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Sataka Five

1 There is a place so fragrant it defeats the fragrance of sandalwood multiplied millions of times. There is a place so fragrant it defeats the fragrance of musk multiplied millions of times. There is a place more fragrant than a flood of camphor. There is a place more fragrant than an abundance of kunkuma. There is a place so wonderfully fragrant that it defeats aguru.

2 Day and night this place is filled with the sweet fragrance of various flowers. It has various kinds of nectar drinks, various kinds of delicious foods, and various kinds of very sweet splendid fruits. Because of Radha-Madhava’s pastimes, in this place are broken jewel necklaces, flower garlands, belts, and other objects.

3 By Radha-kunda’s shore in a beautiful jewel pavilion, accompanies by Her gopi friends and singing wonderful dusts with dark complexioned Krsna, may King Vrsabhanu’s daughter appear before me.

4 With their lotus hands Radha and Her friends repeatedly splash Lord Krsna, the jewel of lovers. Krsna then lowered His moonlike face and cried out: “ Enough! Enough! I accept defeat!” When Radha heard these syllables, which were like a great flood of nectar, She stopped splashing and burst into laughter. I wonder: Did pastimes like this happen here in this place?

5 In this small grove of graceful kalpa-vrksa bushes with beautiful flowers on their extended branches, did the two Deities of the nectar of transcendental mellows at some time enjoy wonderful pastimes of decorating each other with flowers?

6 All glories to the amorous happiness Radha and Krsna enjoy together by casting wonderful, smiling glances at each other from the corners of Their eyes, by, out of various pretexts, touching each other’s limbs where the hairs are standing up in ecstasy, and by conversing with sweet nectar streams of words.

7 Sri Radha, who with floods of splendor from Her beautiful, youthful limbs the color of molten gold, with eternally wonderful graceful waves of very sweet amorous pastimes, and with the faltering of Her voice, Her tears, Her trembling, and other symptoms of ecstatic love for dark complexioned Krsna, fills with wonder Her friends come to Her favorite forest grove and makes the hair on their bodies stand erect, is my queen.

8 May Sri Radha and Her beloved, who are flooded with waves of very, very wonderful sweetness, playful transcendental pastimes, splendid beauty and expert knowledge of the arts of love, who have come to Vrndavana from Vraja, and the wonder of whose beauty increases hundreds and hundreds of times at Radha-kunda, appear in my heart.

9 When, wonderful with splendid, graceful waves from the nectar ocean of sweetness, and filling Vrndavana with a very wonderful and splendid fragrance, will the lake where Sri Radha enjoys wonderful pastimes, the most wonderful of all places, decorate my mouth with its glories?

10 In the whorl of a giant gold lotus, surrounded by filaments and petals, the divine couple, expert at relishing transcendental mellows, and splendid as gold and sapphires, enjoy the pastime of repeatedly moving back and forth on Their swing.

11 In Vrndavana let us glorify the passionate queen’s favorite transcendental lake, which is eternally very wonderful with Radhika-Hari’s endless sweet pastimes, which is an ocean of the great wonders of the nectar of transcendental mellows, and which is very splendid and fragrant.

12 Let me take shelter of the lake that is Vrndavana’s greatest ornament, where two splendid fair and dark forms of bliss enjoy the ultimate dance of the nectar of pure amorous pastimes, and where the water’s touch makes a wonderful sweetness rise in the heart.

13 The hairs of His body erect in ecstasy, His crown and earrings moving, and His flute placed against the full moon of His lips, Madhava praises the delightful transcendental qualities of Radha-kunda, which is the greatest jewel decorating Sri Govardhana’s crown, and which is very dear to the queen who rules the life of the charming lotus-eyed Lord.

14 O friend, please meditate on Radha-kunda’s flowering-vine pavilion, which is praised by Vrndavana’s great splendor, which is respectfully worshipped by Lord Hari’s favorite regal mountain, Sri Govardhana, which bows down, placing its peak on the ground before it, and which is filled with the beauty and sweetness of Radha-Krsna’s extremely wonderful amorous pastimes.

15 Please meditate on the fair and dark youthful divine couple who, surrounded by Their friends, and overwhelmed with sweetness, have plunged into an ocean of nectar at Radha-kunda, which arouses transcendental amorous desires without equal or superior.

16 Who, after attaining immeasurably sweet Vrndavana, where transcendental, limitless, wonderful, opulent nectar enchants the king of Vaikuntha, where everyone is blinded by the madness of sweet love for the heart’s friend of Sri Radha, and which eternally shines in this world with a splendor greater than the nectar ocean of bliss and knowledge, will seek out any other place?

17 O supremely blissful Vrndavana, your beautiful forms are worshipped by the Lord’s dear liberated souls, even up to the timid girls of Vraja. Now that Your form, filled with the ultimate sweetness of Sri Radha-Muralimanohara, has entered the pathway of my memory, I have suddenly become very fortunate.

18 I meditate on Vrndavana, where after eagerly studying the singing of Radha-Krsna, the male cuckoos fly to the mango treetops and madly sing in many wonderful ways, where after gazing at Radha-Krsna’s dancing, the peacocks dance wonderfully, and where the male and female parrots imitate Radha-Krsna’s conversation.

19 May beautiful Vrndavana, which is filled with cuckoos celebrating a great festival of singing, peacocks happily dancing, the sweetness of the music of bumblebees humming, trees, vines, and flowering-vine pavilions, and which fulfills the desires of Radha-Krsna’s sweet maidservants, appear before me.

20 Friend, please meditate on fearlessly beautiful Vrndavana, which is filled with kadamba groves, beautiful with numberless trees and flowering vines, and the entire wealth of the divine couple expert at tasting nectar, and which stands on an island in the shoreless nectar of spiritual splendor.

21 I eternally bow down before Vrndavana’s trees and vines, which are far beyond the influence of matter, and which mercifully grant all the goals of life to one who even once sees, touches, hears about, or remembers them.

22 In Vrndavana the clear, splendid sky is fragrant with pollen and beautiful with many graceful branches trickling new honey, and the ground is sweet with Radha-Krsna’s nectar footprints.

23 All glories to the Lord’s most exalted abode, which is named Sri Vrndavana, which is the eternal nectar ocean of transcendental love for Sri Sri Radha and Her blissful lover overwhelmed by Her sweetness, which is the ultimate limit of the wonder of the nectar of transcendental mellows, which is the ultimate limit of all wonders, and which is the ultimate limit of transcendental good fortune.

24 The wise search in vain for the five values that culminate in prema-bhakti. They who take shelter of even a blade of grass growing in Vrndavana forest, easily attain all values.

25 I am a living corpse. When, giving up false ego and false proprietorship for this material body and other material things, will I find myself residing in Vrndavana, which is filled with nectar of pure love?

26 With all my heart I shall serve Vrndavana’s residents, the dust from whose feet purifies even Brahma, Siva, and all the demigods.

27 They who by the touch of Sri Radha’s forest have pure spiritual forms sweet as nectar, even though and others cannot see it, are worshipped by Sukadeva Gosvami and other great souls.

28 I meditate on the most fortunate person who, even though they commit offenses, place Sri Radha’s feet in their hearts, and live in Vrndavana.

29 I yearn to dance the dance of serving Vrndavana’s queen, whom Krsna, aroused by Her crooked eyebrows, and thirsting to enjoy amorous pastimes with Her, praises again and again.

30 Enjoying sweet, sweet pastimes, flooded by the rising nectar ocean of amorous desire, and at every step Their handsomeness drowning in the nectar ocean of handsomeness, may the two fair and dark splendors appear before us.

31 In Vrndavana a person whose heart knows how to taste nectar meditates on the youthful fair and dark divine couple, who are full of handsomeness, glory, playfulness, charm, sweetness, and expert knowledge of the arts of love, who at every moment flood Their gopi friends with a great stream of wonder, and whose bodily hairs stand erect as They enjoy great amorous pastimes.

32 May limitless Vrndavana, which is a limitless ocean of beauty, a limitless land of sweetness, a limitless treasure of the moonlight of thoughtfulness, a land of limitless good fortune, and the limitless secret root of the Supreme Lord’s nectar, fulfil my desire without limit.

33 When, on Sri Radha-Krsna trembling with passion as They meet under a great tree, from trees plunged in bliss splendid and sweet monsoon showers fall and splendid fruits and flowers are scattered on the earth, the birds suddenly stop their tumultuous cooing and stand still and silent.

34 Sweet Vrndavana has a ground very sweet with very sweet bushes, trees, and flowering vines, very sweet bees, birds, and deer, very sweet lakes, rivers, and mountains, and its very sweet gift of ecstatic divine love.

35 I shall become trees in Vrndavana and please Sri Sri Radhika-Krsna with my limitless, splendid, sweet fruits, my unlimitedly, splendid fragrant flowers filled with splendid pollen and splendid honey, my splendid hosts of birds, and my splendid twigs and buds.

36 I meditate on Vrndavana where, happily picking some branches from trees charming with very splendid fruits and flowers and filled with glistening branches sprouting even from their roots, two fair and dark splendors enjoy transcendental pastimes.

37-38 Radha will say, “O beautiful one, please dance,” and I will dance. She will say, “Please sing”, and the bees on my petals will sing a melodious song. She will say, “Please shed some tears,” and honey will flow from my flowers. She will say “Please laugh,” and my flowers will burst into full bloom. She will say, “Please embrace this tree,” and I will embrace the tree with my tendrils, pressing my flowers against his trunk. She will say, “Please bow down before the Lord of My life,” and I will fall down on the ground. In this way I will be a flowering vine completely obedient to Her every word. She will nourish me by sprinkling me with water from Her own hand. Lord Krsna will be very pleased, and He will bless me saying, “May you attain the blessings of My beloved Radha.”

39 Sri Radha-Madhava eternally sing the glories of Vrndavana, which shines with sweet beauty many millions of times greater than the beauty of liberation or the beauty of Nandanandana, Puspabhadra or other celestial gardens, which is filled with the wonderful, beautiful, limitless nectar of transcendental pastimes, and which even the Upanisads, the crest jewels of the Vedas cannot approach.

40 Let me glorify Vrndavana, where the numberless fortunate bees delighted by the fragrance of tulasi and other flowers, pleased by the fragrant parijata flowers in the Nandanandana garden, or happy in any other forest, all fly.

41 They who have fallen into the abyss of repeated birth and death, they who have renounced everything, they who are liberated, and they who are great kings, become immediately enchanted when they see Vrndavana, which is a very great ocean of sweetness and bliss, and which has come to this fortunate earth to give a great gift to the conditioned souls.

42 They who have deeply entered the realm of the senses and they who have taken shelter of Brahman become overwhelmed with bliss by once seeing the beauty of Vrndavana.

43 The glory of beautiful Vrndavana is so wonderful that even the slightest scent of it binds one and throws him in an ocean of nectar.

44 Vrndavana’s glory, which with the its own ropes binds even the supremely handsome and opulent Personality of Godhead, cannot be understood by a person like me.

45 Worship Vrndavana forest, which is filled with the sweet nectar of passionate divine love, as if it were your very life and soul.

46 Possessive attachment to wealth, children, wife, and everything else has simply brought suffering to me. Now I shall renounce everything. Now I choose to live in Vrndavana.

47 Neither completely unbearably torments, nor maddening happiness, have the power to make me give up my deep love for Vrndavana.

48 The very wonderful fair and dark youthful divine couple, who eternally enjoy transcendental pastimes in the beautiful groves of Vrndavana, are my life and soul.

49 They who are slow witted, and they who are very unfortunate do not take shelter of Vrndavana and worship Radha-Krsna.

50 This is my lament. This is my great astonishment. I am astonished that a person can live in Vrndavana and still not worship Radha-Krsna with the nectar of transcendental love.

51 In this beautiful forest of Vrndavana I am filled with love for Radha-Krsna. I do not care for the opinions of the common people. I do not care for the rules of the dharma-sastras. I do not care what is the fate of my material body.

52 I bow down before the trees of Vrndavana, which are eternal, changeless, very virtuous, free from the touch of matter, faultless, and eternally liberated, which are glorified by the Vedas, which have forms that are shoreless oceans of the very sweet nectar of transcendental knowledge and bliss, which are plunged in ecstatic love for Krsna, and which give to all the most precious of all gifts.

53 I bow down before the great trees of Vrndavana, which are filled with leaves and sprouts, maddened bees, the tumult of many birds, streams of nectar honey, and branches bowed with many splendid wonderful fruits and flowers.

54 Staying on the ground, enchanting Sri Radhika speaks sweet words and points with Her forefinger. Krsna, the best of lovers, glancing from above with charming eyes, makes the splendid fruits fall to the ground as His queen carefully collects them. Please worship these trees of Vrndavana.

55 Very glorious, filled at every moment with the sweetness of great transcendental bliss, very tall with many far extending branches, showering the great treasures of the supreme goal of life, and bearing great fruits and flowers, the supremely exalted trees of Vrndavana are splendidly manifest.

56 All glories to Vrndavana’s beautiful trees, which are eternal, full of knowledge and bliss, more splendid than the moon and all the stars, covered with numberless leaves and branches, respectfully served by all the splendid seasons, and opulent with a cooling shade that breaks all the burning sufferings of this world.

57 Intelligent persons who take shelter of beautiful Vrndavana’s opulent vines melting with motherly love, and throw far away the idea that they are material, become supremely successful, both in this life and also after death.

58 Let me glorify Vrndavana where, spitting on impersonal liberation and all material goals, certain very intelligent yogis rejoice, having become birds that stay on the branches there and coo a tumultuous barrage of eloquent logic that crushes the importance of material life and material work.

59 Renounce everything and take shelter of Sri Vrndavana, in this world the sweet transcendental place where Radha-Madhava eternally enjoy pastimes.

60 Directly seeing that it is filled with immeasurable glory and opulence, that it is the generous giver of ecstatic love of God, and that it is the realm where the fair and dark divine couple eternally enjoy transcendental pastimes, one should worship Vrndavana.

61 Even though I have lost control over my senses, and even though in all respects I am the most pathetic of men still, if the forest where Srimati Radharani enjoyed transcendental pastimes accepts me as one of its residents, my life will become a complete success.

62 Let me suffer millions of wicked thoughts! Let me suffer millions of wicked deeds! Let me suffer millions of unkind words! Let these calamities fall, O Vrndavana, but let me not be separated from you.

63 Chasing from your ear the hellish word “woman”, which is filled with stool, urine, phlegm, pus, and other horrors, reside in Sri Radhika’s garden.

64 Stay far away from Lord Hari’s illusory potency in the form of woman, which will throw far away all intelligence, renunciation, love for Lord Hari, and love for Vrndavana.

65 Just as a strong wine, a woman can intoxicate a man with a single glance. This intoxicant will make it impossible to reside in Vrndavana. O Vrndavana, what will become of me?

66 The undefeatable enemies who are my senses repeatedly crush me under their attack. Again and again they bind me, and now they have imprisoned me in a painful place. O Krsna, please rescue me!

67 I am again and again burned by the poisoned arrows of sex desire, even though I reside in Vrndavana. Alas! Alas! I can find no peace. What shall I do?

68 The heart of even a wise man can become intoxicated by the pot of stool that is the body of a young girl. Without hearing, seeing, or coming near any girls, remain always absorbed in meditation on Vrndavana.

69 With a single glance a young girl can completely bewilder me and make my body burn with the fire of lust. What will become of my desire to attain spiritual perfection?

70 I have no shame. Even though I am completely blinded by lust and anger, and even though I am controlled by greed, I continue to aspire to attain pure love of God, and I continue to reside in the forest where Srimati Radharani enjoyed transcendental pastimes.

71 Even though I am bewildered by lust and his accomplices, I still yearn to attain the pure love that is hidden even from the Veda, and I still reside in Vrndavana. Vrndavana’s mercy is my only shelter.

72 When resting my cheek in the palm of my hand, repeatedly washing my body with a flood of tears from my eyes, again and again pathetically calling out, “O Muralidhara!”, plunged in the nectar of love, and indifferent to the maintenance of my material body, will I reside under a tree in a solitary place in Vrndavana?

73 A person who thinks women to be like tigresses, palatable food to be like poison, wealth to be useless, association with materialists to be like the loss of the greatest treasure, material possessions to be like stolen property, and his own senses to be like his enemies, and who is full of love for Lord Hari, can properly reside here in Vrndavana.

74 What man will not find himself forced to give up all good qualities and all sense of shame merely by the casual glance of a beautiful amorous woman? What will a man attached to women not do in disobedience to the orders of guru and scripture? For this reason, if you are tormented by lust, or if you fear dying in the flames of lust, then simply drag your body to Vrndavana and develop pure love for Lord Krsna, who wears a crown of peacock feathers.

75 Even the word “woman” makes me blind with sex desire. For me, anger fills every direction with blinding darkness. Greed shakes my heart. Still, while I reside in Vrndavana, none of these has the power to destroy me. Let me always stay in Vrndavana. At the time of death let me give up this material body here in Vrndavana.

76 When, very kind to everyone, expert at breaking the shackles of material illusion, unagitated at heart, seeing all women as walking corpses, only to maintain my body collecting a small quantity of food from different places, and as tolerant as the earth, will I become a sincere devotee residing in Vrndavana?

77 When, singing of Radha-Muralidhara’s beautiful pastimes, finding in my heart bliss and eternal love for Them, condemning all kinds of sense gratification, and loudly calling out, “O Krsna! O my beloved!” will I become overwhelmed in Vrndavana?

78 Vrndavana, the great purifier of the fallen souls, the protector from the fearful serpent of repeated birth and death, the holy place that transforms its residents into great saints, the object of worship for the greatest sages, and the abode of Radhika’s charming lover, is my life and soul.

79 I say to myself: “Follow this dark youth, who always yearns to enjoy amorous pastimes, who is overwhelmed by the sweet nectar of love, whose bodily hairs stand erect with joy, who is loved by Lalita and her friends, who is Radha’s life, and who, taking His beloved by the hand, wanders in the secluded groves of beautiful Vrndavana forest.”

80 Please reside in Vrndavana and worship the two fair and dark splendors wandering the pathways followed by swarms of bees, trembling with passion, and repeatedly embracing, smiling and laughing in the forest.

81 The result of pious and impious deeds do not trouble, the illusory potency maya cannot touch, all the virtues of the great souls worship, a host of all opulences desires to serve, and the demigods headed by Brahma glorify a person who has taken shelter of Vrndavana. Sri Sri Radha and Krsna consider him one of Their personal associates.

82 I meditate on Vrndavana which is beautified by a host of cooling moons that sprinkle blissful nectar in the ten directions, by a host of trees and vines bearing fruits, flowers, buds and leaves, by flocks of birds filled with the nectar of pure love for Lord Krsna and making a great tumult of jubilant warbling, and by many splendid places studded with jewels.

83 My heart plunges into Sri Vrndavana, which shines for some time in the material world of three modes, which eternally shines with wonderfully sweet splendor above everything in the effulgent sky of transcendental knowledge, and which is beautiful with limitless sweetness and filled with Radha-Krsna’s wonderful pastimes.

84 Look at Vrndavana, served by very sweet, splendid, beginningless, endless vines, trees, bushes, and other plants eternally blooming in every season, filled with splendid transcendental nectar streams, jewel mountains, and beautiful jewel vine cottages, and wonderful with many birds and deers!

85 Sri Vrndavana is more purifying than all transcendental knowledge. Sri Vrndavana is the most efficient means to attain all that is valuable. Sri Vrndavana is the supreme abode of transcendental pastimes. Who will not serve Sri Vrndavana, considering it millions of times more dear than his own life?

86 All glories to charming Vrndavana, which breaks the material desires of many births, which shows a great sweetness to Laksmi, Siva, Brahma, and the other demigods, which, as a mother, takes no account of the offenses of its dependents, and which is blissful with the touch of Radha’s feet.

87 All glories to charming Vrndavana, which is supremely splendid and sublimely sweet, which is wonderful with a flood of bliss, which is filled with Lord Hari’s mercy, love, and other virtues, which is the crest jewel of all wonders, and which is the place where Sri Radhika-Madhava enjoy a nectar festival of amorous pastimes.

88 Cross the ocean of the illusory potency maya. Cross the ocean of spiritual light known as the Supreme Brahman. Again and again drink from the splendid ocean of the Supreme Person’s bliss, and then cross beyond it. Enter the splendid, pure, nectar ocean of pure love for Lord Krsna, and then enter the splendid island in the middle of that ocean. There devote your life to the service of charming Vrndavana.

89 Leave far behind the gross and subtle material realms, the causal ocean, the brahmajyoti effulgence, the Vaikuntha planets, the palaces in Lord Krsna’s city of Dvaraka, and all other useless places. Simply become absorbed in gazing on Vrndavana forest with eyes filled with love.

90 Checking the senses when they obstruct residence in Vrndavana, seeing that the charming abode of Vrndavana is pure and spiritual, always desiring the supreme auspiciousness of giving up the body here in Vrndavana, and throughout life renouncing all talk of sense gratification, reside in this forest of Sri Vrndavana.

91 I bow down before Vrndavana’s trees, which at every moment shower supremely blissful madhvika nectar, which spread charming reddish pollen in all directions, and which are filled with the buzzing of bees intoxicated by the fragrance of limitless, splendid blossoming flowers.

92 I meditate on Vrndavana’s splendid, limitless, most wonderful, charming trees and vines, which bear splendid fruits and flowers in every season, which are spiritual, which can assume any form they wish, which are great philanthropists that fulfil all desires, and which are filled with love for Radha and Krsna.

93 Vrndavana’s trees, which are made of various jewels, which are filled with various beautiful fruits and flowers, which have various beautiful twigs, leaves, new blossoms and buds, which expand various wonderful sweet fragrances, and which are filled with various wonderful birds happily playing and singing, have enchanted my heart.

94 Vrndavana eternally shines with the splendor of great trees made of various jewels, birds of various jewels, flowers made of various jewels, nectar fruits of various jewels, and trees with waves of sweet honey of various jewels in its places made of various jewels.

95 Friend, this is a young tamala tree embraced by a beautiful golden vine in this forest grove. Aha! Look! Is it not so? Why do these crooked friends not believe me?

96 Day and night your male friend stays with me. He braids my hair in various ways, draws artistic designs and pictures on my face with musk, kunkuma, and sandal paste, and decorates me with garments, flower garlands and ornaments.

97 He repeatedly places His moonlike face before my face. He repeatedly gazes at my face with unblinking eyes. He is always very eager to talk with me. He lies down and places me on His chest. He always keeps me by His side. O friend, how can I describe the love your male friend, the jewel of all handsome young men, bears for me?

98 Dear friend, ask me to tell my story. How have I become so fortunate? I shall tell you these pastimes. Who am I in comparison to dark complexioned Lord Krsna that He should have held my hand the way He did? What happened then? I cannot remember a thing.

99 He decorates my braided hair with many splendid flowers, He draws a line or red sindura in the part in the middle of my hair. He decorates my eyes with black mascara. He dresses me in silken garments. He repeatedly gives me betel nuts to chew. Your male friend shows me His love for me in these ways. Still He does not draw me to His side on the bed?

100 The lotus feet of Lord Caitanya are far away. The powerful age of Kali has now appeared. How will it be possible to attain pure love for Lord Krsna without becoming attached to Vrndavana?

Sataka Six

1 Offering prayers to everyone, trying to please everyone, wishing all happiness for everyone, worshipping everyone, humbly bowing my neck before everyone, and abandoning all pride, I reside in this purifying land of Vrndavana.

2 By presenting the great illusion of a beautiful golden-complexioned girl, the bewildering potency, maya, blinds even an intelligent man, plundering the great treasure of his life and destroying his good qualities and saintliness. For this reason, with great fear, one should flee far away from this maya and serve the land of Vrndavana.

3 Although I am very wretched and fallen I still yearn to attain the wonderful state that even Laksmi, Siva and all the demigods cannot attain. Because I have offended you I cannot attain even a single drop of your transcendental nectar. I do not make even the slightest attempt to renounce the objects of sense gratification, which make one forget the path of religion. I am filled with bewilderment, grief, fear, and shame. O Vrndavana please protect me.

4 Lust continually tortures my heart. Anger blinds me. Greed agitates me. I am filled with pride, envy, madness, harsh words, cruelty and a host of other vices. I have fallen from my real benefit. O Vrndavana, I take shelter of you.

5 O crest jewel of all fortunate men, if you desire to discover the supreme, unknowable secret of pure unalloyed devotional love for the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then reside in Vrndavana, which is supremely opulent with the sweetest nectar and filled with palaces where Sri Sri Radha-Krsna enjoy pastimes eternally.

6 If you desire sense gratification, then why not enjoy the greatest sense gratification, which is available in Vrndavana? If you desire liberation, then know that in Vrndavana you can easily attain liberation without having to suffer many harsh austerities. If you desire devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then know that the supreme secret of devotion is hidden in Vrndavana. Learn this from the great devotees, and serve Sri Vrndavana.

7 Beyond the world of the three modes is the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s splendid abode. There the very splendid, very wonderfully beautiful Sri Vrndavana shines. When will I serve the very beautiful and sweet, fair and dark, youthful divine couple, who day and night are intoxicated with the nectar of amorous pastimes there?

8 With floods of very sweet and wonderful fair and dark transcendental beauty flowing from each of Their limbs, the hairs on Their bodies standing erect, both of Them displaying millions of wonderful symptoms of the ecstasy of transcendental amorous love, and immersed in the nectar of transcendental mellows, the eternal and wonderful youthful divine couple enjoys transcendental pastimes in the groves of Vrndavana forest. O heart, please eternally meditate on Vrndavana forest.

9 Not knowing any greater opulence, or any sweeter nectar, not going to or coming from any other place, and not manifesting any age other than the full bloom of youth, the divine couple does not cease enjoying transcendental pastimes in Vrndavana for even a moment.

10 When shall I worship the youthful divine couple, who are intent on enjoying transcendental pastimes in the forest of Vrndavana, which is overcome with the nectar of the bliss of pure transcendental love, and which is wonderfully filled with many transcendental birds, deer, lakes streams, hills, trees, vines, bushes, and many wonderful courtyards paved with precious jewels.

11 I meditate on the trees of Vrndavana. Sri Sri Radha-Krsna happily enjoy transcendental pastimes under these trees, eat their fruits as sweet as nectar, and decorate Themselves with their flowers. The charming birds perched on the branches of these trees have become silent and their wide open eyes have stopped blinking as they drink the very sweet nectar of the conversation of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna.

12 I offer my respectful obeisances to the trees of Vrndavana forest. These trees bear various kinds of transcendental fruits, manifest various kinds of forms, and appear and disappear in different places, all to bring pleasure to Sri Sri Radha-Krsna.

13 May Vrndavana’s trees, who are Sri Radha-Krsna’s loving devotees, whose new bud hairs stand erect with joy, who shed tears in a flood of honey, who splendidly dance, moving newly sprouted twigs in the breeze, who smile and laugh with beautiful blooming flowers, who recite prayers with the cooing of birds, and who, bending under the weight of many fruits and flowers bow down to offer respects, bring me transcendental bliss.

14 Some very tall, some very short, some strong, some delicate, some granting cool shade, some without shade, some filled with hollows, some without hollows, some old, some young, some slender, and some stout, the regal trees of Vrndavana, continually expanding the waves of the nectar happiness of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, and fulfilling all Their desires, shine with great splendor.

15 One who in the solitary places of Vrndavana forest constantly meditates on Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s wonderful form and wonderful sweet pastimes, who has attained splendid, eternal, ecstatic love for Them, and who has become happy by renouncing all material activities, is the most fortunate of men.

16 I pray that the purifying land of Vrndavana may become for me as delicious food is for one overcome by hunger, as cool water is for one tormented by thirst, as a cool lake is for one perspiring in the heat, as a great fortune is for a penniless beggar, as the immortal Supreme Brahman is for the yogis, and as the life-breath is for all living entities.

17 I bow down before Vrndavana’s trees, which are glorified by great sages beyond the duality’s of matter, which generously bear great fruits more than can be desired, which make numberless celestial trees seem insignificant, which are filled with the sweet nectar of eternal spiritual bliss, and which are plunged in pure love for Lord Krsna.

18 With unalloyed love please worship Vrndavana’s dear trees, which stand eternally beyond the shoreless ocean of the three modes of nature, which bring others across and then plunges them in the nectar ocean of passionate love for Lord Krsna, and which grant spiritual goals even the greatest yogis cannot attain.

19 Flooding all directions with a wonderful, supremely pure splendor, and intoxicating the universes with sweet and fragrant showers of nectar, the regal trees of Vrndavana bring great transcendental bliss with their wonderfully colorful flowers, new sprouts, nectar fruits, cluster of blossoms, and new buds.

20 Everyone should worship Sri Vrndavana’s fortunate trees, the divine couple’s personal friends who, seeing the arrival of the sweet lovers Radhika-Krsnacandra, the moonlight of Their faces so glorious even the most splendid flood of moonlight dare not touch it, at once dropped many buds and flower blossoms, making a couch of flowers.

21 Let me glorify Vrndavana’s trees. Seated on a couch of their flowers in their cooling shade, sprinkled by a shower of sweet nectar from them, relishing their very delicious fruits, praising each other, and giving each other sweet nectar, Sri Sri Radha-Krsnacandra enjoy.

22 O heart, please meditate on Vrndavana’s trees, which are rich with limitless sweet fragrances, limitless kinds of beautiful flowers, limitless floods of blissful honey, and limitless branches filled with limitless fruits, flowers, and budding twigs.

23 In some places the land of Vrndavana has the form of a svastika, in other places the form of a wheel, and in other places a circle. In other places it is narrow like a crescent moon, in other places it is like a splendid jewel catuska bracelet to accommodate the rasa-dance, and in other places it is like a small or large wonderfully beautiful ornament.

24 Charming with jewel staircases, glorious with millions of kinds of splendid jewels, splendid with gold and jewel trees and vines with great branches and clusters of blossoming flowers, and filled with beautiful pavilions, the land in Vrndavana shines with great splendor.

25 Placing His beloved Radha on His lap, flattering Her and again and again making Her laugh, trembling, and the hairs of His body erect with excitement, Lord Krsna enjoys transcendental amorous pastimes in the forest of Vrndavana. May Lord Krsna, the lover of Sri Radha, bring transcendental happiness to you all.

26 In the spiritual abode of Vrndavana the land is filled with spiritual splendor, the trees and vines are spiritual, the birds and deer are spiritual, the large nectar sweet lakes are spiritual, the mountains, rivers, ponds, jewels, minerals, and clouds are spiritual, and the many charming forest groves are all spiritual.

27 Let me glorify He who is Vrndavana’s moon, who even though He many times displays many transcendental potencies in many spiritual forms, and even though many times He displays limitless splendid handsomeness, and even though many times He showers many kinds of transcendental nectar, is still defeated by the sweetness of Radha’s love.

28 In a vine cottage in Vrndavana forest, continually keeping a beautiful lotus faced Radha on His lap, caressing Her, His heart melting with love and the hairs on His body standing erect with excitement, Lord Krsna speaks many wonderful words begging newer and newer transcendental amorous pastimes.

29 If one lives in the earthly land of Vrndavana, touches it, sees it, travels to it, meditates upon it, bows down to offer respects to it, sings or hears about its glorious qualities, carries its dust on his head, or has any relationship with it, then this purifying earthly Vrndavana will carry him to the supreme abode of Vrndavana in the spiritual world.

30 Displaying very wonderful glances, words, and gestures, and overwhelmed by the sweetness of Their unrestrained love, the fair and dark youthful divine couple enjoy transcendental bliss in the forest of Vrndavana.

31 Placing Her on His lap, running His handsome fingers through Her black hair, and repeatedly smelling the fragrance of the golden lotus flower of Her face, Lord Krsna raises Radha’s chin and repeatedly kisses Her bimba fruit lips. Please meditate on this Lord Krsna, the Deity of conjugal love reigning in Vrndavana.

32 With deep love please worship the two supremely sweet fair and dark youthful divine splendors who, all Their limbs overcome with passion, sport in the shoreless ocean of transcendental amorous pastimes in Sri Vrndavana’s newly blossoming groves.

33 In the forest place of rendezvous vehemently denouncing Her lover, eloquently rebuking those of Her friends sent by Him to make peace, overwhelmed by the nectar of transcendental mellows, and tormented by desire, Radha is about to depart. Please allow me to be the confidential maidservant who then, carrying a golden fan and other articles, follows Her.

34 Please meditate on the divine couple who, Their handsome silken garments slipping, Their flower garlands, great jewel necklaces, and belts all broken, Their hair loosened, Their tilaka, mascara, and other cosmetic ointments wiped away, and attended by maidservants attentive to Their every wish, is now overwhelmed by transcendental amorous passion.

35 I bow down to offer respects to any person who vows to reside until the moment of his death in the beautiful land of Vrndavana, the original kingdom of transcendental bliss. Noticing that such a person is becoming qualified to be one of Their personal associates, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna consider: “What arrangements shall We make for this person?”

36 In the abode of Vrndavana please worship Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, whose jokes and laughter are splendid as millions of rising moons, the movements of whose eyebrows create millions of wonderful transcendental Kamadevas, and whose words are like millions of flowing streams of the cooling sweetness of transcendental bliss.

37 I continually chant the holy name of supremely purifying Vrndavana, which is filled with limitless sweetness and with splendid, sweet, spiritual love, and which is beautiful with forest groves where Sri Sri Radha-Krsna enjoy transcendental pastimes.

38 Eternally serve Sri Radha, whose love for Lord Hari is fathomless. Don’t meditate on your material body, which is simply a great obstacle. Don’t commit offenses. Even if you are tormented by many sufferings, don’t leave the abode of Vrndavana, which is blind with the nectar of Sri Radha. O fool, don’t leave the difficult to attain abode of Vrndavana.

39 All glories to the fair and dark divine couple, who somewhere in Vrndavana forest play dice, somewhere playfully hide from each other, somewhere steal each other’s property, somewhere embrace, imitating the trees and vines, somewhere ride together on a swing, somewhere speak wonderful riddles, somewhere imitate the movements of the birds, deer, and other forest creatures, and somewhere amuse Themselves with jugglery and magic tricks.

40 How many are the blissful incarnations of the Personality of Godhead? Does the Lord not display countless splendid transcendental forms? Does He not directly appear in countless charming and handsome forms? For me it does not matter. For me only Sri Krsna, the lover of Sri Radha, is charming and handsome.

41 In the Puranas the transcendental words “Sri Radha resides in the forest named Vrndavana” shine with great splendor. From this we may understand that Sri Radha’s very wonderful complete form does not appear even in the village of Vraja. Her love has no equal or better. Lord Hari is the Supreme Person, perfect in all respects. Please gaze upon Him, Vrndavana’s moon, who is conquered by the sound of the name “Radha”.

42 O heart, with great love please meditate on very splendid Vrndavana, where the apex of transcendental sweetness is manifest, where the apex of wonderful glory is manifest in the crest jewel of transcendental love, and where the apex of transcendental beauty is manifest in Sri Radha.

43 May Vrndavana’s beauty once appear in my heart. May the bliss that enchants the demigods fill me with sweetness. May Lord Hari’s very wonderful handsomeness shine before me. May I find a shelter in the sweetness of the moonlight of Sri Varsabhanavi’s beautiful toenails.

44 Please deeply love the divine couple who, eternally and wonderfully youthful, eternally afflicted by transcendental amorous desire, and the fair and dark splendor of Their transcendental limbs filling the ten directions, spend Their days and nights eagerly enjoying endless ever new, very wonderful transcendental amorous pastimes in the groves of Sri Vrndavana.

45 To a person who resides in Vrndavana, whose mind is absorbed in thought of Lord Krsna, who is equal in gain or loss, victory or defeat, good fortune or calamity, and praise or blame, who always bows down to offer respects to those filled with devotion for the Lord and pleases them with gifts as far as he is able, and who, even though repeatedly troubled by others, in his heart never wishes them any ill, I offer my respectful obeisances.

46 To those persons who, peacefully tolerating thousands of harsh words and thousands of insults from the lowest of men, tolerating thousands of great sufferings imposed by the lack of adequate food, clothing, and shelter, and tolerating great suffering in the heart caused by lust and other troubles, continue to reside in Lord Krsna’s pastime forest of Vrndavana, I offer my respectful obeisances.

47 To a fortunate person who resides in Vrndavana, who finds no fault with any moving or non-moving living entity, who does not trouble anyone, who eats only a small quantity of food obtained without endeavor, whose mind does not think of women for even a moment, who hears, chants, and remembers the glories of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, and whose heart is filled with the transcendental sweetness of the divine couple, I offer my respectful obeisances.

48 O Vrndavana, please withdraw your maya. Although I do not fear the Supreme Lord’s maya, your maya always makes me tremble. They who, because of your maya, see otherwise the blissful and spiritual nature of you and yours, lose their intelligence, commit offenses and fall far away.

49 O Vrndavana, what shall I do? My wicked senses jump over the path of common sense. They drag me into a very terrible condition. I have no power to restrain them. I have thus committed an unpardonable offense to you. Still, I cannot be happy in any other place. I have not other shelter. O Vrndavana, please don’t cast me away! Please don’t cast me away!

50 Even though I proclaim, “I shall not reside in any other place for even a moment,” still I am such an incomparable fool that I continue to offend you. The desire for sense gratification has made me abandon both common sense and the path of religion. O Vrndavana, will I ever attain your mercy?

51 May Vrndavana’s trees, who are all very generous, whose softened hearts melt with compassion, who are wealthy with the glittering opulences of limitless transcendental nectar, and who manifest symptoms of ecstasy, shedding tears and their hairs standing up out of love for Lord Hari, accept me as one of their company.

52 Filled with the nectar of love for Radha-Krsna, Vrndavana’s trees place in Their hands many wonderful fruits and flowers for Their pleasure. They please Them with their birds’ cooing and bees’ songs.

53 I offer my respectful obeisances to Vrndavana’s fortunate, fortunate trees which sweetly decorate the divine couple with many flowers and other ornaments and which, overcome with bliss by the touch of Sri Sri Radha-Muralidhara’s beautiful lotus feet, shed flowing streams of tears and find the hairs on their bodies erect in ecstasy.

54 Anointing Themselves with the kharpara ointment made by rubbing the trees’ branches, dressing Themselves in garments made from the trees’ leaves, decorating Themselves with the trees’ flowers, drinking the trees’ flowing honey, embracing each other under the trees, and eloquently glorifying the trees, the fair and dark divine couple are, for me, an ocean of bliss in Vrndavana forest.

55 I take shelter of the divine couple who, Their hair loosened, Their bodily hairs erect in ecstasy, a stream of nectar words flowing from Their mouths, Their jewel necklaces, flower garlands, and cosmetic ointments broken, and Their forms beautifully clothed, are overwhelmed with amorous passion and enjoy sweet pastimes in Vrndavana.

56 Happily attended by many maidservants who provide Them with flower-garlands, garments and other things, and wondering through the forests of Vrndavana, the charming fair and dark youthful divine couple is now overwhelmed by the nectar of Their transcendental pastimes. I pray that I may someday be allowed to serve Them.

57 I worship the fair and dark divine couple, who, very wonderful, situated in very charming eternal youth, every limb of Their bodies manifesting limitless sweet handsomeness, and continually overcome with amorous desires, day and night enjoys eternal pastimes Vrndavana and drowns all moving and non-moving beings in a flooding ocean of nectar.

58 Please meditate on Vrndavana’s trees, every branch, leaf, fruit, flower, and blossom of which is filled with the splendid nectar of the sweetest fragrance.

59 Please worship the fair and dark divine couple, who enjoy pastimes in the beautiful groves of haricandana and other trees growing by the Yamuna’s shore.

60 When will I directly see the intensely sweet and blissful nectar ocean of the Vrndavana pastimes of the very sweet divine couple, whose limbs are splendid as gold and sapphires.

61 In the beautiful forest of Vrndavana some very fortunate souls are able to taste the flood of wonderful sweetness from the nectar ocean of pure love for the lotus feet of Sri Gandharva’s (Radha’s) intimate friend.

62 Showering the trees in Vrndavana with a great rain of pure love and a bliss that eclipses all other blisses, the Krsna monsoon cloud and the Radha lightning flash shine with great splendor.

63 May the pastimes in Vrndavana of the youthful divine gopa couple, who are fair and dark as the petals of a newly blossoming golden campaka flower and a blue lotus, appear before me.

64 Please serve the handsome and youthful divine couple, splendid as sapphires and molten gold and trembling with limitless transcendental passion in a lovely kadamba grove.

65 In a very wonderful flower garden in Vrndavana forest, which is the root of the sweetest nectar, the fair and dark youthful divine couple, who are my life, and who are now overwhelmed with passion, enjoy pastimes.

66 I meditate on Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, who are agitated by in the bees’ buzzing and the cuckoos cooing in the forest flower gardens.

67 Today in Vrndavana forest the bees are singing everywhere, the cuckoos make a constant great tumult of “kuhu kuhu”, the peacocks dance playfully, and the trees and creepers have blossomed with many beautiful flowers. O Radha, they do all this only to please you.

68 Inspired by the nectar of love, Krsna approached Radha from behind and playfully covered Her eyes. Radha said, “Let go! I know who You are. You are Lalita.” Krsna laughed. One gopi friend said, “The hairs on Your body are standing up with excitement. You know who it is”. Then Radha laughed. Moving a blossoming-twig fan, another gopi them made a cooling breeze fall upon Sri Sri Radha-Krsna.

69 Situated in wonderful, playful and charming eternal youthfulness, served by eternally joyful affectionate gopi friends whose bodily hairs stand up and who shed tears by seeing Their splendor, and the handsomeness of Their transcendental forms filling Rati and Kamadeva with wonder. Sri Radha and He who is the jewel of lovers enjoy limitless blissful pastimes day and night in Vrndavana forest.

70 I worship Sri Vrndavana, where there is a flooding ocean of the glory of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s fair and dark forms, where a flood of the nectar of pure love eclipses the fame of both spiritual and material worlds, where there is the most splendid splendor, where one lose all attachment for any other place, and where the divine couple enjoys beginningless, endless, glorious, exalted pastimes.

71 My queen, please sit still for a moment. My charming Lord, please stop for a moment. I shall clear away the signs of amorous pastimes from Your eyes, limbs, and clothing. Lalita and the other gopis have been searching for you. They will arrive at any moment. If they see You like this they will make all jokes. They will laugh and laugh. it will be very embarrassing for You.

72 The beautiful lotus flowers of Their faces fully blossomed in the splendid moonlight, Their charming conversation flowing like a stream of honey, Their bodily hairs erect, and Their limbs trembling in the excitement of Their transcendental amorous passion, the eternal fair and dark complexioned divine couple enjoy transcendental pastimes in Vrndavana.

73 Filled with the sweet nectar of love for each other, laughing and laughing, expertly embracing each other, and again and again struggling in the battle of transcendental amorous pastimes, the splendid divine couple quickly enters the courtyard in the forest grove of Vrndavana.

74 Arranging Their hair and tilaka markings, offering Them fragrant scents, betel nuts, and flower garlands, clothing Them in splendid, fine silk garments, giving Them very palatable transcendental food and drink, nicely fanning Them, massaging Their soft lotus feet, and doing many other things, the gopis serve Sri Sri Radha-Krsna in the groves of Vrndavana forest.

75 In Vrndavana some of Radha’s beautiful maidservants decorate the forest groves, some string splendid garlands and other ornaments with many flowers, some happily prepared many kinds of aromatic fragrances, and some make very fine garments.

76 O mind, please worship the girls in the land of Vrndavana, who with the splendor of a single beautiful limb and the flooding sweetness of youth turn all the young demigoddesses in heaven into blades of grass. Please meditate on the very sweet and glorious divine couple, who make the greatest sages become stunned with wonder.

77 May the beauty of Vrndavana forest, the peerless glory of the blissful, youthful, fair and dark divine couple in the bliss of Their ever-new, great, transcendental amorous pastimes, and the beautiful young girls who illuminate the ten directions and who are overwhelmed by the sweetness of worshipping the divine couple that is more dear to them than life, appear before me.

78 Far from the material energy, which is the root of numberless material universes, is the sweet nectar of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s effulgence. Within that effulgence are the Vaikuntha planets, and in the most confidential portion of Vaikuntha is this blissful, glorious Vrndavana, splendid with the Kama-gayatri-bija.

79 I worship the splendid, sweet, soft, expansive land of Vrndavana, which is filled with cintamani jewels, which is the abode of transcendental bliss, which is scented with sweet transcendental fragrance, which is filled with the transcendental nectar of pure love of God, which is splendid with flower pollen and which is filled with wonderful and colorful transcendental glory.

80 Here in Vrndavana the wonderful young girls eternally worship Sri Radha-Muralidhara, who are filled with the sweetness of the beauty of youth, with sweet love for each other, and with the wonderful intoxicating nectar of the bliss of love.

81 I pray that Sri Radhika’s maidservant, whose bumblebee hearts are always intoxicated by tasting the honey of Radha-Krsna’s lotus flower feet, who shed tears and whose bodily hairs stand up because of a blissful flood of love for Them, and who bitterly lament when any obstacle stops their service to the master and mistress of their lives, may appear before me.

82 Please meditate on Radha’s young, slender, very sweet maidservants, who are graceful as golden vines, the splendor of whose limbs fills all directions, and whose golden earrings move to and from on the cheeks and whose bracelets, anklets, and the belts on their hips all tinkle as they busily serve the divine couple, who are more dear to them than life.

83 Please meditate on Sri Radhika’s maidservants, who are as fair as gold, whose broad hips are decorated with splendid saris and tinkling bells, whose lotus feet are splendid with melodiously tinkling anklets, whose budding breasts are covered with splendid bodices and beautiful necklaces moving to and fro...

84 whose noses are decorated with priceless pearls set in jewels and gold, whose large braids are decorated with jewels and flowers, whose smiling faces are brilliant as numberless golden moons, who shine with the playfulness of youth, whose limbs are enchantingly beautiful...

85 whose bodily hairs at every moment gracefully stand erect because of intense, sweet, spontaneous love for Radha-Krsna, and who, plunged into the fathomless ever-expanding ocean of transcendental bliss, smile and laugh, their bodies at every moment blossoming with transcendental bliss.

86 Flooding the ten directions with the splendor of their limbs, splendid and youthful, blinded with love for the very charming youthful divine couple, and decorated with a variety of garments and ornaments, Radha’s maidservants shine with great splendor.

87 May I, in a heart rapt in unmoving meditation on the goddess of fortune’s husband, yearn for the service of Sri Gandharva’s (Radha’s) lotus feet, which are a great treasure of fragrant nectar sought by a certain wonderful, wise black bee in beautiful Vrndavana forest’s new vine pavilions.

88 I meditate on the beautiful land of Vrndavana, which is paved with glistening cintamani jewels, marked with the nectar pollen of Radha-Krsna’s footprints, splendid with jewels of many colors, and illuminated with the limitless splendor of transcendental nectar.

89 The land of Vrndavana is very splendid, gentle, fragrant with the intense bliss of the pastimes of the two divine lovers more glorious than the greatest jewels filled with the camphor, incense and other things of leafy-branched trees, filled with the pastimes of the divine couple who enter it, and so splendid it has no need for a moon.

90 I offer my respectful obeisances to the wonderful effulgent, transcendental land of Vrndavana, which is splendid with glistening gold, sapphires, rubies, red-coral, lapis lazuli, and candrakanta jewels.

91 I eternally meditate on the land of Vrndavana, which is glorious above everything, an island of sweetness in the shoreless ocean of nectar, wonderful with the blisses of transcendental amorous pastimes, blinded by the nectar of love for Radha-Krsna, its limbs rolling about on the ground in ecstasy, and a wonderful treasure of transcendental beauty and good fortune.

92 I meditate on Vrndavana, where many affectionate gopi friends prepare a couch for Radha-Krsna’s pastimes, where the deer, birds, trees, and vines are intoxicated with the nectar of love, and which is very charming, beautiful with many splendid forest groves, delightful with jewel pavements, and filled with splendid lakes, streams, and jewel mountains.

93 Filling Sri Radha-Krsna with passion, intoxicating all moving and non moving entities, crushing passionate Kamadeva’s pride and disarraying his garments and ornaments, and making the stars, the moon, and affectionate young gopis mad with happiness, Vrndavana shines with great splendor.

94 Without ever becoming tired, please always meditate on beautiful Vrndavana, which is glorious with numberless charming forests of parijata and other splendid trees, worshipped by demigods full of love for Lord Hari’s lotus feet, plunged into an ocean of the light of millions of moons, and unapproachable even by the host of Upanisads.

95 Brother, are you trapped in the jungle of repeated birth and death? Can you find not even a moment’s relief from the three-fold sufferings? The words of the scriptures don’t tell you how to escape? Simply meditate in your heart on the trees of Vrndavana, which are so dear to Lord Krsna.