Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava & Purport

Prabhupāda: So you know this song Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava?

Devotees: Jaya!

Prabhupāda: So you can follow...[break]

[leads singing of Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava]

Prabhupāda: Somebody play.

[06:18]

So this is the...

[aside:] Sit down.

...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 God..., Kṛṣṅa." That's all. That is called unalloyed 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 vrajavāsī, 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 without any condition. 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." [chuckles] So he came down to his knees. These things you'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.

So gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī. And as a child, as beloved child of Yaśodā, Yaśodā-nandana... Kṛṣṅa likes to be a child of a devotee. He wants to be chastised from His devotee father and mother. Because everyone worships Him, nobody goes to chastise Him, so He takes pleasure when a devotee chastises Him. That is Kṛṣṅa's service. If Kṛṣṅa takes pleasure being chastised, so the responsibility is taken by a devotee: "All right, I shall become Your father and chastise You." When Kṛṣṅa wants to fight, one of His devotee becomes Hiraṅyakaśipu and fights with Him.

So all activities of Kṛṣṅa is with His devotees. He is... Therefore, to become associate of Kṛṣṅa, to develop Kṛṣṅa consciousness... Yaśodā-nandana vraja-jana-vallabha..., vraja-jana-rañjana. His only business is how to satisfy... As braja-jana's business is how to satisfy Kṛṣṅa, similarly, Kṛṣṅa's business is how to satisfy braja-jana. This is reciprocation of love.

Yamunā-tīra-vana-cārī. Kṛṣṅa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is wandering on the banks of Yamunā to please the gopīs, the cowherds boys, the birds, beasts, calves. They are not ordinary birds, beasts, calves or men. They are on the top of self-realization. Kṛta-puṅya-puñjāḥ [SB 10.12.11].

[All the boys would be differently engaged. Some boys blew their flutes, and others blew bugles made of horn. Some imitated the buzzing of the bumblebees, and others imitated the voice of the cuckoo. Some boys imitated flying birds by running after the birds' shadows on the ground, some imitated the beautiful movements and attractive postures of the swans, some sat down with the ducks, sitting silently, and others imitated the dancing of the peacocks.

Some boys attracted young monkeys in the trees, some jumped into the trees, imitating the monkeys, some made faces as the monkeys were accustomed to do, and others jumped from one branch to another. Some boys went to the waterfalls and crossed over the river, jumping with the frogs, and when they saw their own reflections on the water they would laugh. They would also condemn the sounds of their own echoes.

In this way, all the cowherd boys used to play with Kṛṣṅa, who is the source of the Brahman effulgence for jñānīs desiring to merge into that effulgence, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead for devotees who have accepted eternal servitorship, and who for ordinary persons is but another ordinary child. The cowherd boys, having accumulated the results of pious activities for many lives, were able to associate in this way with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. How can one explain their great fortune?]

After many, many lives they got that position, to play with Kṛṣṅa.

So our Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement is so nice that everyone can go to Kṛṣṅaloka and become His associate, as a friend or so many other things—as a servant, as father, as mother. And Kṛṣṅa is agreeable to any one of these proposition. These things are described very nicely in our Teachings of Lord Caitanya. So Kṛṣṅa does not go even a step from Vṛndāvana. The original Kṛṣṅa is Vṛndāvana.

That is described in the Brahma-saṁhitā:

cintāmaṅi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa- lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambrahma-sevyamānaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ [tam ahaṁ bhajāmi] [Bs 5.29]

Brahmā is accepting the Supreme Personality of Govinda, Kṛṣṅa in Vṛndāvana. Veṅuṁ kvaṅantam: "He is engaged in playing flute."

...aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.30]

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is adept in playing on His flute, with blooming eyes like lotus petals with head decked with peacock's feather, with the figure of beauty tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and His unique loveliness charming millions of Cupids.]

So take advantage of these books, this knowledge, this prasādam, this chanting, and be happy and go to Kṛṣṅa. So nice thing.

All right.

Devotees: All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.

[devotees offer obeisances] [end]