Krishna Katha

SB 2.2.37 "Those who drink the sweet pastimes of the Lord and his devotees held in the cups of their ears clean their hearts of all contamination and attain the lotus feet of the Lord for service."

SBMM 20.59 "O great hero, kindly allow us to drink the nectar of Your lotus lips This nectar increases one's love for You, destroys one's lamentation, is constantly relished by Your enchanting flute, and it transforms the living entities' material attachments."

This poem was inspired by the following excerpt from a commentary of Srimad B. Narayana Goswami Maharaja where he explains about the adharamrita or the nectar from Krishna's lips.

"The deer and cuckoos are indeed fortunate, but the most fortunate are the gopis, who can directly taste Krishna's original adharamrita.  The deer and the cuckoos cannot relish this adharamrta directly, but they can listen to Krishna's flute-song.  And there are others, who can hear about Krishna's pastimes.  They hear that Krsna is playing His flute and that all human beings, animals, birds and other creatures in Vrindavana are hearing His flute-song. As a result of listening to narrations of His pastimes, these persons, too, develop the ambition to hear His flute." Gopi Gita commentary by Srimad B. Narayana Goswami Maharaja.

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

SECRETS IN VRAJA

“Listen to the unsaid things

Of the song that Radha sings “

                                       Gita Govinda

SB 10.21.4 "The cowherd girls began to speak about Krishna but when they remembered His activities, O King, the power of Cupid disturbed their minds, and thus they could not speak." 

The Gopis spend their daytime speaking about Krishna.
He is in the forest and their feelings of separation churn their love while they wait anxiously for His return.  Gopis' love for krishna is kept secret because of social constraints. So, in silences and in bodily expressions and in crooked discourses and puns, lovers, unmistakably, conceal messages of deep love.
Therefore the Gopis talk  indirectly referring to their love for Krishna, by glorifying the birds, the clouds, peacocks, all the living entities of Vraja, who get His association.   So, after long talks their voices choke in recalling His activities and beauty to their friends and love inflames their hearts.  The Gopis' minds always reach out to Krishna enabling them to see Him through the love in their hearts, this makes the Gopis' love for Krishna the highest expression of Love of Godhead.

POESY AT VESPER

Sri Brhad Bhagavatmrita III 6.294  “When you go off to the Vrndavana forest with Your friends, eager to enjoy Your cowherd pastimes, we manage to pass our days – only with difficulty – by holding  on to the hope that in the evening You will certainly return.”

SB 10.19.16 “The young gopis took the greatest pleasure in seeing Govinda come home, since for them even a moment without his association seemed like a hundred ages.”

Venu-gita pg 47  “…the emotions that fuel the urge to speak of Him…Sri Krsna is very much attracted to such clever language….” 

SB 10.35.26 "Sri Sukadeva Goswami said : O King thus during the daytime the women of Vrindavana took pleasure in continuously singing about the pastimes of Krishna, and those ladies' minds and hearts, absorbed in Him, were filled with great festivity." 

Dusk is approaching and another day is ending in Vraja, but now Krishna is still in Mathura. The Gopis, watching the twilight, remember the time when Krishna was in Vrindavana, when in the morning He would leave to the forest  and, after seeing Him off, they would start to wait for His return and pass the afternoon talking about His flute, the birds, the clouds in an encrypted wordage, so others could not read their hearts. Until dusk would come and then He would return covered with the dust raised by the cows' hooves. But now these are only memories because today He will not be back by this dusk, He is in Mathura.

If today You had gone

to the forest,

we'd  all have run

down the enchanted lanes

of Vrindavan,

to nurture moments

of furtive sidelong glances,

to torture our minds

in the long hours to come

by only speaking of you,

over and over about your flute

in a way that seems abstruse;

then falling silent,

caught by desire,

by this agitation of the heart

so hard to hide,

because our innermost thoughts

always followed You there,

out in the groves,

and even then it seemed so long,

waiting,

to see You in the distance,

in the light of dusk,

in the dust stirred up

by the hooves of the calves.

But then Your return was certain,

now nothing is the same as before,

it's so long since You have been gone.

Do You ever look with longing

towards this horizon

where there's Vraja?

Is there a Spring there
to remind You of Radha?

MURALI VADANA

Gopala Campu : “ He would sit in Vraja or the forest nourishing his joy and longing while playing the flute.”

“Krishna stood on pleasing Govardhan with a strong desire for rasa pastimes.”

"When the song of Krishna's flute spread out with a heart- touching raga, an indescribable confusion subdued the inhabitants of Vraja and produced obstacles (increase in desire)." Gopala Campu 17.73


Radha is remembering Krishna dressed as a cowherd boy and the blowing of His flute, which is the irresistible attraction for all the living entities. In another verse of the Caitanya Caritamrita 2.15 Caitanya speaks like Radha, overcome by Her love in a rasa of separation :

"Where is the Lord of My life, who is playing His flute [Murali Vadana]? What shall I do now? Where should I go to find the son of Mahārāja Nanda?"

So, Radha remembers Krishna when he plays the flute, and Krishna remembers Radha when playing His flute - He calls Her, He desires Her, He dreams to meet Her....

In the taste of water
is Krishna,
His blue skin
mirrors His infinity
in the oceans
and in the enveloping skies ~
for all rests in Him,
while in His mind
dwells beauty, pleasure and rasa.                                    
But only in Vraja