nitya-vihar

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1. Sej Susanpati Jugal Rati Danpati - Shri Rup Sakhi, Shrringar Ras Ke Dohe (45)

   Within the secluded bower-palace of Śrī Vṛndāvana, adorned with a beautiful bed and all the enchanting arrangements for divine love-play, Śrī Priyā-Priyatama (Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa) are deeply absorbed in Their mutual love, having devoted Their exclusive refuge, thoughts, and affection entirely to one another. In Śrī Vṛndāvana, Their own divine abode, the incomparable bliss of the Divine Couple’s eternal plays of love (nitya-vihāra) is perpetually beheld.

2. Gun Rupaki Avadhi Radhika - Shri Hariram Vyaas, Vyaas Vani, Uttarardh (128)

   Śrī Rādhikā Jū, the supreme embodiment of divine virtues and beauty, has completely captivated Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the crest-jewel of rasikas. Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s body, mind, wealth, youth, ornaments, and very life—everything—are entirely dedicated to His beloved Śrī Rādhā.

3. Lata Kunj Vrinda Bipin Biharen - Shri Saras Madhuri

   In the vine-arbors of Śrī Vṛndāvana, the supremely delicate divine couple, Śrī Rādhā Kṛṣṇa, are eternally engaged in Their plays of love (nitya vihāra). Relishing the nectar-like sweetness of Their beauty, the bumblebees hum in intoxication (or the rasikas sing Their glories).

4. Shri Lalita Pad Bhajan Duhelo - Shri Vanshi Ali, Siddhant Ke Pad (33)

   The worship of the divine rasa of Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa’s eternal Nitya Vihāra, attained through the grace of Śrī Lalitā Jī’s lotus feet, is supremely rare and difficult. Without the causeless compassion of Śrī Rādhārānī, how could anyone ever touch this incomparable and pure nectar of divine love?

5. Lalit Sarovar Lalit Van Lalna Lal Samet - Shri Lalitamohini Dev, Vishisht Pad Evam Sakhi (17)

   The lakes of Śrī Vṛndāvana are beautiful, its forests are enchanting, and its secluded bowers are dense where Śrī Rādhā eternally resides with Her beloved Śrī Lāla Jī (Śrī Kṛṣṇa). These very bowers are the loving abode and resting place of Their divine Nitya-Vihāra. For this reason, Śrī Dhāma Vṛndāvana holds a place of supreme love and affection in the hearts of the rasikas.

6. Juv Kavani Vais Kisor Dou - Shri Svami Haridas Ji, Kelimal (110)

   The beautiful youthful Couple, Śrī Śyāmā-Śyāma, have emerged from the dense nikunja and are standing together. Their bodies are gracefully merged into one another, and their minds are absorbed in one another. Their beauty radiates in both directions, as though lightning had emerged from dense, dark clouds.

7. Shriradhamaya Vrindavan Dham - Shri Radhacharan Das, Vrindavan Virudavali

   This Śrī Vṛndāvana Dhāma is completely permeated with Śrī Rādhā, where throughout all eight watches of the day, only the resonance of the name "Rādhā Rādhā" echoes.

8. Purush Bhav Dhari Lal Pe Triya Bhav Kari Priya - Shri Rasik Dev Ji Ki Vani, Ras Ki Sakhi (13)

   To behold Lāla Jī (Śrī Kṛṣṇa) alone in the puruṣa-bhāva (male beloved), and Śrī Priyā Jī (Śrī Rādhā) in triyā-bhāva (the intimate mood of a sakhī or sahacarī), and then, with completely selfless love and 'tatsukha-bhāva' (finding happiness only in their happiness), to lovingly serve the Divine Couple in Their eternal Nitya-Vihāra (love-plays), is the supreme form of worship.

9. Arati Ani Sahacharij Saji - Shri Bhagavat Rasik Ki Vani, Ananyarasikabharan Granth 3 (5)

   The sahacarīs have come and arranged a wondrous ārati for Priyā-Lāla, in which the mind itself is the ceremonial plate, love is the wick, and the countless loving desires to serve Lāḍilī-Lāla in this vihāra shine as the ghee and camphor.

10. Hamein Shastra Ki Samajh Na Pari Hain - Shri Nagaridas (Maharaj Savant Singh) Ji Ki Vani, Chhutak Pad (153)

    We have no understanding of the scriptures; we did not understand them before, nor do we truly understand them even now. But those great souls who have grasped their innermost essence, the path of single-minded and exclusive bhajana, have shown us what to do. We shall simply walk the path they have revealed.

11. Jakon Daras Ati Durlabho Parasan - Shri Biharin Dev Ji, Shri Biharin Dev Ji Ki Vani, Siddhant Ki Sakhi (644)

    The darśana of Nitya-Vihāra is exceedingly rare, and to experience its touch is rarer still. Those whose hearts remain drawn toward ordinary pleasures merely cherish a fruitless hope of attaining it. In other words, to attain this Nitya-Vihāra, one must become its exclusive and single-minded worshipper.

12. Kou Kahai Uddim Sadhi Upadhi - Shri Nagaridev Ji Ki Vani, Siddhant Ke Pad (14)

    Some claim that Nitya-Vihāra can only be attained by performing spiritual endeavors according to Vedic injunctions. However, these practices are filled with countless rules, which can never find a place in the hearts of those who tread the path of pure love.

13. Biharat Dou Rasikavar Sahaj - Shri Lalit Kishori Dev Ju Ki Vani, Siddhant Ki Sakhi (559)

    Our divine couple, Śyāmā-Kuñjabihārī, the foremost among rasikas, are unborn and eternally ever-youthful, ceaselessly performing Nitya-Vihāra in the ever-fresh nikuñjas of Śrī Dhāma Vṛndāvana. Śrī Lalita Kiśorīdeva Jī says, “Following the rasa tradition of Śrī Svāmī Haridāsa Jī Mahārāja, I exclusively worship the eternal keli of the divine couple with single-minded devotion.”

14. Aaj Samaj Sahaj Man Bhayau - Shri Lalitamohini Dev Ju Ki Vani, Ras Ke Pad (65)

    Today, this sweet nectar of the assembly of companion-maids in the Raṅga Mahala naturally feels exceedingly dear to the heart, where the fair-complexioned, incredibly innocent and delicate young princess, Śrī Rādhā, rejoicing at the sight of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, has embraced Him.

15. Aja Banshivat Varashat Rang - Shri Narayan Svami, Braj Vihar, Van Jhulan Lila (20)

    Today, Śrī Vaṁśīvaṭa is being drenched in a blissful shower of divine love-bliss. Along the banks of Śrī Yamunā Jī, an exceedingly pleasant, cool, and gentle breeze is blowing, while birds of various kinds fill the air with their sweet, melodious chirping.

16. Puni Baithi Kunj-Mahal Main Sang - Shri Vanshi Ali, Madhurya Shat (65)

    Śrī Priyā Jī is beautifully seated with Śrī Śyāmasundara in the kuñja palace. Reclining against a bolster with Their arms lovingly draped around each other's necks, They embrace, and the sweet touch of Their limbs puts even Kāmadeva himself to shame.

17. Let Paraspar Ang Suvas Man - Shri Rasik Dev Ji Ki Vani, Siddhant Ke Pad (19)

    Śrī Priyā-Priyatama are mutually savoring the divine fragrance of each other's limbs, which awakens waves of transcendental love and desire within Their hearts, and beyond this divine rasa, They possess no awareness of the external world.

18. Dvai Dvai Baanh Silah Sajain - Shri Biharin Dev Ji Ki Vani, Siddhant Ki Sakhi (643)

    Just as a warrior ordinarily equips both hands with weapons, sādhakas too rely upon the strength of numerous spiritual disciplines and practices. But Śrī Bihārin Deva Jī declares, “I possess only one support, one strength: the single-minded worship of Nitya-Vihāra. My heart knows no other aspiration; forever and always, it yearns only for the divine Nitya-Vihāra.”

19. Lagi Samadhi Bihar Ki Chhutai - Shri Lalit Kishori Dev, Shri Lalit Kishori Dev Ju Ki Vani, Siddhant Ki Sakhi (319)

    In the nikunja-dhāma of Śrī Haridāsī (Svāmī Śrī Haridās Jī), Śyāmā-Kunjabihārī, possessing the fair and dark forms, are eternally absorbed in Their constant divine pastimes. Here, They remain in an unbroken trance of conjugal pastimes (yugala-vihāra) that is never interrupted, day or night.

20. Vrindavane Nandit Krishnachandr - Shri Prabodhanand Sarasvati, Vrindavan Mahimamrit (14.14)

    In that Śrī Vṛndāvana where Śrī Kṛṣṇacandra eternally and blissfully performs His pastimes, and where an uninterrupted flow of tireless, divine love-pastimes ever exists, may my mind always remain deeply attached, like a humming bee hovering over the lotus feet of Śrī Rādhā Mahārānī.