Garga Bhagavatham : Vrindavan Khanda - Chapter 9

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Lord Brahma praises Lord Sri Krishna 

 

Sri Brahma said:-  Bhagawan Sri Krishna! You, who has the radiance of clouds, who wears lightning colored attire, who speaks with a voice full of the sweetness of nectar, the greatest of all, the holder of the flute, who wears peacock feather, my salutations to You and Your brother Balaram. Sri Krishna, You alone, the greatest among men, the Complete God of Gods is Sri Hari, who is beyond creation. We, the Devatas, who are parts of You and your Kalavatars, and with Whose powers we respectively create the world, rear the world and destroy the world, the same Supreme Lord, You, have descended to this world in the form of Sri Krishnachandra and accepted to be born as the son of Nand. With premier Gopa boys, You are going around grazing cows in the guise of a Gopa in Vrindavan. The one who is equal to a crore Kamadevas and is meteoric, wearer of Koustubha, who is dark-colored, wearer of yellow-colored dress, bearer of the flute, King of Vraj, husband of Radhika, one who roams in the thickets, the most handsome Sri Hari, I prostrate before You. One, who similar to the clouds that cover the sky, who is present in the bodies of animals as their soul, one who is the primordial knowledge embodied, and who is Chitta-Swaroop, who is beyond Maya and who is attainable by pure devotion, prominent asceticism, The First God Sri Hari, I bow before you. One who knows all! When the mind starts getting obsessed with greed, pleasures, and ambitions (Rajoguna), then oaths become uncertain. The mind that is influenced by oaths and uncertainties generates pride and the same which is full of pride gets deformed. Like the momentary spark of lightning, like the changing of seasons, like a line drawn on water, like the love of cheating traveler, the pleasures of life is an illusion and false. Material pleasures are surrounded by sadness and it is like the circle which is formed when sparks of fire are rotated fast. It is like a stationary object which appears to be moving because of the flowing of water in the background. When eyes are rotated with speed, earth which is stationary appears to be moving, Krishna. Just like that, one who is influenced by the characteristics that are created by nature thinks that it is the truth. Happiness and sadness that are derived out of one's mind, will be lost while they are asleep and they start feeling them again once they are awake, for them this illusion of self-love becomes permanent in the world. By sacrificing these endearments and pride, wise men become ascetics, full of love and peace. Their elemental vision is, with one flame of light, crores of lights can be lit, just like that just, one Divine God can generate everything.

 

     A pious one will be free of all these qualities, and like a flame without smoke, he will worship 'Vasudev' who is the Lord of even Brahma. Just like we see many images of one moon in many pails of water, just like that they are gratified by seeing the unity of the soul. Even after studying the Vedas continuously, not even a fraction of that can be understood completely! Then, who can in the three worlds describe the qualities of Sri Hari? Myself with four faces, Deva of Devas, Mahadev with five faces, and Seshnag with thousand faces praise You. The resident of Vaikunta, Vishnu, Ksheerodashaayi, Sri Hari, and religious sage Narayan are all serving You, Lord of Golok. Aha! Murari! Your glory is felicitous. Your glory is known to neither to sages nor ordinary mortals on this earth. Devas, demons, and the fourteen Manu's are also incapable of knowing You. All of these can not have darshan of your Lotus Feet even in their dreams. Ocean of glory, Giver of salvation, God of Glory, King of Vraj, I pay my obeisance to You. Shining with a face colored like a betel nut, sweet spoken, with red lips in the color of scarlet gourd fruit, sweet smile shining with clean teeth like the kernels of pomegranate fruit, with attractive shining blue cheeks and brightly shining and swinging golden ear drops, Sri Krishna, I bow before you. Your most beautiful form will win over the heart of Kamadev. Let my eyes always be seeing the beauty of Sri Krishna, who wears the large eardrops, Whose leelas are greater than the Vaikunta leela and whose most excellent looks are revered by all the Devas, I offer my salutations to you with bowed head. Victory to Sri Krishna in Vrindavan, which is graceful with the beauty of Vasanta kaala(spring season), which is full of nightingales and other birds, which is beautified by new trees, and is bestowed with a gentle breeze. May this Lord always protect His devotees. Your broad eyes filled with love and benevolence will take away the reputation of lotuses and the pride of the swinging pearls. They please all the amorous people on this earth and are accomplished and equal to the arrows of Kamadev which inspire love. I worship Him, Whose fingernails are like the Moon of Sharat kaal (autumn season), provide safety, destroys pitch darkness . Your feet are similar to the ever-shining crores of rays from the Sudarsan chakra of Sri Hari and from those feet brightness radiates like the brightness of the wheels of the chariot of the Sun God. Around Your waist, the yellow-colored cloth with small bells is shining brightly. I worship that charming beauty of Yours, on whose bright and broad chest, Lakshmi resides, on whose necklace, golden beads and precious gems are shining like stars and who wears a garland of flowers with the sound of humming bees, who is playing on the flute with vermillion-colored fingers, on whose fingers golden finger rings are shining, whose hands are like the bright as Moonlight and smells like flowers of Kadamba trees in Kamadev's garden, whose slowness of movement is as beautiful as that of a king swan, whose shoulders are lifted till His neck, who puts to shame the beauty of the clouds, I meditate on that delightful charm. Who is stainless like a clean mirror, pleasant, shining with youthfulness, protector of humans and beautiful with eardrops and curly hair, I meditate on those cheeks of Sri Hari, which are bright like the Sun and Moon. The one who wears red cloth embedded with beads of gold and precious gems, who owns all the handsomeness that is there on the face of Kamadev, who has the reddish glow of the morning sky and the brightness of a crore Suns and Moons, and who is adorning the peacock feather, my salutations to that crown of Sri Krishna. Into His doors, even Lord Kartikeya, Ganesh, Indra, Chandra, and even Surya are not allowed, without Whose permission no one can enter Nikunj, I worship that Lord of the universe Sri Krishnachandra.

 

   Sri Brahma, who praised Sri Krishna in this manner, again said with folded hands ' Universal Lord! I was generated out of your navel, hence like a mother who forgives her son's wrongdoings, you please forgive my misdeeds. Lord of Vraj! I am overlord of only one world and You the supreme Lord of crores of universes. Hence

Lord of Vraj Madhusudan! Lord! Please save me. By whose Maya, all the Gods, demons, and humans are enraptured, I like a fool tried to impress them with my own Maya. Govind, You are Narayan, I am not Narayan. Hari! At the start of time, You created the universe and became Seshsaayee (one who sleeps on Seshanag) in the form of Narayan. Many ascetics give up their lives and merge into Your brightness of Brahmaroop, even Poothana along with her clan merged into your brightness. Because of my own misdeed, You took the form of calves and Gopa boys and roamed in the forest. Because of this too, please pardon me! Like a father who does not see his son's folly, You also please overlook my misdeed and have mercy on me. Just like those who plow the land for straw get only straw in their hands, people who are not your devotees make mistakes mentally and come into grief. Those who perpetually live with devotion towards You, many ascetics, saints, and people of Vraj have already attained you. By the two ways of seeing and listening they attain You, but Alas! by the Maya of Sri Hari, my attainment has not happened!

 

   Sri Brahma saying like this and shedding tears fell at the feet of Sri Krishna and paid obeisance and again started praying ' I want to be born as a Gopa and worship your feet and attain salvation, please let there be no paucity of this, Bhagawan Shankar and all of us Devatas have entered into the bodies of these people of Barath, Gopas and have had darshan of Sri Krishna and are blessed. Sri Krishna! Your father, mother, all the Gopas and Gopis are unquestionably blessed, who in Vraj are having Your complete darshan. Protector of the entire universe, one who wears the creation like a pearl necklace, creator of the universe, the foundation of all, storehouse of leelas, one who moves in the Yamuna, the daughter of Sun, playful Sri Krishnacahandra's incarnating Lord, protect me. Lotus of the lake in the form of Vishnu, son of Nand, Lord of Radha, God of Gods, Madan Mohan, King of Vraj, Head of Gokul, Govind, protect me, as I am enamored by Maya. Those who go around Krishna(parikrama) attain the benefits of going on pilgrimage all over the world. They will go to the most pleasant and the greatest world called 'Golok'

 

Sri Narada says:- King of the world, Pitamaha, Brahma, after praising the lovely Vrindavan's Lord and prostrating before Him and doing Parikrama around Him three times became invisible for a while and after blessing the calves and the Gopa boys, prayed to return to his place.

 

   Thereafter, Sri Hari permitted by signaling with His eyes. Father of the world paying obeisance again went back to his world. King! after this Bhagawan Sri Krishna quickly brought back the calves and Gopa boys to the place on the banks of Yamuna where they were originally seated. Seeing Sri Krishna the boys felt like only half a second had passed because of His Maya. Those boys after seeing Sri Krishna with the calves told Him 'You come and eat quickly. Lord! since you went away no one has eaten our food'. Sri Krishna laughingly ate with them and showed the boys the skin of a python. After that, Sri Krishna along with other Gopa boys and the calves, going in front, returned slowly to Vraj. White, piquant, yellow, green, and many other colored calves going in front and slowly returning from the pleasant forest in a group was Sri Krishna, to whom I pay my obeisance. Being separated from Sri Krishna even for a moment, the Gopis felt as if ages have passed. Seeing Him again they all felt very happy. The boys went to their respective homes, tied the calves in their sheds, and narrated the incidents of Aghasur's slaying and being saved by Srihari.

 

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