Sunday 5 April 2015

Krishna Delights Everyone's Eyes


SB 10.21.7 {Venu Gita} "[...] For those who have eyes, we think there is no greater object of vision."

Another gopis said : “Oh Sakhis! We intensely desire to relish Krishna’s dancing, singing and flute playing and to see all those beasts, deer, doves and birds assembled on the hill slopes who become stunned in bliss.”  Sarartha Darsini Pg230

“All the cranes and swans in the water are being enchanted by the melodious song of Krishna’s flute. They have approached and are worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead with full attention. Alas, they are closing their eyes and are becoming completely silent.” SB 10.35.11

"Seeing Him, the cows birds, bushes, creepers and trees all became ecstatic." SBB Vol. III 5.109 

"Seeing His beauty, people would curse Brahma, the creator of eyelids, and praise Indra who has a thousand eyes, and hanker for all their senses to become eyes." SBB Vol. III 5.110


Rainbow wreathed
in forest flowers,
the bluish cloud 
resounds the notes of a raga;
treetops bend in awe,
the melody and the wind interweave,
and the forest becomes still;

lions, tigers, deer and does
stare at the hillside
forgetting to be foes,
hanging from the trees
parrots drip tears of bliss,
swans, cranes  and doves
dumbfounded, hardly breathe,
to hear this liquid song of love
that pours down from the Hill,
flooding the land of the heart,
where the creatures of Vraj
plunge in rasa;

fawns, stags and bucks
entranced by the melodious music,
stop chewing on buds of grass
their hearts melted by Cupid,
and the peacocks fan out their tails,
 dancing rhythmically
in the shine of Shyam's toenails,
at the lotus whorl of His feet,
where hearts,
 softened by devotion,
hanker to be;

He whirls, pirouettes and twirls,
dressed up like an actor
   attired with feathers and leaves,
The cooing of the cuckoo becomes honeyed
eating flowers,
and then starts singing melodiously
amidst the bowers;

in the same way,
the Blue Flutist's gaze
drinks in the moonlight,
then, excited, bends to play
the sweetest of tunes;
the silvery light from the sky
falls into crystal lakes
reflecting from His eyes,
enchanted, the white lilies bloom
so the expert Dancer
becomes brighter than the Moon,
and starts circling with the stars
of the same silvery hue.

He steals everyone's mind,
so they have no other desire
but to turn each pore
into an unblinking eye.






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