+++
Sataka Three

1 Gradually, one by one, give up all activities that obstruct love for Sri Sri Radha-Krsna from growing in your heart. Always and everywhere meditate in your heart on the truth of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. With eyes of love always see all moving and stationary living entities as parts and parcels of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. Any other way of seeing should disappear into non-existence. Day and night celebrate a great festival of devotional service for Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, who enjoy transcendental pastimes in the forest of Vrndavana.

2 Cross the boundary of the material realm and enter the great brahman effulgence. See the variegated Vaikuntha worlds. Seek higher and higher spiritual abodes, and then, if somehow or other you come upon it, enter the effulgent forest of Vrndavana.

3 Bathing each limb in the ocean of amorous pastimes, He has become filled with bliss. Millions of oceans of sweetness arise at every moment. He becomes intoxicated by tasting from them. O inflamed with passionate desires for Radha, a handsome dark complexioned youth displays at every moment millions of millions of transformations of ecstatic love in this forest that is an ocean of the supreme sweetness of transcendental love.

4 With great devotion I bow down before the most fortunate living entity who has become an insect in Vrndavana. The demigods headed by Brahma who live in other places I do not consider as important as a blade of grass. What more need I say? My mind is made up. Outside of Vrndavana Lord Krsna does not appear in His full complete form.

5 In Vrndavana flows the most splendid nectar that completely eclipses all the glory present in the entire material and spiritual world. Vrndavana is filled with the fathomless bliss of pure spiritual love, which makes one completely forget all other kinds of happiness. Give up everything and just reside in Vrndavana, where Sri Sri Radha-Krsna enjoy endless transcendental pastimes.

6 In Vrndavana a charming, wonderful, handsome, fair-and-dark complexioned amorous playful couple eternally stay. In Vrndavana there are many splendidly lovely forest groves and many pathways nicely cleansed and sprinkled with scented water. When shall I take shelter of this Vrndavana and never leave?

7 As wonderfully splendid as glistening sapphires and gold, and dressed in fine blue and yellow silken garments, two eternally playful oceans of transcendental bliss happily enjoy pastimes of joking and laughter in Vrndavana. Please find your happiness here in Vrndavana.

8 In the land of Vrndavana I eternally worship a splendid fair and dark complexioned couple. They are eternally youthful, wonderfully charming, and eternally filled with the sweetness of transcendental handsomeness, with eternally increasing, ever new love. They remain in an eternal embrace.

9 Blinded by the fragrance of the honey of the feet of Radha’s lover, Krsna and overcome by its sweetness, the bumblebee of a great devotee’s eternally wanders in the beautiful land of Vrndavana. With great devotion I repeatedly place my head at the feet of such a devotee.

10 In the groves of Vrndavana under a great pastime awning of flowers, under newly blossoming tree, in cooling shade, with splendid cloth and beautiful flowers, and equipped with cups of nectar and other paraphernalia, is the place of the nap pastime of the divine couple. O! Look at the wonderful, splendid divine couple in Vrndavana!

11 Beyond the material world dominated by the three modes of nature is the splendid divine ocean of bliss that is the bija syllable of the Kama-gayatri mantra. In that ocean is a wonderfully beautiful island. In that island is the realm of Vrndavana, and in a secluded place of Vrndavana is an enchantingly beautiful forest garden. In that garden are Sri Sri Radhika-Krsnacandra, the two great treasures of intense transcendental bliss. Please worship Them with great devotion.

12 As I continually gaze at Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s splendid transcendental forms and transcendental amorous pastimes, and as I continually hear Their conversation like cooling nectar, I wonder:

Am I diving into an ocean of nectar in this forest of Vrndavana.

13 Sri Sri Radha-Krsna are filled with transcendental splendor and intense bliss, and They are situated in the topmost limit of wonderful charm. They are the great treasure house of pure and pleasing transcendental love. A person who worships Them in the forest of Vrndavana is very fortunate.

14 Ah! The divine couple manifests newer and newer youthful splendor in Their transcendental forms! Ah! They taste newer and newer intense bliss in Their transcendental amorous pastimes! Ah! They bring a great ocean of transcendental happiness to the eyes of Their gopi friends! They are the splendid abode of all fearlessness! In this forest of Vrndavana will I someday be able to drink the nectar of Their splendor with my own eyes?

15 O Lord more charming than Kamadeva, O beloved, when in a cottage in a very beautiful grove in the forest of Vrndavana, as You, agitated with amorous desire, and smiling, passionately lay on the bed of flowers with Srimati Radharani, who is the queen of my life, will I serve You?

16 One moment it is autumn. Another moment it is monsoon. Another moment it is spring, and in another moment it is another season. Glistening with splendid nectar a every moment, the land of Vrndavana continually fills Sri Sri Radha and Krsna with great wonder. Please meditate on Vrndavana in this way.

17 All glories to Lord Krsna who, dressed in handsome yellow garments, and glancing at Radha, plays a flute under a glistening Kadamba tree in Vrndavana.

18 In a forest by the Yamuna’s shore, in a charming, newly blossoming grove, at the entrance to a palace, Lord Krsna, sits with Radha and is served by the charming gopis. I take shelter of Him.

19 We worship a splendidly decorated fair and dark complexioned couple, who laugh and joke in the happiness of Their amorous pastimes in these forest groves.

20 The passionate divine couple rocks to and fro in the waves of the nectar ocean of Their transcendental amorous pastimes in the land of Vrndavana. Unable, even with the greatest effort, to set aright the couple’s now disarrayed garments and ornaments, the jubilant gopis simply smile and laugh.

21 Meditate in your heart on Sri Vrndavana’s transcendental opulence, which Brahma, Siva and their followers cannot even slightly understand, which is a great jewel mine of glistening nectar, which is charming with the wonder of Sri Radha-Muralimanohara, and wonderful with the bliss of Their pastimes and the splendor of Their forms.

22 O Vrndavana, you possess the supreme transcendental beauty. O supremely blissful Vrndavana, your sweet transcendental qualities are eternally glorified in song, O Vrndavana, If I know that in comparison to you millions of lifetimes are extremely insignificant, then why for me does this entire material world not become as insignificant as a single blade of grass.

23 If in this land of Vrndavana I placed my head at the feet of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, whose hearts are filled with the nectar of transcendental love, then I shall stand in fearlessness. I shall fear neither the opinions of the common people, nor conventional ideas of duty, nor hundreds of devastating diseases that may strike my body or mind. What to speak of all this, I shall not even fear a king that rules the entire world.

24 By the touch of Sri Radha-Krsna’s charming lotus hands and feet plunged in a flooding ocean of perfect transcendental bliss, situated in a peerless good fortune even goddess Laksmi seeks, and standing at the head of all who are fortunate, the vines in Vrndavana rejoice.

25 Every day I bow before the trees that, wonderful with a wealth of blossoming flowers and fruits, flooded with sweetness, far from sins and sufferings, their splendor increasing, and glorified by the kings of the sages, stand in Vrndavana, which is a great moon-island risen from the nectar ocean of intense bliss.

26 Although embraced by their vine wives, whose smiles are blossoming flowers, whose large breasts are flower clusters, and whose hairs erect with joy are black bees, the trees of Vrndavana forest, shedding tears of madhvika honey, and the hairs of their bodies are erect, are, because of the nectar of meditation on Krsna, unaware either of themselves or others.

27 Taking splendid flowers and twigs, decorating each other, beginning with the braid and top knot, making a cottage and bed of flowers, eating fruit and drinking honey, two youthful fair and dark forms of love enjoy pastimes and the exalted trees of Vrndavana shine with great splendor.

28 Anyone who once smells a flower from Vrndavana, feels the breeze from Vrndavana, sees a person from Vrndavana, once somehow bows down in the direction of Vrndavana, or once utters the auspicious name of Vrndavana, even if he dies in Bihar or some other place far from Vrndavana, will at once attain the transcendental abode glorified by the greatest sages.

29 Cast everything else aside and go to Vrndavana, where the fair and dark complexioned youthful divine couple, who enchant even Narayana, the husband of Laksmi, who are absorbed in enjoying amorous pastimes, who are charming, who experience the most intense and wonderful transcendental bliss, who are very difficult to meet, and from whom flows a great stream of the nectar of pure love, stay.

30 The bodily luster of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the essence of the supremely pure and blissful brahman effulgence, and the incomparable wonderful sweetness of the Lord’s splendor is the wonderful forest of Vrndavana. There, O friend, please worship the two fair and dark splendors.

31 Gazing at the wonder of Her limbs splendor glorious as golden campaka flowers and filled with waves of the sweetness of deep love, in wonderful Vrndavana Lord Hari stumbles at every step. May the youthful splendor named Radha appear before me.

32 I meditate on the fair and dark youthful divine couple, who are two great floods of good fortune, incomparable youthful charm, expert intelligence, pure love, amorous pastimes, beauty and extremely wonderful, eternally manifest, very intense sweetness, and who tremble with beautiful, playful love in the groves of Vrndavana.

33-38 I eternally worship whomever with unalloyed love worships the fair and dark youthful divine couple, who are two treasures of wonderful, peerless beauty, who are two wave-filled nectar oceans of transcendental amorous pastimes, who are so overwhelmed with love They will not separate for even half a moment, whose bodily hairs always stand erect, who always speak with broken voices, who at every moment are so overcome with bliss They do not know anything else, who are fed, dressed and, served by Their gopi friends, who are intoxicated with bliss that increases without limit, who eternally embrace, who spend their days and nights enjoying transcendental amorous pastimes in the abode of Sri Vrndavana, which is always flooded with the nectar of love, and who give the nectar of all transcendental bliss to Their devotees.

39-40 In the groves of Vrndavana forest, which is a very charming island risen in the ocean of bliss and splendor of pure, splendid, great kamadeva beyond the three modes of nature, please meditate on Sri Radhika’s golden complexioned gopi maidservants, whose bodily hairs stand erect with the nectar of their deep love for Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, who are eager to serve the two Lords of their lives, who are beautifully adorned with sashes, anklets, armlets, bracelets and jewelled earrings, on whose noses swing ornaments of gold, jewels, and glistening pearls, who wear wonderfully colorful saris, who have exquisitely beautiful hips, waists and breasts, who wear splendid necklaces over their bodices and have bunches of flowers tied to the ends of their moving braids.

41 May Lord Hari, who places the flute to His mouth, who makes His form, which is splashed by great waves of nectar filled with ever new amorous passion, and splendid as a dark monsoon cloud, bend in three places, who wears a splendid peacock feather crown and jewel earrings, and who loosens the belts of Vraja’s respectable girls, appear before me.

42 Beautiful Vrndavana forest, which eternally expands the shoreless great ocean of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s thirst for amorous pastimes, and which is the ultimate limit of limitless, intense bliss, is our bliss.

43 In Vrndavana every direction is filled with the cries of the dancing peacocks, the cuckoos continually warble “kuhu” on the branches of the mango trees, the bumblebees everywhere sing of the sweetness of each vine and flower, and every direction is filled with a wonderful sweet fragrance from the splendid flowers.

44 Until the body’s end please take shelter of inconceivably glorious Vrndavana. With its name impersonal liberation, struck by a broom, goes outside, the frightened mystic perfections approach with humble prayers, offering to render service, and the illusory potency, maya, runs far away and dies.

45 Ah! Greed to taste the nectar ocean of wild love that at every step floods Vrndavana torments Laksmi, Brahma, Siva, and the Lord’s personal associates. O saintly devotees, sipping this ocean with cupped hands, please reside here in Vrndavana.

46 If you drink the sweetest nectar up to your neck, then what is that? If you embrace the breasts of Urvasi, then what is that? If you taste the nectar bliss of the impersonal Brahman, then what is that? The blades of grass in Vrndavana reject all these things. They spit on them.

47 A person absorbed in devotional service in the land of Vrndavana does not suffer from impious or pious deeds. He does not tremble in fear of his body’s death from the snake of time. He is not happy to get the opulences of Brahma and the demigods. He is not happy to taste the eternal bliss of impersonal Brahman.

48 What is the use? What is the use of these horrible, useless senses difficult, painful happiness? Somehow or other, even with difficulty, reside in Vrndavana with only one source of happiness.

49 Rolling on the ground in rasa-sthali, reciting Krsna pastimes without end, calling out “O Krsna”, at every step as he walks, and singing and dancing, a great devotee shining with love and the knots of materialism broken, muddies Vrndavana with a flood of tears.

50 May Vrndavana, where there is a single great desire that cannot even bear the slightest touch of even the smallest drop of any other desire, where there is an eternal, ever-increasing, flooding nectar ocean, and where all that moves and all that stands still is rich with wonderful, ever-increasing opulences, eternally appear before me.

51 When our mind spontaneously runs to the limitless nectar of Lord Krsna, then the supremely purifying realm of Vrndavana appears on this earth. However, if, with body, mind or words, we offend the moving and stationary residents of Vrndavana, we will not have the intelligence to see the truth.

52 May my heart become plunged in the great ocean of pure love for Sri Radha-Muralidhara. May my heart become plunged in the shoreless ocean of the splendor of Their fair and dark complexions. May my heart become maddened by the glory of the ocean of sweetness of Their beauty. May the forest of Sri Vrndavana appear within my heart. May my heart not fall into maya’s grip.

53 I wish to stay in Vrndavana, even in the body of an animal like a dog or a pig. I shall not stay in any other place, even if I have a body, made of eternity knowledge and bliss, that even the demigods cannot attain.

54 Even if I am oppressed with great suffering, let me pass this lifetime in Sri Vrndavana. Even if I have the opulence of extraordinary happiness in some other place, let me not stay there for even the blinking of an eye.

55 When, resting my cheeks in my hands, lamenting “O Krsna! O Krsna!”, and my eyes straming tears, will I become simultaneously poverty stricken and fabulously wealthy in Vrndavana?

56 When, happy, indifferent to everything, and my heart unshaken by millions of praises and rebukes, will I worship Radha’s lover in the land of Vrndavana?

57 When, taking shelter only of Sri Vrndavana, and quitting the paths of the Vedas and the common people, will I be overcome with love by serving Lord Hari’s feet.

58 There is no happiness here in this world! O, there is no happiness! Don’t senselessly fall into the net of illusions! Every day take shelter of supremely blissful Vrndavana.

59 Fool, don’t trust wife, children, body, home, wealth, or any other material thing. Don’t pause to think. Simply move your two feet in the direction of Sri Vrndavana.

60 Vrndavana, where there are splendid mountain caves, beautiful forest groves by the Yamuna’s shore, lakes full of lotus flowers, and cottages of flowering vines, all these places beautified by Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s pastimes, and where there is a wonderful flooding stream of eternal auspiciousness and a great treasure of sublime, wonderful transcendental opulence that eternally increases without limit, is my life and soul.

61 Keep your body always in the land of Sri Vrndavana. Please yourself always in the service of the couple that drinks nectar in Vrndavana. Make your voice always sing Their pastimes. Please your ears with the nectar of words about Them.

62 O Sri Vrndavana, be kind. Please make me one of your blades of grass that experiences the great festival of the touch of the lotus feet of the fair and dark complexioned youthful divine couple as, yearning to enjoy newer and newer transcendental amorous pastimes, They tread a secluded forest path.

63 How can a person who has never seen Vrndavana’s Yamuna river, which is filled with eternally blooming indivara, kamala, kahlara, kumuda, and other lotus flowers, all filled with the sweet humming sounds of bumblebees, and which displays the places where Sri Sri Radha-Muralidhara and Their friends enjoyed transcendental pastimes, remain alive?

64 I bow before Vrndavana’s Yamuna river, which is eternally splendid with a lotus of many jewels, which flows from an ocean of bliss, which is delightful with many other colorful splendid flowers, which cannot be approached by the crowns of the three Vedas and which is filled with the sounds of maddened bees and birds.

65 Meditate on Vrndavana’s Yamuna river, which is dear to Lord Hari, which flows with a great flood of transcendental bliss, which has shores studded with jewels, waves chanting the Sama Veda, and swans, cranes, karandavas, datyuhas and other birds chanting the Rg veda.

66 During Their water pastimes, Radha hid in a forest of golden lotus flowers. Krsna kissed a lotus flower, mistaking it for Radha’s face. Laughing and laughing, Radha was no longer able to hide. Krsna laughed and embraced Her, and Her gopi friends also joined them in laughing.

67 Even though Her red sindura and other cosmetic ointments were washed away, Her pearls and flower garlands broken, and Her eyes red from pastimes in the Yamuna’s waters, still Sri Radha remained exquisitely beautiful as She rested on Lord Hari’s transcendental body in Vrndavana forest.

68 Lord Krsna, the prince of Vraja, violently splashed Radha and the gopis, and they also splashed Him in return. Considering their great splashing intolerable, Krsna slid under the Yamuna’s water, touched their broad hips, thighs, legs, and feet and then, laughing, and as splendid as millions of moons, rose in a distant place.

69 When, eager to enjoy transcendental amorous pastimes, Radha and Krsna entered the lotus filled spiritual waters of the Yamuna, and when They stayed there a long time, absorbed in amorous battle, the anxious gopis, considering Them more dear than their own lives, earnestly searched for Them.

70 Throwing a great burst of the laughter of kamala, kairava and other kinds of lotus flowers on each other’s body, closing Their eyes as They splash water on each other’s face, diving into the water, and lifting each other from it, and both claiming victory in battle, two fair and dark splendors play in the Yamuna water.

71-73 May the Yamuna, where waters sweet as grape-sugar milk nectar are filled with golden lotus buds and other flowers, where the shores are made of many jewels, where the water is wonderful with the splashing of playful, splendid jewel fish, where there is a wonder of glistening jewel staircases, where the shores are very beautiful with groves of many kinds of wonderful flower filled trees and vines and fragrant with camphor and splendid bakula trees, where along the shores are frightened does with wide open eyes, where there sweet fragrance of many splendid forests of kadamba and campaka trees are everywhere, where there is an abundance of pollen, flying birds, pleasant breezes, and a sweet splendor everywhere, where forests groves are reflected in the deep waters, and where Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s bliss increases, also increase the happiness of you all.

74 The Yamuna is decorated with many swans, cranes and karandavas. All directions are pleasant with the fragrance of the new pundarikas and other lotus flowers. Bumblebees stay in the forest of kahlaras, utpalas, pankajas, and other lotus flowers. The soft singing of the maddened bees enchants the ears of the entire world.

75 How many splendid lakes, streams, wells and ponds in this beautiful land of Vrndavana do not have their sweet waters anointed with cosmetic ointments left by Sri Sri Radha-Krsna? How many young hills of jewels and gold have not been the places of Their wonderful pastimes? How much splendid beauty is not present in this very fragrant land of Vrndavana?

76 I meditate on all of Vrndavana which, with its beasts, birds, forest groves of trees and flowering vines, hills, pleasant caves, pools, wells, ponds, streams, lakes, and jewel courtyards, as well as the Yamuna’s shores and everything there is enchanted by Radha-Madhava’s beauty, and is blind with love for Them.

77 Please meditate on Her being anointed by a friend with scented oil, bathed, and offered tirtha-kriya, a sumptuous feast, a splendid garland of fragrant forest flowers, betel leaves, music, and a foot massage as She, the flower crown of Vraja’s girls, lies down with dark Krsna.

78 Mohini-murti is not wonderful to my heart. What is Parvati? What is Urvasi? What is any exquisitely beautiful girl to me as I glimpse Her maidservant’s splendor? May She, Vraja’s queen, who charms supremely charming Krsna’s heart, appear in my heart.

79 When will I seethe fulfillment of my desires, the ocean of the splendor of Sri Radha’s feet, the bodily hairs risen with ecstatic devotional love, the sweet music that was learned, and the wonderful flower garlands, jewel necklaces, ornaments and garments left by Her and Her beloved in Vrndavana?

80 When in Sri Vrndavana’s groves and paths will I see a splendor as fair as molten gold and like an ocean of beauty moving at every step with hundreds of currents of the gracefulness of ever-fresh youth and violently tossed by great waves of ever new love for the dark moon of Krsna?

81 Glimpsing Her braids, beautiful face, breasts, eyes, teeth,lips, and flower blossom luster, any other girl becomes embarrassed. May She, the fair splendor that in a forest grove, is now a wonderful ornament on Lord Syama’s chest, appear before me.

82 May Vrndavana’s splendid treasure, which has a youthful body, a golden complexion, is tossed by waves of ever-new amorous pastimes, flooded with currents of eternal, wonderful beauty, overwhelmed by great, transcendental love, decorated with splendid flower garlands, garments, and ornaments, and O! with its auspicious glory fills the gopis with wonder, appear before me.

83 May these two sapphire and golden splendors, ever expert at tasting nectar, two floods of ever new love, the enjoyers of ever new pastimes in nectarean Vrndavana, and filled with newer and newer sweetness of beauty, appear in my heart.

84 Please serve the lotus feet of Radha’s lover, a cloth elaborately wrapped around His hips, and the hairs of His body standing erect from repeated kisses and embraces, he lies on the bed with His beloved.

85 By offering aromatic scents, betel nuts, and flower garlands, by very gently anointing Them with oil, and by expertly massaging Them, please serve the fair and dark complexioned glorious young divine couple who, in this cottage of flowering vines, are now overwhelmed with transcendental amorous passion.

86 O heart, with great longings of love, please worship the beautiful land of Vrndavana, made a glorious place of amorous pastimes by graceful limbs of wonderful youthful beauty, made eternally wonderful by a charming flutist and its ten directions filled by waves of golden splendor.

87 He who is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is not counted among the incarnations of God, who in His transcendental form appears in Yadu-puri and Madhu-puri, and who in Vraja, the best of Madhura-puri’s forests, stays with His friends, gopis and cows, does not attract my heart, which has now gone to Radha’ s forest.

88 Vrndavana is filled with the splendor of transcendental amorous pastimes. It is the most pure of all that is pure, the most splendid of all splendors, sweeter than the shoreless ocean of sweetness, the most delightful of all delights, limitless, and it makes one forget the wonder of all kinds of material happiness. Please gaze at the charming youthful divine couple in the vine cottage in its midst.

89 Charming Vrndavana, the cream of the nectar ocean of the sweetest, sweetest love, shines with great splendor. Let us meditate on the playful, graceful, blissful, fair and dark young couple who, overcome with transcendental amorous passion, enjoy pastimes there.

90 Meditate on the Deity of transcendental amorous pastimes who knows His mistress’s most secret desires, is filled with longings of love and is expert at conversing with His beloved’s friends in Vrndavana.

91 I meditate on Vrndavana, beautiful with blossoming trees and vines, splendid forest groves, glistening jewel pavements, buzzing bees madly dancing peacocks, tumultuous warbling of a host of regal birds everywhere, and the wonderful bliss of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s pastimes.

92 This is the broad bank of the yamuna. This is the beauty of Vrndavana forest. This is the very thick shade of beautiful kadamba trees. This is the host of beautiful, young, intelligent gopi friends. These are the two fair and dark effulgent splendors that drink nectar. Who would not become enchanted by all this?

93 Obeisances to the fortunate souls that place in their hearts the feet of Vrndavana’s king and queen, whose limbs are sweetly fragrant, who shine with glorious splendor, who at every step are overcome with the ecstasies of love, who are flooding rives of sweetness, who are great oceans of beauty, and who yearn to enjoy the limitless bliss of ever expanding transcendental amorous pastimes.

94 Please worship Vrndavana, where the fair and dark youthful divine couple eternally enjoy newer and newer transcendental amorous pastimes.

95 I offer my respectful obeisances to Vrndavana, which is like very sweet Vrndavana and nothing else, and which is where Radha and Krsna, who are like Radha and Krsna and no one else, eternally enjoy transcendental pastimes.

96 Beyond maya’s modes of nature an effulgence shines. Beyond that effulgence the intensely blissful, limitless, pure, confidential, great, filled with the nectar of transcendental love, very wonderful, filled with a great flood of sweetness, supremely effulgent abode of Vrndavana arises.

97 In Vrndavana, which is decorated with many wonderful fruits and flowers, with the everywhere-present, tumultuous sound of many wonderful playful birds, which is like a flood of nectar for the ear, with the enchanting soft sounds of many bees intoxicated by drinking honey and with many trees and vines dear to Lord Krsna.....

98 which is splendid with numberless transcendental fragrant tulasi trees very dear to Lord Krsna, with santana trees, with haricandana trees, with countless forests of kalpadruma trees, with many forests of beautiful transcendental parijata trees, with many mandara trees, nipa trees, and kadamba trees, all very dear to Lord Krsna....

99 which is gloriously paved with gold, diamonds, emeralds, and vaiduryas, filled with the blissful dancing of maddened peacocks, enchanting with the frightened glances of wonderful does, filled with a limitless sweet fragrance...

100 which is charming with the wonderful beauty of many kahlaras, utpalas, pundarikas, kumudas, and other flowers, with the very blissful tumult created by many jubilant colorful birds with the many splendid transcendental lakes and streams, with Sri Radha-Krsna’s eternal, wonderful, sweet, loving pastimes....

101 with jati forests, yuthika forests, newly blossoming malli forests, vasanti forests, new ketaki forests, beautiful new malati forests, jivanti forests, jhintika forests, splendid new sephalika forests, newly blossoming malika forests, and beautiful svarnayuthi forests...

102 which is enchanting with many splendid, always newly fragrant and blossoming in all seasons punnagas, karavirakas, maurvakas, beautiful karnikaras, splendid kubjas, kunda forests, asokas, bakulas, bhucampakas, campakas, amlanas, sthala-pankajas, damanakas, and sirisa trees....

103 which is delightful with numberless kahlaras, utpalas, padmas, kairavas and other blossoming flowers, with the very blissful, excited playing and sweet warbling of the swans, pairs of cranes and cakravakas, karandavas and other birds, and with the hundreds of swarms of humming bees flying everywhere....

104 whose chest is embraced by the splendid, transcendental Yamuna, which has beautiful shores studded with jewels, delicious cool water sweeter than nectar, turbulent waves of swiftly flowing pure dark water, and Radha-Krsna’s wonderful and very passionate amorous pastimes....

105 which is beautified by wonderful jewel mountains, extremely beautiful transcendental caves, transcendental waterfalls filled with nectar moonlight, beautiful streams with water made of jewels and gold, beautiful pavilions of wonderful new vines, wonderful jewel trees, splendid birds and deer made of various jewels, and many other miraculous wonders...

106 which is a splendid forest decorated with many vine-cottages hidden in the foothills, which has many splendid and enchanting flower gardens, which is wonderful with beautiful scenery, which has many charming beautiful large forest groves, which is decorated with Lord Syama, His beloved, and Her friends....

107 which is very beautifully decorated by the circle of Radha’s friends, who display a wonderful variety of beautiful bodily complexions, who are wonderful with the beauty and charm of splendid youth, who are delightful with a splendid variety of artistic skills, who are blinded with love for their beloved...

108 who have beautiful broad hips, slender waists marked with three folds of skin, enchanting beautiful breasts decorated with bodices and strands of splendid pearls, mirror cheeks splendid with earrings, and beautiful noses decorated with pearls studded with jewels and gold, and who enchant the entire world with their beauty.....

109 who are splendid with maha-prasada garments, ornaments, garlands, and other things left by the dearmost divine couple, who flood the world with the splendor of their enchanting forms as fair as molten gold, whose pure love for Radha-Krsna’s lotus feet is their lie and soul, who with various splendid artistic skills please the dearmost divine couple...

Sataka Four

1 (In Vrndavana, which is very beautifully decorated by the circle of Radha’s friends), who are charming with tinkling anklebells and belts, beautiful toe-rings and glistening anklets, decorated with beautiful jewel armlets and hair ornaments, and whose beautiful broad hips are touched by the swinging vine of their braided hair, which is decorated with bunches of flowers, and the root of which is bound with a great cluster of jasmine flowers that attracts a great swarm of bees...

2 whose beautiful conch-shell necks are decorated with glistening lockets, whose beautiful reddish lotus flower hands are beautifully decorated with jewel rings, who are situated in eternal youth, who are supremely expert and intelligent, who are the most skilled singers and musicians, who are Sri Radha’s followers, who are far beyond the understanding of even the Upanisads, and the crest jewels of the Vedas...

3 (in Vrndavana, which is very beautifully decorated by Sri Radha), who is served by splendid servant-girls that are great treasures of all intelligence and all expertise and the shade of whose lotus feet is difficult for even the most beautiful of all young gopis to attain, who (Radha) is eternally overcome with the bliss of transcendental amorous passion, who is loved day and night by beautiful friends whose bodily hairs stand erect in ecstatic love for the divine couple.

4 who (Radha) is a wonderfully splendid and auspicious crescent moon shining in the midst of the many glistening stars that are the host of Her friends and dear maid servants, who floods the world with festive nectar waves from the ocean of wonderful golden splendor rising from each of Her transcendental limbs...

5 who (Radha) fills all directions with waves of pure love, of Her wonderful beautiful, golden complexion and of the graceful sweetness of Her delicate limbs sprouting from youth, who relishes perfect intoxicating bliss, who continually enchants the birds, beasts, trees, vines, and others....

6 whose wonderful beauty is millions and millions of oceans of beauty, where the beauty of Laksmi, Gauri, and the splendid demigodesses is not even a single drop, who stands at the topmost limit of splendid, wonderful skill in the arts of love, whose bodily hairs stand erect as She again and again tastes the nectar of pure love for Lord Syama....

7 who is decorated with a belt, ankle-bells, necklaces, bracelets, jewel earrings, hair ornaments, armlets, rings, and a beautiful glistening pearl set at the tip of Her nose, who wears Her hair in a large braid decorated with a bunch of beautiful flowers at its tip, which swings about Her beautiful broad hips, who wears splendid jewel ornaments in the part of Her hair, who wears a beautiful chaplet of flowers at the place where Her braid begins....

8 the golden moon of whose beautiful forehead is decorated with a glistening sindura dots, the waves of whose moving eyebrows again and again create limitless millions of passionate desires in Her lover, the gracefully playing Khanjana birds of whose eyes stun Her lover, the sharpened arrows of whose playful, restless, amorous sidelong glances again and again overwhelm Her lover......

9 who enchants the heart with both the wonderful moonlight of Her shy smile and Her conversation as sweet as a cool stream of nectar, whose limitlessly sweet lips are splendid as a glistening pomegranate flower, whose chin is a nectar ocean of beauty ornamented with a single beautiful black musk-dot....

10 whose splendid, delicate cheeks are glistening golden mirrors fashioned from the great ocean of transcendental beauty, whose incomparably beautiful teeth stained from chewing betel nuts are like beautiful pearls and beautiful, glistening, perfectly ripe pomegranate seeds....

11 whose beautiful nose, as lovely as a sesame flower, is decorated with a beautiful pearl studded with splendid jewels and gold, whose beautiful nostrils are lime Kamadeva’s two wonderful quivers, whose charming lips, more red than roses, are marked with both the stain of betel nuts, and a wound left by the teeth of the charming master of Her life.

12 whose very splendid conchshell neck is decorated with a wonderful graiveyaka necklace, beautiful kanthika necklaces, and padaka lockets glistening with various jewels, who is decorated with many splendid bodice that covers Her breasts, which are like two mountain peaks of nectarean beauty, or two fully blossomed flowers grown from the jewel mine of transcendental beauty....

13 whose charmingly beautiful slender abdomen is marked with three folds of skin that are three waves in the ocean of transcendental beauty, whose very beautiful hips are dressed in glistening red silk, whose splendid golden plantain tree thighs are filled wit the great wonder of a great flood of glistening waves of the nectar of pure transcendental sweetness...

14 whose splendid knees and ankles are like beautiful lotus stems, whose lotus feet display limitless beauty and sweetness, on each limb of whose transcendental form is a very wonderful monsoon shower of wonderful beauty, auspiciousness, great sweetness, splendor, and the transcendental symptoms of pure ecstatic love for dark complexioned Lord Krsna....

15 who, the hairs on all Her limbs standing erect in ecstasy, Her beautiful limbs now moving languidly because of having tasted the bliss of unrestrained, uninterrupted, passionate, transcendental amorous pastimes with dark complexioned Lord Krsna, Her words overwhelmed with emotion, and her every feature showering a great monsoon of transcendental sweetness, by presenting in this way a very unusual appearance has deeply worried and upset Her gopi friends...

16 and who, placing the blossoming vine of Her languid transcendental form on the dark complexioned transcendental form of Lord Krsna, and served by Her maidservants, who affectionately massage Her lotus feet, fan Her, give Her betelnuts, and render other services, and playfully taking the chewed betelnuts from the moon that is the mouth of the Lord of Her life, placing them in the moon of Her own mouth, laughs, gives them back to Her lover, and playfully repeats this game again and again....

17 with Her, Sri Radha, (in that Vrndavana forest) a certain dark young moon, wealthy with many skills in the arts of amorous pastimes, limitlessly wonderful with a great wealth of love for Sri Radha and a great flood of handsomeness and charm, and overcome with eternal amorous passion, enjoys transcendental pastimes.

18 I meditate on the wonderful divine couple, who are overwhelmed with newer and newer amorous bliss, whose fair and dark forms are splendid and charming, who stand in the prime of youth, who, bodily hairs erect because of Their intense passionate yearnings, have become like blossoming kadamba trees, and who eternally stay in the secluded forest groves of Sri Vrndavana.

19 May Sri Hari’s wonderful youthfulness, very wonderful and beautiful Radha, handsomeness that enchants the entire world, transcendental, amorous pastimes, submissiveness to Sri Radha, and very wonderful sattvika-bhava ecstatic symptoms, such as tears, standing up of the body’s hairs and becoming stunned, fill my heart with wonder.

20 May Vrndavana’s sweetness, the sweetness of the beautiful forest groves, the sweetness of the fair and dark youthful divine couple, who are blind with love, and the very wonderful sweetness of the host of waves of Their transcendental pastimes of conversing, glancing, tricking, touching, and joking, all appear before me.

21 May I always wonderfully love the dark complexioned youth that plunges Radhika’s maidservants in the shoreless ocean of supreme bliss, that has crossed to the farther shore of the arts of amorous pastimes, that is eternally overwhelmed with transcendental passion, and that eternally stays in Vrndavana.

22 This forest named Vrndavana, where the Radha-Krsna Deities shine as Radha-Krsna’s own sweet form shine, and where a person who has made the nectar of the divine couple his life and soul enjoys as the divine couple’s friends, who have dedicated their lives to Them, enjoy, shines as the beautiful Vrndavana in the spiritual world shines.

23 Vrndavana-dhama, the sweetest of nectars, has no equal or superior. Radha-Krsna, the two crowns and transcendental goals of our lives, have no equal or superior. The beautiful gopis, who nourish the pastimes of the divine couple more dear to them than life, have no equal or superior.

24 What nonsense! What nonsense! What misfortune! Even though he is a ‘great man’ he still does not like blissful Vrndavana!

25 If even the ‘greatest’ person refuses to take shelter of blissful Vrndavana, he should be called the lowest of men.

26 I do not love blissfully sweet Vrndavana. What is the good of my knowledge, devotion, or renunciation?

27 Pathetic! Pathetic are my scholarship, noble birth, good character, and splendid array of virtues! Because in this life I do not love Vrndavana, I am a living corpse.

28 Because I have not renounced everything and taken shelter of Vrndavana I am more pitiful than those pitied by the pitiful and I am more foolish than the greatest fool.

29 Lord Caitanya’s feet are far away. Powerful Kali has appeared. How will love for Krsna be attained without love for Vrndavana?

30 Ah, only a fool happy to be praised by pig-like men will not take shelter of Vrndavana, which is an ocean of bliss.

31 Alas! Alas! I have left Vrndavana to go to another place. I have spit out the sweetest nectar and knowingly drunk poison.

32 All directions are filled with glory! The world is full of bliss! O! O! I do not see anything except Vrndavana!

33 What can I do? I am a madman. I will just say this one thing: Knowledge, renunciation, and all other virtues are worthless without Vrndavana.

34 Calling out “He’s a thief! He’s wretched and degraded”, cursing, hitting and tying it up, let everyone trouble this faultless body. Let it suffer a host of unbearable tortures, but let my body stay in Vrndavana.

35 Vrndavana’s queen brings limitless pure bliss to He whose face is Vrndavana’s splendid moon risen from the nectar ocean of bliss and love. She fills Vrndavana with nectar and She makes Her beautiful friends again and again shed tears and their bodily hairs stand erect in wonderful ecstatic love like Her own.

36 When, filled with ecstatic love, will I serve the splendid, wonderfully playful, fair and dark youthful divine couple as, served by a host of beautiful young girls bringing many splendid offerings. They enjoy wonderful transcendental pastimes in a beautiful pavilion of flowering vines under s desire tree by the Yamuna’s shore in Vrndavana forest?

37 Wearing tinkling ornaments on Her ankles and a glistening sash on her broad hips, her waist slender, a necklace of glistening pearls on her flower-bud breasts, a cluster of flowers on the end of her swinging braids, a splendid pearl set in jewels and gold on the tip of her nose, and wearing a wonderfully colorful silken sari, may one of Radhika’s golden complexioned young maidservants appear before me.

38 When it sees the most beautiful young demigoddess, who continually celebrates a festival of passionate love, and who charms even the greatest sages with her beauty, playfulness, artistic skill, and enchanting sweetness, in its heart, the tip of the toenail of the girl who serves Radha’s feet spits in contempt.

39 I pray that I may see the maidservants splendid with playfulness, beauty, youthfulness, and other virtues gathered from the supremely blissful ocean of the splendor of the lotus feet of Vrndavana’s queen.

40-45 When in my heart will I properly worship Sri Radha, who is fair as molten gold, whose limbs are flowering vines, who is a shoreless flood of beauty, playfulness, and fresh youthfulness, whose swinging braids play about Her broad hips, whose beautiful breasts are two wonderful golden mountains, whose pleasantly smiling face is sweet with ever-new nectar, whose eyes are two khankana birds playing in the ever-new nectar of transcendental mellows, whose smooth vinelike arms are filled with beauty and luster and are splendid with glistening armlets and beautiful bracelets, whose ears are decorated with glistening transcendental jewel earrings, the tip of whose nose is decorated with a splendid pearl set in jewels and gold, whose conchshell neck glistens with various kinds of golden necklaces, whose hair is decorated with many jewel ornaments, whose fingers are decorated with beautiful, glistening jewel rings, who wears a bodice that holds the flood of splendor from Her breasts, whose exquisitely beautiful waist is so slender it can be encircled by a single hand, who wears a splendid jewel belt on Her hips, who wears beautiful anklets, who, furtively glancing at Her lover, trembles with very sweet feelings of love, shyly smiles, and playfully covers Her breast with the edge of Her sari, the rising moon of whose face creates waves of gentle smiles of ever-new bliss, the hairs of whose body stand erect with transcendental love, who smiles as She speaks some words with a gopi friend, whose restless eyes move here and there, and whose vinelike arms tremble with ecstatic love?

46 Let hundreds of arrows of harsh words pierce my heart. Let hundreds and hundreds of kicks fall on my head. Let hundreds of days pass where I am unable to get even the smallest meal. Remembering at every moment the fair and dark glories that are my life’s treasure, and whose forms are two oceans of sweet nectar, I shall happily live in Vrndavana.

47 Birth after birth you enjoyed the loving attentions of a dear wife who offered you flower garlands, sandalwood paste and a host of other gifts. In some births your pride knew no limit, and in some births you had no fame. In some births you were a great scholar learned in many books, and in some births folly would not leave you. Today you should be displeased with all these things. Give them all up and simply worship Vrndavana to attain transcendental bliss.

48 Thin and emaciated, my body undecorated and my hair unattended, wearing a kaupina, some ragged garments and a patchwork shawl, very mild and peaceful, silent, staying far away from others as if I were the lowest of the low, and my heart deeply entering into the pure devotional service of Sri Radha’s lotus feet, may I become a very fortunate resident of Vrndavana.

49 What is the wealth of Kuvera? What is the eloquence of Brhaspati? What is the great opulence of Indraloka? What is the use of having the handsomeness of Kamadeva? What is the use of the wonderful mystic perfections obtained by yoga, austerity and other means? All these become a pathetic mockery when placed in a person averse to the place named Vrndavana.

50 Who will not worship this earthly Vrndavana, where Radha and Krsna eternally enjoy transcendental amorous pastimes, which is situated above all other places, the residence of the enlightened and the ignorant, and which with its sweetness, splendor, and host of other virtues, has defeated all other places?

51 If fools see defects in this inconceivably glorious earthly Vrndavana, where everything is effulgent, pure, spiritual, and full of nectar, and where all living entities swim in a nectar ocean of pure love for Krsna, the farther shore of which even the three Vedas cannot see, then what can the wise, who have the eyes to see, say to enlighten them?

52 If one worships Vrndavana, which has endless beauty, endless sweetness, endless splendor, endless nectar, love for Krsna, endless kindness, and generosity and endless glory, then his good fortune is also endless.

53 O dearmost, supremely blissful Vrndavana, If I could see the splendor of your moving and non-moving residents with millions of transcendental eyes, if I could smell your sweet fragrance with millions of nostrils, if I could hear about your noble virtues with millions of ears, if I could wander through you with millions of feet, and if I could bow down to offer respects to you with many millions of heads and hands, I would still not be satisfied.

54 Vrndavana is the most exalted transcendental abode. If my ears hear about the faults of Vrndavana, I shall pierce my ears with a dagger. If my tongue speaks about these faults I shall happily cut out my tongue. If my eyes see them I shall put out my eyes. If my mind believes the account of Vrndavana’s faults I shall give up my life. If my ears and other senses thus become like untouchable outcastes, I shall stay far away from them.

55 O Vrndavana, I do not find this kind of happiness even on Candraloka. Your particles of dust dwarf the happiness of all the demigods.

56 Worshipped by the great demigods, the trees, bushes, vines in Vrndavana are full of bliss. O slow-witted people, of what use are millions of celestial mandara trees to us?

57 I pray that I may become an insect in Sri Sri Radha-Muralidhara’s supremely opulent Vrndavana. I am not eager to become even the most important personal associate of the Lord in any other place.

58 A person who continually, and with great love, describes and hears the transcendental virtues of Vrndavana, makes Lord Krsna heavily indebted to him.

59 I dearly love the transcendental forest named Sri Vrndavana, which is filled with all the most exalted transcendental virtues, and which contains many beautiful forest groves where Radha’s lover enjoyed transcendental pastimes.

60 O Vrndavana, If I can become even a blade of grass at the edge of one of your forests, then, if even the opulence of Vaikuntha were to suddenly fall into my hand, I would not see it as something very beautiful or desirable,

61 Let me experience all terrible sufferings in Vrndavana. I shall not live in any other place, even if there I enjoy all spiritual and material opulences.

62 One who harms the residents of Vrndavana will suffer for a long time in hell. Because I can see this truth, I pray that I may always be devoted to the residents of Vrndavana.

63 The thieves who live in Vrndavana are cintamani jewels granting all the most exalted goals in life. Laksmi, Siva, and all the demigods aspire to touch them.

64 I pray that I may be fortunate to become an animal, bird, blade of grass, or speck of dust in Vrndavana forest, which is flooded with the wonderful nectar of dark complexioned Lord Krsna.

65 I think the ultimate goal of life is to attain even a small amount of love for the land of Vrndavana, which is opulent with the splendid pastimes of Sri Radha-Muralimanohara’s feet.

66 Wandering, out of great curiosity, in Vrndavana forest, and Their soft, sweet words very wonderful nectar for the ear, Radha and Krsna see some wonderful and beautiful sight, and earnestly say to each other: “Look! Look! Listen! Listen!”

67 Let us take shelter of Vrndavana-dhama, where the greatest splendor, the highest love for Krsna, and the ultimate beauty of Sri Radhika are manifest.

68 May I yearn only to serve Sri Radha-Krsna’s lotus feet in Vrndavana’s charming groves by the Yamuna’s shore.

69 Who will not be filled with sweet yearnings to serve Sri Radha-Muralidhara, who are splendid with amorous playfulness in the lovely groves of Vrndavana forest?

70 Even Laksmi and the other demigoddesses cannot hope to worship Radha’s lotus feet. O Vrndavana, by you power I now yearn for that service.

71 Fool, once you leave Vrndavana, where even Laksmi and her friends cannot enter, and where the noble goddesses of devotional service meet the Lord’s nectar opulences, where will you go?

72 O! O! without manifesting his original spiritual form and qualities, who can enter Vrndavana’s groves, which are flooded with sweet waves of bliss and are the site of Radha-Krsna’s graceful amorous pastimes.

73 Let us glorify the supreme king of forests, the realm of spiritual love, where by entering one is filled with a great wonder of transcendental happiness, where the blisses of Radha-Krsna’s wonderful amorous pastimes fill everyone with wonder, and where the wonderful joy of the divine couple’s most wonderful awareness that They are each other’s property shines eternally.

74 By offering very beautiful service, the god of love pleases in Their hearts the divine couple, whose glory rebukes the golden campaka flower and the blue lotus, and who at every moment enjoy passionate amorous pastimes in the opulent cottage of flowering vines by the Yamuna’s shore.

75 Please meditate on the youthful divine couple, who are splendid as a golden campaka and blue lotus, who are overcome with passionate love, and the playful splendor of whose eyes, voices, and forms enchants the fortunate gopis in the sweet abode of Vrndavana.

76 Crossing the ocean of the three modes of nature, which is filled with great material suffering, and then crossing the ocean of spiritual light, see the Lord’s many spiritual planets. After again and again enjoying happiness there, leave and go to the supreme abode named Vrndavana. Once there, search for the Radhika’s nectar forest garden.

77 Wonderfully rich in the happiness of love, and your expert intelligence eternally devoted to the service of your two Lords, eternally reside in the charming groves where Radha-Krsna enjoy amorous pastimes in the beautiful Vrndavana in your heart.

78 Sent by one of the gopis’ leaders, and their hearts filled with intense love, some messengers now serve Radha-Krsna, who thirst to enjoy transcendental amorous pastimes in the beautiful groves of Vrndavana.

79 Of what use are scholarship, noble birth, good character, handsomeness and wealth? Of what use are charity, sacrifice, and other pious acts? Of what use are hundreds of fames? Of what use is severe austerity? Of what use is renunciation, yoga and other spiritual practices? Of what use is seeing the truth? Of what use is service to Visnu? Of what use are these wonderful things for a person who has not made very wonderful Vrndavana, whose sweetness enchants even the Lord, his life and soul?

80 O Sri Vrndavana, I am now very fortunate. I have become the object of your very, very great mercy. You have given me the right to reside within your boundaries, a right that is prayed for by Lord Brahma, Sukadeva Gosvami, Sanaka Kumara, and other great souls. This gift gives me hope that some day I will directly serve the splendid, charming, eternally youthful, eternally amorous fair and dark divine couple.

81 O Sri Vrndavana, O land more affectionate than millions of mothers. O place whose supremely wonderful transcendental glory is eternally remember by Laksmi, Siva, and a host of great souls, if you have now appeared before my eyes, and if you have granted me residence within your boundaries, which is sought by the greatest devotees, then why do you now hesitated to allow me to serve the great souls that live within you?

82 Please happily serve Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, who have no equal or superior, whose deep love for each other eternally grows with Their handsomeness, playfulness, expert intelligence, and host of virtues, who are wonderfully flooded by the nectar ocean of intense bliss, and who eternally stay in Vrndavana.

83 Flooding everything, including even Goloka, with a limitless nectar ocean of transcendental moonlight, my Vrndavana is like a very charming splendid moon shining above everything.

84 Now talk of the three modes of material nature is completely stopped. Now the spiritual planets of Lord Hari have become dim as fireflies. What more shall I day? Completely eclipsing the happiness found in any other place, Vrndavana shines with great transcendental splendor.

85 If we ignore Vrndavana, which is flooded with the nectar of Radha’s lotus feet and filled with the bliss of love for Lord Hari’s feet, then what are the other things we will talk about.

86 Even if I must pass millions of births before I again obtain a human body like this, I shall still reside in Vrndavana. My only wish is to reside in Vrndavana.

87 Alas! Alas! Fie on me! Because I am attached to the very insignificant and unbeneficial ideas of religion held by the common people, I have ruined my residence in Vrndavana.

88 Srimati Radhika’s forest is the perfect atonement of sins, the ultimate shelter from offenses to great souls, the crest jewel of all principles of religion, and the crest jewel of all goals of life.

89 O dear friend whose life is Vrndavana, give up contact with ordinary people, a contact that destroys the goal of life, and give up attachment for the pot of stool known as the material body, an attachment that fills the lowest people with joy.

90 The fortunate bow down before a person who, always seeing the eternal and sweet spiritual forms of Vrndavana’s grass, bushes, and other living entities, and bowing down before them with great devotion, resides here in Vrndavana.

91 The fortunate, shedding tears of love as they remember Sri Radha’s feet decorated with tinkling jewel anklets, reside in Her forest.

92 Vrndavana is completely filled with the sweet nectar of pure love for Lord Krsna. All moving and non-moving residents of Vrndavana have spiritual forms, and you also have a spiritual form, just as they. Give up all external ideas. Do not be attached to ordinary religion. Knowing the truth, always reside at Sri Radhika’s feet.

93 When, in this Vrndavana forest, diving into the great transcendental nectar ocean of pure devotional service to the lotus feet of Sri Radha and Her beloved, Lord Krsna, will I completely forget about the existence of my external material body?

94 To reside in Vrndavana I would perform millions of irreligious acts or millions of sins. I would tolerate anything. I shall attain my goal.

95 Eternally I bow down before Vrndavana’s residents, who have limitless splendor and bliss, and limitless splendid love for Sri Radha-Krsna, and who hold in their hands the limitless power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

96 Let me praise Vrndavana’s birds and other creatures, who are plunged into the ocean of limitless moonlight, flooded with the wonder of limitless beauty and overcome with limitless love for Lord Hari.

97-99 In Vrndavana, which is beautiful with many vines charming with splendid leaves and flowers, wonderful with many splendid flower archways, decorated with many splendid flower couches, splendid with jewel lamps everywhere, beautiful with male and female parrots expert at reciting plays, poetry and other literatures, decorated with lovely forest palaces, enchanting with the humming of splendid bees and glorious songs of cuckoos and other birds, filled with a network of very gentle, pleasantly cool, splendidly fragrant breezes, and which fulfills all desires, the fair and dark divine couple are overwhelmed with amorous desire. Please meditate on Them.

100 Not far from Govardhana Hill, the king of mountains, is a charming ocean of transcendental glory. The splendid nectar of all eternity, knowledge, and bliss accumulated together hardly equals a drop in comparison. A single drop of the ocean of glory completely eclipses the sweetness of an ocean of nectar multiplied many millions of times. Within that ocean of glory is the decoration known as Vrndavana forest...

101 which is filled with the currents of an ocean of bliss that makes the nectar of all other blisses become like a single drop, which is filled with all wonders, which has beauty to attract the eyes and heart of the goddess of fortune, which is flooded with the wonder of the nectar of pure bliss, which is wonderful with fragrance, splendor, sweetness, and charm....

102-106 which is wonderful with splendid blossoming mallika, lavanga, jati, yuthika, kadamba, campaka, sthalaravinda, sirisa, kunda, ketaki, kusumbha, kimsuka, and other flowers with beautiful madhavi and other vines with limitless flowers, with blossoming priyangu, nagakesara, asoka, karnikara, atimukta, saptala, and suvarna-yuthika flowers, with many wonderful varieties of jhintika and fragrant bandhujiva flowers, and with hayari, kubjaka, and other flowers, which is filled with many wonderful varieties of buds of flowers, with many wonderful varieties of leaves, blossoms, and great networks of many clusters of flowers, with many wonderful varieties of sweet fragrances, with many wonderful showers of nectar, and with many splendid trees, which is filled with a great treasure of bliss created by the wonderfully sweet conversations of the male and female parrots who recount the confidential pastimes of Radha and Krsna, which is filled with the ear enchanting sounds of “kuhu kuhu” softly spoken by the cuckoos, which is filled with madly dancing peacocks and the blissful tumultuous warbling of many other kinds of birds, which has in its midst beautiful groves of newly blossoming flowers, which in the beauty of its blissful flowers and wonderful jewel vines has no equal or superior, which has a beautiful bed decorated wit a host of opulences, which has the remnants of what was enjoyed by Radha-Madhava, which is a kingdom of all bliss...

107 which has in its midst a grove with a very charming lake filled with intensely blissful, glistening, clear, nectar water, splendid with its four sides studded with jewels, jewel staircases leading to its waters, its jewel shores shaded by splendid kadamba trees...

108 its deep waters delighting the dearmost divine couple and manifesting a great variety of tastes for Their pleasure, its kamalas, utpalas, and other lotuses opening and closing, the surrounding forest groves reflected in its splendid jewel waters...

109 very beautiful with many jewel sarojas, kumudas and other lotuses, all filled with the wonder of limitless fragrance, with ever increasing sweetness, and with petals expanded in ecstasy at every moment, which has shores filled with flowers flowing honey...

110 which has for the divine couple, who enjoy pastimes in the midst of the waters, a sublime forest grove with a beautiful jewel cottage that fills the gopis with wonder, which is paved with jewels and crystal and filled with splendid flowers below, above and in all directions...

111 which has four shores splendid with great jewels, which has wonderful pavilions of splendid flowering vines with many splendid and wonderful ornaments, and which is wonderful with the opulent beauty of many wonderful blossoming kadambas and other wonderfully splendid nectarean trees.

112 Please show me this very wonderful forest that makes a great flood in the shoreless ocean of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s thirst to enjoy amorous pastimes, and that makes expert arrangements for the pastimes of the divine couple that finds pleasure in Vrndavana.

113 Radha hid in the forest of golden lotus flowers attended by swarms of very sweetly humming bumblebees. Krsna entered that forest, and mistaking one of the golden lotuses for Radha’s face, began to kiss it. Radha then emerged from hiding, reassured Her beloved, kissed Him, and laughed.