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uvāca puratas tasmai tasya divyā sarasvatī kāma-kṛṣṇāya govinda he gopī-jana ity api vallabhāya priyā

uvāca puratas tasmai tasya divyā sarasvatī kāma-kṛṣṇāya govinda he gopī-jana ity api vallabhāya priyā

The whorl of that eternal realm Gokula is the hexagonal abode of Kṛṣṇa. Its petals are the abodes of gopīs who are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa to whom they are most lovingly devoted leaves of that lotus are the gardenlike dhāma, i.e. spiritual abode of Śrī Rādhikā, the most beloved of Kṛṣṇa

The whorl of that eternal realm Gokula is the hexagonal abode of Kṛṣṇa. Its petals are the abodes of gopīs who are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa to whom they are most lovingly devoted leaves of that lotus are the gardenlike dhāma, i.e. spiritual abode of Śrī Rādhikā, the most beloved of Kṛṣṇa

apostle Jīva Gosvāmī in his commentary on this śloka as well as in the gloss of Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi and in Kṛṣṇa-sandarbha remarks that "the visible pastimes of Kṛṣṇa are the creation of His cit (spiritual) potency. The gopīs are the extensions of the ecstatic energy of Kṛṣṇa, and so are exceptionally His own. The illicit mistress-ship of the gopīs found in His visible pastime, is but the mundane reflection of Moreover in the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa Śrī Jīva is one of the mañjarīs.

who saw nothing but gloom in all directions, "O Brahmā, this mantra, viz., klīṁ kṛṣṇāya govindāya gopī-jana-vallabhāya

nothing but gloom in all directions, "O Brahmā, this mantra, viz., klīṁ kṛṣṇāya govindāya gopī-jana-vallabhāya

tat—of that (lotus); kiñjalkam—the petals; tat-aṁśānām—of His (Kṛṣṇa's) fragmental portions; tat—of that (lotus); patrāṇi—the leaves; śriyām—of the gopīs

purpose trees, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of lakṣmīs or gopīs

In discussing rasa we meet with five kinds of devotion or service. Śānta or unattached, dāsya or pertaining to reverential willing service, sakhya or friendship, vātsalya or parental love and śṛṅgāra or juvenile love.

fruits of piety, wealth, fulfillment of desire and liberation; but the purpose trees in the abode of Kṛṣṇa Here lakṣmī denotes gopī. Ādi-puruṣa means, "He who is the primeval Lord."

always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of lakṣmīs or gopīs

The eternal world is like a hexagonal figure; in that the entities Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, appearing in the Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa is the primary cause or the seed Himself. Hence kāma-bīja or the primary cause of all-love, is connotative of the entities Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.

birth etc., and in the amorous rasa the corresponding sentiments of concubinage in the respective gopīs In reality there is no such separate entity as husbandhood of the gopīs either in Goloka or in Gokula Hence the śāstras declare that there is no sexual union of the gopīs with their husbands. in Goloka and Gokula and the husbandhood of Kṛṣṇa in Vaikuṇṭha and Dvārakā etc. being another's wedded wife is nothing but the corresponding assumed sentiment on the part of the gopīs

em>sarasvatī—the goddess of learning; kāma—the kāma-bīja (klīṁ); kṛṣṇāya—to Kṛṣṇa ; govinda-govindāya, to Govinda; he—O; gopī-jana—of the gopīs; iti

Kṛṣṇa is the exalted Supreme entity having His eternal name, eternal form, eternal attribution and eternal The very name "Kṛṣṇa" implies His love-attracting designation, expressing by His eternal nomenclature Hence it is evident that Kṛṣṇa is sole Supreme Godhead. This beautiful spiritual figure is identical with Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual entity of Kṛṣṇa is identical

em>—is awakened; anuttamā—superexcellent; bhaktiḥ—devotion; bhagavat—for Kṛṣṇa

On the other hand since the gopīs, who are self-supported real entities are not tied to anybody else Kṛṣṇa is beyond the scope of that function. Kṛṣṇa tastes the transcendental rasa akin to paramourship by overstepping that function. Kṛṣṇa, the fountainhead of all avatāras. tastes the same in a distinct form in Goloka and in another So the gopīs have naturally, from eternity, the innate sentiment of being others' wedded wives.

On hearing a narration of the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa they think that the truth (tattva) regarding Kṛṣṇa is Brahmā wants to say that the form of Kṛṣṇa is all "existence, all-knowledge and all-bliss, whereas all By them are established the transcendental abode, form, name, quality and sports of Kṛṣṇa. Limbed though Kṛṣṇa is, His every limb is the whole entity. Both jīva-soul and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental. So they belong to the same category.

are one and the self-same existence, still They exist eternally as separate entities, as Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa In both the ecstatic energy and the transcendental Lord Kṛṣṇa, there exists śṛṅgāra-rasa (amorous love Āśraya signifies Rādhikā Herself and the extensions of Her own form and viṣaya means Kṛṣṇa Himself. Kṛṣṇa is Govinda, Lord of Goloka. The gopīs are the facsimile āśraya of that rasa. With them Kṛṣṇa indulges in eternal pastimes in Goloka.