Krishna Leela Series - Part 41 -Uddhava Visits Vrndavana

1. Uddhava Visits Vṛndāvana

4. Did Krishna cheat the residents of Vrindavan?

6. His Lotus Feet are captured by Gopis's love

8. Krishna bound by Pure Devotional Service - Lord feels attraction for devotional service

11. Speciality of devotional service to Lord Krishna Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the svayaṁ-rūpa Personality of Godhead. Lord Sri Kṛṣṇa is the original form of Godhead, and He is the last word in the Transcendence. Thus He is more attractive to the higher transcendentalists who participate in the eternal pastimes of the Lord. Purport SB 1.2.22

12. Speciality of devotional service to Lord Krishna In forms of the Personality of Godhead other than Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Baladeva, there is no facility for intimate personal contact as in the transcendental pastimes of the Lord at Vrajabhūmi. Purport SB 1.2.22

14. Kṛṣṇa was blowing His flute.

15. Kṛṣṇa was joking with us

17. What about state of Krishna?

18. What was Krishna thinking?ye yathāmāṁprapadyante tāṁstathaivabhajāmyaham BG 4.11

20. Sarupya - Resembles almost Krishna in bodily features, Even dresses like Krishna

21. Described as the most exalted personality in the Vṛṣṇi dynasty, almost equal to Kṛṣṇa

22. Direct student of Bṛhaspati

23. Very intelligent and sharp in decision

25. Serving the Lord in a mood of an intimate friend

26. However he is considered more intimate to Lord Krishna than Pandavas

29. Krishna was very anxious about the gopis’ grief, that they may give up their lives due to intense separation from Him.

31. Krishna knew very well the psychology of women. When a woman’s beloved is away, she thinks of him more in meditation than when he is present before her. Krishna wanted to teach through the behavior of the gopis that one who is constantly in trance like the gopis surely attains His lotus feet.

34. Nand Maharaj could understand that Uddhava was a very confidential friend of Kṛṣṇa

35. He inquired about the well being of Vasudeva

36. Nand Maharaj could understand that Uddhava was a very confidential friend of Kṛṣṇa

37. He acknowledged the killing of Kaṁsa, the most sinful demon

38. Further inquired … “whether Kṛṣṇa is remembering His father and mother and His friends and companions in Vṛndāvana. Does He like to remember His cows, His gopīs, His Govardhana Hill, His pasturing ground in Vṛndāvana?”

40. Nand Maharaj recites Krishna’s pastimes … “We simply think of Kṛṣṇa, how He used to smile and how He looked upon us. When we go to the banks of the Yamunā and other lakes of Vṛndāvana or near Govardhana Hill or the pasturing field, we see that the impressions of Kṛṣṇa's footprints are still on the surface of the earth. We remember Him playing in those places, because He was constantly visiting them. When His appearance within our minds becomes manifest, we immediately become absorbed in thought of Him. ."

41. Nand Maharaj recites Krishna’s pastimes … "We think, therefore, that Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma may be chief demigods in heaven who have appeared before us like ordinary boys in order to execute particular duties on earth. This was also foretold by Gargamuni when making Kṛṣṇa's horoscope. If Kṛṣṇa were not a great personality how could He have killed Kaṁsa, who possessed the strength of 10,000 elephants? Besides Kaṁsa, there were very strong wrestlers, as well as the giant elephant, Kuvalayāpīḍa.

42. Nand Maharaj recites Krishna’s pastimes … How wonderful it is that Kṛṣṇa took in one hand the big, heavy bow made of three joined palm trees and broke it very quickly. How wonderful it is that continually for seven days He held up Govardhana Hill in one hand. How wonderful it is that He has killed all the demons, like Pralambāsura, Dhenukāsura, Ariṣṭāsura, Tṛṇāvarta and Bakāsura. They were so strong that even the demigods in the heavenly planets were afraid of them, but Kṛṣṇa killed them as easily as anything."

44. As for mother Yaśodā, she sat by the side of her husband and heard the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa without speaking.

47. Similarly, Uddhava advised the gopīs that they could be saved from the fire of separation by closing their eyes and meditating on the activities of Kṛṣṇa from the very beginning of their association with Him.

49. Yet he did not dare to ask the gopīs to offer the dust from their feet; perhaps they would not be agreeable.

50. He therefore desired to have his head smeared with the dust of the gopīs' feet without their knowledge.

52. They did not consider whether they were passing over the road or through the jungles.

53. Imperceptibly, the dust of their feet was bestowed on small grasses and herbs of Vṛndāvana.

55. Separation from the Lord

56. Our hearts are also burning – 6 enemies

57. Krishna sends spiritual master to save us, the fallen souls

58. Lord Krishna’s one of the most intimate pastimes

60. Gosvāmīs were always absorbed in the ocean of transcendental feelings in the mood of the gopīs

61. Their mission remained always unfulfilled; they never met Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.

63. This method of loving and serving in the mood of separation is the highest form of absorption in Krishna and the highest source of spiritual ecstasy - and this fact is very difficult to understand from the material point of view.