Bhagawatham-10.05-Vrindavana Leela-3

" Thava Kathamrutham Taptha jeevanam,
Kavibhireeditham Kalmashapaham I

Sravana Mangalam Sreemadathatham,
Bhuvi Grinanthi Te Bhuridha Jana: II "

As promised to the Gopies, KRISHNA at the end of their Vrutham went to the banks of Yamuna and started playing the flute ready for Rasakreeda. The Lord is ready to give the Parama Padam (which is very remote for all the Yogies and Munis and other Sadakas,) to all His Bhakthas He is testing all the Gopies for their preparedness by asking them to return to their houses to attend to their husbands,He even says that looking after the husbands is the Paro Dharmam of ladies,even if the husband is Dussilo,durbago,vrudtho or sick. But the Gopies are not the lot to waste the opportunity to unite with the God and refuse to leave and Krishna starts the Divine Dance with them. In between, He finds that the Gopies have some type of ego and to remove that from them He disappears from the scene. Gopies try to find Him searching all the places and when they find that even Radharani could not find Krishna they start singing the Sthuthy of the Bhagwan which is known as the Gopi Geetham,inwhich they praise the Lord and sing His Gunas. They recollect how prosperous the Vruja Bhoomi became after the arrival of Krishna and what all super natural things He did to save the Gopas and their families. Seeing their cries -with Krishna Darshana Lalasa- Krishna re appears as Manmadha Manmadha.Then the Divine Dance continues with one Krishna to One Gopi, Many Gopies to one Krishna,two Gopies to one Krishna and so on..Even Lord Shiva took part in the Dance wearing a Gopi-dress ALL OF US are Gopies-females and only Lord Krishna alone is the Male. All we have to do is to strive to get nearer to the Lord all the times as the Gopies did.That is the Lesson from the rasakreeda.
Once Gopas along with Krishna went to the Siva temple in Ambikavanam and did the pujas for Siva and took part in the Mahotsavam there And at night when they were sleeing in the forest one python came and attacked the Gopas and Nandagopa. But when Krishna touched the python it became a Vidyadhara and started speaking thus.....Lord I was a man named Sudarshan and when I made fun of the Vairupyams of the Maharshis like Angirassa they cursed me to be born as this snake and I am grateful to Thy that I am relieved from that shapam now.

Another time the Vaishravanbritya Shangachooda took away all the Gopies from the Vraj and Krishna had to kill Shangachooda to rescue the Vraj Ladies from him.Then Kamsa's friend Arishta Asura took the Vrishaba roopa and started attacking the Gopas and Krishna sent him to the Swqargaloga by killing him.Then again Kamsa's another friend Kesi Asuran took the roopa of a Horse from the Sindhu desam and hence known as "Sindhujam". This horse started distoying the whole Vraj and came against Krishna to kill Him. But the Bhagawan had no difficulty in finishing Kesi. This bestowed a name " KESHAVAN" to SriKrishna.Vyomasura who took a disguise of a Gopa was also killed by Krishna.
Kamsa was in distress to see that all his Asuras are one by one killed by young Krishna and was thinking about other ways to get rid of Him. He sends Akrura to Gokul to get Krishna and Balarama to Madhura in the name of inviting them for a Mela -and thought enventually he can kill them in the mela. Akrura was a Bhagwat Bhaktha and knew that Krishna can kill the Demon Kamsa and goes to Gokul and invites them for the Meal on behalf of Kamsa. Both Krishna and Balarama get ready for the Madhurapuri but the Gopies cry for them:
" Evam Bruvanaa virahatura brusam,vrujastriya: Krishnavishaktha manasaa: I
Visrujya lajjam rurudu: sma suswaram,Govinda Damodara Madhavethi "II
And with broken hearts towards the Gopies and the Vruj Bhoomi and with the intention of finishing the Dushkarta Kamsa soon , Krishna and Balarama left the Vrindavan for Madhura, ending the Vrindavana Leela.

Keshava.......Govinda......Damodara........ Madhava,
Krishna........Gopala.........Dayanidhe........Mukunda.

Bhagawatham-10.04-Vrinadavana Leela-2

GOVINDA GOVINDA GOVINDA
"Barha peedam natavara vapu: karnayo: karnikaram,
bibrath vasa: kanaka kapisam vaijayanthim cha malam"

Pralambasura was killed by Balarama and the Lord saves the cattles from the wild fires(DavagniPanam) of the Aisheekam forest. All the Gopies are attracted by the beauty of the Lord Krishna and they always wanted to be with Him. They could not see Krishna going everyday to the forest leaving them and when He enters the forest He starts reciting His Flute(Sanika) and the Gopies loose their minds for Krishna. This Venu ganam is so sweet that even the cattle and the trees of the Vrindavanam are attracted towards Krishna by hearing this ganam. And in the Hemantha Ritu, the Gopies make Statue of Parvathi devi in the mud and starts the Katyayani Vrutham and pooja for the whole one month in order to get Krishna as their Husband......"Katyayani Mahamaye Mahayoginyadhiswari,Nanda gopa sudam Devi Pathim Me Kuru Te Nama:"......At the end of the monthly vrutham these Gopies take bath in the Yamuna leaving their dresses at the shore which Krishna takes away and gives back the dresses only after making them understand that taking bath naked in the Holy Yamuna is sin. Then the Brahmins who did yagna to get the darshan of Krishna could not recognize the God in Balakrishna ,but their wives did see the God in Him and finally blesses them all.

Nandagopa and other Gopas make elaborate preparations for the annual Indra Pooja to get the blessingss of Indradeva in the form of good rains in the Vrindavanam. Krisha gets annoyed by this as He thinks it's not Indra who decides ones fate but....."Karmana jayathe Jantu: Karmanaiva viliyathe,Sugam Dukham Bhayam Kshemam Karmanaivabhipadyathe".....ones good and bad karmas. After convincing Nandagopa and other gopas, Krishna decides to worship the Gowardhana Mountain instead of Indradeva. Then there followed the elaborate Pooja of the Gowardhan and the God Gowardhan mountain was very much pleased by the pooja and was waiting to serve the Vruja vasies when the Devendra got angry and started bombarding the area with heavy rains . The Vruja bhoomi seemed to get drowned by the heavy flooding and Krishna lifted the Gowardhan Mountain on his little finger and and saved, whole of Vruja bhoomi and inhabitants. Devendra could not sustain any longer and fell on the feet of Krishna and did Abhishekam of the Lord with the Holy name of GOVINDA.
"OM GOVINDA SREE GOVINDA , JAYA JAYA GOVINDA
DEENA DAYALA GOVINDA, GOPIKA RAMANA GOVINDA"