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Sataka Seven

1 Please worship Vrndavana’s trees, which grow in a splendid island of sweet nectar risen from the spiritual effulgence ocean of the Kama-gayatri-bija and are the wonderful object of love for the very charming fair and dark divine couple.

2 The goddess of devotion to Sri Krsna’s lotus feet, who never appears before the liberated souls, and whom even Sukadeva, Narada and other saints cannot approach with their pure deeds, continually wanders here and there, searching for someone who lives in beautiful Vrndavana.

3 Always give all honor to everyone. Always think of yourself as the lowest of the low. O intelligent one, reside in the charming abode named Vrndavana. Consider honor and dishonor to be the same. Consider millions of praises and millions of insults to be the same. Consider poverty so great it is difficult even to eat and limitless wealth to be both the same. Consider friends and enemies to be all the same.

4 A woman’s body is merely a grotesque lump of foul flesh covered by a thin layer of pretty skin. Spit at the thought of trying to enjoy that lump of flesh. Consider wealth to be worthless. Know that children, relatives, and friends are simply ropes to bind you. Consider palatable food and drink to be the beginning of your troubles. Fear handsome garments. Be humble, think of yourself as everyone’s servant or disciple, and reside in Vrndavana.

5 Seeing it to be a shoreless ocean of the sweetness of the lotus feet of Radha’s lover, a pure devotee worships Vrndavana.

6 My tongue constantly dances in the glory of Vrndavana’s virtues. They who know it is eternally the most exalted of all never leave it. 7 For the moment let us not consider Lord Krsna, the moon of Vrndavana. Let us not consider Srimati Radharani, the queen of Vrndavana, and let us not consider Her gopi friends either. Even one blossoming tree in Vrndavana forest has the power to enchant the entire world.

8 Fool, abandon, the many rituals of ordinary religion and in Vrndavana find the intense bliss even the demigods cannot attain.

9 Don’t perform pious acts. Don’t practice yoga. Don’t worship Lord Visnu. Don’t hear Lord Visnu’s glories. Reside in the earthly land of Vrndavana, and you will certainly attain the spiritual world.

10 To reside, up until the moment of death, in the earthly land of Vrndavana, is considered equal to performing countless pious deeds, worshipping Hari, and studying all the Upanisads.

11 Let me perform hundreds of impious acts. Let all my piety go away. If the land of Vrndavana will accept me, which should there be any worry?

12 I wish to reside in Vrndavana. I try to reside in Vrndavana, If, fool that I am, I try to leave, I pray that merciful Vrndavana will rescue me.

13 The supreme, indescribable, charming sweetness of Vrndavana forest enchants the heart of Radha’s dear friend.

14 In Vrndavana are the topmost limit of transcendental bliss, the topmost limit of the nectar of transcendental good fortune, the topmost limit of Lord Hari’s sweetness, and the topmost limit of worshipable transcendental qualities.

15 I have carefully studied the scriptures and I have served many spiritual masters. Still, I have personally seen that the best scripture and the best spiritual master is transcendental Vrndavana.

16 Fried, why are you morose? What is the need for this useless talking? Simply hear, describe, and glorify in song the transcendental qualities of Vrndavana.

17 Why are you suffocated by thousands of useless concerns for public opinion and the niceties of religious practice? Simply place your body in the beautiful land of Vrndavana and become happy.

18 What is the need to associate with saintly persons? What is the need to study the scripture? What is the need to perform pious deeds? I think the blades of grass in Vrndavana are supremely pious and fortunate, yet they do not endeavor to perform pious deeds.

19 If your eyes yearn to gaze at women, pluck them out. If your feet wish to leave Vrndavana, crush them to powder with a rock. If your life-breath tries to take you outside Vrndavana, abandon it. If your body decides to take you outside Vrndavana, tie it up and beat it ferociously.

20 Even if one of the residents of this material world has committed adultery millions of times with his guru’s wife, has killed hundreds of millions of brahmanas, has stolen gold, drunk wine, slaughtered cows and performed a great multitude of the most horrifying sins, if he stays in Vrndavana until the moment of his death, he becomes a pure hearted saint.

21 One who does not even know the word “religion”, who is always devoured by all kinds of sins, who because of his sins is scorned even by the mlecchas and candalas, but somehow by the boundless mercy and forgiveness of the holy dhama, resides in Vrndavana until the moment of his death, becomes the most fortunate of men. Who is as fortunate as he?

22 I cannot discriminate between religion and irreligion. I am eager to talk with impious men. At every moment I am crushed by lust, anger, madness and a host of other vices. Even for a single moment I cannot patiently tolerate the dualities of happiness and distress in this world. O Vrndavana, only if you are very kind, generous, and forgiving, and only if you protect me as a mother protects her child, will I ever become happy.

23 When, the hairs on my body erect in ecstasy, and my eyes flowing streams of tears, will I day and night wander in Vrndavana’s groves, where Sri Sri Radhika-Krsna eternally enjoy passionate amorous pastimes?

24 When in my heart will I worship the young, passionate golden splendor eternally and sweetly playing with a young, dark, peerless, charming monsoon cloud in the newly blossoming forest groves by Yamuna’s shore?

25 Above the effulgence of advaita-brahman the blissful effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead shines. Within that effulgence is the effulgence of the sweetness of the Lord’s delightful pastimes. The most brilliant part of the effulgence is beautiful Vrndavana, where the eternally playful young girl Radha stays with dark-complexioned Lord Krsna. Please meditate on the supremely sweet splendor of Her feet.

26-30 Always and in all situations meditate on yourself as one of Srimati Radharani’s many maidservants, who are all expert in the arts of transcendental mellows, expert in making a great variety of colorful garlands, garments, and ornaments, wonderfully youthful, beautiful, graceful, and decorated with beautiful faces always blossoming with happiness as they serve Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. Meditate on yourself as Srimati Radharani’s maidservant, as a beautiful, charming young gopi delicate as a newly blossoming golden vine, as a girl whose moving, neatly braided black hair is decorated with jewels and clusters of flowers, whose beautiful nose is decorated with a single splendid pearl set in gold and jewels, whose face has the splendor of a golden full moon, who emits a great flood of the sweet fragrance of a host of lotus buds, whose beautiful breasts are like two wonderful golden lotus buds discreetly covered by a bodice, who has a very slender waist, who has very beautiful broad hips, who is beautifully decorated with a belt, anklets, necklaces, bracelets, and golden veil, whose hips are girded with a wonderfully colorful cloth, whose limbs emit a splendid luster that fills all directions, who wears glistening earrings and a splendid golden lotus flower over one ear, who displays the very wonderful gracefulness, joyfulness, sweetness, and beauty of rising youth, who is so overwhelmed with love for Sri Sri Radha-Krsna that her bodily hairs stand erect and tears fill her eyes, who is situated in the highest position of skill in all the transcendental arts, who is wonderfully expert at speaking joking words, who is plunged in a nectar ocean of transcendental bliss, and who considers the beautiful divine couple the sole great treasure of her life. I pray that I shall always meditate on my actual spiritual identity in this way and that even in the greatest calamity I shall not be illusioned into thinking that this material body is myself, or that this home and its various paraphernalia is my property.

31 Dear friend, if you desire to attain pure transcendental pastimes, which display the most exalted transcendental love, splendid beauty, and great bliss, then please take shelter of Sri Vrndavana with all your heart, for in Vrndavana the youthful divine couple, who are filled with the nectar of pure transcendental love, enjoy Their eternal pastimes.

32 Laughing at harsh rebukes, physical blows, or any other trouble, not unhappy to not find anything to eat, in the eyes of the common people appearing to act like a very bewildered child, wealthy in the great treasure of the penniless ascetics, and never flaunting your own virtues, bow down and serve all the living entities in Vrndavana.

33 In an island in the midst of the shoreless, pure, eternal, blissful, regal, intensely sweet, effulgent nectar ocean of the mellows of transcendental love, the beautiful, ever new and fresh, supremely sweet forest of Vrndavana eternally shines with great splendor. Please reside there and worship the two fair and dark splendors.

34 Never leaving to go to any other place, never arriving from any other place, eternally young, always plunged in the nectar of transcendental amorous pastimes, supremely sweet, decorated with peerless transcendental virtues, and splendid as gold and sapphires, the divine couple eternally stays in Vrndavana.

35 Somewhere in the apex of forests may my heart become placed in the two splendors that are the apex of the nectar of transcendental amorous pastimes, the apex of the sweetness of transcendental love, the apex of the splendid beauty of newly budding youth, and the apex of wonderful amorous skill.

36 A great treasury of Radha-Madhava’s charming amorous pastimes, a thief that robs the living entities of all material aims in life, a wonderful glory that dances on the crowned heads of the three Vedas, a saint that vows to always protect those who take shelter of it, and a nectar ocean of pure love, Vrndavana remains always awake.

37 The transcendental abode name Vrndavana, which is filled with all the glory and sweetness of the nectar of krsna-prema, and where a discussion of cause and effect merges into non-existence and the blissful Brahman effulgence does not shine, is eternally manifest above all.

38 Let us glorify Vrndavana, from the splendor of which everything is manifest, which delights the spiritual and material worlds with a drop from the nectar ocean of the wonderful bliss of pure love, from the existence of which all existence follows, and of the wonders of the glory and sweetness of which the entire world contains only a fragment.

39 May Vrndavana, where the fair and dark youthful divine couple, flooding the world with a limitless ocean of love by manifesting the shade of Their wonderful and limitlessly powerful lotus feet and the flood of the sweetness of Their wonderful pastimes, passes beginningless and endless time with a festival of very sweet amorous pastimes, give me shelter.

40 With only the power and glory of the Lord’s holy name, conquer, conquer lust, hatred, and all other vices. Make me forget the dualities of material existence that spring from the material body. Reveal the splendor of the spiritual world. Forgetting the material world, show me the sweet splendor of the spiritual world. Seeing the two wonders in a secluded place, and revealing Vrndavana forest, bring me before the fair and dark hero and heroine.

41 Accompanied by all his senses, this person runs wildly into the gruesome world of hedonism. He does not find even the slightest scent of happiness anywhere. He is now mad. He has become completely blind. His deaf ears are struck with wonder to hear the advice of his friends, guru and scripture. When will slow-witted I take shelter of Vrndavana?

42 Again and again I see the pigs here. They constantly pass stool, urine and other filth. Their life is very short and its beginning, middle and end are filled with horrible sufferings. Still, I have a strong desire to enjoy material sense gratification as they do. O forest of Vrndavana, please rescue me from this desire.

43 If, out of love for Vrndavana, a person like me abandons all the rules of ordinary religion, and if overcome by the uncontrollable material senses, he offends the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and if, in spite of all obstacles, he continues to reside in Vrndavana, he will certainly attain the most exalted state of pure spiritual love for Lord Krsna. Will this beautiful land of Vrndavana then not be merciful and rescue me?

44 Some worship Lord Visnu, some daily perform meditation or yoga, some perform the karma-kanda rituals of the Vedas, and some are simply attached to wife, children, money, and other things. Who among them lives with pure love in Vrndavana forest, which is beautified by Sri Radha-Krsna’s eternal, passionate amorous pastimes. I do not know?

45 Beyond the touch of the three modes of material nature is the splendor of intense transcendental bliss. Within that the splendor of intense love for Lord Krsna shines. Within that is the very sweet splendor of Vrndavana forest. There please worship the two fair and dark youthful mines of the jewels of sweet nectar.

46 I am not unhappy if degraded men criticizes me. I do not protest if thugs assault me. If others insult me, I remain peaceful. Fully away aware of my own impious nature, as an outcast I stay far away from others. To everyone I always pray for mercy. I am very fallen. I am like a dog or jackal. I only ask that somehow or other I may stay in the blissful land of Vrndavana.

47 In my heart taking terrible calamity to be like good fortune, insults to be like honor, criticism like praise, enemies like friends, poverty like great wealth, and envy like friendship, I shall stay in this land of Vrndavana, which charitably gives to its residents the nectar of the lotus feet of the Sri Sri Radha-Krsna.

48 May my head always very respectfully bow down to salute Vrndavana. May my tongue always be enthusiastic to glorify its transcendental qualities. May my hands clean its newly blossoming groves. May my feet wander within it. May my ears hear its glories. May my eyes gaze upon it. May my mind always meditate on it.

49 With very sweet devotional love, please worship Vrndavana, which is the most wonderful of all good fortunes, the most wonderful of all auspiciousnesses, the most wonderful of all spiritual splendors, the most wonderful of all beauties, the most wonderful of all generous philanthropists, the most wonderful of all Lord Krsna’s abodes and the most wonderful of all.

50 All glories to Vrndavana-dhama, which is filled with trees and vines blossoming in the ocean of blissful moonlight, which is decorated with many pigeons, parrots, cuckoos, and peacocks, which is filled with the buzzing of restless bees, and which has as its companion the Yamuna flooded with the sweetness of divine love.

51 Please meditate on Vrndavana forest, beautiful with the splendid moonlight of transcendental bliss, the essence of intense sweetness, the ecstasies of transcendental love, and groves of regal trees bearing wonderful new flowers.

52 A self-realized soul always tastes the nectar of pure love for Lord Krsna. In his heart he sees the spiritual forms of all the moving and non-moving residents of Vrndavana, and he also sees his own original spiritual form. If you cannot see in this way, then hear the truth from the mouth of a bona-fide spiritual master, and always reflect on what he has taught you. Reside in Vrndavana, and one day the reactions to your past deeds will come to an end, and you will also taste the nectar of pure transcendental love.

53 He who takes shelter of Vrndavana, which is beyond the three modes of nature, which by its own mercy shines on the earth, which generously gives the nectar of pure love for Lord Hari, and which is filled with splendid bliss and flooded with unequalled sweetness, is honored by the three worlds.

54 In the middle of the ocean of intense bliss a nectar island of cintamani jewels shine. There the very wonderful and colorful abode of Vrndavana is manifest. Friend, don’t lament. With unalloyed devotion please reside there, where one may easily attain what is very far from the students of Vedanta, and what even the great devotees of the Lord cannot attain.

55 Please meditate on the young hero and heroine of transcendental amorous pastimes, who are two flooding oceans of passion, and who, sighing, and in the intensity of Their passion repeatedly breaking the flower garlands, jewel necklaces, garments and ornaments carefully placed on Their transcendental bodies by jubilant and loving friends, make Their friends smile and laugh again and again.

56-57 Beyond the world of the three modes of nature, which is decorated with numberless universes and filled with suffering, is the shoreless ocean of bliss that is the self manifested, brilliant effulgence of the spiritual world.

58 The wise know this spiritual effulgence free from the waves of material change and without suffering, ignorance, or the activities of ignorance, as the Supreme Brahman.

59 Please meditate on the ocean of very sweet bliss that is the very pure, glorious and wonderful splendor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead there.

60 That wonderful realm is very large and splendid. It is glorified by the loving devotees.

61 Within that splendor is the very wonderful, very great, limitless splendor of Lord Krsna. Please meditate in this way.

62 That splendor is very effulgent, delightful, charming, wonderful, and beautiful. It is filled with great transcendental love and it is a great festival of the nectar of great transcendental bliss.

63 Deep within that splendid world is the most wonderful, splendid, and exalted realm.

64 In that splendid realm is the ultimate limit of purity, the ultimate limit of transcendental bliss, and the ultimate limit of the transcendental opulences that are the nectarean mellows of spiritual love for Lord Krsna.

65 That realm is eternally free from the slightest touch of any material desire. It is manifested from the bija-syllable of the kama gayatri mantra. It is filled with the nectar of ecstatic love.

66 Within that is the more splendid realm that is the beautiful forest of Vrndavana. That forest is the great empire of complete transcendental sweetness. It is the great wonder of complete transcendental bliss.

67 In that realm are the most perfect sweetness, the most perfect nectar, and a host of all fortunate trees, vines, birds, deer, and other creatures.

68 That realm is decorated with many splendid pastime cintamani mountains and with many lakes, ponds, and wells, all filled with the nectar waters of transcendental bliss and love.

69 That place is splendid with courtyards of glistening gold and cintamani jewels and with splendid trees and vines of eternally blossoming flowers.

70 They are blissful trees bearing countless fruits, and playful, agitated birds that make a great festival of tumultuous warbling.

71 Honey flows from every blooming flower and there are the sweet buzzing sounds of a great host of bumblebees blinded with joy.

72 There are many very wonderful nectar-filled forest groves and every direction there is filled with the pollen of flowers.

73 In various places passionate peacocks wildly dance, and cuckoos intoxicated by tasting new mango buds, sing the fifth note.

74 This place is filled with splendid blossoming kahlara, kamala, utpala, and jati flowers, and with swans, cranes, cakravakas, and karandavas.

75 There are many lakes and streams, their very clear waters filled with the nectar of transcendental bliss, and their splendid shores studded with a mosaic of jewels and beautified with many splendid jewel staircases.

76 In this place the Yamuna, opulent with many padma and utpala lotuses, flows with a great stream of the sweet nectar of great transcendental bliss.

77 The sweet sounds of the birds and bees by the Yamuna delight the ears. The entire area bears the splendid and delicate scent of camphor pollen.

78 The Yamuna is beautified by splendid shores that shower the nectar of transcendental bliss. Nearby is a very charming forest-garden.

79 Vrndavana is filled with very wonderful and splendid variety. Everything there is effulgent with the sweetest nectar.

80 This place is the form of the Kama-gayatri bija and the bliss of transcendental pastimes, in this place supremely handsome Sri Sri Radhika-Krsna stay.

81 Their naturally wonderful youthful handsomeness enchants the entire world. They are eternally intoxicated by the nectar of supremely pure amorous pastimes.

82 The splendor of Their fair and dark transcendental forms floods all directions.

83 Their charming transcendental forms are filled with all beauty. The graceful movements of Their transcendental limbs contain the great treasure of transcendental beauty.

84 They are two shoreless oceans of very wonderful handsomeness that has neither equal nor superior. They are two oceans of ever-increasing, boundless, pure mutual love.

85 Their limbs are eternally agitated with transcendental amorous passion. Because They are overcome with passion the hairs on Their bodies stand erect with excitement.

86 Their hearts untouched by the desire to enjoy with anyone else, They enjoy eternal and passionate transcendental amorous pastimes together.

87 By expertly playing very wonderful musical duets, Their appetite for amorous pastimes becomes awakened. They now swim in the great ocean of pure transcendental amorous love.

88 Affectionately served by a splendid circle of gopi friends, They eternally enjoy transcendental pastimes. They are the charming life and soul of the gopis plunged in the nectar ocean of love.

89 Now, with great devotion, let us meditate on our queen Sri Radha, whose transcendental form is filled with the nectar of supremely pure love.

90 She is the crest jewel of all beautiful young gopis. All Her beautiful limbs are filled with all transcendental virtues.

91-92 With Her wonderful beauty She enchants all the universes and makes Mohini, Parvati, Rati, and all other beautiful girls hand down their heads in shame. Her complexion is the color of molten gold. Her glistening beauty is limitless.

93 The rising luster of Her fair complexion fills the ten directions. The rising sweetness of Her transcendental beauty drowns the spiritual and material worlds.

94 She is a splendid, wonderful nectar ocean of pure transcendental love. She performs the arati ritual, offering millions of Her own lives to Lord Krsna.

95 She is filled with the great splendor of unalloyed, pure, transcendental love. Her splendid transcendental form displays the most wonderful ever fresh youthfulness.

96 She manifests millions of oceans of the nectar of ever fresh transcendental beauty. At every step Her very wonderful transcendental beauty completely enchants the entire world.

97 Her charming transcendental form is a great flood of transcendental sweetness. She wears a garland of malli and campaka flowers that greatly agitate swarms of bumblebees.

98-99 She is decorated with a vine of Her beautiful braided which enchants the entire universe. It begins with exquisite beauty at the top of Her head, is seen encircling the area of Her eyes, and finally hangs down to Her broad hips. In its beginning it is decorated with many colorful flowers, in its middle flowers are entwined within it, and at its end it is decorated with clusters of flowers and jewels.

100 Her very dark, long, glistening, very broad, splendidly beautiful braids are like a great snake lurking behind a vine of campaka flowers.

101 Her face is as splendid as an unlimited golden full moon, or the whorl of a golden lotus glistening in the unlimited moonlight.

Sataka Eight

1 Her face is like the whorl of a charming, blossoming golden lotus flower. Her splendid teeth are like a row of ripe pomegranate seeds.

2 Her splendidly beautiful bimba fruit lips are an ocean of transcendental sweetness. Her very beautiful chin is enchantingly decorated with a black dot of musk.

3 Her shyly smiling eyes are two restless khanjana birds. The playful movements of Her eyebrows have completely defeated the powerful bow of the demigod cupid.

4 Her beautiful nose is decorated with a splendid pearl set in gold and jewels. Her ears are charmingly decorated with flowers and beautiful jewel earrings.

5 The splendor of a jewel locket beautifies her new golden conchshell neck. Her beautiful new breasts are two golden flower buds.

6 Her breasts are wonderfully beautiful. They are very charming and they are very full, firm, large and high.

7 Her bodice is always covered by the edge of Her sari. She is decorated with splendid jewel bracelets and armlets.

8 Her arms are two splendid, graceful vines. Her abdomen marked with three graceful folds of skin is like a glistening, smooth golden flower petal.

9 Her slender waist is very charming and beautiful. Her large, young hips expand the nectar of the great beauty.

10 The beautiful and wonderfully colorful flower of Her silken sari reaches down to Her graceful ankles. Her lovely thighs are two glistening and smooth plantain tree trunks.

11 Her knees are very beautiful. Her splendid legs are lotus stems. All moving and non moving living entities are enchanted by the beauty of Her lotus feet.

12 Her graceful, playful steps enchant the most charming Lord Krsna. She wears a splendid sash and tinkling golden ankle bells.

13 Her toes are adorned with splendid rings and Her feet with golden anklets studded with rubies. Her legs and thighs are very beautiful.

14 Her fingers are splendidly decorated with jewel rings. At every step she is more beautiful. She is a shoreless ocean of expert skill in the performance of very wonderful, endless transcendental pastimes.

15 With Her delicate fair limbs and the nectar waves of very wonderful amorous pastimes, She completely enchants both Lord Krsna and Her gopi friends.

16 Now please meditate on the many millions of maidservants filled with love for the sweet, jewel-anklet-decorated splendor of the beautiful lotus feet of Vrndavana’s queen.

17 They are loved, honored, and carefully taught by the leaders of the gopis. They are charming, displaying many kinds of youthful beauty.

18 They are decorated with a very wonderful variety of garments and ornaments, and their bodily complexions also display a very wonderful variety.

19 They are skilled in a great variety of arts. With their musical talents they please the dear divine couple.

20-21 All their actions reveal the sweetness of youth. With their naturally graceful motions, shy smiles, and crooked sidelong glances, they charm both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the entire world. Among them is one especially beautiful girl who is the special object of Sri Radha’s kindness.

22 Unable to bear a moment’s separation from Her, she always stays by Sri Radha’s lotus feet.

23 What more can I say to describe her? Sometimes, as Sri Radha enjoys transcendental pastimes with Her lover, Krsna, this girl places them both on the bed in the cottage of vines, and other times she dresses Them both in various garments.

24 Her sweet bodily luster is as splendid and charming as gold. Her beauty is without limit. Her sweetness is without limit.

25 She is wonderfully youthful. Her beautiful breasts are like flower buds. Her colorful bodice is covered by many pearl necklaces.

26 The smooth and splendid plantain trees of her arms are decorated with bracelets and armlets. The splendid vine of her braided hair plays on the surface of Her beautiful thighs.

27 Her very slender waist is enchantingly beautiful. Her splendid silk sari reaches down to her ankles.

28 She wears a very fine bodice beautifully decorated with bunches of flowers. Her charming eyes are surrounded by curling locks of hair.

29 She casts shy, sweet, smiling, playful sidelong glances. She is expert in various transcendental arts. The curving features of her transcendental form are very beautiful.

30 The hairs of her body stand erect in her ecstasy of love for Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. She is expert in all the arts, having been personally taught by her mistress, Radha.

31 She is charmingly decorated with flower garlands, garments, ornaments, and many other things given to her by the most dear divine couple. She possesses great humbleness, good character, and a host of other transcendental virtues.

32 She is expert at understanding the hints concealed in the glances, words ad expressions of her mistress Radha. She chews the betelnuts offered by Lord Krsna. She worships Sri Sri Radha-Krsna with great respect.

33 She brings golden vessels and other paraphernalia to the secret meeting with Lord Krsna. Radha’s great love and various kindnesses make her overwhelmed with love.

34 In all three phases of time (past, present and future) she had no desire other than to serve Sri Radha’s lotus feet. She is always plunged in the shoreless ocean of the happiness of pure love for Sri Radha.

35 Even in her dreams she does not know anything but the lotus feet of Sri Radha. She is always plunged in an ocean of pure love for Sri Radha.

36 Her youthful beauty fills the entire world with wonder. As she repeatedly tastes the nectar of transcendental mellows, the hairs on her body stand erect in ecstasy.

37 With the limitless splendid beauty of her transcendental form she enchants the entire world. Eager to perform her duties in Radha’s service, she quickly goes here and there.

38 She is like a walking golden vine with cluster of newly-blossoming flowers. She floods the ten directions with waves of splendid beauty.

39-40 With the wonderful beauty of her transcendental form she fills all directions with wonder. With playful steps, the tinkling of ankle-bells and the sweet jingling of bracelets and belt, she enchants the entire world. She always drinks the sweet, cooling nectar of the narrations of the confidential pastimes of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna.

41 She is delighted by the very sweet and cool nectar of conversation flowing from the moon of Sri Radha’s mouth.

42 Eagerly and happily hearing these descriptions again and again and, even though you have never directly seen but know of this only by words, meditating on this always and in all conditions, please reside in the beautiful forest of Vrndavana.

43 Don’t recklessly look at the host of follies in this very impure, horrible material body.

44 Escaping the bewildering trap that uproots the real goal of life, defeats even Brahma and the demigods, is filled with stool, urine, phlegm, pus, muscle, flesh, bones, marrow, blood, and a host of other horrors, is covered by some skin, and goes by the name of a beautiful young woman, run far away and take shelter of Vrndavana, home of the supreme goal of life.

45 If you see that your heart has become a slave to women and that slavery is a great obstacle blocking all your desires, then violently beat your wicked senses with the raised whips of your anger, throw your ornaments and material possessions far away, consider all so-called obstacles insignificant as so many blades of grass, and reside in Vrndavana.

46 Without the mercy of Lord Hari, the Deity worshipped by self-realized saints, no one can cross the influence of the illusory potency of maya, which appears as the smiles, sidelong glances, and seductive movements of a beautiful woman. Although it may shine as flood of nectar, the very sound of the word “beautiful woman” is more deadly than the bitterest kalakuta poison. For this reason chant the holy names Radha-Krsna and peacefully stay here in Vrndavana.

47 The very wonderful flood of nectar that fills the heart in Vrndavana makes the bliss of prema into a single drop. A man cheated by senses that show him the painful illusions of this world and blinded by the Supreme Lord’s maya in the form of a woman, is not able to taste that nectar.

48 Please meditate on the transcendental potency who bears the name Radha, who with a very sweet flood of limitless beauty has washed away all material dualities, who with the graceful motions of Her transcendental limbs enchants all moving and non moving living entities, and with arrows of shyly smiling sweet sidelong glances wounds dark complexioned Lord Krsna and overwhelms Him with the transformations of ecstatic love.

49 Please protect me from the cruel witch of woman’s company. Please protect me from anger, envy, madness, cruelty, pride, greed, falsehood, and all other vices. Please protect me from the fear of becoming separated from Sri Vrndavana. O Radha-Krsna, because I am very fallen and weak, please kindly protect me from all dangers.

50 I would rather die of starvation than associate with materialistic householders. Even to get the best thing I shall not for a moment approach young women. Even if everything collapses I shall not, even within my mind, leave Sri Vrndavana. O, what fruit will the endeavor of this weak and fallen person bear?

51 Not with millions of scriptures and gurus, not with hundreds of rebukes from the world, not with the repeated vision of hellish life, and not even a host of calamities am I able to restrain, for even a moment, this mind infatuated by young women. O Vrndavana, will you protect me?

52 Alas! Alas! The forms of young women and other objects of sense gratification repeatedly steal away my heart. The illusory potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead attacks me and repeatedly dances on my head. I continually aspire to remain always here in Vrndavana forest. Will Srimati Radharani be always merciful to me? I do not know.

53 Day and night may my tongue be filled with the sweet nectar of Sri Radha’s glories. May I pray for the position of the maidservant of Her lotus feet in Vrndavana forest. May my peaceful composure be stolen away by the youthful beauty of the golden-complexioned goddess Sri Radha. By the power of my tears, hairs standing erect, and the other symptoms of my love for Sri Radha, may I cross beyond this world of repeated birth and death.

54 In a cottage in a grove of glorious Vrndavana forest a youthful couple, as brilliant as sapphires and molten gold, and overwhelmed by the very sweet mellows of transcendental pastimes, is splendidly manifest.

55 Please eternally worship the fair and dark, sweet youthful divine couple overcome by the newer and newer happiness as They gracefully play in the ever-new and sweet forest garden.

56 May Sri Radhika, the enchanting splendor of whose limbs makes the faces of the beautiful vraja-gopis turn pale, and the beauty of whose toenails makes Kamadeva, Rati, Narayana, Laksmi, and their followers faint, appear in my heart.

57 Vrndavana is brilliant with the wonderful virtues of all seasons more splendid than all splendor, sweeter than all sweetness, more beneficial and auspicious than all auspiciousness, more pleasantly cool and fragrant than all pleasant coolness and fragrance, and a wonderful ocean of bliss greater than all happiness.

58 I worship the beautiful land of Vrndavana, which from eternal bliss creates ever-increasing transcendental glory, which eternally emits splendid and enchanting fragrances, which is eternally filled with auspicious transcendental abodes, and which can only be attained by pure love.

59 Please always reside in the land of Vrndavana where, with the beautiful lotus flowers of Their feet, from which flows a sweetness that eclipses the greatest nectar, Sri Sri Radha-Muralidhara, who are two treasure houses of transcendental virtues, and who are wonderfully and incomparably youthful and delicate, eagerly walk.

60 Cross the ocean of repeated birth and death and go to the beautiful land of Vrndavana, which is paved with great cintamani gems and filled with fragrant flower pollen and camphor dust, and where the slightest touch uproots the six waves of material suffering.

61 Let us meditate on the beautiful land of Vrndavana, splendid, full of limitless wonderful virtues, wonderful with the effulgence of many glistening jewels, granting eternal bliss, and everywhere very sweet with Sri Sri Radha-Madhupati’s footprints.

62 The supremely blissful land of Vrndavana, the limitless, supremely wonderful splendor of which is beyond the understanding of the most intelligent, which at once awakens unalloyed love for the Supreme Lord, which shines with great splendor, which is full of nectar, and which is the most exalted of all transcendental abodes, with a flood of sweetness delights my heart.

63 I’ve given up my desire for fame. I don’t care if I become infamous. I don’t follow the path of material piety. I’ve renounced the game of scholarship. I don’t practice austerity, astanga-yoga, or jnana-yoga. I don’t hear the words of my elders. I don’t even notice my own body. O Vrndavana, now that I have taken shelter of you I shall never divert my attention from you.

64 In Their own forest of Vrndavana, will Radha and Her only ornament, whose forms are filled with the nectar of love, glance upon us who have no devotion and are so many oceans of the mud of material desires?

65 Let us meditate on the very wonderful, sweet, melodious tinkling of the anklebells on Sri Radha’s lotus feet in Vrndavana.

66 May my queen, Sri Radha, who is decorated by a circle of smiling and laughing friends playing vinas, mrdangas, talas and other musical instruments....

67 who is served by beautiful maidservants bearing jewelled golden cups, betel nut boxes, fans and other paraphernalia....

68 whose splendor pervades all spiritual and material worlds, who is filled with limitless sweetness, whose form is like a golden vine....

69-70 who with splendidly beautiful limbs soft and delicate as sirisa flowers, with wonderful youthful sweetness, beauty, gracefulness and other virtues, and with flowing waves of a flooding nectar ocean of amorous pastimes, enchants all moving and non moving living entities in Vrndavana forest....

71 who is decorated with many splendid garlands and ornaments, who is anointed with splendid cosmetics, whose splendid silken bodice is decorated with flowers...

72 whose bodily hairs stand erect in ecstasy as she places the vine of Her beautiful left arm around Lord Krsna’s shoulders whose beautiful left lotus hand plays with a lotus flower...

73 whose maidservants repeatedly and affectionately fan Her with their saris edges, who chews betel, who gives betelnuts to Her beloved.

74 whose maidservants offer Her golden jewelled goblet filled with delicious, cool nectar scented with camphor and spices....

75 who, gazing again and again at Vrndavana’s wonderful beauty, and intently listening again and again to Vrndavana’s wonderful sounds, becomes struck with wonder and asks Her lover, “What is this?”...

76-77 who with very sweet, wonderful, graceful, playful steps, with tinkling ankle bells, with the flooding moonlight of Her toes, and with a heart overwhelmed with beautiful happiness, walks in the very opulent and sweet forest of Vrndavana...

78 who walking here and there in the very wonderful and beautiful forest, sings and makes Her beloved sing...

79 and who eternally enjoys transcendental pastimes, be served day and night by me, whose only home is Vrndavana.

80 A person who even once tastes in his heart Vrndavana’s sweetness, which is wonderful with the splendor of Radha-Madhava’s pure amorous pastimes, at once abandons all Vedic and conventional duties and, his body filled with symptoms of ecstatic love, looks like a madman.

81 He who considers Radha-Muralidhara’s lotus feet the sole object of his love, who considers others’ wives his mothers, all plants and animals his good children, those who rebuke him his own kin, those who hate him his dear friends, and his own body the same as the bodies of others, is qualified to reside in Sri Vrndavana.

82 When, always plunged in the nectar ocean of pure love for Lord Krsna, always yearning in my heart for service to Sri Radhika’s lotus feet, tasting the sweetness of renunciation, and continually shedding tears, will I reside in Vrndavana forest?

83 I meditate on beautiful, handsome, kind, youthful, playful, charming Sri Radha-Muralidhara, whom witty, dear gopi friends eternally serve with flower-garlands, betelnuts, sandal paste, and many other offerings, in a jewel pavilion in the shade of a kadamba tree by the Yamuna’s shore in Vrndavana.

84 Please meditate on the splendidly decorated divine couple, who sit on a colorful cushion in a great jewel vine pavilion under a kalpa-vrksa tree by the very sweet and blissful Yamuna shore, and who with sweetness, youthfulness, handsomeness, charm, playfulness, and brilliant intelligence, enchant all Their gopi friends in Vrndavana.

85 Please meditate on sweet Vrndavana, beautiful with nectar trees and vines blossoming in the brilliant moonlight, with the wonderful singing and dancing of parrots, cuckoos, and peacocks, with the humming of restless bees intoxicated by drinking madhvika honey, and with many clear lakes and streams.

86 Meditating in this way, an intelligent devotee should happily reside in the blissful and effulgent forest of Vrndavana.

87 Why should a person who is a slave to lust and other vices, who hankers after fame, and who has abandoned the right path, not attain perfection in Vrndavana if he has somehow attained Vrndavana’s mercy?

88 Why not meditate on the pure love manifest in Vrndavana, which is more cooling than a full moon risen from the shoreless ocean of kindness?

89 O beautiful Vrndavana, O abode of pure goodness, even though I have committed limitless offenses, I now take shelter of you.

90 O Vrndavana, even though I am very fallen, and even though I boldly lie when I say “O Vrndavana, I am yours,” I beg you: please be merciful and accept me anyway.

91 Will I, the lowest of men, be able to reside without impediment in the eternally, boundlessly merciful forest of Vrndavana? Will I taste the nectar of Lord Hari?

92 Filled with flower pollen fragrant as perfumed powder, flooded with currents from the ocean of unprecedented nectar, covered with waves of transcendental moonlight, and overcome with blissful sounds of madly playing birds, Vrndavana forest is splendidly manifest.

93 I gaze at the forest of Vrndavana, which is filled with blissful, eternal, spiritual grasses, bushes, trees and vines, with forest groves meant for Sri Radha’s transcendental amorous pastimes, with many divine lakes, streams, and hills, with divine birds and beasts, and with charming gunja berries and black bumblebees.

94 I meditate on Vrndavana, which is encircled by the nectar stream of the Yamuna, and which is wonderful with limitlessly fragrant jewel courtyards, beautiful blossoming trees and vines glistening with the sweetest nectar, and the tumultuous sounds of many wildly blissful birds.

95 Without taking shelter of Lord Hari, the Deity worshipped by the great self-satisfied sages, what great sage or demigod can remain unbewildered by the desire to enjoy beautiful young girls in this world? frightened, stay far away from these girls, conquer your tongue and genitals, and always reside in Vrndavana forest.

96 O Vrndavana, please be merciful to me, who am boundlessly sinful, filled with hundreds of wicked thoughts, completely controlled by powerful lust, anger, and a host of other vices, the personification of proud hypocrisy, averse to the company of saintly devotees, averse to pious deeds, and without any shelter but you.

97 Even though my sense wildly run on the pathways of impious deeds, even though I do not for a single moment remember Lord Krsna, who is a great ocean of transcendental bliss and the dear lover of Srimati Radharani, even though I have neither piety nor devotional service, even though all good qualities have abandoned me, and even though alas, alas, I am very bewildered, I shall now take shelter of Sri Vrndavana.

98 Austerely considering the touch of sense-objects to be like flames of the most powerful poison, not finding any pleasure in the material senses, placing my cheek in my hands, washing it with my tears, and praying for the limitless transcendental mercy of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, I shall reside in Vrndavana.

99 When, ignoring the paths of ordinary customs and Vedic injunction, not considering those whose hearts have not entered the sweet nectar of love for my beloved divine couple to be at all fortunate, overwhelmed with the nectar of love for Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, the hairs of my body standing erect, continually shedding a great flood of tears, and filled with symptoms of wonderful ecstatic devotional love, will I become filled with bliss in the forest of Vrndavana?