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KṚṢṆA’S APPAREL AND GARLANDS

KṚṢṆA’S TRANSCENDENTAL QUALITIES, HIS UNCOMMON ACTIVITIES AND HIS SMILE

Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental pastimes are concerned, they are mostly executed during the kaumāra, paugaṇḍa and And His friendship with the gopīs is exhibited during the age of kaiśora. Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes in Vṛndāvana are finished by the end of His fifteenth year, and then He is transferred to Mathurā and Dvārakā, where all other pastimes are performed.

statement: “Throughout the whole tract of land known as Vṛndāvana there were the footprints of Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs, and in some places peacock feathers were strewn about. In some places there were nice beddings in the bushes of the Vṛndāvana gardens, and in some places there were piles of dust due to the group-dancing of Govinda and the gopīs.”

Kṛṣṇa’s age, His transcendental bodily features, His beauty and His mildness are qualities pertaining There is no difference between Kṛṣṇa and His body, and therefore the transcendental features pertaining of Kṛṣṇa means to be attracted by Kṛṣṇa Himself, because there is no real distinction between Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa and everything related with Kṛṣṇa that gives stimulation to love of Kṛṣṇa are all Kṛṣṇa, but for

The gopīs would meditate on Kṛṣṇa’s dressing Himself just like a dancing actor and entering the forest They meditated on Kṛṣṇa’s having a helmet with a peacock feather and wearing earrings on His ears and yellow-gold colored garments covered with jewels and pearls. They also meditated on Kṛṣṇa’s blowing His flute and on all the cowherd boys’ singing of the glories

Kṛṣṇa are His transcendental qualities, His uncommon activities, His smiling features, His apparel and His footprints, His places of pastimes (such as Vṛndāvana), His favorite plant (tulasī), His devotee and for remembrance is Ekādaśī, which comes twice a month on the eleventh day of the moon, both waning and On that day all the devotees remain fasting throughout the night and continuously chant the glories of

In the kaiśora age, beginning from the eleventh year and continuing up to the end of the fifteenth year , Kṛṣṇa’s arms, legs and thighs became marked with three divisional lines. pillars of the indranīla jewel, the three lines of His waist challenged the waves of the river Yamunā, and gopī said, “With all these exquisite features of His body, Kṛṣṇa is too extraordinarily beautiful, and

When Kṛṣṇa arrived at the age of thirteen to fourteen years, His two arms and chest assumed an unspeakable beauty, and His whole form became simply enchanting. challenging the trunks of elephants, His rising chest was trying to come to peace talks with doors of jewels, and The special beauty of Kṛṣṇa’s body was His mild smiling, His restless eyes and His world-enchanting songs

His eyes became overflooded with tears, and in such ecstasy he jumped out of the chariot and fell down on the ground and began to chant, “How wonderful this is!

by a gopī who addressed Subala, a friend of Kṛṣṇa: “My dear Subala, I know that Kṛṣṇa is your friend and that you always enjoy smiling and joking with Him. You were keeping your hand upon Kṛṣṇa’s shoulder, and both of you were joyfully smiling.

Vana means “forest,” and mālī means “gardener,” so vana-mālī refers to one who extensively uses flowers and garlands on different parts of His body. Seeing such colorful dress and the garlands of different flowers, some great sages prayed, “Lord Kṛṣṇa

In the technical Sanskrit terms, such qualities as Kṛṣṇa’s name and fame are accepted both as reservoirs of and as stimulation for love of Kṛṣṇa.

One gopī addressed her friend and began to praise the bodily features of Kṛṣṇa. enhancing His beauty hundreds of times, the curling hair on His head, the kuṅkuma* red spots on His body and

Mahārāja saw two associates of Nārāyaṇa approaching him, he immediately stood up out of sincere respect and devotion and remained before them with folded hands; but because of his ecstatic love, he could hardly

Kṛṣṇa, because of Your adolescent age, You have just become the spiritual master of these young girls, and You are teaching them to offer solemn prayers, as well as training them to cheat their husbands and to You are enthusing them by the vibration of Your enchanting flute; and, as their teacher, You are teaching

Sometimes the gopīs would think about His soft nails, His moving eyebrows and His teeth, which were catechu-colored His brows are just like the bow of Cupid, and they are moving just as though they were dancing. His teeth are reddish, and so it appears that He has assumed a feature of anger. circumstances, where is the chance for a young girl not to be attracted by such beautiful features and

Ākalpa refers to the texture of Kṛṣṇa’s hair, His nicely dressed body anointed with sandalwood pulp and decorated with flower garlands, His tilaka and His chewing pan. As for the ointment on His body, the pulp of sandalwood generally appeared to be white, and when it was

age, manifested such beautiful bodily features that His restless eyes became the playthings of Cupid and vibration of His songs became a great impediment to the young girls, who were supposed to remain chaste and

His necklace, His four garments, the bangles on His head, the rings on His fingers, His ankle bells and helmet, His earrings made of diamonds, His necklace of pearls, His bangles, His embroidered garments and