Krishna Seva

[Pushtidas]

Jai Shree Krishna

Here is the third stanza of Gopi-Geet.

Sloka 3

[Trushna]

Jai Shree Krushna,

Pushtidasji it is nice to have another dose of Gopi Geet, I understand you have been busy, so thankyou for the latest posting it again clearly indicates the intelligence of the Gopis who in one stanza describe several of Thakorjis leelas. Taking us also back into memory lane where our Kano defeated those monstrous villains sent by Kansa mama! Well done Rushubh!

Looking forward to next posting, keep it up!
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Yadi Shree Gokuladhisho dhrutah sarvatmana rudhayi, tathi kimparambruhi loukikai vedikai rapi
Jai Shree Krishna

[palna]

JSK,
Agreed Trushnaji! Nice to have the words broken down, look forward to the indepth explanation.
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Prem Bandhan Ajab Gajab, Brahmaganth sami aa ganth, na tutai na chutai

Palna na Koti Koti Jai Shree Krishna

[shahhetp]

Jai Shri Krishna

Thnxz Pushtidasji for wonderfull postings. As usual ur postings are fantastic. Agreed with Trushnaji nice to have words broken down and indepth meaning. It helps understanding the subject much better.

Awaiting for ur further postings ............
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Jai Shree Krishna
Hetal Shah
Shri Vallabh hi ko bhari bharoso .....................

[Pushtidas]

Jai Shree krishna

Here is the next posting on the Gopi Geet. Thank you all for encouraging lovely emails on this subject. Hetulji we have covered different types of Gopis in the beginning of the gopi geet and all the question you asked, have been covered in the Gopi-Geet. If you still need further explanation then do contact me.


Slokartha:


It is not difficult to deduce from above words which have been segregated from the stanza and have been analysed word by word and syllables by syllables, to understand the meaning of the sloka. So the logic progression would be to stream line the words into a proper translation of the stanza to discover the real meaning and try to understand what Gopis are saying and why.

So here we go, holds on to the rein and off we go:

The Gopis are saying:

O’ Shreshtam ! You have protected us from Kalinag’s venom which had contaminated the water of river Yamna, you saved us from Demon called Aghasur, you sheltered us from the heavy rain that Indra raja had bestowed on Vraj with vengeance, when Demon Trunavarta wanted to destroy us with Tornado and when Vrushbhasur demon started Davanal (the forest fire) you were there to protect us. You have always protected us from all worldly dangers (and will continue to do so).

Vivachan:

Now lets us look at this stanza in depth. These Gopis were saying quite a lot in a very few words of sloka, and yet these chosen words were anxious to tell us more than what really is being read in the sloka.

To start with, the above stanza was relayed by Gopis who were Satvik-satvik.

Gopis:
Hey Shrestham, we have been on the verge of death on many occasions, and this we know, as when whole Vraj was on the edge of being drowned by the heavy rain that was the result of annoyance of Indra Raja, you were at our rescue. You rescued all Vrajvasi (Vraj dwellers) from drowning and you gave us a new life. It as you who showed us that you are higher than Indra and it was you who showed the true form of God, so why are you trying to kill us on the path of hilag in love?

In love we are supposed to be happy, in love we should be feeling secure, and in love one should surrender to the lover who in turn should protect the surrendered love. The nectar of love brings that bliss, the bliss then strike the cord of happiness that is set to bring that achievement of blissful togetherness. If all these achievements are devalued in love then who will follow the Path Of Love, who will follow the Path of grace?

Hey Nandlal, why did you jump into river Yamuna to fight that Giant Kalinag who had one hundred heads and all of them were full of killer venom?

Krishna who was hiding inside Gopis laughed and said:

Arey Sakhis, I jumped into river Yamunaji for my Sakhas, my Gope friends and my payful gang. I did not jump for you. It is beyond my comprehension why you connect this leela with you?

Gopis laughed at the answer and with smile on the face, they replied:

Gopis:
Lala, these so called Gope-friends are related to us. These Gopes are our blood relation, so when you jumped in the river, indirectly it was for us as well. This world is like ocean full of all types of creatures and dangers. When you jumped into Yamunaji, it was like you jumping into Sansar (the material world) and fought with kaliyug, the Maya squirting (here Gopis replaced Maya for venom and Kaliyug for Kalinag) naag and saved us from drinking the venom of Sansar. The smile from your eyes reveals nectar that fills life into all Vraj-vasi (the dwellers of Braj town). That shows how much you care for us and we are sure that you will not let us drown in the river of sorrow. We are already drowning in the materialistic world, are you going to let us drink the lokik (materialistic) venom?

The Gopis are really describing the Indriyadhias. There are two types of Indriyadhias (1) Kamendrya and (2) Gnandriya. Kalinaag is depicted as Indriyadhiyas which squirts venom called Kamendrya and Gnandriya. These venoms are fatal for soul as they hinder its progress to advance into spiritual world. Soul drinks these venoms and thinks it is the nectar that will oblige the bliss in the material life. These indriyo are the senses of lust and knowledge of lust and it is producing that destroyable bliss .The soul although has the knowledge to control these indriyo, yet it infuses into drinking this venom which enhances the lust and lokik desire. All these senses in our body can be controlled and trained to accept right aptitude, for instance, when tongue enjoys sweet food more than the healthy food, then it is construed as unhealthy eating habit, as the sugar in excess could be a way to disaster and can be a poison to the body. Food is essential commodity for our body to survive, but only healthy food will give us right healthy body which in turn gives that healthy life. When tongue ask for sweet food, then it is said to have indulge into raas that drowns it into indriyadhias. We see many souls live for food infact we should only use the food for survival.

We are like the fish which gets enticed by the food which is dangling in the fishing net. The soul gets enticed by Kaliyug and gets trapped in the network of Maya
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Dasa nu das
Pushtidas

[shahhetp]

Jai Shri Krishna

Thanks Pushtidasji for lovely posting and guidance.

While reading ur posting I came through the word which I thought I hv read somwhere but didn't remember meaning so ask the questions immediately. Infact after asking the query I read Gopi geet again and my query was solved there n than. Thanks for the reply.

Pushtidasji enjoying ur postings n eagerly waiting for ur next postings.
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Jai Shree Krishna
Hetal Shah
Shri Vallabh hi ko bhari bharoso .....................

[Sital]

Jai Shree Krushna,

Thanks Pusthidasji, excellent piece of writing, conveying many intellectual messages. It is true that we are trapped in the network of Maya even though a huge amount has been written and said on this subject. We have also been given several tools on how to conquer Maya, Kalyug and also how to find one’s true identity and relationship with the supreme via bhakti and seva. Even then life on earth at times feels like a game of snakes and ladders.

Upon reading this posting, in my opinion it indicates that our darling Thakorji is definitely taking us over the ocean of Kalyug and Maya in his own way, I suppose at times we ourselves don’t comprehend the situation the right way. The gopi’s clevery caught on to Thakorji’s reply and portrayed this in the gopigeet

This is just one of my interpretations, please to feel free to add any thoughts or correct my posting

JSK
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Madhurkomalkant padavali namami
Sital

[Pushtidas]

Jai Shree Krishna

Yes Sitalji, Thakorji is always ready and eager to bestow His grace on His Bhakta. In Shree Subodhiniji, Shree Mahaprabhuji wrote about a sloka which is as follows:

[Sital]

Jai Shree Krishna,

Very nice passage, could you please kindly explain who Sata Purush is?

Thanks

JSK
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Madhurkomalkant padavali namami
Sital

[Pushtidas]

Jai Shree Krishna

Thank you Sital. The Sat-Purush in this concept are the souls who are Pushti and also have reached half way to becoming Nirgun Bhaktas, for instance, Dev and devis, the demi god and goddesses. Sata here are not the truth, but the soul, atma which have attained Stree rasa of svaminiji bhava.

In Puran it states that God (Thakorji) in actual form is not beautiful, He is like raw freshly mined gold. This gold when melted by fire removes all earthly impurities, then the goldsmith sets this pure gold into beautiful ornaments. The gold in its new art form are Ornaments which may be displayed on a beautiful person, the art transformed into wearable ornamenets making them even more beautiful and allowing for its value to become enhanced.

When Thakorji created Svaminiji and Vrajparikar, He made Himself more beautiful. The shakti, the energy which is used in the creation is known as Dharmi energy, which is stored into Svaminiji. This Shakti is then used by Svaminiji to create Shakti Swaroopa like Kalika, Ambika and many other Goddesses.

Meanwhile, Thakorji also was busy creating other shakti Avatar and they were the instigators of sages and hermits, they together with Goddesses in collective form are known as "Sata-Purush". This is a category of good people who are rasa swaroop nidhan, that is, they are only born to serve Thakorji and perform many other permutations of service (seva) and love (prem).
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Dasa nu das
Pushtidas

[Pushtidas]

Jai Shree Krishna

Here is the next saga in Gopi-geet, have alokik 'drushyatam' and enjoy.


Vishjalapyat:

The human soul who can swim in the water of Kaliyug will not drown. The souls are known as Gnani (knowledgeable) people, Sayami people (people who do not get enticed in lust and have tremendous control over all the indriyo (senses)), all these saintly people with their human bodies, mana (heart and brain), budhi (intelligence), indriyo (senses) can swim in the sea of materialistic sea known as Vishay-sagar (The sea of Lust, Maya and Kaliyug). They should eat, drink and listen to everything lokik but never get enticed and never equate with the materialistic world.

Most of simple ordinary souls will get drowned in sea of “Roop-sagar” (sea of Maya and its beauty), some get devoured by the sea of “Sabda-sagar” (the sea of enticing words of material elements) and some simple souls will get attracted by “Sparsh-sagar” (the sea of materialistic touch). These seas are known collectively, as Sansar-sagar (sea of materialistic world). These souls can never comprehend that these seas do not have pure water or nectar, but they are full of venom of non-spiritual nature and they get doused thoroughly by these waters.

Talking about nectar one remembers the legendary tale of Samudramanthan. In this legendary tale a mountain is used to stir (manthan) the sea and from the saturation state of water many items surfaced. One of the items that surfaced was very strong venom known as “Kalkut visha”.

Sages and Hermits say that when doing manthan of Sansar-sagar we come across the sansar kaliyug which is equivalent to Kalkut-visha. The Sansar-sagar is like sea which is contaminated by the materialistic poison. The materialistic world is sea of Kalkut poison and we all swim in it.

Knowing this Gopis said to Krishna:

Hey Nath, you saved us from Indriyadhias and we have diverted all our senses in loving you, we are longing for you Vishva (the world) Mohan (the king of love and enticement) Vrajvihari Shyam. We were drowned in sea of materialistic venom (Vish-sagar) but now our indrios have drenched in the sea of that madhur (sweet nectar) Krishna-sagar, sea of Krishna’s nectar. Our eyes are only drowned in your beauty, the ears only wants to hear the enchanting tunes which flows from your flute and our tongues have enjoyed that nectar which infuses life into us. This way you have rescued us from lokik Indriyadhias and shown the route to Bhakti Marg. We have come so far with your help and now your intension is to discard us in the midst of sea of hilag, the pangs of separation. You are not burning us in the fire of separation, are you? We have been seeking that ultimate happiness known as Param-anand and now you are eluding that chance where we could serve you with Bhakti.

Viyalrakshaat:

God tries to save souls from five adhiyas, the Dehadhias, Pranadhiyas, Indriyadhias, Antahkaranadhiyas and Swaroop agnan. Gopis have used five different words in this stanza where they are seeking security against these adhiyas and use Prem Bhakti to enter into Param anand. From all these five words we have already looked at the first word in this stanza. Now we will look at the second word Viyalrakshaat. This word is used to remove Gopis from Antahkaranadhiyas.

In Pushtimarg there is a tradition to call words in a stanza as “Pada”. Now onwards when I write about Pada, then I am taking about words. So the second Pada is Viyalrakshaat. In this Pada, Gopis are asking to remove Antahkaranadhiyas by using Viyalrakshaat Pada.

As explained in the previous posting, there are three syllables in this Pada, Vyal+Rakshaas+atta. Let us look at Vyal. Vyal means snake. Apart from that famous snake called Kalinaag, there were two more demon snakes which tried to create havoc in Vraj. One came as Aghasur and the second snake came as Vidhyadhar and made life difficult in Ambika Van (Forest) on the banks of River Saraswati. They say that Shree Yamunaji’s banks are full of love and the banks of Saraswati River are banks of knowledge. The knowledge and love when combined with venomous attitude becomes Kalushit (venom), the knowledge is improperly used and miss use of the knowledge becomes a killer. When venom enters in love and relationship, it spells the fatal attraction. Pretending to fall in love creates fatal love and when knowledge reeks with arrogance (aham) then that knowledge becomes undignified self-esteemed and dishonourable. This negative approach spells disaster and it destroys the love as well as the knowledge. It is therefore important to kill the venom which hinders the progress of love and knowledge. By destroying the venom the love become pure and immortal and the knowledge finds that respect it deserves.

In Shree Bhagvatji, in tenth (dashma) skandha, we read about a demon called Pralamba. In describing the character of this demon, in Shreemad Bhagvatji, Shree Ved Vyasji said that Pralamba was the avatar (form) of Antahkaranadhiyas. He appeared in Gokul to provoke and aggravate the Vrajvasi with his Antahkaranadhiyas. Gopis had been inflamed by this demon’s presence and that is why these Gopis mentioned the taboo of this Antahkaranadhiyas and how Krishna outlawed the demon.

With this knowledge the Gopis then addressed Shree Krishna:

Remember that anathema (banned) character called Pralamba came to kill us and it was you who rescued us and killed this interdict (prohibited) demon. This way you removed the Antahkaranadhiyas and made our Gyan (knowledge) and prem (love) acceptable on a spiritual plane. This made our love for you pure and we became Nirguna Bhakta and now you have disappeared from us. How can you do this? The day you saved us from Vyal (the snake) called Pralamba, you should have killed us as well so we don’t have to see this black day of viyog and viraha (the black day of pangs of pains). At this stage we are in a mode of Prem-sthali (house of love) and we have drowned our souls in the Prem-sagar (the sea of love), are you going to destroy us in this condition? Do you want to destroy our love for you? .

Gopis were aware of the character of Pralamba demon and they knew that if this demon takes charge then they will have Antahkaranadhiyas, which means this demon will have succeeded in making distance between Gopis and Shree Krishna. This process of removing the love for Krishna and giving residence to demon is known as being “asuri”, meaning demonic. Krishna loved His Bhakta and He always protects them from these demonic activities of ungodly characters. When these ungodly (dushta) sets in the soul, then antahkaran turns into dushta antahkaran. Dushta antahkaran will always live in an unhappy state and will feel miserable, only when it (the soul) removes the element of dushta then that antahkaran will become sudha (pure). In pure state of antahkaran it will feel happy and that miserable state will automatically vanish into stable happiness, serene, tranquil and peaceful.
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Dasa nu das
Pushtidas

[palna]

JSK,
A very mindful posting with much to learn and take on board. Aadab (thank you) Pushtidasji!!

Just to share something noted:
With Sanskrit I find that many acronyms or rather joining of words is commonly done to convey not only the things each syllable represents but the new meaning of the word as a whole. It makes it much more in depth and incorporates many fundamental events. (leelas)

Also a personal interpretation, with the gopis reply:

[Sital]

Jai Shree Krishna

Pusthidasji many thanks for elaborating on Sata Purush, your detailed explanation made it easy to understand.

Once again a brilliant composition of the next saga. In agreement with Palnaji with regards to her comment on the multiple messages within this article. The gopi’s had endless faith in Thakorji, which protected and swayed them away from the materialistic world. Kalyug and Maya try to grasp one’s attention from every angle possible in the most vicious, cunning and clever way. However, the gopi’s could easily swim through the waters of venom as Thakorji had captured them, he had fully bestowed his grace on them, hence their only concern was Thakorji.

Only when all the adhyaso are diverted to Thakorji can one fully indulge in Thakorji’s swaroop. As Palnaji said the pain of viyog and viraha enabled them to further comprehend and feel the depth of their faith and love for Thakorji, and conclude that their world was morose without the Supreme. They were entirely dependant upon their Pyara Thakorji and would not exist or want to subsist without him, as he was their globe and serving Him was their sole happiness.

Thank You

JSK
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Madhurkomalkant padavali namami
Sital

[Pushtidas]

Jai Shree Krishna

That is a very clear thinking Palnaji. Here is my thoughts on it.

[palna]

JSK,
One again Aadab Pushtidasji. To describe the day as Shyam is most fitting to the situation and how clever to use that which encompasses all anurag na rang. Which thus echoes the differing bhav of the Gopis, the expanse of varied raas leelas Thakorji can and does do as well as highlighting His nature.
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Palna na Koti Koti Jai Shree Krishna