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Sataka Eleven

1 O mother Vrndavana, O mother overflowing with love, please place on your lap this mischievous child who has been playing in the dirt, mercifully forgive his offenses, wipe the dust from him, feed him the breast-milk of transcendental love for your master and mistress, and give him all protection.

2 I do not possess even the slightest dim reflection of piety. I have no fear of sin, no love for Krsna, and no friendship with the devotees. Still, somehow I am able to spend my little lifetime within your boundaries. Please know that I have no other shelter. Please, if you think it is right, accept me forever.

3 O Sri Vrndavana, I have committed many unpardonable sins. I have given up the path of religion. Even with words I respect neither the Vedas, the community of spiritual masters, nor anything else. The lotus feet of Lord Krsna are far from me. Alas! Alas! I commit offenses at every moment! Because I know the great devotees take shelter of you I have now also taken shelter of you. Now that I have offended you, what shall I do? Where shall I go now?

4 Alas! Alas! I have abandoned all the principles of religion! Alas! I have not given up a single sin! My offenses to Lord Krsna, His holy names, and His devotees, have no end. O Sri-Vrndavana, you are the shelter of the shelterless. I have taken shelter of you. Now that I have offended you, what shall I do? Where shall I go now? Now you may do with me whatever you wish.

5 You are the shelter of the shelterless. Your great glory is sung by all the Vedas. O Vrndavana you are my shelter. I have no other shelter than you.

6 Even though I am incomparably wretched and fallen, I still aspire to attain a priceless spiritual treasure. O Vrndavana, everyone may laugh at me, but if you give me a little portion of your mercy, why should I feel any embarrassment?

7 O Vrndavana, if Lord Krsna, who is the prince of Vraja and the very generous savior of the fallen souls, enjoys transcendental pastimes here with Sri Radha, why should I worry about the supreme spiritual benediction?

8 Displaying all His wonderful and limitless potencies, within your boundaries Lord Krsna enjoyed transcendental pastimes with Sri Radha. O Vrndavana, why do you neglect me?

9 O Vrndavana, if I am not able to attain the nectar in you, whose glories have no limit, and who are flooded with splendid transcendental nectar, then shall millions of lifetimes performing austerities to attain it.

10 If my body, which is fit to be eaten by dogs and jackals were to fall down of its own accord and die within your boundaries, that would be very auspicious. O Vrndavana, in order to maintain my material body I shall never leave you and go to some other place.

11 I have heard that Radha’s beloved Krsna never wishes to leave you.O Vrnda, either in dream or wakefulness I have no desire to leave your forest and go to some other place.

12 My body may become broken by a trukaca, or my exalted social position and religious principles may become destroyed, still, I shall never for a moment consider leaving the forest of Vrndavana, which is so difficult to enter.

13 I do not wish to serve Lord Hari and my personal liberation is as valuable to me as tiny sea-shell now that I can drink with my eyes the beauty of the forest grove where Sri Radhika enjoys pastimes.

14 Satisfying your hunger by eating dried fruit, satisfying your thirst by drinking the water of the swiftly moving mountain streams, and resting in the caves of Govardhana Hill, the king of the mountains, please happily reside, O friend, in this forest of Vrndavana.

15 Be silent. Do nothing. Remain under a tree in Vrndavana forest. Shedding tears, your cheeks resting in your hands, and the hairs of your body erect with ecstatic love, gaze in trance on the beautiful transcendental pastimes of Sri Radhika.

16 Lord Krsna said: “The beautiful hair of My beloved resides in the splendor of your peacock feathers. I see Her curling locks of hair in your swarms of black bumble-bees. The moon of Her smiling face rises in the whorls of your golden lotus flowers. The eyes of your frightened does are the resting place of the sweetness found in the corners of Her eyes.

17 “Her beautiful nose shines in your beautiful sesame flowers. The beauty of Her lips shines in your bandhujiva flowers. Her beautiful teeth shine in your jasmine flowers. Her charming smile shines in your white lotus flowers. Her peerless form shines in your blossoming vines. The beauty of Her breasts shines in your splendid flower-buds. Her arms shine in your lotus stems.

18 “Her broad hips shine in your wide river banks. Her delicate thighs shine in your plantain trees. The beauty of Her hands and feet shines in your red lotuses. O Vrndavana forest, the beautiful form of My beloved resides within you. That beautiful form also shines in my fortunate heart.

19 “O forest of Vrndavana, when the beloved mistress of My life playfully hid nearby, one of your vines pointed Her out by waving one of its budding hands. I now owe a very heavy debt to that vine.

20 “O forest of Vrndavana, when the pollen of your endless blossoming flowers disturbed the two eyes of My beloved enjoyed a great festival of kissing awa all her troubles. O Vrndavana, you are the sustainer of My life.

21 “One time, aware that I was hiding in a grove of tamala trees, My beloved said, ‘The rascal has not come!’ She then approached Me, and prayed to Me, saying ‘O handsome tamala tree, You are very dear to Me’. Then She earnestly embraced Me. O forest of Vrndavana, by arranging this pastime you have purchased Me.

22 “O forest of Vrndavana, one time, as She was enjoying many pleasant pastimes with Her gopi friends, My beloved entered your abode of flowering vines. Disguised as an actress-dancer, I met Her there. When She angrily rebuked Me, saying “You are acting the part of Krsna!” My heart became filled with happiness.

23 “O Sri Vrndavana, one day My beloved desired a beautiful flower from the top branch of one of your very tall trees, and she said to it, “O faultless tree, please bend down and make Me happy,” I laughed and predicted that the tree will never bow down. But then, to the great pleasure of My beloved, the tree did exactly as She had asked.

24 “O wonderful Sri Vrndavana, when I gave My beloved a wonderful and splendid garment made of your colorful flowers I prayed for Her mercy. She replied by laughing and giving Me a single kiss. O Vrndavana, by giving Me those flowers you have made Me your submissive servant.

25 “O forest of Vrndavana, you are very fortunate and glorious. When Sri Radha, eager to see your great beauty, walks within you, you cover each pathway with showers of flowers, and you glorify Her with many prayers spoken through the mouths of many parrots, cuckoos, and other birds.

26 “O gopi friends, why do you smile in this way? Why are your hearts filled with doubt? Why should there not be many golden vines in this wonderfully glorious forest of Vrndavana? Why should there not be many sapphire trees? Why should these trees and vines not embrace in this beautiful and charming way?

27 “Even though I had won the dice-game where four kisses and My flute were wagered, My beloved still falsely claimed that She had won. O Vrndavana forest, O psychologist who knows what is in My beloved’s heart, by arranging these pastimes you have brought Me great transcendental bliss.

28 “O forest of Vrndavana, having left Her gopi friend far behind, and My own heart filled with love and joy, I personally massaged Sri Radha’s delicate reddish lotus feet, which eagerly wander within your boundaries.

29 “At every moment you are flooded with the blissful and wonderful stream of the transcendental handsomeness, pastimes, expert intelligence, and host of other virtues that belong to Sri Radha and Myself. O Vrndavana, this is your great good fortune. This is your transcendental opulence.

30 “You are flooded with the great streams of pastimes I enjoy with Sri Radha. Without limit you eternally increase My thirst to enjoy with Her. You greatly deepen the bond of love between Us. You are filled with oceans of nectar. O Vrndavana, you shine with pure devotional service.

31 “O Vrndavana, O ocean of transcendental virtue, spontaneous love for Queen Radha eternally arises within you. I am now purchased by you. If you desire something impossible to attain, no bar will prevent you from attaining it.” Vrndavana forest, which was this glorified by Lord Hari, shines with great splendor.

32-33 In Vrndavana, where the restless black bees are like Radha’s curling hair, the clusters of flowers on the blossoming vines are like Her very full breasts, the golden budding twigs are like the fingers of Her hands, everything is like the beauty of Her transcendental form, and Radha and Krsna enjoy pastimes day and night, Vaikuntha’s king, Narayana, His goddess, and all Their associates become enchanted by the flood of sweetness that flows from Radha-Krsna’s wonderfully handsome forms and reaches even to Vaikuntha.

34 All glories to Sri Vrndavana, which is ultimate liberation, the great treasure of nectar,the good fortune of the world, and the place sought by all the Vedas.

35 Leave all other worthless places and take shelter of Sri Radhika’s garden, which is like the sweetest nectar churned from the nectar ocean of pure devotion to Lord Hari.

36 We may attain what we seek, or we may not attain it. We simply pray that we may leave this external material body within the boundaries of Sri Vrndavana.

37 I am very foolish and unintelligent. I know only what one should never know. You are all very learned and intelligent. I simply pray that my body may become decorated with the dust of Sri Vrndavana.

38 O great logicians, please do not bring many books onto the pathway of your ears. O great gurus, I bow down before you. Why, by declining to become blinded with the intoxication of pure love for Sri Vrndavana, you have made yourself the objects of everyone’s laughter?

39 Even though the entire world considers me a madman possessed by a ghost, and even though I am like a worm or an insect within her boundaries, the forest of Vrndavana still accepts me.

40 Shall I accept whatever comes to me by destiny and not strive for material things? Shall I become overwhelmed by tasting the sweet nectar of Lord Krsnacandra? Shall I renounce everything and give my heart to the holy land of Vrndavana?

41 I do not know what is real religion or what is not real religion. I do not know what should be done or what should not be done. All I know is now that having tasted the sacred water of this holy place, I am determined never to leave this forest of Vrndavana.

42 Now that I am overwhelmed with spiritual love I vow I shall never leave Vrndavana. I shall see all expected and unexpected events as meant for my protection and if some obstacle blocks my path I shall simply take shelter of the place named Radha’s Garden.

43 In the land of Vrndavana the splendid, supremely sweet king of transcendental mellows, who is named Srngara, and who has now become a great sapphire, eternally embraces Sri Radha’s glistening neck.

44 “Beloved, look! Disguised as a cluster of flowers, the glistening fire of amorous passion has climbed this campaka tree here in Vrndavana forest and now it stares at Us as if it desires to burn Us alive. I wonder when We will be separated?”

45 O beautiful queen of Vrndavana, if You are decorated with karnikara earrings, a garland of mandara flowers, bandhujiva flowers in Your hair, a red lotus at the end of Your braids, a white toy-lotus in Your hand, and Your body decorated with kunkuma and covered with exquisite garments flowing like waves, You are dressed according to Your own desire.

46 Sri Radha is the supreme goddess of love. She is supreme in all spiritual and material worlds. Her lotus eyes fill Laksmi and all the goddesses with wonder. They pray for Her merciful glance. Lord Krsna’s is the supreme god of love. His amorous passion has no limit. He is supreme over all. A single ray of His splendor floods Lord Narayana in an ocean of happiness.

47 If Sri Vrndavana reveals its queen, then that revelation makes the sight of the most beautiful celestial jewel-like goddess become bitter as poison. That revelation reviles liberation, pleases the heart, makes the transcendental glory of Vaikunthaloka appear dull and stunted, and, what to speak of these things, makes one taste the nectarean and eternally unfading transcendental happiness tasted by the gopis of Vraja.

48 O devotee expert at relishing transcendental mellows, please meditate on the forest of Vrndavana, which reveals the beautiful face and forehead of Sri Radha and Her friends and delights supremely blissful Lord Krsna.

49 O gentle friend, please find your happiness in Vrndavana forest, which is filled with many gopi, priyaka, and punnaga flowers, and which is the eternal abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is very dear to the gopis.

50 Please meditate on Vrndavana as the place filled with wonderful transcendental opulences that bring great happiness to Lord Krsna, and as the place where Sri Radha, who feels Her lover’s quarrel with Lord Krsna to be as sweet as nectar, rests on a couch in the middle of a forest grove.

51 Filled with wonderful bliss by seeing the transcendental pastimes of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, the forest of Vrndavana has now decked itself in beautiful blue and yellow garments of indivara and campaka flowers and a garland of excited bumblebees.

52 Let me glorify the forest of Vrndavana, where the wonderful, splendid, limitless, jewel-branched kalpa-vrksa trees earnestly compete among themselves to provide the dear divine couple with many ornaments, fragrances, garlands, garments, foodstuffs, and many other things.

53 Vrndavana is filled with kalpa-lata vines that fulfill all desires. It is filled with showers of nectar that cools the living entities trapped in the fires of material distress. It is a nectarean resting place for one whose heart eagerly traverses the pathway of pure love of Krsna. It shines with great splendor.

54 In the land of Vrndavana all glories to Sri Radha’s wonderful lotus-friends, whose flowers are their faces, whose bumblebee visitors are there moving locks of curling black hair, whose stems are their delicate and graceful vine-arms, whose filaments are their teeth, and whose splendid soft leaves as their garments.

55 In the sky of Vrndavana’s lake the splendid pure waters are the moonlight, the handsome swan is the moon, and the many blossoming white lotuses are the host of stars.

56-57 “I have just seen something very wonderful and now I am bewildered. In this forest grove a beautiful-eyed golden lotus flower is now kissing the splendid and playful dark moon.” To the clever friend who spoke these words Radha said, “You are mistaken.” Making a gesture with Her lips, She joked, “Actually it is something else.”

58 With a wealth of pure love, Sri Radha’s transcendental form is eternally decorated. With Sri Radha, Lord Syamalacandra’s transcendental form is eternally decorated. With Lord Krsna, the forests of Vrndavana are splendid. With Vrndavana, the district of Mathura is splendid. With Mathura, Vaikuntha is auspicious. Therefore Vrndavana is the king of all transcendental abodes.

59 Lord Hari, whose form is made of bliss, who in His own abode, enjoys blissful pastimes in limitless spiritual forms, and who makes all material goals worthless, as the Supersoul in everyone’s heart now decorates this world of moving and stationary beings.

60 As palatable food is to men tortured by hunger, as cool water is to men perspiring in the heat, as a beautiful girl is to lusty men, as wealth is to the poverty-stricken, as a cool shade-tree is to those distressed by the hot summer sun, as parents are to children, as impersonal Brahman is to the yogis and as Lord Hari is to the devotees, so is Vrndavana to me.

61 Sri Vrndavana is my greatest attainment, my greatest deity, my greatest friend, my greatest teacher, my greatest religious duty, my greatest wealth, my greatest glory, my greatest austerity, and my greatest knowledge. What more need I say? Sri Vrndavana is eternally everything to me. Sri Vrndavana is everything I have searched for in this world.

62 Only fragments of this verse are extant.

63-65 I meditate on Vrndavana, where there is a great ocean of transcendental loveliness, where there is a great treasure store of the jewels of many transcendental virtues, where there is a very wonderful weapon, where the Supreme Personality of Godhead enjoys transcendental amorous pastimes, where there is a great palace of the sweet nectars of transcendental bliss and love, where there is the transcendental residence of Sri Radha, Lord Krsna, and many individual spirit souls, where Sri Radha is the most beautiful goddess, where Sri Radha is the splendid crescent moon risen from the ocean of Lord Hari’s intense transcendental handsomeness, where Sri Radha is the splendid lake filled with the blossoming lotuses of sublime transcendental pastimes, where the deer of the hearts of the beautiful eyed girls are charmed by the music of the flute, where Sri Radha is the moon risen from the ocean of transcendental amorous pastimes, where Sri Radha is the red sindhura marking the nectar of selfless love, where a certain dark complexioned divine person resides, where there is a dancing arena filled with all transcendental virtues, where there is an auspicious cottage, and where there are ever new festivals of transcendental amorous pastimes.

66 O Vrndavana, Sri Radha, decorated with splendid flowers and eclipsing the three worlds, is Your beauty, the golden flowering vines are Your delicate and splendid limbs, the beautiful lotus is your face, the jasmine flowers are your teeth, the banhuka flowers are your lips, the white lotuses are your eyes, and the sprouting twigs are your hands and fingers.

67 “This is a wonderful vine of lightning flashes. It is not Radha.

And this is a monsoon cloud. It is not the prince of the cowherds.” Happily speaking these contrary words in the presence of the two Deities of transcendental pastimes in the cottage of flowering vines, a certain gopi friend pleased Srimati Radhika.

68 “This is a walking golden flower vine resting on a tamala tree in Vrndavana forest. This vine holds up these two great golden mountains. Here on this vine you can see a row of half moons.”

69 “O friend, meditating day and night on a certain charming and playful walking lotus flower and thinking how He may enjoy with Her, a certain dark moon filled with the treasures of the 64 arts is now pining away in the darkness deep in the splendid forest of Sri Vrndavana.

70 O friend, please lovingly worship Sri Vrndavana, which is the beginning of the treasure of the nectar of intense transcendental bliss, which is filled with the limitless opulence of transcendental love, and which is made very charming by the passionate pastimes of Sri Radha and the flutist Sri Krsna.

71 Dear gopi friend, when you enter the lake, express this playful doubt to your friends: “Is this a beautiful lotus flower decorated with a swarm of black bees, or is it a face decorated with curling locks of hair?”

72 “Is this the splendid moon?”

“Why does it not have spots?”

“Is this the face of one of the playful girls of Vrndavana?”

“How did Her lips become so beautiful?”

In this way Sri Radha’s friends spoke among themselves.

73 Friend, when you are in the water up to Your neck and Lord Hari sees only your face, He will wonder, “What is this astonishing thing?”

74 “Why does this moon not shine? How is it that this blossoming lotus flower walks about on the land and enjoys pastimes as it pleases? “ By speaking these charming joking words in the beautiful forest cottage, Lord Hari delighted Radha’s friends.

75 “Has a swan swimming in Vrndavana’s lakes taught Radha to walk in this way or has She taught them? Has this sweet girl taught the does these shy glances, or has She learned from them?”

76 Because it can only be understood by love, neither the mind or words can understand a certain full moon that delights the flower blossoms with its sweet nectar moonlight and brings a pleasant coolness, a flood of intense sweetness, and a handsome luster to Vrndavana forest.

77 In the assembly of learned devotees I hear the descriptions of the Lord’s transcendental forms and incarnations, of the various stages of devotional service, and of the many sweet and charming transcendental pastimes playful Sri Sri Radha-Krsna enjoy in the forest of Vrndavana. Should I ever do anything else?

78 Thirsting to enjoy amorous pastimes, handsomely decorated Sri Sri Radha-Krsna enjoy pastimes in a cottage of newly blossoming vines in the beautiful forest of Vrndavana. Either directly, or in other ways, the Vedic literatures describe the many varieties of their moonlight splendor.

79 Call out, “O Radha-Krsna,” and meet Them as They happily enjoy transcendental pastimes in the newly blossoming groves of Vrndavana. I myself have personally seen one person as splendid as gold and another wonderfully blissful dark-complexioned person more dear to me than life.

80 Many people say of intensely blissful transcendental Vrndavana, “O, Vrndavana, is just a forest.” In my heart I have a different opinion. Vrndavana is the external manifestation of the sweet ecstatic love Sri Sri Radha-Krsna bear for each other.

81 A splendid great darkness now kisses the charming and wonderful golden moon that eternally bathes the ten directions of Vrndavana forest with limitless moonlight and places sweet nectar everywhere.

82 In Vrndavana Radha’s friends draw tilaka on Her face and say, “This is Sri Radha’s face. “I think this face is actually a beautiful moon risen from the churning of the great nectar ocean of the splendor of love for Lord Madana Gopala.

83 Intoxicated by the sweet nectar of transcendental passion, and displaying unique handsomeness, youthfulness, opulence, sweet charm, and expert intelligence, the very wonderful fair and dark youthful divine couple enjoys pastimes in the forest of Vrndavana. A glimpse of the shade of Their toenails makes Lord Narayana faint in ecstasy.

84 One who is very fortunate worships Sri Radha’s lotus feet, which are plunged in the great ocean of transcendental beauty, plunged in the great ocean of golden splendor, and filled with the wonderful tinkling of colorful anklets and the great auspiciousness of the chest of the dark moon of Lord Krsna.

85 Go ahead and attain material or spiritual happiness! Attain all the kinds of liberation! Attain devotion to Lord Visnu! What is the value of these things? What are they in comparison to a tiny fragment of the happiness of serving Sri Radha’s feet?

86 Don’t place your glance on this temporary body and its fleeting happiness! Don’t plunge into the distresses born from the gruesome sense-happiness that start with a young woman! Give up all attraction to hearing this body glorified! Give these up and quickly go to the abode where Sri Radha places Her lotus feet!

87 My brother, what is death? Death is the desire to enjoy the ball of stool and urine known as a woman. What is disease? The greatest disease is the envy and hatred that churns one inside and out. What is heaven? The greatest heaven is the association of person who continually celebrate a jubilant festival of pure love for Lord Krsna, the son of Maharaja Nanda. What is the ultimate secret knowledge hidden in the Upanisads? The ultimate secret of the Upanisads is the divine couple who enjoy transcendental pastimes in Sri Vrndavana.

88 The crest jewels of the swans very happily stay at this splendid lake filled with blooming sweet lotus flowers. If you leave this lake, flying away with the crows, and if you develop a desire to taste mud, then you are not a swan.

89 O merciful Lord, You are splendid with a great host of wonderful virtues. You are equal to all. You are the best of all. For how long have You existed? Have you not existed eternally? O Lord whose form glitters with transcendental nectar, You have not even begun to reveal the pastimes You enjoy here in the land of Vrndavana.

90 Because the offense of not being perfectly satisfied to live here has sprouted, many persons, even though they live for a long time in Vrndavana, which is the most charming, sweet, lovely,and auspicious place for a devotee, remain unable to directly see the sweet nectar of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s transcendental loving pastimes.

91 O beautiful gopi, you are uselessly proud of your two beautiful eyes. In Vrndavana are there not many lotus flowers growing in different lakes that are just like your eyes?

92 A vine of pearls splendidly decorates the waterpot breasts of Sri Radha. It is Her touch that gives these pearls their beauty.

93 O beautiful faced girl, your crooked dark eyes are now plunged into the crooked dark form of Lord Hari. The friendship of similar things is natural in this world.

94 The demigod Brahma prayed to be born in Vrndavana in a new body filled with the nectar of love for splendid and charming Lord Hari. Whoever resides in Vrndavana is worshipable and filled with transcendental good qualities.

95 The presence of the nectar form of Sri Krsna has transformed the forest of Vrndavana into a place of nectar. Everything that falls into the salt-water ocean also becomes salty.96 In Vrndavana who will not receive Sri Radha’s glance? When the Svati star shines, water falling into an oyster’s throat will inevitably become a pearl.

97 All happiness and distress is manifested according to one’s consciousness. Sri Sri Radha and Krsna are perfectly happy and content to lie down on the ground of Vrndavana.

98 From one whose heart yearns to taste the sweet nectar of the most charming and splendid land of Vrndavana, does not everything remind him of the charming Lord?

99 In Vrndavana Lord Hari presses Sri Radha’s very large, elegantly rounded, extremely firm and sublimely beautiful breasts as He ties Her glistening curly, black hair.

100 Does not Lord Hari bring happiness to an unhappy heart? With His embrace He brings the splendid nectar of transcendental happiness to His beloved in Vrndavana?

101 Some few rare saints become Lord Krsna’s gopi beloveds in Vrndavana. They are trees that bear fragrant, delicious, and beautiful fruit in this world.

102 Seeing Radha and Krsna wandering in Vrndavana forest and thinking Them to be a dark monsoon cloud and a lightning flash, the best of the peacocks spread their tails and jubilantly began to dance.

103 Fools are not attracted to the beautiful land of Vrndavana. This is not surprising. A man afflicted with the disease pitta-rasana cannot bear the taste of sugar-water. He immediately spits it out.

104 Although Vrndavana is filled with the sweetest transcendental nectar, some fools see it to be otherwise. Is this surprising? A white conchshell appears yellow to a man with jaundice.

105 For saying, “Now I shall describe the nectar virtues of Sri Vrndavana”. I am very wretched and pathetic. Who has the power to understand Vrndavana? Who can measure with a small bucket the water of the great ocean? One who tries becomes the object of laughter in this world.

106 The blissful eyes of the people of Vrndavana see the five goals of life present everywhere, but those people in Vrndavana who, receiving great mercy, have become the servants of Sri Radha’s feet, which are a flood of the sweetest intoxicating nectar, cannot see the five goals anywhere.

107 In the kingdom of Vrndavana the royal subjects, all lovers of Krsna, are all wealthy aristocrats. They who are devoted to the king of Vrndavana become wealthy with the priceless opulences of the nectar of transcendental bliss.

108 My mind does not go to any place other than the glories of Vrndavana. O learned scholars, your commentaries on the scriptures are all in vain. I am deaf to your every word.

109 Vrndavana is the home of boundlessly wonderful and powerful transcendental pastimes. Vrndavana is filled with limitless mercy. No happiness is superior to happiness in Vrndavana. Without the merciful sidelong glance of Sri Radha no one has the power to do anything. I am the perfect example. I know that I suffer so grievously because I have not attained Her mercy.

110 Although Vrndavana is the source of all transcendental bliss, my heart cannot find any happiness within it. O beautiful girl, I cannot for a moment look at your beautiful smiling face. How can a kumuda flower find happiness without the moon?

111 Are there not many very beautiful intelligent gopis here in Vrndavana? O Radha, I see only You. Where can a cakora bird go if he turns from the moon?

112 O Sri Radhika, if you are not merciful, then my mind and body will become racked with pain and I will quickly die of grief. For this reason please always cast Your glance of mercy on this person in Vrndavana.

113 The girl named Sri Radha is the most exalted form of the goddess of fortune. Her lover is the most exalted form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

114 May the charming youthful divine couple, which enjoys the nectar of transcendental amorous pastimes in Vrndavana without beginning or end, be the object of my worship.

115 With charming devotional service please eternally worship charming Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, who eternally enjoy charming transcendental pastimes in the charming groves of charming Vrndavana forest.

116 In a splendid transcendental body suitable for Radha’s service, acting as a servant of Radha’s feet, and pleasing the heart of Radha’s lover, eternally reside in Radha’s forest.

117 O beautiful faced Radha, gazing into Your face makes my eyes blossom with happiness. The moon, which is the friend of the kumuda flowers, brings only happiness to the kumudas.

Sataka Twelve

1 I have a firm faith in the worship of Sri Radha. My heart burns with pain and can find no peace. Except for the land of Vrndavana, what medicine is there to cure me?

2 As Sri Sri Radha-Madhava can never be separated, so the two nectar Vrndavana’s are never apart.

3 Enough with books! Enough with garrulous philosophers that cannot understand Vrndavana! Enough with the tangled nets of logic! Give up all doubts and reside in Vrndavana.

4 What book will count the numberless glories of Vrndavana? What philosophy will explain the sweet pastimes of the divine couple in Vrndavana?

5 In Vrndavana the sky is covered with a network of clouds and lighted by lightning flashes. The lotus eyes of the devotees mad with the nectar of love for Krsna are now flooded with monsoon rains of constantly flowing tears.

6 Considering this life as brief as a lightning flash and seeing wife, children, wealth, home and other things to be temporary and unreal, some fortunate souls, seeking the supremely independent Personality of Godhead, whose lap is ornamented by Sri Radha, enter the forest of Vrndavana.

7 He who, although he lives in the realm of the illusory potency and is not qualified to enter the spiritual world of Vaikuntha, bows his head once to the distant land of Vrndavana, enters Vrndavana. With his eyes he drinks the splendid lotus flower of Lord Madana Gopala’s face. Sri Radha is merciful to him.

8 Without attachment to the meaningless dualities of this world, without aversion to the greatest torments, a friend to every living entity and with my heart’s eye gazing on the sweetness of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, I shall reside in Vrndavana.

9 Like a small child to all women, like a momentary guest to my own house, like an enemy to my own body, with words and heart like a dear friend to all performers of action, like a mother to all creatures, and like a cakora bird on the trees and vines illumined by the moonlight of Sri Radha’s toenails, may I live in Vrndavana.

10 Now that I am a servant of Vrndavana my heart feels as if it were filled with great monsoons of nectar, floods of nectar, waves of moonlight, the currents of the celestial Ganges, the sweetest honey, and an abundance of splendid camphor.

11 Seeing the eternal and blissful spiritual forms of Vrndavana’s moving and stationary creatures untouched by this world of three modes and swimming in the nectar ocean of pure love for Lord Hari, many great yogis take shelter of the shade of Sri Radha’s red lotus-petal feet with all their hearts and now shine with transcendental glory.

12 Eager to claim this body and house as my own, I am very pathetic. Pleased by worship from the people, I am pathetic. Blossoming with happiness to hear a few words of faint praise, I am pathetic. Even though in my hand rests the eternally splendid fruit named Vrndavana, which even goddess Laksmi and the great demigod Siva cannot attain, I still refuse to taste it.

13 O people, I will mercifully teach you something. Please listen. If you wish to attain all the very wonderful goals of spiritual life, then please go to Vrndavana where there are independent pastimes with limitless and wonderful potencies, and where Queen Radha removes all fear.

14 O people, why should you leave the splendid moon of the face of Lord Madana Gopala, which shines in the forest of Vrndavana? Please know that moon is the supreme perfection. It is the best of the five goals of life.

15 O people, pleas sprinkle your eyes with the great flood of nectar flowing from the splendor of the moon of the smiling face of Lord Madanamohana. In Vrndavana, which is a temple of the sweetest nectar, and which repeatedly frustrated the earnest attempts of the goddess of fortune to enter it, please at once exchange all your material troubles for the most intense transcendental bliss.

16 I think this asoka tree before me must at one time have been struck by Your foot decorated with tinkling anklets. O daughter of King Vrsabhanu, O surging current of the nectar of transcendental amorous pastimes, if out of your happiness or anger I could become like this tree, then what could be more wonderful or sublime?

17 Vrndavana contains both the bliss of Sri Radha’s lotus feet and the heart of Lord Hari. Because She has given the first gift and Lord Hari has given the second, I find that the peacefulness of my heart has been suddenly stolen away.

18 Just as in a pond fishes are trapped by fishermen in a net, deer are cornered by the hunters in the forest, men averse to Lord Hari are caught by Maya with the terrible ropes of illusion in the wheel of birth and death, and thieves are shackled and placed in prison by the powerful king’s police, in the same way we are tightly bound by the flood of the wonderful nectar of the transcendental glories of the forest of Vrndavana.

19 I have come to Vrndavana to cut the pathetic ropes of repeated birth and death. Alas! Alas! The Supreme Personality of Godhead has now bound me with ropes from which I have no power to escape.

20 Like a lusty man who meets a beautiful girl, like a drunkard who has just drunk some wine, and like a pauper who has suddenly attained a great fortune, so I am in this forest of Vrndavana.

21 A certain young, golden and sweet lotus flower girl is splendid with charming and wonderful playfulness in the forest of Vrndavana. Wandering above that lotus the black bee Krsna has now become intoxicated by drinking its nectar. I have now also become a bee and I have now landed on that flower’s red lotus feet.

22 O lotus eyed Radha, why do You anxiously gaze to the east? Go to Your lover and remove His anxiety. O charming girl, is Your face not as splendid as millions of moons?

23 O Radha, now that You have rejected Him with harsh words, Your charming lover, dressed in a disguise, has come outside Your place and with the voice of a cuckoo, sings Your glories.

24 In your heart please see the splendor of Vrndavana’s god of love, which Sri Sri Radhika-Madhava drink with the cupped hands of Their restless eyes.

25-26 I take shelter of the very charming forest of Vrndavana, which is delightful with the humming of very charming bees made greedy by the sweet fragrances of various very charming flowers, which is filled with very charming poems sung by very charming parrots and cuckoos, where Radha’s maidservants make a very charming couch, where the charming groves are places where Sri Sri Radha-Krsna enjoy transcendental pastimes, and where Radha’s very charming friends are blinded by the intoxication of pure transcendental love.

27 The forest of Vrndavana is eternal, spiritual, effulgent, filled with intense bliss, and beyond the reach of the three material modes. Fool, turn your gaze from this sinful world. O saintly devotee, gaze at this wonderful form of Vrndavana.

28-29 “Radha, why do You not show Me Your beautiful golden lotus face so charming with its knitted eyebrows? Why do You not show Me Your breasts, which are the abode of the most wonderful beauty?” May Lord Hari who, in the forest of Vrndavana placed Radha on His lap, held Her chin, and gazed at Her face smiling with these jokes of love, appear before me.

30 Sri Krsna said: “O Radha, I think of Your breasts and Your angry face with its knitted eyebrows as two golden lotus flowers above which hovers a swarm of black bees”.

31 Please meditate on the black stag Sri Radha has caught in the trap of love, and with whom She plays day and night in the forest of Vrndavana.

32 Sri Radha is intoxicated by the sweetness of Vrndavana. She is intoxicated with extraordinary love. The sound of the name “Krsna” makes Her wild with thirst to enjoy transcendental amorous pastimes. She is expert in the battlefield of love.

33 I offer my respectful obeisances to the splendid dark parrot that stays on the unreachable top branches of the tall mango tree of the Upanisads, that pleases the gopis, and that with the wonderful ropes of intense love Sri Radha binds, forces to bow down, and pushes into the cage of Her feet.

34 Please meditate on the wonderful handsome, restless, dark parrot who, thinking them to be bimba fruits, bit the very sweet lips of Sri Radha.

35 Let me take shelter of the walking tamala tree embraced by an amorous golden vine in the land of Vrndavana.

36 O Radha, deep in the Vrndavana forest You have stolen the jewel of my heart. Please give me the sweetness of Your smile. I am your servant.

37-38 She with face, eyes, breasts, hips, navel, feet, hands and other limbs very wonderful, it filled with new blossoms, splendid lotuses, playing deer, mountains and riverbank beaches all very beautiful, She with a transcendental form restless with passion, it filled with flowering golden vines, She decorated with tinkling ornaments, it charming with the sweet warbling of many birds, She with a splendid face framed by beautifully glistening black braids, it the place where the beautiful Yamuna flows, She with lips very beautiful and words filled with currents of transcendental bliss, and it filled with swift and cooling streams, may Sri Radha and the forest of Vrndavana simultaneously and affectionately appear in my heart.

39 Lord Govinda plays clear high notes on the flute. Srimati Radhika claps Her hands. The peacocks madly dance in Vrndavana forest. If the wonderful, ecstatic hearts of the goddesses of fortune are irresistibly attracted to their lover, Krsna, then who under these circumstances has the power to remain peaceful in Vrndavana.

40-41 A great wonder has appeared in the forest of Vrndavana. Revealing Their handsome transcendental forms, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna have entered the arena of the rasa dance with Their gopi friends. Now everyone has become detached from materialism. Now the demigods headed by Brahma revile impersonal liberation. Now the great sages have broken their meditations. Now Lord Narayana and goddess Laksmi roll about on the ground, overcome with ecstasy. Now the opulence of the sweetest nectar is manifested in Vrndavana in this world. Now the kings of all the planets headed by Indra, have come to the surface of the earth. Now pure love for Lord Krsna agitates everyone’s heart. Now no one has the power to see anything else. Now Lord Narayana, remaining in His own abode, has forgotten that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Now goddess Laksmi is plunged into love for Lord Krsna.

42 What person in the three worlds would not engage his senses in the worship of the forest of Vrndavana, where the flooding streams of liberation everywhere make one indifferent to liberation, where great multitudes of cintamani jewels fulfil all desires, where demons are at once destroyed, where the grass is very beautiful, and where there are many smiling, tall kalpa-vrksa trees?

43 It is the happiness of all happinesses. It is the sweetest of all sweetnesses. It is the most wonderful of wonders. It is the best of all that is good. It is the most beautiful of all that is beautiful. It is the most splendid of all spiritual and material splendors. In this way the forest of Vrndavana, the nectarean abode of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, is splendidly manifest.

44 O learned men taking great trouble for uncertain results, in the forest of Vrndavana the five goals of life always roll at one’s feet, and one can easily grasp them all without any work.

45 Although here in Vrndavana forest unprecedented wisdom, wealth, and every other benefit easily fall into one’s hand, still the fools will not worship Vrndavana, which is worshipped by the great demigods and sages.

46 Its kindness, generosity, and unequalled superiority are all limitless. Its splendor is the splendor of the smiling Supreme Person. Why do you not take shelter of Vrndavana?

47 Fool, cut the tight knot of “I” and “mine” in the heart. Close your eyes to it and quickly go to Vrndavana, which is hidden even from the Upanisads, the crest jewels of the Vedas. Don’t stop to think.

48 O fools, why have you stopped playing in the nectar ocean of intense transcendental bliss? Why have you instead plunged into an ocean of troubles? Why have you left the difficult to attain realm of Vrndavana to practice spiritual life in some other place?

49 Exalted persons like yourself take great trouble to attain your goals. You do not see that all your goals will approach you of their own accord in Vrndavana.

50 Abandon all petty thirsts and worship Vrndavana, which showers the fulfillment of all desires and even makes Sri Laksmi-Narayana’s bodily hairs stand erect with ecstasy.

51 “O friend, when you pick flowers in Vrndavana forest, Krsna, who wears a crown of peacock feathers, will see You. You will then burn with an unquenchable thirst to taste the nectar of His association and in His heart great flames of amorous passion will rise.”

52 “From the beginning there were poison flames of passionate love. The cooling nectar moon shone in vain. My heart was completely burned. Your charming anklets tinkled and You entered the pathway of My eyes in auspicious Vrndavana.”

53 “This bumble bee will not fly to the beautiful blossoming malli flowers. He will not fly to the charming kelivalli flowers. He will not fly to the blossoming lotus flowers. He is not eager to taste the sweet fragrance of the malati flowers. He will not look at the smiling vasanti flowers. O Radha, in this forest of Vrndavana He only flies to the lotus flower of Your feet.”

54 How will it be possible for us ever to reach the end of our debt to the great spiritual masters who have now returned to Your supreme spiritual realm, and from the moon of whose mouths has descended a torrential stream of the nectar glories of Vrndavana that now fills the world with bliss?

55 Take me to Vrndavana. I will pass my entire life there placing myself at the feet of the great souls who are the crest jewels of all saints, and from whose mouths flows the nectar stream of the sweet transcendental pastimes of the dear lover of Sri Radha.

56 “Sri Radha, whose feet are the supreme nectar treasure of Vrndavana forest, is splendidly manifest in the heart, words, and eyes of Lord Hari. O Candravali, we have no time to linger. The lingering of your feet is simply making a fool of you.”

57 “O Padma, Candravali always stays in the abode of my heart, which remains always subject to her order.” These clever words carefully concealed Lord Krsna’s deep love for Sri Radha’s feet.

58 Vrndavana is the wonderful path that leads to intense transcendental bliss. It is the wonderful and blissful path that leads to deep transcendental love. It is the highest point of opulence and generosity. It is the secret treasure hidden in the Upanisads.

59 Have the great souls whose ears drank the nectar flowing in Vrndavana, who were immersed in pure love, whose bodily hairs stood up, who would sometimes faint in ecstasy, and who were plunged in the boundless ocean of intense transcendental bliss, left us? Now we are dead and can associate only with their names.

60-61 The great souls who, when they saw the splendid and charming gunja berries growing in Vrndavana, or when they saw wonderful kirira fruits, became overwhelmed with ecstatic love, who moment after moment called out “O Krsna.” in a voice choked with emotion, who muddied the ground with the flooding streams of their tears, and who took shelter of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s lotus feet, which rest in the nectarean land of Vrndavana, have now abandoned this world bitten by the poisonous snake of Kali-yuga, and have now attained Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s lotus feet. Now we are left only with persons like ourselves. Now our hearts have become withered dry and we are no longer able to maintain our lives.

62 Fool, cut your bonds and go to Vrndavana, which is the great secret hidden in the Upanisads, which is deeply plunged into pure transcendental love, which is the crown of all goals of life, which is the ocean of transcendental bliss, and which is the friend of the poor and shelterless.

63 If by good fortune you attain Vrndavana, whose glory purifies the three worlds, and which is difficult for even the greatest saints to attain then in Vrndavana you should, with the nectar of transcendental love, worship Srimati Radharani and Lord Govinda, whose lotus face eclipses a host of handsome moons.

64 With a completely peaceful heart one should always reside in Vrndavana, which is attained by the most fortunate souls, which is pleasant with fragrant breezes, and which Lord Narayana and goddess Laksmi yearn to enter.

65 If you wish to attain the supreme goal of life and you do not wish to suffer the slightest paid, the, dear friend, go, go at once to Vrndavana. Do not go to Brahma, Siva and the other frightened demigods.

66 Whatever transcendental potencies may understand the material or spiritual realms, none has the power to understand the two monarchs of Vrndavana and Their transcendental pastimes. In this best of forests please worship these two monarchs, who are plunged in the splendid and blissful nectar of pure transcendental love.

67-68 I, who am a great palatial mansion where the most painful sufferings of hell reside, who am arrogant, deceptive, and shameless, who am bitten by the serpent named woman, who am not peaceful, who deep in my heart have love neither for Lord Madhava of His devotees, who am dull and stunted, who have no power to understand the land of Vrndavana, which is flooded with nectar, who cannot control either mind, or senses, who is not situated on the path of piety, whose intelligence is very slow to understand the two lotus feet of Lord Hari, who is not firmly situated in celibacy, whose host of sins make it difficult for him to obtain the mercy of saintly persons, and who has no other shelter, shall now take shelter of Sri Vrndavana.

69 Alas! Alas! The witch of woman tugs at my heart. Palatable foods coming near my tongue never return. I flatter countless people to achieve my ends. How is it that I, a degraded and completely unqualified person, reside in Vrndavana?

70 Senses, act as you wish. We are not your enemies. What power do persons like myself have to restrain you? However, please listen to one statement of ours and act according to it: “This fool will never leave Vrndavana”.

71 Although living, acting like a man dead to the world, his material body and senses absorbed in spiritual activities, intoxicated and blinded by tasting the sweet nectar of Sri Radha’s lotus feet, enjoying the blissful festival of joking words spoken by Sri Radha’s very clever lover, Lord Krsna, and by Lalita-devi and the other gopis, a very fortunate person may reside in the forest where Sri Radha enjoys blissful transcendental pastimes.

72 I meditate on Vrndavana as being identical with Srimati Radharani, who is intoxicated by tasting the mellows of the ocean of transcendental sweetness, who enjoys very wonderful dancing pastimes with Her lover, the best of dancers, whose lover gazes at Her splendid transcendental beauty, the hairs of His body erect in ecstasy, and who is surrounded by Her wonderfully graceful friends.

73 I meditate on Vrndavana as being identical with Srimati Radharani, whose cheeks are decorated with very wonderful designs drawn in musk, who is the most eloquent poetess, who is the crest jewel of all beautiful demigoddesses, who loses all modesty and peaceful decorum in the presence of Her very dear lover, and whose walking unleashes a flood of sweet gracefulness.

74 I pray that Vrndavana forest, which is an ocean of transcendental nectar even Lord Narayana and Srimati Laksmi-devi cannot hope to attain, which the reverential Vedas cannot understand, and the transcendental splendor of which eclipses all spiritual and material suns, and fires, may become merciful and permit me to live within its boundaries.

75 O forest of Vrndavana, the monsoon rains of the nectar of transcendental love rising from your effulgence has washed my heart. Your moonlight of Srimati Radharani’s toes anoints my heart.

76 I, who aspire to live in Sri Vrndavana, pray that my ears become deaf to hearing the faults of the residents of Vrndavana, my tongue dumb to speaking about them, and my intelligence blunt in thinking of them.

77 May Lord Krsna who, laughing as Sri Radha, thinking them to be flowers, tried to collect the stars reflected in the sapphire pavement of Vrndavana, playfully tried to fine her for unauthorized flower picking, protect you.

78 O Sri Vrndavana, you are my purifier. O Sri Vrndavana, you are my life, O Sri Vrndavana, you are my ornament. O Sri Vrndavana, you are my good reputation.

79 O Sri Vrndavana, may your splendid handsomeness, which is increased by the two rivalling handsomeness of the youthful transcendental forms of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna, who are like two mad persons enjoying a festival of passionate amorous pastimes, arouse spiritual desires within me.

80 The forest of Vrndavana, where the Supreme Personality of Godhead enjoys all His blissful transcendental pastimes, where the supreme goddesses of fortune manifest their beautiful transcendental forms, and where my only charming hero of Srimati Radharani’s heart resides, is the goal of my life.

81 All wonderful and extraordinary good qualities of the most exalted and qualified women are present in the beautiful girls of Vraja, and they all completely take shelter of my queen, Srimati Radharani. With charming grace Srimati Radharani eternally enjoys transcendental pastimes, making everyone’s heart attached to the sweet nectar of transcendental mellows, and completely eclipsing the most exalted rival, the forest of Vrndavana is splendidly manifest.

82 Plunging the entire world into the nectar ocean of perfect transcendental love, removing from the wives of Vraja the shyness to enjoy transcendental amorous pastimes, making everyone’s heart attached to the sweet nectar of transcendental mellows, and completely eclipsing the most exalted rival, the forest of Vrndavana is splendidly manifest.

83 Intent on enjoying limitless and wonderful transcendental pastimes, and displaying the splendid graces of all transcendental heroines, the queen of my life enjoys pastimes in Vrndavana with Her playful, charming and devoted lover. My heart does not consider anything, save for this Vrndavana, to be real or important.

84 The forest of Vrndavana fills with wonder the hearts of the wisest men. It is the personified flood of the waves of sweetness of the nectar of transcendental love. It attracts the bumblebees of the hearts of the most fortunate souls. It is the boat with which I shall be able to cross the ocean of my great desire.

85 May the charming forest of Vrndavana, which is filled with waves of moonlight that bring great tidal waves to the limitless ocean of the nectar of transcendental love, which sprinkles the earth with the sweetest nectar, and which makes all other endeavors of the most intelligent men a useless waste of time, always protect my body.

86 May the ground of Vrndavana, which agitates and arouses the hearts of perfectly liberated souls, which is a limitless ocean of mercy, which is a great jewel mine of transcendental beauty and opulence, and which is the charming place where Srimati Radharani gracefully places Her feet, fulfil my very-difficult-to fulfil desire.

87 Spreading open my eyes and ears, and living in the very wonderful forest of Vrndavana, which is the very dear friend of the ocean of nectar that flows from the charming divine couple maddened with love, will I, my thirst never satiated, see the nectar beauty of Vrndavana and hear its transcendental qualities described by the great devotees?

88 O forest of Vrndavana, I shall now sell you my body, mind, and senses. The price shall be the pure devotion to the lotus feet of Lord Krsna, the lover of Srimati Radharani that is described in the Vedas. Will you pay that price.

89 O Sri Vrndavana, may my ears be flooded with your transcendental qualities, may my eyes become plunged into the ocean of nectar by seeing your beauty, may my tongue jubilantly dance in the description of your glories, and may my body always be filled with ecstatic love for you.

90 O Sri Vrndavana, will you purchase my body if I do not ask any specific price? What better offer can I make? I throw my body at your feet. I am no longer able to maintain myself with any pious or impious deeds. Saintly persons should be kind to the weak who carry very heavy burdens.

91 O forest of Vrndavana, it is not proper for you to ignore me, who has fallen into the blind well of hellish life and who has now taken shelter of you. In the three worlds no one else is willing to protect me, whose intelligence has been destroyed by a host of sins, who disobeys all the orders of the Supreme Lord, and who, although he thinks himself very intelligent, is in reality the greatest of fools.

92 You are the shoreless ocean of transcendental bliss and I am the most unhappy person in the world. You are the great protector and I am the great sinner. You have taken a vow to protect the shelterless and I have no other shelter. O Vrndavana, I think you are my only shelter.

93 I pray that the names of the very unfortunate persons averse to the beautiful forest of Vrndavana shall never enter my ear. What shall they who have no splendid pure love for Lord Krsna, the charming lover of Srimati Radharani, be able to see in the world beyond the touch of matter?

94 One may continually meditate up to the moment of his death, but he will not understand anything of the truth of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. That truth is found in the supreme spiritual abode manifested above even the Vaikuntha worlds. For this reason, without ever wavering, let us always place our love in Sri Vrndavana.

95 In the transcendental, shoreless, splendid pure nectar ocean, which is more beautiful than the goddess Laksmi, more beautiful than the moon, which contains the transcendental effulgence of the great bija syllable, and which is intoxicated with unrestrained pure love, the district of Mathura is splendidly manifest as a transcendental island. Within that island are the pastures of Maharaja Nanda, and within those pastures the forest of Vrndavana astonishes the entire world with a great flood of nectar.

96 The Vedas spread a great net of words that lead to many paths that all lead to suffering. The saintly sages are not able to pacify me, who burns in the fire of the hope to taste nectar of love for Lord Krsna. The followers of Sruti and the followers of Smrti oppose everything I hold dear. O Vrndavana, O abode of love for Srimati Radharani, you are my only shelter.

97 What is attachment? What is detachment? What is fame in this world? What is infamy? What is religion? What is irreligion? What are pious and impious deeds? What are desire and desirelessness? What are faults? What are virtues? What are the varieties of suffering in this world? What is happiness? For one determined to never leave Vrndavana until his death what is the effect of millions of thunderbolts?

98 As a shower of flowers fell from the sky, as the demigods played dundubhi drums, as the splendidly charming Malayan breeze blew, as the wonderful moon shone, and as the broad beaches of Vrndavana became filled with a sweet fragrance, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna wonderfully danced in the circle of Their gopi friends. Please meditate on Sri Sri Radha-Krsna in this way.