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During the divine Rāsa, Śrī Kṛṣṇa becomes completely immersed in the ocean of divine sweetness upon beholding the extraordinary beauty and loveliness of His beloved Śrī Rādhā.
Śrī Vṛndāvana alone is the seed of pure prema-bhakti, and Śrī Vṛndāvana alone is its fully blossomed flower. Śrī Vṛndāvana alone is the wish-fulfilling tree (kalpavṛkṣa) that fulfills all desires, and it is the very source and foundation of divine love-bliss.
Śrī Rādhā has so completely taken possession of my mind, body, and eyes that I have no awareness of anything else except Her. Such an intense cry and anguish of separation surge within my heart that whatever arises there spontaneously pours forth from my lips.
Whether worldly people or even the devotees mock and ridicule me, I shall not mind anyone’s words in the slightest. Constantly remembering Śrī Rādhāramaṇa, let whatever is destined to happen now happen; I have no concern for it.
O beautiful Svāminī Jī, the very embodiment of the ocean of bliss, please hear my prayer! You alone are the one who intensifies the divine love-rasa. O fair-complexioned (Śrī Rādhā Gorī Jū), O beloved Priyā Jī, all glories forever to You! Please bestow such grace upon me that I may remain Your maidservant eternally.
Sūradāsa Madanamohana Jī says that the thirteen lakh rupees collected at Sandīlā were offered in the service of saints and for feeding them, after which he left for Vṛndāvana. It is said that, as a revenue officer under Emperor Akbar, he sent boxes filled with stones and pebbles to the royal treasury, placing this dohā inside them. Akbar later forgave him, seeing his honesty, and summoned him back, but Sūradāsa Jī, detached from royal service, chose to remain in Śrī Vṛndāvana.
O all the creepers, vines, and trees of Śrī Vṛndāvana! Please collectively bestow such grace upon me that the supremely tender and beloved Śrī Rādhā may become intimately affectionate with me and shower me with abundant love (or that I may do so with Her).
Wealth, youth, family and relatives, knowledge, and strength- all these are merely the fundamental causes of pride. Śrī Kānta Kiśora Jī says that on the strength of these, one can never attain the blissful 'keli' of Śrī Vṛndāvana.
O Kiśorī Jī (Śrī Rādhā)! Your incomparable beauty transcends every limit and defies every restraint. The very remembrance of You steals away all my awareness, leaving me utterly absorbed in You, continuously piercing the innermost core of my heart with the arrows of divine love.
Our ever-youthful Laḍalī Jī, Śrī Rādhā, is adorned with ever-fresh beauty at every single moment, eternally enjoying playful Rāsa dance with Śyāmasundara. May the love-bliss of both continue to increase forever with ever-new loving sentiments, and may Your nitya-vihāra always remain overflowing with unfathomable rasa and supreme bliss.
Śrī Kānta Rasika Jī says that one may give extensive discourses on Śrī Bhagavad Gītā and Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahāpurāṇa, but if one’s heart is as hard as stone, one cannot understand the true mystery of this rasopāsanā. Only rasika devotees, whose hearts are filled with pure love, can enter this realm (the eternal Vṛndāvana) of the ‘Ananya Rasikas’ (exclusive rasikas).
O beloved Priyā Jū, kindly consider this prayer of mine: may your tender and rasa-filled form remain forever imprinted within my heart, day and night. May your divine form never depart from my contemplation, even if I should try to turn my mind away from it.
During the mahārāsa of Śrī Rādhā and the sakhīs, when Śrī Rādhā suddenly disappeared from the midst of the sakhīs, they cried out with tearful eyes in the pain of separation. At that very moment, the supremely tender and ever-youthful Śrī Rādhā appeared before them, smiling softly and gently.
The divine couple are not confined within the limits of philosophical doctrines such as Dvaita, Advaita, Dvaitādvaita, or Viśiṣṭādvaita. They stand beyond all the logical debates of the Vedas, completely independent and immersed in divine rasa. For the rasikas, this supremely beloved pair of Śyāmā-Śyāma alone is the sole object of worship and the very source of life.
Śrī Priyā Jī (Śrī Rādhā) guides Her beloved Śrī Kṛṣṇa in the graceful art of dance, at times playfully holding a small stick to gently discipline Him. As Lāḍilī Jī makes Him dance, Śrī Kṛṣṇa dances exactly as She directs, fully under Her command.
This unparalleled, Śrī Yugala Kiśora, is a mine of beauty from head to toe. The divine couple, Śrī Rādhā Mādhava, are naturally supremely beautiful and irresistibly enchanting to the hearts of rasikas.
All glory again and again to Śrī Rādhikā, who captivates the heart of Mādhava. You are the eternal, nectarean stream flowing from the unfathomable ocean of divine rasa — all glory to You.
The entire world remains absorbed in fulfilling its own selfish desires, while what is called spirituality, welfare, or charity is often nothing more than a display. Grand words are spoken about divine love and sacred rasa, yet the inner heart holds no treasure at all.
People speak of exclusive devotion—“I belong only to Thākurjī; God alone is mine!”—yet within themselves they tightly conceal their attachments behind closed lips. Before the Lord, they merely display a hollow show of purity, while the inner darkness and deceit remain unchanged; their minds stay attached to wealth, honor, status, and family ties.
With a mind fully surrendered, I bow at the lotus feet of Śrī Swāmī Haridās Jī, who has revealed the nectarean sweetness of His heart, the eternal nitya vihār of the Divine Couple.
