3ruf705dlzncaJune 26, 2016 at 7:45pm
So beautiful, thanks for sharing.
I must finish reading the Bhagavatam.
Thank you to all devotees here who are inspiring my devotional service.
Why are you interested in Rasa Krida???. You are not qualified to discuss this mater in public. First of all read all Cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam--1 to 9 Cantos--before entering into 10 th Canto.
Of course, the main reason of your question is as follows:
In Lord Rama Avatar, thousands of sages in Dandakaranya were attracted to the beautiful physical feature of the Lord Rama so much so that they desired Lord's acomapany in Madhurya Rasa. However, in that incarnation Lord Rama had vowed to accept one wife only. The Lord promised these sages who were under so many austerities, to full fill their desire in next incarnation of Lord Krishna. That's what happened in Rasa Dance where the Gopies were the sages in last life.
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Hare Krishna Prabhu, always deal intelligently with the non-devotees and neophyte devotees.Sometimes, they imitate Lord Shiva by smoking Ganja. If so, why can't they imitate Lord Shiva by drinking a pinch of poison or why can't these Sahajias--the cheap imitator--can't imitate of lifting Govardhan Hill with their little finger or even with whole of their bodily strength?
Thank you for your understanding!
SB 10.33.25 — Although the gopīs were firmly attached to Lord Kṛṣṇa, whose desires are always fulfilled, the Lord was not internally affected by any mundane sex desire. Still, to perform His pastimes the Lord took advantage of all those moonlit autumn nights, which inspire poetic descriptions of transcendental affairs.
I must finish reading the Bhagavatam.
Thank you to all devotees here who are inspiring my devotional service.
Why are you interested in Rasa Krida???. You are not qualified to discuss this mater in public. First of all read all Cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam--1 to 9 Cantos--before entering into 10 th Canto.
Of course, the main reason of your question is as follows:
In Lord Rama Avatar, thousands of sages in Dandakaranya were attracted to the beautiful physical feature of the Lord Rama so much so that they desired Lord's acomapany in Madhurya Rasa. However, in that incarnation Lord Rama had vowed to accept one wife only. The Lord promised these sages who were under so many austerities, to full fill their desire in next incarnation of Lord Krishna. That's what happened in Rasa Dance where the Gopies were the sages in last life.
Thank you,
Sorry if I disturbed your feelings.
Hare Krishna!
There are several reasons .
One of them is to please His devotees, the Gopis.
The second one is that mood of separation encreases later in them.
The third one is to encrease madhurya mood of devotees in kali yuga.
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