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Shri Brahma-vaivarta Purana
Canto Four
Shri Krishna-janma-khanda
The Birth of
Lord Krishna
Volume Two
Table of
Contents
Chapter Five
Shri
Brahma-krta-shri-krishna-stotra
Shri Brahma’s
Prayers to Lord Krishna
Chapter Six
Shri
Radha-Krishna-samvada
A
Conversation of Shri Radha and Shri Krishna
Chapter Five
Shri
Brahma-krta-shri-krishna-stotra
Shri Brahma’s
Prayers to Lord Krishna
1 Shri Narayana Rsi said: After seeing all
of Goloka, the joyful demigods again approached the first gate to Shri Radha’s
palace.
2 The gate had two pillars of splendid
jewels and great doors of priceless diamonds, topaz, and other jewels. At that gate the demigods saw peerless
Virabhanu,...
3 ...who, wearing yellow garments and a
jewel crown decorated with jewel ornaments, sat on a jewel throne.
5 Then, speaking to the gatekeeper
Virabhanu, the demigods cheerfully asked permission to enter the very wonderful
gate.
6 Without hesitating, the gatekeeper said
to the great demigods, “Without Lord Krishna’s permission, I cannot allow you
to enter.”
7 Then the gatekeeper sent some servants
to Lord Krishna’s abode. O sage, when
they returned with Lord Krishna’s permission, the gatekeeper allowed the
demigods to enter.
8 After thanking the gatekeeper, the
demigods proceeded to the second gate, which, very beautiful, wonderful, and
pleasing to the heart, was even greater than the first.
9 O Narada, at that gate they saw handsome
Candrabhana, who was dark and youthful, who held a golden staff,...
10 ...who sat decorated with golden
ornaments, seated on a jewel throne, and very glorious in the company of five
hundred thousand gopas.
11 After speaking with him, the demigods went
to the third gate, which, glorious with the splendour of many precious jewels,
was wonderful and very beautiful.
12 O Narada, at that gate they saw
Suryabhana, who was young, dark and handsome, who had two arms and held a flute
in his hand,...
13 ...whose cheeks were splendid with jewel
earrings,...
14 ...who was decorated with many jewels, who
was very dear to Shri Shri Radha-Krishna, and who was accompanied, like a great
king, by an entourage of nine hundred thousand gopas.
15 After speaking with him, the demigods went
to the fourth gate, which was beautiful, splendid with many jewels, and more
glorious than the other gates.
16 At that gate they saw handsome and very
wonderfully decorated Vasubhana, who was one of the kings of Vraja,...
17 ...who was youthful and very handsome,
who, decorated with beautiful ornaments and a jewel staff in his hand, sat on a
jewel throne,...
18 ...whose lips were like ripe fruits, who
smiled gracefully, and who was very handsome.
After speaking with him, the demigods went to the fifth gate,...
19 ...which was glorious with walls of
diamonds. There they saw the gatekeeper,
who was named Devabhana,...
20 ...who was decorated with jewel ornaments,
jewel necklaces, and a peacock-feather crown, who sat on a beautiful throne,...
21 ...who was decorated with jewel earrings
and ornaments of kadamba flowers, who was anointed with sandal, aguru, musk and
kunkuma,...
22 ...and held a staff in his hand, and who
was like a great king surrounded by millions of subjects. After speaking with him, the joyful demigods
went,...
23 ...to the sixth gate, which had two walls
of diamonds, was decorated with flower garlands, and was splendid with many
wonders.
24 At that gate they saw Satrubhana, who was
splendid with many ornaments, who, accompanied by a million subjects, was one
of the kings of Vraja,...
25 ...and whose cheeks were anointed with
sandal and splendid with earrings. After
speaking with him, the demigods quickly went to the seventh gate,...
26 ...which was filled with many wonders, and
which was far more glorious than the preceding six gates. At that gate they saw Ratnabhana, who was to
Lord Krishna very dear,...
27 ...whose limbs were all anointed with
sandal, who was decorated with flower garlands and many beautiful
jewel-ornaments,...
28 ...whose lotus face gently smiled, who,
sitting on a jewel throne and surrounded by one million two hundred thousand
gopas, was glorious like a great king,...
29 ...and who held a staff in his hand. After speaking with him, the leaders of the
demigods happily went to the eight gate, which was more glorious than the
preceding seven gates.
30 There they saw the gatekeeper, named
Suparrsva, who was very handsome and charming, who smiled gracefully, who was
splendid with sandal tilaka,...
31 ...whose lips were like banhujiva flowers,
who was decorated with jewel ornaments, who was splendid with all ornaments,
who held a jewel staff,...
32 ...and who was accompanied by one million
two hundred thousand gopas. Then the
demigods went to the beautiful ninth gate,...
33 ...which was a great wonder never seen
before, which was splendid with a great network of flower garlands, and which
had four courtyards paved with diamonds and precious jewels.
34 There they saw the gatekeeper, who was
named Subala, who was handsome and graceful, who was decorated with many
ornaments,...
35 ...who was very handsome, who was
gloriously decorated with one million two hundred thousand diamonds, and who
held a staff in his hand. After speaking
with him, the demigods went to the next gate.
36 O sage, gazing at the tenth gate, which
was more glorious than the rest, which had a glory that cannot be described, a
glory that had never been seen or heard of before, the demigods became filled
with wonder.
37 There they saw the gatekeeper named
Sudama, who was handsome and charming, whose handsomeness cannot be described,
who looked like Lord Krishna Himself,...
38-44 ...who held a staff in his hand, and who was
accompanied by two million gopas. Then
the demigods went to the next gate, which was very wonderful. There they spoke to the gatekeeper Shridama,
who was one of the kings of Vraja, who was like Shri Radha’s own son, who wore
yellow garments, sat on a beautiful throne of priceless jewels, was decorated
with priceless jewel ornaments, was very handsome, was splendid with sandal,
aguru, musk, and kunkuma, wore splendid earrings on his cheeks, wore a
wonderful splendid crown of priceless jewels, all of whose limbs were decorated
with a network of blossoming jasmine garlands, and who, accompanied by ten
million gopas, was more glorious than the greatest kings. Then the demigods happily went to the twelfth
gate, which had many courtyards paved with precious jewels,...
45 ...which was very difficult to attain,
which had never been seen or heard of before, which was very wonderful,
beautiful, and charming, and which had walls of diamonds.
46 At that gate the demigods saw many
beautiful young gopis decorated with jewel ornaments,...
47 ...dressed in yellow garments, wearing
graceful braids, all their limbs decorated with jasmine flowers,...
48 ...decorated with jewel armlets, anklets,
and bracelets, their cheeks splendid with jewel earrings,...
49 ...anointed with sandal, aguru, musk, and
kunkuma, and with broad hips and thighs.
50 Gazing at them, the millions of gopis most
dear to Lord Krishna, the best of many billions of gopis, the demigods became
filled with wonder.
51-52 O brahmana sage, after speaking with the,, the
happy demigods went to the next palace, which had three gates, where they saw
the most beautiful fortunate and splendid of the gopis.
53 All of these gopis were very
fortunate. They were in the full bloom
of youth. They were decorated with
beautiful ornaments. They were dear to
Shri Radha.
54-55 Gazing at these three wonderfully beautiful
gates unlike anything else seen before and beyond the power of the wise to
describe, and then speaking to the many gopis there, the demigods became filled
with wonder. Then they entered the
sixteenth very beautiful gate, the entrance to Shri Radha’s abode.
56 O sage, that gate was guarded by
thirty-three gopis,...
57 ..who were beautiful, youthful and
decorated with many virtues, whose beautiful garments were beyond description,
who were decorated with jewel ornaments,...
58 ...who were decorated with jewel
bracelets, armlets, and anklets, whose waists held a network of tinkling
jewel-ornaments,...
59 ...whose cheeks were splendid with jewel
earrings, whose breasts were splendid with networks of blossomed jasmine
garlands,...
60 ...whose moonlike faces robbed the autumn
moon of its glory, who were decorated with a network of parijata garlands,..
61 ...whose beautiful braids were decorated
with many ornaments, whose lips were ripe bimba fruits, whose smiling faces
were lotus flowers,...
62 ...whose teeth were splendid as
ripe-pomegranate seeds, whose beautiful complexions were like campaka flowers,
whose waists, O sage, were gracefully slender,...
63 ...whose noses, splendid with elephant
pearls, robbed the bird-king’s beak of its beauty,...
64 ...whose full, firm, and heavy breasts
were like an elephant’s cheeks, whose hips were broad, and whose thoughts went
to Lord Krishna.
65-69 Standing at the gate, with unblinking eyes the
demigods gazed first at these gopis and then at Shri Radha’s very wonderful
abode, which was splendid with two courtyards paved with precious jewels, set
with sapphire pillars, decorated with rubies and networks of parijata flowers,
and fragrant with scented breezes. After
speaking to these gopis, the demigods, their hearts yearning to see Lord
Krishna’s lotus feet, the hairs of their bodies erect, their necks bowed, and
their eyes filled with tears of love, entered Shri Radha’s abode.
70 From afar the demigods could see Shri
Radha’s abode, its many palaces clustered around a beautiful courtyard,...
71 ...pave with the best of priceless jewels,
decorated with pillars of diamonds and many jewels,...
72 ...splendid with networks of parijata
flowers, pearls, rubies, white camaras, and mirrors,...
73 ...decorated, O sage, with domes of
priceless jewels and sandal wigs tied with silken ribbons,...
74 ...decorated with courtyards of many jewel
pillars, anointed with sandal, aguru, musk and kunkuma,...
75 ...decorated with white paddy, white
flowers, red coral, fruits, rice, durva grass, unbroken grains, fried grains,
and arati ceremonies,...
76 ...splendid with fruits, jewels, jewel
domes, sindura, kunkuma, and networks of parijata flowers,...
77 ...fragrant with breezes carrying the
scents of flowers, beyond the power of description,...
78 ...splendid with many things not found in
the material worlds, appointed with jewel couches covered with fine cloth,...
79 ...beautiful with networks of parijata
flowers, many millions of jewel domes, and many treasuries of precious
jewels,...
80 ...decoration with many beautiful and
priceless things, pleasant with the sweet sounds of musical instruments,...
81 ...pleasant, O Narada, with the gopis’
beautiful singing, and with the music of vinas, mrdangas, and other
instruments,...
82 ...splendid with Shri Radha’s many gopi
friends and with many gopas very muck like Lord Krishna,...
83 ...and filled with beautiful songs describing
the transcendental qualities of Shri Shri Radha-Krishna. As they gazed at all this within Shri Radha’s
abode, the demigods became filled with wonder.
84 Listening to the sweet singing and gazing
at the graceful dancing, the demigods stood there, rapt in thought.
85 There the demigods saw a beautiful jewel
throne in a circle of a hundred dhanus,...
86 ...which was decorated with many small
jewel-domes, wonderful statues, wonderful gardens, flowers,...
87 ...which was, O brahmana, wonderfully
glorious as ten million suns.
88 Rapt in meditation, the demigods saw in
seven talas of that circle a great light, a light that robbed all other lights
of their splendour, a light that was present everywhere, a light that was the
seed of everything.
90 Their desires all fulfilled, the hairs of
their bodies, erect, their necks respectfully bowed, and their eyes filled with
tears, and the demigods, happily and with great devotion, bowed down before
that light.
91 Rapt in meditation, the demigods bowed
down, stood up, and then approached the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has
assumed that form of light.
92 Meditating on this light, Lord Brahma, the
creator of the universe, stood with folded hands, Lord Siva on his right and
Lord Yamaraja on his left.
93 Rapt in meditation, and with great
devotion, Lord Brahma offered prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
who is full of bliss, beyond the modes of material nature, and greater than the
greatest.
94 Shri Brahma said: I offer my respectful
obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has now assumed this form
of light, who are the best of they who give benedictions, the origin of they
who give benedictions, and the origin of all living entities.
95 I offer my respectful obeisances to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has now assumed this form of light, who is
most auspicious, the giver of auspiciousness, the abode of auspiciousness.
96 I offer my respectful obeisances to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead who has now assumed this form of light, who stays
everywhere, who is not touched by matter, who stays in everyone’s heart, who is
greater than the greatest, whose activities are not material, and who cannot be
understood by the material mind.
97 I offer my respectful obeisances to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has now assumed this form of light, who has
qualities, who has no qualities, who is the eternal Supreme Spirit, who has no
form, who has a form, whose form is splendid.
98 I offer my respectful obeisances to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is beyond description, who is both manifest
and unmanifest, who is one only, without any rival, whose desires are all
fulfilled, who has the power to assume any form He wishes.
99 To govern the world of three modes He
assumes three forms. How can the
demigods, who are His parts and parcels, understand Him? He is beyond the reach of the Vedas.
100 I offer my respectful obeisances to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has now assumed this form of light, who is
the support on which everything rests, who is the creator of all forms, who is
the seed of everything, who has no origin who is the end of everything, who is
endless.
101 I offer my respectful obeisances to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has now assumed this form of light, The wise describe hundreds of thousands of
His transcendental forms and virtues.
How can I describe Him?
102 I offer my respectful obeisances to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has now assumed this form of light, who has
no form, who has a form, who has no senses, who has senses, who sees nothing,
who is the witness of all.
103 I offer my respectful obeisances to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has now assumed this form of light, who has
no feet, but goes everywhere, who has no eyes, but sees everything, who eats
even though He has neither hands nor mouth.
104 I offer my respectful obeisances to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has now assumed this form of light. The saintly sages are able to describe Him in
the Vedas. Still, He is not described in
the Vedas.
105 I offer my respectful obeisances to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has now assumed this form of light, who is
the master of all, who has no master to obey, who is the origin of all, who has
no origin, who is in everyone’s heart, who is not in everyone’s heart.
106 Neither I, who create the universes and
father the Vedas, nor Yamaraja who protects the pious, nor Siva who destroys
the universe, nor anyone else has the power to glorify Him properly.
107 O Lord, as service to You, Yama protects
the pious. When the time comes, Siva
destroys the universe on Your order.
108 As a service to Your lotus feet I write
everyone’s destiny and give the materialists the fruits of their labours. I have no power over Your devotees.
109 In this material universe shaped like an
egg we are Your servants. How many
servants do You have in the numberless universes?
110 Who can count the specks of dust in the
world? Who can count the atoms in the
universe? Who can properly glorify the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master and father of all?
111 Maha-Vishnu, who manifests the material
universes, one by one, from His bodily pores, is but a sixteenth part of You, O
Lord.
112 The impersonalist yogis meditate on Your
form of light, the object of their desires.
The devotees do not. Instead,
they serve Your lotus feet.
113 O Lord, please unravel to us Your handsome,
charming, youthful form, the form described in the mantras we chant, the form
on which we meditate,...
114 ...a form dark as a monsoon cloud, dressed
in yellow garments, transcendental, manifesting two arms, a flute in hand,
gracefully smiling, handsome,...
115 ...decorated with a peacock feather crown
and a network of malati flowers, anointed with sandal, aguru, musk and
kunkuma,...
116 ...decorated with beautiful ornaments made
of priceless jewels, splendid with a crown made of priceless jewels,...
117 ...the moon of its face robbing the
blooming autumn-lotuses of their splendour, its lips splendid like ripe bimba
fruits,...
118 ...and its handsome teeth like ripe
pomegranate seeds, a form sitting under a pastime kadamba tree, a form yearning
to taste the nectar of the rasa dance,...
119 ...a form that smiled as it glanced at the
gopis’ faces, a form that rested on Shri Radha’s breast, a form that yearns to
taste the nectar of transcendental pastimes.
O Lord, we yearn to see this form of Yours.
120 After speaking these words, Brahma bowed
down again and again. Then Siva and
Yamaraja also recited this same prayer.
121 His eyes filled with tears, Brahma bowed
down again and again. Then the three
demigods stood up and recited the prayer again.
122 O sage, flooded by Lord Krishna’s light,
Brahma, Siva and Yamaraja stood there, reciting that king of prayers again and again.
123 A person who, when he worships Lord
Krishna, recites this prayer with devotion, attains very rare, intense, firm,
and unwavering devotion for Lord Krishna.
124 He attains devotional service the demigods,
demons, and kings of sages cannot attain.
He attains the mystic powers beginning with anima siddhi. He attains the four kinds of liberation,
beginning with salokya-mukti.
125 In this world he becomes like Lord Vishnu
Himself. He is famous. He is worshipped. His words are perfect. The mantras he recites are perfect.
126 He attains all good fortune. He is never in bad health. The world is flooded with his face. He attains knowledge, the gift of poetry, good
children, and a lotuslike wife like the goddess of fortune herself.
127 For a long time He stays with his chaste
and saintly wife and his good and faithful children. For a long time he is famous. Then, at the end, he attains the association
of Lord Krishna.
Chapter Six
Shri Radha-Krishna-samvada
A
Conversation of Shri Radha and Shri Krishna
1 Shri
Narayana Rsi said: Meditating and praying, the demigods reverently stood before
that light. Then they saw a handsome
form at the centre of that light.
2 ...a handsome, blissful, smiling form
splendid as a monsoon cloud, a form that enchants the three worlds,...
3 ...a form with shark-earrings glittering
on its cheeks, a form with lotus feet splendid with jewel anklets,...
4 ...a form splendid with precious jewel
ornaments and priceless yellow garments pure like fire,...
5 ...a form decorated with beautiful
ornaments, a form that made its ornaments more beautiful, becoming the ornament
of its ornaments,...
6 ...a form glancing with happy eyes, a
form overcome with kindness for the devotees, a form with a great and splendid
door-panel chest decorated with pearls and jewels,...
7 ...a form splendid with kaustubhas and
other precious jewels. In this way, in
the centre of that light the demigods saw the beautiful form of Shri Radha.
8 At Shri Radha, who with crooked eyes
exchanged glances with Her smiling lover, whose splendid teeth eclipsed many
rows of perfect pearls,...
9 ...whose face was happy with a gentle
smile, whose eyes were autumn lotus flowers, whose beautiful face eclipsed the
autumn moon,...
10 ...whose beautiful lips robbed the
bandhujiva flowers of their glory, whose lotus feet were splendid with tinkling
anklets,...
111 ...whose fingernails and toenails eclipsed
the glory of the king of jewels, and the soles of whose feet were anointed with
kunkuma,...
12 ...who was glorious with priceless jewel
necklaces, who was glorious with priceless garments pure as fire,...
13 ...who at Her waist wore tinkling
ornaments made with the kings of jewels, who was decorated with jewel
bracelets, armlets, and necklaces,...
14 ...whose ears and cheeks were splendid
with glorious earrings made from the kings of jewels,...
15 ...whose nose, beautiful as the king of
bird’s beak, was decorated with an elephant pearl, whose braids were tied with
a string of jasmine flowers,...
16 ...whose breast was splendid with many
kaustubha jewels, who was decorated with a network of parijata garlands,...
17 ...whose fingers were decorated with many
jewel rings,...
18 ...who was decorated with splendid
conchshell ornaments strung with fine threads,...
19 ...who was decorated with jewel necklaces
strung with red threads, whose beautiful form was glorious as molten gold,...
20 ...whose thighs were graceful, whose
raised breasts were very full, who was decorated with all ornaments, and who
was decorated with Her own sublime beauty,...
21 ...the demigods, filled with wonder,
gazed. Then, all their desires
fulfilled, the demigods offered prayers to Lord Krishna and Goddess Radha.
22 Shri Brahma said: O Lord, may the
bumblebee of my mind always lovingly stay at the lotus flower of Your
feet. Please give me the medicine that
brings peace. Please save me from the
fever of repeated birth and death.
Please give me steady and mature devotional service to You.
23 Shri Siva said: I am drowning in the ocean
of birth and death. The fish of my mind
is trapped in the horrible and narrow well of repeated birth and death. O Lord, please rescue me from this horrible
world of birth and death and give me loving devotion for Your lotus feet.
24 Shri Yamaraja said: O my Lord, may I have
the association of Your devotees.
Association with them is a sharp sword that cuts the bonds of repeated
birth and death. Association with them
is the only way to attain a place at Your lotus feet. Please give me devotional service to Your
lotus feet birth after birth.
25 Shri Narayana Rsi said: After speaking
these prayers the demigods, their heart’s desires fulfilled, respectfully stood
before Lord Krishna. Shri Radha’s husband, who fulfils the desires of His
devotees.
26 After listening to the demigods’ prayers,
Lord Krishna, who is an ocean of mercy, and whose lotus face had blossomed with
a smile, spoke the following auspicious and truthful words.
27 Shri Krishna said: Please come to My
palace. I am always eager to ask about
the welfare of they who take shelter of Me.
28 Please be free of all troubles. How could you be troubled while I am here?
29 I am present in everyone’s heart. I appear before they who offer prayers to
Me. I know everything about why you have
come.
30 In time, auspicious and inauspicious deeds
will bear results. O demigods, all
actions, great and small, bear results by the power of time.
31 At the proper time trees bear fruits and
flowers. In some seasons the fruits are
ripe. In other seasons the fruits are
not ripe yet.
32 Happiness, suffering, calamity, good
fortune, grief, and anxiety, which are the auspicious and inauspicious fruits
of each person’s work, all come at the appropriate time.
33 What is not pleasing in the three
worlds? What is unpleasing in the three
worlds? It is the powers of time that
makes things pleasing and unpleasing.
34 You have seen how, when the fruits of
their past deeds have become ripe, kings and manus in this world are under the
control of time.
35 What is now a single moment in Goloka is
seven manvantaras in the material world.
36 Seven Indras have come and gone. Now it is the time of the eighth Indra. In this way My wheel of time turns day and
night.
37 Indras, manus, and kings are all under the
control of time. Their fame, piety, and
sins remains only as words in history.
38 Even now on the earth there are many
powerful and wicked kings who revile the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
39 In the course of time they also will
submit to time’s power.
40 By My order time moves, the wind blows,
fire burns and the sun shines.
41 O demigods, by My order clouds scatter
rain, diseases strike material bodies, and death moves among the conditioned
souls.
42 Brahmanas are devoted to brahmanical
culture. Sages whose wealth is austerity
are devoted to austerity. Brahmana sages
are devoted to Brahman. Yogis are
devoted to yoga.
43 They all perform their duties out of fear
of Me. Only My devotees, who uproot the
tree of karmic actions, are fearless.
44 O demigods, I am the time of time, the
creator of the creator, the protector of the protector, the destroyer of the
destroyer. I am greater than the
greatest.
45 By My order Brahma, creates, Yamaraja
protects, and Siva destroys.
46 I am the master of all, from Brahma down
to the blades of grass. I give the
fruits of work. I uproot the tree of karma.
47 Who can protect someone I would kill? Who can kill someone I would protect?
48 I am the protector of all. I am the destroyer of all. Still, I have no power to destroy the
devotees. Their bodies are eternal.
49 The devotees are My followers. They worship My feet eternally. To protect them, I always stay by their side.
50 In the material world everyone dies and
everyone is reborn again and again. But
My devotees do not die. They are
fearless. They never suffer.
51 Every wise man yearns to serve Me. They who pray for My service are
fortunate. They who do not are filled
with material desires.
52 Fruitive workers fear birth, death,
old-age, disease and Yama’s punishments.
They who are My devotees do not fear.
53 My devotees are not touched by piety or
sin. I shake away their karma.
54 I am the devotees’ life. The devotees are My life. They meditate on Me always. I think of them day and night.
55 My sixteen spoke Sudarsana disc is very
sharp. No living being has even one
sixteenth of its splendour and power.
56 To protect them I place My disc by the
devotees’ side. Still not confident of
their protection, I personally stand by My devotees.
57 I am not happy in Vaikuntha. I am not happy in Goloka. I am not happy by Shri Radha’s side. I am happy in the company of My devotees. Wherever My devotees stay, there I stay day
and night.
58 Shri Radha is more dear to Me than
life. Day and night She rests on My
chest. You are also more dear to Me than
life. To Me the goddess of fortune is
not more dear than My devotees.
59 O demigods, whatever a devotee offers Me with
love I happily eat. I do not eat what
non-devotees offer. They eat it alone.
60 Renouncing wife, children, and relatives,
and ignoring you demigods, My devotees meditate on Me day and night. Day and night I think of them.
61-62 They who harm My devotees, brahmanas, cows,
demigods, and Vedic yajanas quickly perish like straw thrust into a fire. I destroy them. Who can protect them?
63 I will go to the earth. O demigods, first return to your homes, and
then, by your amsa expansions, quickly go to the earth.
64 After speaking to the demigods, Lord
Krishna, the master of the universes, called the gopas and gopis and spoke to
them words that were sweet, truthful and appropriate.
65 Shri Krishna said: O gopas and gopis,
please listen. All of you please go to
Nanda’s land of Vraja. O Radha, please
go at once to the home of King Vrsabhanu.
66 King Vrsabhanu’s dear wife is the saintly
gopi named Kalavati. She is
Subala-gopa’s daughter. She is a partial
incarnation of the goddess of fortune.
67 She is fortunate and glorious among
women. She was the mind-born daughter of
the pitas, but by Durvasa’s curse she was born in a house in Vraja.
68 At once go to Nanda’s Vraja and take birth
in her womb. O girl with the lotus face,
I will assume the form of a small boy and I will marry You.
69 O Radha, to Me You are more dear than
life. To You I am more dear than life
also. We are not different. We are one body eternally.
70 Listening, Shri Radha wept, overcome with
love. O sage, with Her cakora-bird eyes
She drank the moonlight of Lord Krishna’s face.
71 Shri Krishna said: O gopas and gopis,
please take birth on the earth in the beautiful palaces of the noble gopas.
72 Then everyone saw the arrival of a great
chariot covered with diamonds, the king of jewels,...
73 ...a chariot decorated with a hundred
thousand white camaras, ten thousand mirrors, red cloth pure as fire,...
74 ...a thousand jewel domes, and networks of
parijata garlands,...
75 ...filled with glorious people, made of
gold, beautiful, without compare, glorious and splendid as a hundred suns.
76 They also saw handsome and charming Lord
Narayana, who wore yellow garments, held a conch, disc, club and lotus,...
77 ...wore a glorious crown and glorious
earrings, was decorated with a forest garland and anointed with sandal, aguru,
musk and kunkuma,...
78 ...had four arms, smiled, was overcome
with compassion for His devotees, and was decorated with the best of ornaments
made of the kings of jewels.
79 At His left side they saw beautiful,
charming, and fair Goddess Sarasvati, who held a flute, vina and book in her
hand, who was the queen of the higher planets, and who was knowledge
personified.
80 At His right side they saw another
beautiful and charming goddess, who smiled sweetly and was fair as molten gold
and splendid as the autumn moon,...
81 ...whose cheeks were splendid with jewel
earrings, who wore priceless garments and priceless jewels,...
82 ...who was decorated with bracelets and
armlets of priceless jewels, who wore tinkling jewel anklets,...
83 ...whose breast was splendid with a
parijata garland, whose braids were beautiful with a jasmine garland,...
84 ...whose beautiful face robbed the autumn
moon of its splendour,...
85 ...who was anointed with musk dots and red
sindura tilaka, whose beautiful autumn-lotus eyes were decorated with
mascara,...
86 ...who held a pastime lotus of a thousand
petals, and who with crooked eyes gazed at Lord Narayana as He gazed at Her.
87 Accompanied by His two wives and His many
associates, Lord Narayana quickly descended from the chariot and entered the
beautiful assembly of gopas and gopis.
88 O demigods, the gopas and gopis at once
rose and with folded hands joyfully recited the divine sages’ prayers from the
Sama Veda.
89 Then Lord Narayana approached, entered
Lord Krishna’s form and disappeared.
When they saw this, everyone became filled with wonder.
90 Then Lord Vishnu, the protector of the
universes came, and descended from His golden chariot.
91-92 O sage, when handsome, smiling four-armed Lord
Vishnu, decorated with forest garlands, dressed in yellow garments, glorious
with all ornaments and splendid as ten million suns, entered the assembly,
everyone rose, gazed at Him, bowed down, and offered prayers.
93 Then Lord Vishnu also merged into the form
of Lord Krishna. Seeing this, everyone
became filled with wonder.
94-95 Then the Lord’s incarnation that resides in
Svetadvipa also came and merged into Lord Krishna’s body. Then hastily came Lord Sankarsana, the
thousand-headed purusa-avatara, who was splendid like pure crystal and
effulgent like a hundred suns.
96 Seeing this incarnation of Lord Vishnu
everyone offered many prayers. Then,
with bowed head He Himself offered prayers to Lord Krishna, the husband of
Radha.
97 O Narada, with His thousand heads He bowed
down with devotion to Lord Krishna. Then
Nara and Narayana Rsi, the two sons of Dharma Rsi, also came.
98 Then I merged into Lord Krishna’s lotus
feet and Nara Rsi became Arjuna. Then
Brahma, Siva, Sesa and Yamaraja came to that place.
99 There the demigods saw a great chariot of
gold and jewels,...
100 ...a chariot decorated with the kings of
jewels, cloth pure as fire, many white camaras and ten thousand mirrors,...
101 ...splendid with many jewel domes,
beautiful with networks of parijata garlands,...
102 ...beautiful, with a thousand wheels, fast
as the mind, robbing the splendour of the summer’s midday sun,...
103 ...splendid with many pearls, rubies, and
diamonds, wonderful with paintings, designs, statues, flowers, lakes and
forests,...
104 ...a chariot that was, O sage, the best of
all chariots owned by demigods or demons, a chariot Visvakarma carefully made
for Lord Siva’s pleasure,...
105 A chariot four hundred miles high and eight
hundred miles across, and splendid with a hundred palaces gracefully appointed
with many beautiful couches and beds.
106 Then they saw a goddess decorated with
jewel ornaments, her splendour robbing molten gold of its glory,...
107 ...a goddess who was very splendid,
peerless, the root of material nature, the controller of material nature, with
a thousand arms holding many weapons,...
108 ...gently smiling, overcome with compassion
for her devotees, her cheeks splendid with jewel earrings, splendid with
tinkling anklets made of the kings of jewels,...
109 ...decorated with jewel bracelets and
armlets, her graceful waist decorated with a jewel belt,...
110 ...her chest glorious with many mandara
garlands, her thighs firm and her raised breasts full,...
111 ...her beautiful face eclipsing the autumn
moon’s splendour, her autumn lotus eyes splendid with graceful mascara,...
112 ...decorated with pictures and designs
drawn in sandal, aguru, and musk, her beautiful lips splendid like new
bandhujiva flowers,...
113 ...her teeth robbing pearls of their
splendour, her braids decorated with blossomed jasmine flowers,...
114 ...an elephant pearl decorating the tip of
her nose graceful like the bird king’s beak,...
115 ...a goddess splendid with garments pure as
fire, and accompanied by her two sons as she cheerfully rode on a lion’s back.
116 Descending from the chariot, the goddess
and her sons at once bowed down before Lord Krishna, the perfect Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Then she sat on
a great throne.
117 Ganesa and Karttikeya bowed down first to
Lord Krishna, who is greater than the greatest, and then to Siva, Yamaraja,
Sesa, and Brahma.
118 The demigoddess rose. Seeing the two boys, the demigods blessed
them, had them sit in their midst, and happily began to talk with them.
119 As the goddess and the demigods stood
before Lord Krishna in the assembly, the many gopas and gopis became filled
with wonder.
120 Then, His lotus face smiling, Lord Krishna
said to Goddess Laksmi: Please go to King Bhismaka’s jewel palace.
121 Eternal goddess, please take birth in Queen
Vidabhi’s womb. O saintly one, I will go
to Kundina and take your hand in marriage.
122 Seeing Goddess Parvati, the demigoddess
quickly rose and had her sit on a beautiful jewel throne.
123 O king of brahmanas, Parvati, Laksmi and
Sarasvati sat together and talked among themselves.
124 the gopis happily talked with the three
goddesses. Some gopis happily sat by
their side.
125 Then Shri Krishna, the master of the
universes, said to Parvati: O beautiful goddess, in an amsa incarnation please
go to Nanda’s Vraja.
126 O beautiful one, O goddess of material
nature, O creator and destroyer of the worlds, please take birth in Yasoda’s
womb from Nanda’s seed.
127 I will arrange that in every village and
city on the earth the people will worship you with devotion.
128 Offering you many splendid gifts, the
people will worship you as their goddess.
129 O auspicious wife of Lord Siva, the moment
you touch the earth My father will take you from the maternity room and place
Me in your stead.
130 For a moment you will see Kamsa and then
you will return to Lord Siva. Then I
will remove the earth’s burden and return to My own abode.
131 After speaking these words, Lord Krishna
said to Karttikeya: Child, in an amsa incarnation you will go to the earth.
132 O great demigod, then you should take birth
in Jambavati’s womb. All the demigods
should go in amsa incarnations to the earth.
Then I will remove the earth’s burden.
133 O Narada, after speaking these words, Lord
Krishna, the husband of Radha, sat on His beautiful throne, and the demigods,
demigoddesses, gopas and gopis also sat in His company.
134 Then Brahma stood up and with folded hands
humbly addressed Lord Krishna, the master of the universes.
135 Shri Brahma said: O Lord, please hear Your
servant’s request. O great one, how and
where we should descend to the earth?
Please give us Your command.
136 A proper master always maintains, protects
and rescues his servants. A proper
servant always devotedly follows his master’s commands.
137 What demigods and demigoddesses in what
forms, in what incarnations, with what names, and performing what actions,
should descend to the earth?
138 Hearing Brahma’s words, Lord Krishna, the
master of the universes, replied: Now I will tell you all of this.
139 Shri Krishna said: Kamadeva will become
Rukmini’s son Pradyumna. Rati will be
reflected in Sambarasura’s house as saintly Mayavati.
140 You will become Pradyumna’s son Aniruddha. Sarasvati will go to Sonitapura and become
Banasura’s daughter Usa.
141 Lord Sesa, the master of the universes,
will go to Devaki’s womb. Then Yogamaya
will pull (sankars) Him into Rohini’s womb.
For this reason He will be called Sankarsana.
142 Ganga will come to the earth in a partial
incarnation as Yamuna. Tulasi will
appear in a half-incarnation as princess Laksmana.
143 Saintly Savitri, the mother of the Vedas,
will be named Nagnajiti. Vasundhara will
become Satyabhama. Goddess Sarasvati
will become Saibya.
144 Rohini will become Princess Mitravinda, and
the sun-god’s wife will partially appear as Ratnamala.
145 Svaha will partially appear as Susila. In this way, beginning with Rukmini, I will
have nine wives. Goddess Durga will
partially appear as Jambavati. Including
her, I will have ten queens.
146 One day on Mount Kailasa, Lord Siva ordered
Parvati: By a partial incarnation Parvati must go to Jambavan’s house.
147 Beloved, you must embrace Lord Vishnu, who
stays in Svetadvipa, and who once came to Mount Kailasa. Because I command you to do this, there will
be no sin on your part.
148 Shri Brahma said: O Krishna, O husband of
Radha, why did Lord Siva give this command to Parvati, that she should approach
Lord Vishnu, who resides in Svetadvipa?
149 Shri Krishna said: When all the demigods
came to see the newborn infant Ganesa, on Lord Siva’s request Lord Vishnu also came
from Svetadvipa.
150 Lord Vishnu happily saw Ganesa and then sat
on a comfortable seat. Then all the
demigods blissfully gazed on Lord Vishnu, whose form enchanted the three
worlds,...
151 ...who wore yellow garments, a crown and
earrings, whose youthful dark forms was very handsome,...
152 ...who was anointed with sandal, aguru,
musk and kunkuma, who was decorated with jewel ornaments, whose lotus face
smiled,...
153 ...who sat on a jewel throne, who was
surrounded by His associates, to whom all the demigods offered obeisances, to
whom Lord Siva offered worship and prayers.
154 When Parvati saw Lord Vishnu she became
filled with a happiness that showed in her face and eyes. Embarrassed, chaste Parvati covered her face
with her sari.
155-6 Her face covered, with unblinking crooked eyes
chaste Parvati gazed again and again at Lord Vishnu’s very handsome,
wonderfully dressed form. The hairs of
her body erect,, she became plunged in an ocean of bliss.
157 For a moment she gazed at splendid Lord
Siva, more handsome than ten million Kamadevas, grasping a trident and axe, and
three eyes on each of his five faces.
158 In the next moment she gazed at dark Lord
Vishnu, wearing yellow garments,, decorated with a forest garland, with one
face and four arms.
159 Gazing at the one Supreme Lord who appears
in many forms, Goddess Parvati, the controller of material bewilderment, fell
under the control of Lord Vishnu’s spiritual power of bewilderment. She became filled with passionate desire.
160 She thought: The three demigods Brahma,
Vishnu, and Siva, are my partial incarnations.
Still Vishnu is best, for He is in the mode of goodness.
161 Parvati gazed at Lord Vishnu and in her
thoughts devotedly worshipped Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the
Supersoul in everyone’s heart.
162 Lord Siva, who was also the Personality of
Godhead, the master of the universes, and the Supersoul in everyone’s heart,
knew what Parvati was thinking.
163 Taking her to a secluded place, Lord Siva
spoke to Parvati. He taught her all that
was auspicious and true.
164 Shri Siva said: O Parvati, please
understand my words. You must become the
passionate lover of Lord Vishnu, the all-pervading Supersoul and Supreme
Personality of Godhead.
165 Vishnu, Brahma, and I are the one eternal
Supreme Lord. We are not different. We are the one Lord manifest in different
forms.
166 You are the potency of the Supreme
Lord. You are the mother of all. You appear in many forms. You are Brahma’s wife Sarasvati. You are Goddess Laksmi who rests on Lord
Narayana’s chest.
167 O saintly one, you are also Parvati, who
rests on my chest.
After hearing Lord Siva’s words,
Parvati, the queen of the demigods, spoke to him.
168 Shri Parvati said: O friend of the poor, O
ocean of mercy, why have you no mercy for me?
For a long time I performed austerities to attain you, the master of the
universes.
169 Lord, you cannot reject a servant like
me. O Siva, please do not speak these
improper words to me.
170 Lord, I will obey your command. I will take birth in another body. Then I will become Lord Vishnu’s lover.
171 Hearing these words, Lord Siva burst into
laughter. In this way he reassured
Parvati and removed her fears.
172 To keep her word chaste Parvati will take
birth in Jambavan’s house. O Brahma, she
will be named Jambavati.
173 Shri Brahma said: On the earth there are
many different kinds of kings. Why will
Parvati take birth in the home of a bear?
174 Shri Krishna said: In Treta-yuga, during
the incarnation of Lord Rama, the demigods incarnated on the earth. At that time the king of the Himalaya’s
incarnated as the bear Jambavan, a great servant of Lord Rama.
175 Because of a boon from Lord Rama, Jambavan
is long-lived, handsome, and strong like ten million lions.
176 In this way Parvati will go to the earth
and take birth in the house of Jambavan, who is an incarnation of her father,
the king of the Himalayas. Now please
hear more explanations from My mouth.
177 All the demigods should partially incarnate
on the earth. O Brahma, as
warrior-princes they will assist Me in battle.
178 Goddess Laksmi will partially incarnate as
16 000 princesses who will become My queens.
179 Yamaraja will partially incarnate as
Pandu’s son Yudhisthira. Vayu will
partially incarnate as Bhimasena. Indra
will partially incarnate as Arjuna.
180 The Asvini-kumaras will partially incarnate
as Nakula and Sahadeva. Surya will
partially incarnate as the heroic warrior Karna. Yamaraja will personally appear as Vidura.
181 Kali will partially incarnate as
Duryodhana. Varuna will partially
incarnate as Santanu. Siva will
partially incarnate as Asvatthama. Agni
will partially incarnate as Dronacarya.
182 Candra will partially incarnate as
Abhimanyu. Vasu will partially incarnate
as Bhisma. Kasyapa will partially
incarnate as Vasudeva. Aditi will
partially incarnate as Devaki.
183 Vasu will partially incarnate as
Nanda-gopa. Vasu’s wife will partially
incarnate as Yasoda. Laksmi will
partially incarnate as Draupadi, who was born from a yajna pond.
184 Agni will partially incarnate as noble and
powerful Dhrstadyumna. Satarupa will
partially incarnate as Subhadra, born from Devaki’s womb.
185 In this way the demigods must go, by their
partial expansions, to the earth and help to remove its burden. The demigods’ wives must also go, by their
partial expansions, to the earth.
186 At that point Lord Krishna stopped
speaking. O Narada, Brahma stood there,
listening.
187 Sarasvati was at Lord Krishna’s left and
Laksmi at His right. Parvati and all the
demigods were before Him.
188 The gopis and gopas were before Him. Shri Radha rested on His chest. At that moment Shri Radha, the queen of Vraja
spoke to Lord Krishna.
189 Shri Radha said: O Lord, please hear the
words of Your maidservant. My life has
become a blazing fire that burns without stop.
My mind trembles, swinging to and fro.
190 When I look at You I cannot even
blink. O Lord, how can I go to the earth
without You?
191 O friend, how much time must pass before I
will meet You again in Gokula? O master
of My life, please tell the truth.
192 An eyeblink without You will be a hundred
yugas for Me. What will I look on? Where will I go? Who will protect Me?
193 O master of My life, how can I for a moment
think of mother, father, relatives, friends, brother, sister, or children when
You are gone?
194 O master of illusions, please promise me
that when I am on the earth You will not cover Me with illusion and make Me
forget Your glories.
195 O Krishna, please turn My mind into a
bumblebee always wandering among the nectar lotus-flowers of Your feet.
196 Wherever I may be born, please give Me
service to You and remembrance of You.
197 You are Krishna and I am Radha. When I am on the earth may I never forget the
glory of Our love. O Lord, please give
Me this benediction.
198 As breath always stays with the body and as
the body always stays with its shadow, may We two always stay together when We
take birth. O Lord please give Me this
benediction.
199 When We are on the earth let Us not be
separated for even an eyeblink. O Lord,
please give Me this benediction.
200 Who was it that used My life-breath to
create Your body, feet, and flute?
201 How many glorious kinds of women are
there? How many kinds of glorious men
praised again and again? No woman is
attached to her lover as I am to You.
202 How is it that I was created from half of
Your body? There is no difference
between Us. That is why My mind always
thinks of You.
203 How is it that My mind, heart, and life
were placed in Your body. And Your mind, heart and life were placed in Mine?
204 That is why an eyeblink’s separation from
You brings a great catastrophe to My mind.
That is why, when it hears that We may be separated, My life-force burns
in an unending fire.
205 After speaking these words in the assembly
of demigods, again and again Shri Radha grasped Lord Krishna’s lotus feet and
loudly wept.
206 Then, placing Her on His lap and with His
own garment wiping the tears from Her face, Lord Krishna spoke many true and
beneficial words.
207 Shri Krishna said: Goddess, please listen
and I will describe to You the yoga of the Supreme, a yoga even the kings of
the yogis cannot understand, a yoga that cuts grief into many pieces.
208 O beautiful one, consider this: The entire
universe is constructed of two things: resting places and things that rest in
them. It is not possible for a resting
thing to be separated from its resting place.
209 For the fruit the resting place is the
flower. For the flower the resting place
is the twig. For the twig the resting
place is the branch. For the branch the
resting place is the tree itself.
210 For the tree the resting place is the
sapling. For the sapling, which is
manifest from the seed, the resting place is the seed. For the seed the resting place is the earth.
211 For the earth the resting place is Lord
Sesa. For Lord Sesa the resting place is
the great tortoise beneath Him. For the
tortoise the resting place is the wind.
For the wind the resting place is I Myself.
212 For Me the resting place is You. I always rest in You. You have all powers. You are the root from which the material
nature has sprung. You are the Supreme
Goddess.
213 You are the resting place of all
bodies. You are the resting place of the
three mode of nature. You are the
resting place of Me, for I am Your heart.
Without You I cannot act. Only by
Your grace have I the power to act.
214 From the man the seed is manifest. From the seed children are manifest. The resting place of both seed and children
is the woman, who is manifest from material nature.
215 How can the spirit soul exist without the
body? How can the body exist without the
spirit soul? They are both the first
cause. O goddess, how can the creation
be manifest without them both?
216 O Radha, We are not different. We are the seed and the world grown from the
seed. I am the soul and You are the
body. Where the soul is present, there
also is the body. We are not
different. Why must You be so humble?
217 As whiteness is present in milk, as heat is
present in fire, as fragrance is present in earth, and as coolness is present
in fire, so I am always present in You.
218 As milk and its whiteness, fire and its
heat, earth and its fragrance, and water and its coolness are one and cannot be
separated, We are one also. We cannot be
separated.
219 Without Me, You are lifeless. Without You, I am invisible. O beautiful one, without You I cannot exist.
220 Without clay a potter cannot make a
pot. Without gold a goldsmith cannot
make a gold ornament.
221 As the spirit soul is eternal, Your are
also eternal. You are the material
nature. You are all powerful. You are the eternal resting place of
everything.
222 Laksmi, all-auspicious Sarasvati, Brahma,
Siva, Sesa, and Yamaraja are dear as life to Me. But You are more dear than life to Me.
223 If this were not so, then why do the
demigods and demigoddesses stay nearby, but You rest on My chest, O Radha?
224 O Radha, give up Your tears. I saintly one, give up this fruitless and
mistaken worry and go to King Vrsabhanu’s house.
225 O beautiful one, use Your powers to create
an artificial pregnancy in Kalavati. For
nine months fill her womb with air.
226 When the tenth month comes leave Your
natural form behind, accept the form of an infant girl and go to the earth.
227 At the time of giving birth, place Your
form of a naked infant on the ground by Kalavati and cry like a newborn child.
228 O saintly one, in this way, without
entering a mother’s womb, You will appear in Gokula. I also will appear without entering a
mother’s womb. You and I do not enter a
mother’s womb.
229 The moment I come to earth Vasudeva will
carry Me to Gokula. Pretending to fear
Kamsa, I will go there for Your sake.
230 I will be Nanda’s son in Yasoda’s
house. O beautiful one, again and again
You will happily see me and tightly embrace Me.
231 O Radha, because of the benediction I give
You, You will remember everything.
Following My own wish, I will enjoy pastimes with You in Vrndavana
forest again and again.
232 Therefore, accompanied by thirty three
virtuous friends and twenty one billion gopi-associates, please go to Vraja.
233-4 O Radha, after comforting with eloquent nectar
words the numberless gopas and gopis left behind in Goloka, I will go to
Vasudeva’s home in Mathura City.
235 The ten million gopas most dear to Me
should take birth in the homes of the gopas.
To enjoy pastimes with Me they should go to Vraja.
236 O Narada, then Lord Krishna stopped
speaking. The demigods, demigoddesses,
gopas and gopis were silent.
237 Then Brahma, Siva, Yama, Sesa, Parvati,
Laksmi and Sarasvati joyfully offered prayers to Lord Krishna.
238 Overcome with love and burning in the
flames of imminent separation, the devoted gopas and gopis offered prayers to
Lord Krishna and bowed down before Him.
239 Burning in the flames of imminent
separation even though Her desires were all fulfilled, Shri Radha devotedly
offered prayers to Her lover Krishna, who is more dear to Her than life.
240 Seeing that Shri Radha was weeping many
tears of distress, Lord Krishna spoke to Her truthful words of enlightenment.
241 Shri Krishna said: O goddess more dear than
life, please be peaceful. Give up You
fears. What You feel I also feel. Why should You be unhappy while I am with
You.
242 However, I will tell You something that is
not good. You will be separated from Me
for a hundred years.
243 O beautiful one, I will go to Mathura and
because of Shridama’s curse, We will be separated.
244 In Mathura I will remove the earth’s
burden, release My parents from bondage and give liberation to a florist, a
tailor and a hunchback girl.
245 Then I will kill Kalayavana, deliver
Mucukunda, build the city of Dvaraka, and see a Rajasuya-yajna.
246 Then I will marry 16 100 princesses and
defeat many enemies.
247 Then I will help My friends, burn Varanasi,
make Siva yawn and cut Banasura’s arms.
248 I will forcibly take the Parijata tree, see
many saintly sages when I go on pilgrimage, and perform many other activities.
249 While on pilgrimage I will speak with My
friends and relatives, help My father perform a yajna, and, at an auspicious
moment, see You again.
250 There I will also see the gopis and again I
will teach You the truth of spiritual philosophy.
251 From that time We will never really be
separated for even a moment of the day or night. Then, after some time, I will return to
Vraja.
252 Beloved, during the hundred years We are
separated We will meet in Our dreams again and again.
253 In My Narayana form I will go to Dvaraka
for those hundred years. In that way I
will enjoy My pastimes there.
254 Then I will return to live with You in the
forest. Then I will wipe away all the
sufferings of My parents and the gopas and gopis.
255 When I have removed the earth’s burden I
will return to Goloka with the gopas, gopis and You.
256 O Radha, in My form as eternal Lord
Narayana I will return to Vaikuntha with Laksmi and Sarasvati.
257 My various incarnations will return to
Svetadvipa, the home of religion, and the partial incarnations of the demigods
and demigoddesses will all return to their respective abodes.
258 Then You and I will again live in
Goloka. Beloved, now I have told You everything
both good and bad. Who can stop from
happening what I have foretold?
259 After speaking these words, Lord Krishna
had Radha rest against His chest. All
the demigods and their wives were astonished.
260 Then Lord Krishna said to the demigods and
demigoddesses: O demigods, please return to your homes and prepare for your
mission.
261 O Parvati, please go to Mount Kailasa with
your husband and sons. At the proper
time you will execute the mission I have given you.
262 As I have said, you will take birth as a
partial incarnation. You will not be
accompanied by Ganesa, who is the lord of the great and the small.
263-4 Bowing down before Lord Krishna, the demigods
happily returned to their homes. Then,
bowing again before Lord Krishna and before Laksmi and Sarasvati, they went,
eager to execute their mission, to the earth.
Then Lord Krishna described Shri Radha’s mission, a mission beyond what
the demigods can attain.
265 Lord Krishna said to Shri Radha:
Accompanied by the many gopas and gopis I have already named, please go to King
Vrsabhanu’s home.
266 Beloved, first I will go to Vasudeva’s home
in Mathura, and then, on the pretext of fearing Kamsa, I will go to Gokula,
where You will be.
267 Radha bowed down before Lord Krishna. Tormented with the thought of being separated
from Her love, She wept, Her eyes now red lotus flowers, again and again.
268 She began to go and then She returned. Again and again and again and again She left,
returned, and gazed and gazed at Lord Krishna’s face.
269 With the cakora birds of Her unblinking
eyes saintly Radha drank the nectar moonlight of Lord Krishna’s face.
270 Seven times the supreme goddess Radha
circumambulated Lord Krishna. Seven
times She bowed down and respectfully stood before Him.
271 Then twenty-one billion gopis and ten
million gopas came there.
272 O Narada, accompanied by the multitudes of
gopas and gopis, Shri Radha bowed down before Lord Krishna and respectfully
stood before Him.
273 Accompanied by Her thirty-three close
friends and by the many gopas and gopis, beautiful Radha bowed down before Lord
Krishna and then went to the earth.
274 Then Radha-gopi went to Vrsabhanu-gopa’s
home, the place Lord Krishna arranged for Her in Nanda’s Gokula.
275 When Radha went with the gopas and gopis to
the earth, Lord Krishna became eager to go there also.
276 After speaking to the gopas and gopis and
giving them their various duties, Lord Krishna, the master of the universes,
travelling as fast as the mind, went to Mathura.
277 Before all this Vasudeva and Devaki had six
sons and Kamsa killed each one as soon as they were born.
278 By Lord Krishna’s order, Yogamaya pulled
from Devaki’s womb the seventh embryo, who was an incarnation of Lord Sesa, and
place it in Rohini’s womb in Gokula.