Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami
Not Interested in Narayan
How is he to be worshiped? Mahaprabhu says, ramya kacid-upasana vrajavadhu-vargena ya kalpita — He is to be worshiped with pure love in the mood of the damsels of Vrajabhumi. That is the best process of worship. That is Mahaprabhu's teaching and Mahaprabhu's opinion. The gopis only see that kisora form of Krishna, ten- to twelveyear- old Krishna, gopa-vesa, nata-vara, venu-kara— cowherd boy dress, playing a flute and dancing— a very beautiful form. They never want to see any other form. They met Krishna in Kurukshetra on the solar eclipse day. Krishna had come from Dwarka. He was dressed as an opulent king. The gopis dragged him to Gopapur, saying, "We don't like this form and this opulent dress. Gopapur, Vrajabhumi is there. The jungle of Vrindavan is there. The Yamuna river is there. All the kunjas are there. The cows and calves are there. The cowherd boys are there. Please come." Then they dragged Krishna's cart. This is ratha-yatra. They said "We don't want to see you in this form as a king."
For a joke, Krishna once manifested his fourhanded form of Narayan in one of the kunjas. When the gopis who were searching for Krishna saw him, their love became shrunken. They thought, "Oh, it's Narayan. Let's go. We don't want to see him." They only wanted to see kisora-krsna, the two-handed form that is curved in three places, with flute in hand,gopa-vesa, the cowherd boy, the extraordinarily beautiful Krishna. Srila Rupa Goswami has mentioned this in Lalita-madhava:
Gopinam pasupendra-nandana-juso bhavasya kas tam krti
vijnatum ksamate duruha-padavi-sancarinah rakriyam
aviskurvati vaisnavim api tanum tasmin bhujair jisnubhir
yasam hanta caturbhir adbhuta-rucim ragodayah kuncati
Once Sri Krishna playfully manifested himself as Narayan, with four victorious hands and a very beautiful form. When the gopis saw this exalted form, however, their ecstatic feelings were crippled. A learned scholar, therefore, cannot understand the gopis'ecstatic feelings, which are firmly fixed upon the original form of Lord Krishna as the son of Nanda Maharaja. The wonderful feelings of the gopis in ecstatic parama-rasa with Krishna constitute the greatest mystery in spiritual life. [Srila Rupa Goswami's Lalita-madhava 6.54, quoted in Cc. adi 17.281.]
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