Jaya Radha Madhava
Sri Krsnaer Vimsottara Sata Nama Song 4
jaya rādhā-mādhava
kuñja-bihārī gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī
Word for word
jaya - all glories to: rādhā-mādhava - Rādhā and the Lord of sweetness; kuñja-bihārī - He who enjoys loving pastimes in the groves of Vṛndāvana; gopī-jana-vallabha - the lover of the cowherd maidens of Vraja; giri-vara-dhārī - the holder of the great hill named Govardhana;
Krsna is the lover of Radha. He displays many amorous pastimes in the groves of Vrndavana, He is the lover of the cowherd maidens of Vraja, and the holder of the great hill named Govardhana.
yaśodā-nandana
braja-jana-rañjana yāmuna-tīra-vana-cārī
Word for word
yaśodā-nandana - the beloved son of mother Yaśodā; vraja-jana-rañjana - the delighter of the inhabitants of Vraja; yāmuna-tīra-vana-cārī - who wanders in the forests along the banks of the river Yamunā
He is the beloved son of mother Yasoda, the delighter of the inhabitants of Vraja, and He wanders in the forests along the banks of the River Yamuna!
Translation
Krsna is the lover of Radha. He displays many amorous pastimes in the groves of Vrndavana, He is the lover of the cowherd maidens of Vraja, and the holder of the great hill named Govardhana.
He is the beloved son of mother Yasoda, the delighter of the inhabitants of Vraja, and He wanders in the forests along the banks of the River Yamuna!
Notes
Srila Prabhupada was very fond of this song and sang it just before his lectures. In Allahabad and Gorakhpur, Srila Prabhupada fell into a trance after singing the first two lines, and after some time he came back into external consciousness and said, "Now just chant Hare Krsna." Srila Prabhupada said that this song is "a picture of Vrndavana. Everything is there--Srimati Radharani, Vrndavana, Govardhana, Yasoda, and all the cowherd boys." This song is heard in Raga Kafi, Raga Misra Pilu, and Raga Darbari Kanhada.
Prabhupada commentary
2So this is the original nature of Kṛṣṅa, original nature of Kṛṣṅa. He is Rādhā-Mādhava. He is the lover of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṅī. And kuñja-vihārī, always enjoying the company of the gopīs within the bushes of Vṛndāvana forest. Rādhā-mādhava kuñja-vihārī. So He’s not only lover of Rādhārāṅī, but braja-jana-vallabha. The whole residents of Vṛndāvana, they love Kṛṣṅa. They do not know anything else.
They do not know whether Kṛṣṅa is God or not, neither they are very much harassed that “I shall love Kṛṣṅa if He is God.” “He may be God or He may be whatever He is. It doesn’t matter, but we love Kṛṣṅa, that’s all.” That is called unnalloyed love. “If Kṛṣṅa is God, then I shall love Him”—this is conditional love. This is not pure love.
Kṛṣṅa may be God or whatever He may be, but by His wonderful acts, the Vrajavāsīs, they are thinking, “Oh Kṛṣṅa, He is very wonderful child, maybe some demigod. Maybe some demigod.” Because people are generally under impression that the demigods are all-powerful. They’re powerful within this material world. But they do not know that Kṛṣṅa is above all of them. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṅaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ [Bs 5.1].
[Kṛṣṅa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.]
The highest demigod, Brahmā, is giving his opinion, “The supreme controller is Kṛṣṅa.” So as the residents of Vṛndāvana, they love Kṛṣṅa without any condition, similarly, Kṛṣṅa also loves them.
Vraja-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī. When the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana were in danger because they stopped Indra-yajña and Indra became very angry, and he sent very great, powerful cloud and rained over Vṛndāvana incessantly for seven days, so when the inhabitants became very much disturbed, Kṛṣṅa, although He was only seven years old boy, He saved them by lifting the Govardhana Hill. So He taught Indradeva, demigod, that “To stop your disturbance is the business of My little finger, that’s all.” [laughter] So he came down to his knees. These things we’ll find in Kṛṣṅa book.
So as Gopī-jana-vallabha, His only business is how to protect gopī-jana. So our Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement is how to become one of the gopī-jana. Then Kṛṣṅa will save us from any danger, even by lifting a hill or mountain. Kṛṣṅa is so kind and so powerful. When Kṛṣṅa lifted the hill, He did not practice some yoga system. That is God. Although He was a child, He was playing like a child, He was dealing like a child, but when there was need, He was manifesting as God. That is Kṛṣṅa. That is Kṛṣṅa. Not that He has to go and practice some yoga system, then He becomes God. No. He’s not that type of God, not manufactured God. He’s God.