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Sataka Thirteen

1 Wherever in the nectar filled forest of Vrndavana, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, thirsting to enjoy passionate amorous pastimes, go, the bees, parrots, cuckoos and other creatures gracefully sing, the peacocks enthusiastically dance, and the trees shower garlands of flowers.

2 As long as the moonlight of Sri Radha’s jewel toenails does not shine, the cakori bird of my heart cannot be happy in this land of Vrndavana. As long as there is no deep faith in the land of Vrndavana the mercy of Sri Radha’s feet does not appear.

3 O great soul, if you roll about in the ground in Vrndavana, then you will attain an exalted position like the beautiful pearl necklace strung by Lord Krsna and worn by Sri Radha. This exalted fate will not be very difficult for you to obtain.

4 Splendid, charming, and expert in the 64 arts, a dark moon shining in the groves of Vrndavana now kisses a wonderful golden lotus flower. One who gazes again and again at this moon and lotus will become struck with wonder. He will then become plunged in the ocean of transcendental bliss.

5 On Sri Radha, whose lips are beautiful even when not decorated with cosmetics, whose hands are like lotus flowers even when not anointed with kunkuma, whose glistening dark lotus eyes are very beautiful even when not anointed with mascara, whose long, smooth, glossy hair is very beautiful even when not combed or tied, and who, even without wearing any ornaments, is ornamented in the most beautiful way, please always meditate on this land of Vrndavana.

6 When the fortunate devotees consider that Vrndavana is more dear to them than life itself, then Vrndavana is not difficult for them to attain. If, by the mercy of the great devotees in Vrndavana, they attain pure love, then the queen of Vrndavana will at once be easily attained by them.

7 This is not the full moon night. This is not the moon that rules over that night. This is not a blossoming lotus flower growing in a lake. This is not a beautiful riverside beach. This is not a splendid river. This is not a wonderful lightning flash. This is not a monsoon cloud. All glories to wonderful Sri Radha, who seemed to be these things in Vrndavana forest.

8 “Beloved make this couch oerfect.”

“No.”
“O My beautiful love, what offense have I committed?”
“Your actions are not good.”
“What can I say?”
“How much must I forgive?”
“Everything.”
“No! Leave my feet! When you have gone I shall sleep on this bed alone.”
“I shall massage Your feet.”
“You are not very good at that.”
“I am Your servant. You shall teach me.”
9 “You have lost Your mind!”

“You have stolen My mind from Me. Tell Me where on Your body You are hiding it. I shall push My hand into Your bodice and reclaim it.”

Hearing these words from the young parrots, Sri Radha and Her friends smiled and chased them away with loud calls and a barrage of flowers. I pray that Sri Radha may protect me in this land of Vrndavana.

10 The yearning to completely offer oneself to the land of Vrndavana is the attainment of millions of cintamani jewels. It is a satisfaction greater than drinking millions of nectars. It is liberation and pure devotional service multiplied millions of times.

11 The sight of the beauty of Sri Vrndavana is initiation in the most exalted spiritual vows. It is instruction in the transcendental worship of Sri Radha. It is the innermost chamber in the palace of the deity of transcendental love.

12 Please worship the forest of Vrndavana, where, crowned with the feather of a passionate peacock, His delicate form as splendidly dark as a host of blue lotus flowers, decorated with garlands of flowers and other ornaments, His form colorfully decorated with splendid mineral colors, and wearing a gunja necklace, Lord Hari revealed His transcendental handsomeness.

13 If one travels to Vrndavana, then what is the use of him going to millions of other pilgrimage places? If one hears the singing of the birds of Vrndavana, then what is the use to him of all the Vedas? If one recites the names of the trees and other living entities in Vrndavana, then what is the use to him of a host of prayers and mantras? If one sees Vrndavana, then what is the use to him of millions of opulences?

14 Wherever the breeze, passing over the splendid trees, vines, and other living entities in the pure, eternal, spiritual and blissful forest of Vrndavana, goes, opulent spiritual airplanes arrive to carry all the tiny insects and worms to the transcendental abode of Lord Visnu.

15 Let us glorify Vrndavana, where the purifying breeze that carries its dust, the fragrance of its flowers and the water droplets of its Yamuna, brings both liberation and pure devotional service to Kikata-desa and even to hell.

16 Who has the power to glorify the most exalted and fortunate souls that have tasted Vrndavana’s delicious fruits, spoken its supremely auspicious and charming name, seen its enchanting beauty, and touched its ground?

17 O place where the sounds, touch, beautiful form and other features irresistibly attract the ears, skin, eyes and other senses of even Lord Hari, O shelter of the shelterless, O place, whose power reveals the great jewel of pure devotional service which makes even liberation seem bitter by comparison, O Vrndavana, when you travel along the path of someone’s senses, you make him the crest jewel of all fortunate souls.

18 Continually gazing at the intense sweetness of Vrndavana, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna smile and laugh with unrestrained happiness. The hairs of Their bodies stand erect in ecstasy, and They melodiously sing the names of Vrndavana, saying: “beautiful Vrndavana,” “All glories to Vrndavana,” and “O Vrndavana.” What cannot be obtained by they whose tongues speak in this way?

19 Please meditate on the two splendid fair and dark transcendental swans who, eloquently describing its glories, stay in a nectar lake here in Vrndavana, the splendid, secret spiritual world that eternally shines above all as a nectar full moon of bliss in this world.

20 O fools, now that your senses are strong why do you not worship the land of Vrndavana, which is hidden even from the Vedas? Make your feet quickly walk to it. Make your voice chant its name. Plunge your ears in the nectar ocean of words about it. Fix your mind in thinking it.

21 This is not the time to be attached to wife, children, wealth, and all the rest. Death is now chasing your body. Quickly, quickly run to the forest of Vrndavana, the most rare and difficult-to-attain of all rare things, which by its own mercy is now manifested in this world.

22 Fools think the moving and non-moving creatures in blissful, spiritual Vrndavana are conditioned souls bound by the modes of nature. We say they are worshipable for everyone and they are the two sources of the nectar treasure of pure devotional service to Sri Radha-Muralidhara.

23 Exhausted by enjoying many pastimes in Vrndavana forest, covered with drops of perspiration, and like a full moon if the moon could be decorated with beautiful strands of pearls, may Sri Radhika’s lotus face protect you all.

24 If a blossoming golden lotus flower illumined by the light of numberless host of splendid moons were to kiss a black bumble bee, then I would compare that sight to the face of Sri Radha in Vrndavana.

25 Lord Hari takes in His fingers the red cosmetics touching Sri Radha’s colorful jewel anklets and with awe and reverence places it over His heart. Please worship Vrndavana, where Sri Radha gracefully walks with Her soft and delicate feet.

26 A great wonder shines in Vrndavana. It is two blossoming lotus flowers. It is two moons. It is two persons thirsting to taste sweet nectar in the other. One is the splendor of gold, and the other is the glory of sapphire.

27 “Is this the crest-jewel of honey-drinking black bees staring at a golden lotus bud? At that moment Sri Radha smiled and shyly covered Her breasts. Please meditate on Her in Vrndavana in this way.

28 When Sri Sri Radhika-Krsna quarrelled over the names of the trees, vines, birds, and other creatures, Vrndavana forest became at once filled with the news, and the gopis all laughed very heartily. Please meditate on the very sweet quarrel.

29 Meditate on Sri Radha’s beautiful face, which would be like the whorl of a golden lotus if the lotus had a row of pomegranate seeds, were splendid as millions of full moons, were eternally in bloom, and were enjoyed by a glistening black bee.

30 “Who made these two eyes? Friend, You know. I violently scratch the surface of the earth. Gazing at Vrndavana forest and this other splendidly handsome person, I am not satisfied even with an unlimited number of eyes! Queen Radhika, our eyes are very greedy to see this other person.”

31 Filled with limitless sweet fragrance and plunged in the sweetness of nectar moonlight, Sri Radhika’s golden pastime-lotus face is enjoyed by a black bee in Vrndavana.

32 May the very sweet, cooling, wonderful, flooding nectar stream of conversation flowing from the moon of the mouths of Sri Radha-Muralidhara and flooding the beautiful forest of Vrndavana, day and night intoxicate the bumble bees of my ears and heart.

33 In your heart always meditate on a blissful spiritual body splendid with pure love for Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. In your heart assist the dear divine couple’s pastimes in Vrndavana’s newly-blossoming vine palaces, where Laksmi and other goddesses pray to enter.

34 O brother, give up the happiness and distress of worldly affairs. Become like one asleep to the external world, and within your heart plunge your body, eyes, words, and mind into the remembrance of the very splendid and charming fair and dark divine couple, who day and night gracefully and blissfully enjoy transcendental amorous pastimes together in the groves of Vrndavana forest.

35 Please meditate on the Sri Sri Radha-Madhava’s pastime forest splendid as millions of full moons, free from the six waves of material suffering, flooded with the waves of the nectar ocean of transcendental love, and charming with many wonderful lakes, streams, hills, vines, bushes, trees, and blissful, playful birds and deer.

36 Again and again cry out: “O queen of Vrndavana’s newly-blossoming groves, I am lost. Please have mercy on me!” Pushed by love, three times a day bow down in the direction of Sri Vrndavana.

37 He who, pushed by the torment of separation from Sri Vrndavana, cries out as one whose precious treasure is stolen, and who rolls about on the ground, streams of tears flowing from his eyes, becomes the most famous person in this world.

38 Her hand waving away the bees greedy after the very wonderful sweet fragrance of Her beautiful transcendental form, and Her eyes blossoming with eagerness and bliss, Sri Radha walks along the paths in Vrndavana forest and enjoys transcendental pastimes with Her beloved.

39 When my queen Radha becomes filled with jealous anger, and Her friends tell Her to refuse to talk with Him, stunned Lord Hari pleases Her by offering Her many flowers, fruits, and other gifts from Vrndavana forest. Let me glorify Vrndavana forest.

40 When Sri Radha, the hairs of Her transcendental body erect in transcendental bliss, describes the many glories of Vrndavana forest, then the bumble bees stop singing, the female cuckoos no longer sound the fifth note, the parrot stops tracing his melody, the peacock dance no longer calls out “keka”, the embarrassed lute makes no sound, and the flute does not sing.

41 Every day the parrots and then the gopi-maidservants happily recite Sri Radha’s virut poem splendidly glorifying Sri Vrndavana. When my queen made Her lover hear it, He become overwhelmed with bliss and love. I pray that my mind be always rapt in meditation on Sri Vrndavana.

42 If scholars who have crossed to the farther shore of the ocean of all Vedic scriptures do not recognize the supreme exalted position of Vrndavana, then I consider wise. They are glorified by all the sages who know everything.

43 Know that the end has come. Say something. “Don’t let your eyes madly fall like moths into the blazing fire of a woman’s beauty. Today or tomorrow this body will drop. Why struggle so hard to maintain it? Give up the company of worldly men and always stay in Vrndavana.”

44 An ear that follows the holy name of Sri Vrndavana become flooded by an ocean of nectar. So does a tongue that tastes the holy names of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. Still, I think that he who ignores the great souls who always hear and glorify the divine couple and are full of love for Their lotus feet cannot taste the sweetest nectar.

45 The most sacred of all sacred places. The most auspicious of all auspicious things. The most splendid and transcendental of all that is splendid and transcendental. The greatest desire-fulfilling philanthropist of all desire fulfilling philanthropists. Greater than the greatest. Of they who give transcendental love for the greatest giver of transcendental love. What place other than Vrndavana can be thought of in this way?

46 O intelligent men, please at once take shelter of Sri Vrndavana, which gives a body better than the always valueless material body, a home better than the home populated by wife and family, a happiness greater than any other happiness, and a liberation better than any other kind of liberation.

47 Let this wretched body, made of bones, flesh, stool, urine, and pus, which is ultimately destined to be destroyed, which is continually pressed by the senses, which is overcome by hundreds of physical and mental troubles, and which continually burns in the flames of lust, either stay or go. You please simply enjoy the nectar of Lord Hari in Vrndavana.

48 Today or tomorrow the great burden of this pot of stool will fall down and perish. O, O fool, attachment to women will lead you to destruction. How many hellish tortures, which cannot be borne for even a moment, are you forced to bear? Why are you so slow to taste the transcendental bliss of living in Vrndavana?

49 In the three worlds what men are not controlled by women? They who are not controlled are mostly men who hanker for fame, but some may be seen who are great saints untouched by material desires, and whose company makes the material desires of others fall away. O intelligent reader, if you have no desire to awaken the material benefits that sleep in your hand, then with a peaceful heart reside day and night in Vrndavana.

50 O fool, give up the worship of the demigods, and worship Sri Radha’s lover, Lord Krsna, the supreme and most confidential form of the Personality of Godhead. Stay in Vrndavana forest and make your home under the numberless kalpa-vrksa trees there. Go from time to time to the village to beg alms, and spend your time wandering in Vrndavana.

51 In your hearts meditate on Vrndavana forest as a place filled with numberless beautiful flowers. Run to Vrndavana. O fools, if your footsteps take you away from the cintamani jewel of Vrndavana, you will eventually find yourself begging alms at the houses of degraded dogeaters.

52 Sri Sri Radha-Krsna have made all moving and non-moving creatures blind with the nectar of pure transcendental love and made them roll about on the ground by tasting that nectar. The peerless current of wild bliss flowing in Vrndavana has quickly carried away the jewel of my heart.

53 O impersonal liberation, you lead to complete annihilation those who seek you. A pure devotee of Lord Hari has only contempt for you. O forest of Vrndavana, they who in this world take shelter of you will not even utter the name of that terrible liberation.

54 Have you not heard yourself glorified again and again in many lifetimes? What varieties of sensual pleasure, beginning with the enjoyment of beautiful women anointed with sandal and decorated with splendid garlands, have you not already enjoyed in many lifetimes? Now please become averse to all sense pleasures. Now become like a bumblebee enjoying the ultimate transcendental pleasure in the charming forest that is the place where Sri Radha enjoys pastimes.

55 The sight of the horrible ball of flesh covered by a thin layer of pretty skin and known as a beautiful young woman leads the moral instructions of the wise to complete destruction. What is devotional service for one whose intelligence is robbed in this way? Friend, do not stay for even a moment to hear the names of these fallen men. Simply run to Srimati Radhika’s forest groves.

56 May charming Sri Sri Radhika-Krsnacandra, whose forms are overcome with wild bliss, who are intoxicated, and who are blissful with wild transcendental amorous passion, fill me with bliss here in Vrndavana.

57 The forest of Vrndavana is like a wooden irrigation canal that carries the river of the wonderful bliss of pure devotion to its residents, makes streams of tears flow from their eyes, and decorates them with many symptoms of devotional ecstasy, such as standing erect of the body’s hairs, perspiration, trembling, rolling about on the ground, sighing and fainting.

58 Only fragments of this verse are extant.

59 May Lord Krsna, who is like a new dark cloud in Vrndavana, who is wild with love for Sri Radha, and who is like a black bee thirsting to taste the nectar of Her lotus face, protect you all.

60 If, in the forest of Vrndavana, which is the root of all transcendental bliss and the home of multitudes of eternally blissful gopis, I find pure transcendental love, then what business have I worshipping or blaming the hosts of demigods.

61 They whose ears remain untouched by the supremely worshipable land of Vrndavana, which is an overwhelming monsoon shower of the transcendental opulence of pure love, must go on their pilgrimage to the land of the crows.

62 They who consider Vrndavana their only treasure and who tremble with the bliss of intense love for the splendid fair and dark divine couple are, because of their great transcendental piety, always protected in this world.

63 Where is pure devotional service? Where is detachment from the world? Where is spiritual knowledge? Where is religion? The forest of Vrndavana, which cannot be touched by the black snake of time, is the only home of all these opulences.

64 In this long and frightened night we shall not take a single step into the blinding dark pathway of repeated birth and death, which is the home of lust, pride, cruelty, anger, greed, and many other jungle beasts. O Vrndavana, we shall simply stay here and remember your great mercy.

65 Don’t be foolish! Don’t become bold with this doe-eyed girl! O friend, don’t play with this the all devouring black snake before you! Don’t hanker either for the well being of this material body, or for the wealth that brings with it all that is unwanted! Consider the miseries of material life! Resolve to happily stay here in Vrndavana.

66 What person would, even for a moment, turn his ear from the great multitude of Vrndavana’s glories, which contain the extraordinary boundless treasure of pure love for Sri Radha’s feet, and place it in anything else?

67 The acaryas say it is the dark and the light. The learned Vedic scholars say it is Maya and spiritual splendor. It is a wonderful sun as splendid as millions of lightning flashes accompanied by a splendid darkness in the forest of Vrndavana.

68 To the prince of the gopis, who is expert at enjoying the pastimes of the rasa dance, who is decorated by Sri Radha’s passionate friends, who charms the cows, whose transcendental body is covered with dust, who plays the flute, and who is the ultimate object of yogic meditation, I offer my respectful obeisances.

69 To the prince of the cowherds, whose budding-twig fingers restlessly move over the seven holes in the flute as He plays transcendental melodies, and who is the amorous hero who rests upon the splendid pearls decorating Radha’s neck, I offer my respectful obeisances.

70 I meditate on handsome Sri Sri Radhika-Vrajendranandana, who sit on a wonderful and splendid silken throne in the midst of many beautiful-eyebrowed jasmine-garland-decorated, dancing gopis in charming forest gardens.

71 O gently smiling Lord, O Lord dressed in splendid yellow garments, O Lord glorious as a dark monsoon cloud, O Lord who enjoys the wonderful rasa dance with the gopis, O abode of the transcendental treasure of pure love, O Lord who eternally enjoys transcendental pastimes with Sri Radhika in the forest, O Lord whose face is charming as millions of moons, please protect me.

72 May playful Sri Radha, whose kind and gentle smile reveals beautiful jasmine-bud teeth, who wears an exquisite blue silk garment decorated with splendidly colorful spots, and who is glorious in the charming forest groves filled with gunja and bumblebees, eternally reside in my heart.

73 May Sri Radha, who wears a string of splendid black gunja that once rested on Lord Krsna’s neck, who has stolen the great treasure that is the heart of Lord Krsna who continually thirsts to enjoy transcendental pastimes with Her, who enjoys many loving transcendental pastimes in the charming forest groves, and who removes the host of sufferings sprung from the lack of devotion to Her, become manifest in my heart.

74 May Sri Radha, whose face is moonlight drunk by the cakora birds of Lord Krsnacandra’s eyes, who is the personified Deity of transcendental love, who is maddened with amorous passion, who wears a garland of splendid golden campaka flowers that attract swarms of restless bees, and who shines with transcendental splendor, bring peace to my suffering heart.

75 Let me glorify Lord Krsna, whose handsome face is like the moon, who is splendid as a host of sapphires, who enjoys many transcendental pastimes in the caves of the king of mountains, who is glorified by the supremely worshipable goddess of fortune and who stays in a forest cottage with Sri Radha.

76 “O king and queen of my life, if You wish to enjoy pastimes, here is a grove of kadamba trees in Vrndavana forest. When will You be kind to us?” With these words spoken by a gopi friend, and with words of “Come quickly! Come!” and with smiles and laughter, the curtain concealing Sri Sri Radha-Krsna is opened. May that curtain protect us.

77 Let me glorify Vrndavana forest where, when Sri Radha and the transcendental flutist Sri Krsna sing and dance, wildly tossed to and fro by the waves of the overflowing ocean of nectar, Their gopi friends also dance, and many splendid demigods and demigoddesses also dance to the sounds of dundubhi drums.

78 Your hearts filled with ecstasy, please take shelter of Vrndavana forest, which is filled with an intense sweetness that makes the heart blind with ecstatic love, and which is the place where the perfect, eternal, and sublimely passionate god of love, Sri Krsna enjoys many transcendental pastimes day and night with the supreme goddess of love, Sri Radha.

79 Don’t leave! Cross over the ocean of repeated birth and death! Cross over the ocean of impersonal liberation! Remain fortunate and stay in the forest where Sri Radha, the ocean of the sweetest nectar, enjoys transcendental amorous pastimes!

80 May thousands of ropes tie me to the eternal servants of Vrndavana. Neither the great liberated souls nor the devoted servants of Lord Narayana are better than they.

81 Renouncing sense gratification as if it were poison, not taking a single step into that world of repeated birth and death, and concentrating your heart on the supreme goal of life, stay in Sri Radhika’s forest.

82 Happy over others’ good fortune, crying over others’ distress, shining with happiness only to attain pure devotional love and unaware of anything else, worship Sri Radhika’s forest.

83 Let me glorify the eternal land of Sri Vrndavana, where Sri Sri Radha-Krsna express Their unlimitedly increasing mutual love, where They enjoy transcendental pastimes in each other’s company, where all moving and non-moving creatures are intoxicated with the nectar of pure love for Them, and where even a newcomer is at once granted a charming spiritual form.

84 Ah, what is Vrndavana’s wonderful power, that grants liberation, the mellows of Visnu-bhakti, and other rare gifts to all, even the most unqualified?

85 “Friend, why do You walk so slowly now in the forest? Why, even though You have not drunk madhu wine, do Your eyes glisten? Why, even though there is nothing to fear, do You tremble?” In my heart I worship Sri Radha, who bowed Her head in embarrassment to hear Her friend’s words in Vrndavana forest.

86 Unconscious even though you are not asleep, blind even though your eyes are healthy, intoxicated even though you have not drunk any wine, leave your wealth far behind, become like a poor man, and, blissfully swim in the nectar ocean of love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, always stay in Vrndavana.

87 Friends and relatives will always try to bind you with ropes of misplaced affection. Maya will bewilder you with the sexual advances of a woman and the sweet talking of children. Know that money is both the cause of a host of troubles and a diversion from your real self-interest. Give up everything and go to Vrndavana.

88 Fool today or tomorrow you will die! What will your wife, children and money do to save you? Brother, now that death hems you in on all sides, you should run to Vrndavana.

89 O you who are not blind, why do you not see that the woman before you is simply a gruesome ball of flesh with a few oozing holes? Brother, only because this pretty skin has filled you with wonder do you now neglect the forest of Vrndavana. How pathetic you are!

90 With a great struggle fleeing the all-devouring, lying “I” and “mine” of material life, and crossing the ocean of repeated birth and death, find the blissful land of Vrndavana.

91 I shall never leave Vrndavana forest, where the youthful divine couple, who are as splendid as gold and sapphires, whose eyes are cakora birds gazing at the moons of each other’s face, and who are the two thieves who have taken my heart, enjoy transcendental pastimes together, and go to any other place in this horrible world.

92 Ah, if in Vrndavana even Lord Hari, charmed by the sound of Radha’s anklets, cannot see His own divinity and supremacy over all, then how is it possible that the great souls illusion of false-ego shall not also perish here?

93 In this forest of Vrndavana, where a shoreless ocean of nectar always flows, please gaze on the charming and passionate Divine Couple, who are filled with intense transcendental bliss, and who are splendid as a blue lotus and a golden campaka flower.

94 Knowing in your heart that the form of woman is an ocean of cruel hells, seeing that wealth is a great misfortune, aware that popularity breaks the sweet nectar of devotion for Lord Hari, and decorated with the ornament of renunciation, please worship the supreme transcendental abode of Vrndavana.

95 Please meditate on Vrndavana forest, where, Her entire form covered by a black cape and hidden by the blinding darkness from the closely growing trees that eclipse even the sun, Srimati Radhika happily goes to meet Her lover in broad day.

96 In my heart I meditate on Sri Radhika, who as the autumn moon shines brilliantly, Her form camouflaged with sandal paste, a necklace of pearls, and newly washed white garments, is very eager to meet Her lover in Her own forest garden of jasmine flowers.

97 May Srimati Radhika, who, passionately yearning to meet Lord Madanamohana in the newly blossoming forest of Vrndavana, saw the wonderfully colorful forest, became at once stunned, Her feet unable to walk on the path, and had to be carried along by Her dear companion, appear in my heart.

98 What is the relationship with father, mother, relatives, and friends? What is the bewildering illusion of love for them? What is attachment to a beautiful wife one considers more dear than his own life? What is the sense of ownership for home, wealth, and everything else? What is concern for the well-being of one’s own body? Forcibly cut all these knots and take shelter of Vrndavana forest.

99 Vehemently renouncing wife, children, wealth, home, and all the rest, which present an illusion of momentary happiness although they are ultimately sources of pain, crying and crying, and his body displaying the symptoms of ecstasy, a fortunate person, finding the dust of the feet of the playful queen of Vrndavana forest, becomes filled with transcendental bliss.

100 Bearing the name Vrndavana, a certain mine of the jewels of transcendental love shines with great splendor. The desire to attain Sri Radha’s lotus feet finds a saintly devotee who resides in that place.

Sataka Fourteen

1 Worship the forest far from the ocean of ignorance, flooded with the wonderful ocean of knowledge, and splendid with Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s pastimes.

2 What is the use of this network of illogical ideas? Cut the network of illusion and fly, O bird, to the beautiful forest of Vrndavana.

3 Cut the great ropes of misplaced hope, leave the poison forest of sense gratification, and fly, O bird of my heart, to the nectar forest of Vrndavana.

4 O! O, when will this fool cross the lofty Vindhya Mountains of pride in his wealth, learning, and noble birth, and find the sweetness of Vrndavana?

5 I am pathetic! I am a pathetic fool! Even though from Vrndavana I have obtained my original spiritual form, because I am proud of this jar of stool, I still blossom with happiness when the sinful non devotees respect me!

6 Why do you wander this way and that? Take shelter of Vrndavana’s dark moon, which is flooded with flowing streams of nectar, and which is the dear friend of Sri Radha.

7 Please gaze at Vrndavana’s handsome dark moon, which brings great tidal waves to the ocean of nectar, and which is the dear friend of the two lotus flowers of Sri Radha’s eyes.

8 In Vrndavana a certain very passionate lover is now intoxicated by tasting the splendid nectar of Sri Radha’s lips.

9 May Lord Krsna, whose threefold bending form stands under the branches of the kadamba trees in Vrndavana forest, and whose lips trickle drops of nectar, appear with Sri Radha in my heart.

10 All of you in Vrndavana please worship the fair and dark youthful divine couple, on the cloth of whose hearts each other’s wonderful transcendental form is painted with the nectar colors of love.

11 Please meditate on the beautiful land of Vrndavana, which is flooded with splendid transcendental nectar moonlight and filled with many forests of sanatana, kalpadruma, parijata, mandaraka, and haricandana trees.

12 I meditate on the splendor of Vrndavana forest, which is filled with wonderful golden vines embracing splendid trees and bearing wonderful jewel flowers.

13 O foolish people, please leave this ocean of burning sufferings. Go to Vrndavana forest, which is cooled by the effulgent nectar bliss of a host of moons, and there serve Lord Krsna.

14 I pray that my mind may become a singing bumblebee in the dust of Sri Radhika’s feet in the land of Vrndavana, where Lord Krsna eternally enjoys transcendental amorous pastimes.

15 What is the good of our worshipping many saintly spiritual masters? What is the shame of this world to us? For me there is no infamy, no fear, no object of sense gratification, and no material pious activity. Like a madman I do not even listen to the discourses of scholars learned in thousands of books. My mind is simply overwhelmed by the nectar of Vrndavana.

16 Let there be millions of violations of the rules of piety! Let there be millions of calamities one after another! Let there be millions of criticisms from the people of this world!...Why should I leave Sri Vrndavana, which is millions of times more dear to me than my own life?

17 He who offers respectful obeisances to Vrndavana is worshipped by the three worlds. He who has no respect for Vrndavana is reviled by the three worlds. He who takes Vrndavana very seriously is taken seriously by all the demigods. He who takes Vrndavana lightly becomes as insignificant as a blade of grass.

18 He who bows his head in the direction of Vrndavana becomes the greatest of men. He who has a little love for the land of Vrndavana becomes loved by all. He who gives something as a gift to Vrndavana becomes the most wealthy person in all the worlds. He becomes the master of all the wealth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

19 Why, even after learning that even up to liberation itself no situation is happy or pleasing, do the unfortunate people not always stay in Vrndavana, where the youthful Divine Couple, whose transcendental forms are the sweetest nectar from the ocean of bliss, and who have stolen each other’s hearts, have staying by each other’s side, created a great flood of transcendental nectar?

20 O my desire, if you are determined to stay in Vrndavana, then do it. I shall remain here with no other concern. I do not care for happiness, distress, mental anguish, pious deeds, freedom from sin, or the splendor of pure devotional service to Lord Hari’s lotus feet.

21 O Sri Vrndavana, I think a body covered with your dust is mot fortunate. In any other place I shall not accept the opulence of Lord Brahma, who has four mouths reciting the Vedas, or the opulences offered by the arms of the goddess of fortune. I think an insignificant dog who lives in your realm to be fortunate. I do not think anyone, even if he has a very beautiful and affectionate wife, even if the hand of the goddess of fortune rests upon him, or even if he is enlightened with spiritual knowledge, to be fortunate if he lives in any other place.

22 When moon faced Lord Krsnacandra places the flute to His splendid smiling lips and plays very sweetly, Sri Radha fixes Her eyes upon Him, and the residents of Vaikuntha feel ecstasy and the hairs on their bodies stand erect with joy. However, when His senses in meditation on this scene, He faints in the ecstasy of love. At that time the goddess of fortune becomes unhappy, and the residents of Vaikuntha cannot find the slightest happiness anywhere.

23 If Radha lifts Her head and gently smiles, then of what use are the rising of the full moon or the forests of blossoming lotus flowers? If, pretending to wish to see the forest, She goes there, taking the hand of a gopi friend, then the night in beautiful Vrndavana forest becomes filled with nectar.

24 “This bumblebee is now drinking the honey of that blossoming golden lotus moving to and from in the waves of the Yamuna. Radha, why do You smile? Should a great bumblebee not boldly take this honey in Vrndavana forest?”

25 “O Radha, seeing this khanjana bird on the broad banks of the Yamuna, the khanjana bird of My eyes now wished to go to the shore of Your thighs. Now that the handsome black bees are drinking the honey of the lotus flowers in Vrndavana, I have become filled with the desire to drink the honey of Your beautiful lotus face.”

26 Wonderfully decorated with colorful flowers, Sri Radha enjoys passionate amorous pastimes with a great bumblebee in the beautiful newly-blossoming groves of Vrndavana, which are filled with swarms of buzzing bees.

27 O foolish people, why do you not live in Vrndavana? In Vrndavana even the aborigines have become filled with the nectar of love for Lord Hari. Their virtues are praised by the demigods, and their glories are worshipped by the sages.

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29 They who are proud of their exalted status but do not take shelter of Vrndavana, the very wonderful and purifying place where Lord Hari enjoys His very charming transcendental pastimes, are very unfortunate and lowly.

30 Greedy to taste the nectar of Lord Hari, I have abandoned all material responsibilities. Why have you not given me even a small drop of that nectar? O Vrndavana, why do you cheat me in this way?

31 As splendid as sapphires and molten gold, a youthful couple is blinded with the nectar of love in the land of Vrndavana. I yearn to serve Their feet.

32 Let me surrender to the saintly devotees who reside in Vrndavana, the very secret and wonderfully sweet transcendental abode mercifully appearing in this world although in reality it is very far from both this material world and the spiritual realm of Vaikuntha.

33 O unfortunate fool, please dive into the splendid ocean of spiritual nectar that is the land of Vrndavana. Why, impelled by the thirst to taste the poison of sense gratification, do you waste your time swimming in the ocean of sufferings?

34 There is a gopi full of love for Sri Radha’s lotus feet. Her young, charming, fair form is filled with spiritual splendor. Her waist and limbs are slender. Her breasts are very beautiful. She wears a splendid new cloth on Her broad, youthful hips.

35 She wears a graceful splendid string of jewels over her navel, a locket and many necklaces over the graceful bodice covering her youthful breasts, jewel anklets on her feet, and a sash on her hips. She is splendid as a golden vine with two new clusters of flowers.

36 She wears a splendid jewelled graiveya on her neck, golden rings with pearls and colorful jewels on her ears, a gold-and-jewel-studded pearl in her nose, and a splendid lotus at the tip of her flower-entwined braids.

37-38 Devotional service to Srimati Varsabhanavi’s lover in my heart, at every moment intoxicated with intense love for Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, laughing and laughing with every action, the hairs of my body standing up as my Lord eternally smiles, in the company of sadhus hearing and talking of my king and queen’s sweetness, residing in Vrndavana, with all my heart worshipping the Lord who is the eternal friend of the devotees, and His feet become my greatest treasure, with great respect I fall down as a stick before His feet.

39 I throw away all my pride and place upon my head the dust of the feet of anyone who, with unwavering love for the lotus feet of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, is determined to always stay in Vrndavana.

40 As Srimati Radha, fatigued from the battle of conjugal pastimes, rests on the chest of Her lover, a certain gopi plunged in pure love serves Her. Even though he is destroyed by his senses, and even though he cannot directly see any of these pastimes, a person who in his heart meditates on this gopi becomes supremely fortunate.

41 “When you simply wish for Sri Radhika’s protection, illusion at once flees in fear.” O wretched heart, from where have you gotten these hundred feigned symptoms of ecstatic love, as real as a host of flowers imagined to float in the sky?

42 “Beloved, I will serve the beauty of Your charming breasts, which have stolen My heart. If You are kind to Me, then My happiness will become very great. Without You I have no power to remain alive in this forest grove for even a moment.” Please meditate on these amorous words Sri Sri Radha-Krsna speak in the forest of Vrndavana.

43 “In this forest of Vrndavana, the ocean of my amorous desires is now flooding far beyond its shores and will not tolerate even a joking, pretended impediment to its pastimes.” Lord Hari grasps Her feet and begs, “Your friends are all far away. Without being crooked, with straightforward amorous pastimes give Me pleasure in this secluded place.”

44 At certain times, in the maddeningly sweet forest of Vrndavana, two limitless transcendental forms passionately enjoy unlimitedly sweet amorous pastimes in a limitless cottage of newly flowering vines.

45 When Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, thirsting after the sweetness of transcendental pastimes, are not satisfied by being a single couple, They become limitless couples and enjoy wildly passionate pastimes in the circle of the rasa dance.

46 The forest of Vrndavana charms the hearts of the entire world and makes it thirst after the sweetness of the ocean of bliss. How is it that by the cooing of Vrndavana’s cuckoos, parrots, and other birds, even Lord Krsna’s flute, which maddens the entire world, has become bewildered and silenced?

47 The transcendental amorous passion of Sri Sri Radha-Muralidhara increases moment by moment without limit and all Their Gopi friends become plunged into the ocean of transcendental bliss. O Vrndavana, this is your great transcendental glory.

48 Alas, alas, if one does not worship Sri Radha’s lotus feet, then when She is displeased, Lord Hari, who is submissive to Her, becomes very difficult to attain. Without taking shelter of Vrndavana, how is it possible to attain Her feet, which never travel to any other place?

49 As the girls of Vraja blissfully sing, play musical instruments, and wonderfully dance, and as the sky of Vrndavana resounds with the beating of drums and is filled with a shower of flowers, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna sweetly sing and dance.

50 The vina makes no sound, the flute does not call, the cuckoos do not warble the fifth note, the gopis become silent, and Lord Hari gives up His love-talk, when Sri Radha sings the glories of Vrndavana.

51 In Vrndavana forest Radha and Madhava become glorious with ever-increasing transcendental virtues that seem to be always competing with each other. The wild ocean of Their friends’ transcendental bliss also eternally increases. I meditate on this.

52 All opulent Sri Sri Radhika-Krsnacandra playfully steal the heart of the entire world. Still, beautiful Vrndavana forest steal Their hearts. This is certainly very wonderful.

53 Radha and Krsna worship Vrndavana, saying, “Beloved, let us multiply our lives by millions of times with those millions of lives offer arati to Vrndavana.” Let me glorify Vrndavana.

54 A fortunate person will abandon material piety, economic development, sense gratification, impersonal liberation, devotion to Lord Narayana, and the means by which any of these goals may be attained and instead, to attain the direct service of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, stay in Vrndavana until the time of his death.

55 Sri Sri Radha-Krsna are the ultimate form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Their very wonderful and secret realm bears the name Vrndavana. The account of Their pastimes is the most exalted of all narrations. I pray that my heart may become filled with wonder by tasting the sweet nectar of the transcendental festival of pure love for Them.

56 I shall voluntarily choose to live in hell if there my ears may be filled with the supremely blissful glories of Sri Vrndavana, or if I may sing those glories, or if those glories will enter the pathway of my memory. If I cannot do any of these things then even the loving service of Lord Narayana in Vaikuntha will give no happiness to me.

57 In order to attain the bliss of pure love let us bow down and offer our respectful obeisances to Vrndavana forest where, avoiding those whose honey has already been taken by the bees, and paying no attention to those with no beauty or sweet scent, by lovingly, slowly, and carefully picking flowers, Radhika teaches Her maidservants.

58 In the shade of a parijata tree in Vrndavana forest, in a jewelled pavilion, with a splendid floor of jewels and a roof of beautiful flowers, I see Lord Hari, seated with Radha on silk cushions and flowers, and asking questions of Their glorious gopi maidservants.

59 If the forest of Vrndavana, which is filled with the very sweet nectar of transcendental love, is not manifested outside or within the heart, then Sri Radha will not appear with Her lover, Lord Krsna. If the two splendid and sweet transcendental forms of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna are not present, then how, even with many millions of the most strenuous efforts, will the sweetest part of the ocean of the bliss of pure love appear?

60 Beautiful with splendid garlands, fragrances, and ornaments, and enjoying betelnuts with Their friends as They are entertained by singing and music, Radha-Krsna are eager to see the new forest. At that moment the moons of Their faces are reflected in the still clear pond. I meditate on the beauty of Vrndavana at that moment.

61 O lust, anger, greed, and other vices, you are my friends. Till the moment this body falls I shall never leave you. You will embrace me and please me with your actions. If you make me a prisoner in Vrndavana, the He who is the most rare and fortunate person will protect me.

62 Meditate on two new splendors wearing wonderful new garments and ornaments of new flower blossoms and buds, newly meeting, splendid as new sapphires and gold, and flooded with the nectar of new amorous passion in Vrndavana where the glories of all seasons shine at the same moment.

63 Happily tasting wonderful nectar, worship Lord Hari, who is charmed by the wonder of Vrndavana’s wonderful deer and birds and wonderful festival of transcendental amorous pastimes. Happily tasting wonderful nectar, worship wonderfully handsome Lord Hari, who is charmed by the wonderful love of wonderful-hearted Sri Radha.

64 Vrndavana is wonderful. Its grove of forest-vines is wonderful. Its beautiful flower-couch is wonderful. Sri Sri Radha-Muralidharana, who are expert at tasting nectar, are wonderful, Their pastimes are wonderful. Their sweetness is very wonderful.

65 He dark as a new monsoon cloud, She splendid as a playful lightning flash, He a treasure-house of skill in new amorous pastimes, She filled with new amorous playfulness, He a stream flooded with currents of new bliss, She languid with a great weight of new sweetness, He, Krsna, and She, Radha, fill Vrndavana with new splendor.

66 In Vrndavana forest, by the Yamuna’s shore, in a splendid sandal grove, in a splendid jasmine-vine cottage, on a couch of parijata and many other flowers, Radha-Madhava, decorated with flower garlands, flower crowns, and other flower ornaments, enjoy charming amorous pastimes in our hearts.

67 Wherever passionate Radha-Madhava go in Vrndavana forest, the peacocks, intoxicated by the nectar of Lord Hari, dance again and again, the jasmine vines suddenly bloom, there is a flood of the buzzing of maddened bees, and cuckoos passionately sing in each mango tree.

68 Sri Sri Radha-Madhava’s wonderful handsomeness... is splendidly reflected in the crystal pavements and the great mirror trees and vines everywhere in Vrndavana.

69 “This way! This way!” Led by eager gopi-friends from one path to another in an excursion to see the forest’s beauty, Radha-Madhava laughed, Their eager hearts giddy with happiness.

70 “O my king and queen, please come to my dear friend’s place in the east.” When the maidservant grasped Their feet and begged with sweet words, Radha-Madhava happily went there. Please meditate on Them in this way.

71 With Their lotus footsteps decorating the forests, with Their shy smiles and laughter filling the sky with splendid white jasmine flowers, and with the dancing of Their eyebrow-vines breaking Kama’s bow, Radha-Madhava together wander in Vrndavana.

72 I worship Radha who, hastily dressed, garments and ornaments in the wrong places, earrings swinging on Hr cheeks, eyes moving restlessly, and flower ornaments falling from Her braided her, not doubting Her friends, runs to drink the nectar of seeing Her beloved in glorious Vrndavana.

73 When a gopi praises Vrndavana forest, Radha becomes overwhelmed. Dropping Her vina, not tying Her hair and belt, and not telling Her friends, She eagerly begins to run there, happily followed by the other gopis.

74 To see Lord Madanamohana in Vrndavana is the fruit of offering pious deeds to the Lord, the fruit of associating with saints devoted to the Lord’s lotus feet, and the fruit of happily hearing nectar talks about the Lord.

75 Meditate on the gold and sapphire splendors who, taught the arts of amorous yearning by Lalita and other experts, and silently observed by charming deer and birds, are now initiated to perform the Kamadeva-mahotsava in Their own forest.

76 Meditate on the pastimes of Radhika-Krsna who, intoxicated with the nectar of amorous desire, Their eyes, limbs, and voices trembling, Their words stuttering, and Their peaceful composure completely devoured, enjoy eternally in the nectar groves of Vrndavana.

77 The ears yearn with limitless thirst to taste the nectar of narrations about You. The eyes are tormented with thirst to see the moon of Your face. Not recognizing big or small, or even a little of injunctions and prohibitions, limitless Vrndavana eternally shines with Sri Radha.

78 I worship Sri Radha who, to give wonderful pleasure to Her beloved, with Her own hand made a wonderful flower-garden and devotedly decorated the wonderful new forest-groves where She and a maidservant-follower happily wait for Him.

79 Let us praise a beautiful fair young girl and Her handsome dark lover who, wearing wonderful delightful garments, decorated with new garlands and ointments, happily led by Their expert girl teachers to a cottage in a new forest-grove, and passionately enjoying new amorous pastimes together, delight the friends gazing at Them through the lattice-window.

80 Let us praise two wonderful fair and dark splendors that with wonderful melodies sing Vrndavana’s glories, that make Their friends filled with Vrndavana’s nectar dance, and that become intoxicated as they gaze again and again at Vrndavana’s beauty.

81 Each of Their limbs a glistening shoreless ocean of fair and dark nectar, Their transcendental pastimes a treasure millions of Kamadevas cannot count, and Their names Radha and Krsna, may the youthful couple eternally playing in the groves of Vrndavana penetrate my heart.

82 O heart, please worship Sri Vrndavana’s eternally splendid hero and heroine, who in wakefulness, dream, and dreamless sleep remain together eternally, who are eternally full of love, who are eternally situated in wonderful splendid youth, who are eternally maddened with amorous passion, who eternally enjoy wonderful pastimes together, and who are eternally surrounded by gopi friends.

83 I meditate on Radha and Her lover who, the handsome sprouts of Their arms placed on each other’s shoulders, laughing and laughing, and saying “O queen of My life! O My beloved! Look! Look! Listen! Listen”, with many playful, languid, splendid steps, sweetly walk in Vrndavana forest.

84 When Vrndavana’s eternally blissful dark moon, which is the only friend of Sri Radha’s lotus eyes, rises, then the cakora birds of our eyes do not become blinded by the dark.

85 May the splendor of Vrndavana’s pastimes, which are eternally filled with nectar of deep Radha’s love and eternally worshipped by all other forests, delight my heart.

86 I meditate on Lord Hari’s splendid flute, which with its flowing current of intense bliss, traps and binds the deer of the worlds heart, cuts all bonds, and makes mad with nectar all who find happiness in Vrndavana.

87 When, overcome by Vrndavana’s nectar beauty, and happily covering Her limbs with its dust, will dead Radha, Her large reaching-to-Her-ear eyes rolling in ecstasy, shine with great wonder?

88 When, meditating on the transcendental beauty of the places where Sri Sri Radha-Krsna enjoyed pastimes, will I gloriously and permanently reside in wonderful, blissful Vrndavana?

89 When, seeing millions of enchantingly beautiful girls to be a great mistake, knowing millions of great mystic powers to have a foul odor, and the beauty of Sri Radha’s lotus feet manifest in my heart, will I yearn to stay in Vrndavana?

90 How can he in whose heart or words Radha, Radha’s lover, Vrndavana, or the devotees who love Them, do not stay, see Their nectar beauty?

91 I glorify Vrndavana, where the trees, vines, birds, deer, and bees are splendid and blissful, where the many different places are all very sweet and splendid, and where Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, whose forms are two oceans of the sweet splendor of passionate transcendental lover, enjoy pastimes eternally.

92 Filled with limitless blissful moonlight, filled with the limitless splendor of beautiful lapis lazuli, splendid with candrakantas, sapphires, emeralds, and diamonds, and unlimitedly splendid with crystal and gold, the trees in the land of Vrndavana are very wonderful.

93 May Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, whose forms are filled with the splendid nectar of pure love, who are two oceans of wonderful skill in transcendental amorous pastimes, and who make Vrndavana blissful with the sweet flood of fair and dark splendor from Their limbs and blind with the nectar of Their love, eternally appear in my heart.

94 I pray that Sri Sri Radhika-Krsna, who sing very sweetly in a kadamba’s shade in Vrndavana forest, may grant the service I desire in my heart.

95 I meditate on Sri Radha’s splendid reddish lotus feet, which with melodiously tinkling ankle bells walk on the golden pavements of Vrndavana.

96 I pray that my heart may never, even in the moment of death, forget the feet of Radha’s lover. I pray that my body may never, even in millions of calamities, for even a moment leave Vrndavana, which is my life and soul.

97 O heart, forget the sense pleasures you have briefly glimpsed! Don’t meditate on the self-manifest Brahman effulgence! Don’t be bewildered by great wealth! Search for the wonderful nectar in Vrndavana forest!

98 Defects in Vrndavana are not defects. To see them is ignorance. To see suffering, decay, or other defects in Vrndavana is an illusion. A great illusion.

99 The moonlight of Vrndavana’s glory delights the lotus flower of the heart, crushes the great darkness of ignorance, and fills the ocean of nectar with waves.

100 Because of ceaseless offenses to Sri Radha one falls into the ocean of suffering without hope of rescue. Only Vrndavana’s merciful glance can rescue him.

101 What is this great illusion that afflicts even great men? In Vrndavana forest the supreme splendor of Lord Madana Gopala shines above all. In Vrndavana is a monsoon of the sweetest nectar.

102 The handsomeness of the splendid Vrndavana moon of Lord Madana Gopala’s face completely enchants the most reserved and saintly. I will pass this lifetime placing my body at His feet by engaging in His unalloyed and sweet devotional service. I will abandon all other actions.

103 I gaze on Lord Mukunda, who is dressed in handsome golden garments, who has golden decorations and a golden flute, and who wears as a sacred thread a glittering golden campaka-garland gloriously golden as Sri Radha.

104 Although I yearn to drink the nectar moonlight of Lord Madanamohana’s face, I cannot because the beautiful beaks of Radha’s restless cakora-bird eyes constantly drink it.