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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.
In the lake of divine play that is Śrī Vṛndāvana, Śrī Priyā-Lāla are sporting together like two beautiful swans. They relish the sweet nectar of each other’s lips, while the rasikas, who enhance the beauty of that lake like lotuses, continuously gaze upon Their loving pastimes.
Our beloved Lāḍilī Jī (Śrī Rādhā) is an unfathomable lake of divine beauty, within which the various limbs of Her form eternally bloom like lotuses in natural grace — Her two lotus hands, two lotus feet, lotus-like navel, two lotus eyes, lotus face, and Her beautifully elevated lotus-like bosom — these ten lotus-like splendors forever remain fully blossomed.
Śrī Kuñjabihārinī (Śrī Rādhā) remains ever intoxicated in the nectar of love. Her form is endowed with unparalleled radiance. Merely a slight glance enslaves Śrī Kṛṣṇa under Her control.
The two eyes of Govardhan Hill are none other than the two twin sacred ponds — Shri Radha Kund and Shri Shyam Kund. Their glory is such that they are none other than the Divine Couple, Shri Radha and Shri Krishna Themselves. No other comparison can ever do justice to their divine essence.
Baad Gram, situated in Mathura, holds significance as the birthplace of Shri Hita Harivansh Mahaprabhu, the esteemed founder of the Radhavallabh sect.
Lalji (Shri Krishna) says to Shri Radha, "O Pyari Ju! Seeing your moon-like face, the lotus of desire in the lake of my heart has blossomed."
Soor Kuti is an important, historical, and spiritual place. This is the place where the famous devotee, the great poet, Shri Surdas ji performed bhajans and received initiation from Vallabhacharya ji.
The sādhaka whose mind has been captured by the bliss-cloud of Śrī Vṛndāvana Dhāma naturally becomes immersed in the ocean of the beauty and sweetness of the Divine Couple Śrī Śyāma-Śyām, forgetting all awareness of himself.
Prem Sarovar, situated in Barsāna, is filled with divine love and is supremely nectarine, for it is here that the tears of ecstatic love of Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa once flowed. By even a slight, devotional touch of that divine water, Priyā-Lāla comes to reside within the heart of the sādhaka.
There is a fifth forest called Bahulavan; one who takes a bath here easily attains the abode of the fire God.
The lake of nitya-vihāra is filled with the nectar of perfectly pure Kelī love-plays. Waves of sidelong glances ripple across its waters, while eighteen wondrous lotuses bloom within it. Ten lotuses belong to Śrī Kiśorī Jī's transcendental form—Her two hands, two feet, two eyes, two breasts, navel, and lotus face—and eight belong to Śrī Lāl Jī—His two hands, two feet, two eyes, navel, and lotus face. Together they form the eighteen lotuses adorning this divine lake.
On the far bank of Śrī Yamunā lies the supremely pure and sacred Māna-sarovara. There, the confluence of the Gaṅgā and Yamunā is manifest in a direct and astonishing manner.
O Beloved Śrī Radha! My heart is like a tranquil lake filled with the waters of divine love, wherein Your feet shine as the lotuses. My mind, acting as a honeybee, forever yearns to drink the nectar that flows from those sacred feet.
Goswāmī Chandralāl Jī says: “Sākhis are white lotus buds in the lake of rūpa (beautiful form), Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the chakora bird (which is always desirous of the moon), and Śrī Rādhā’s lotus face is the moon; after gazing at it, Śrī Kṛṣṇa feels alive”.
There lived a great scholar, righteous, the abode of virtues, and a great devotee Shri Ghasiram Ji in the city of Amer, Rajasthan. He was a Saraswat Brahman. He was very good for scriptural discourses. His wife Khema was as beautiful, generous, and devout as Goddess Shri Lakshmi Ji. Shri Kishordas Ji was born from her womb.
Shri Kumbhandas Ji was born on the 11th day in the month of Chaitra (March-April) in year year 1499 in a village called Jamunavata near Govardhan. He was born in a royal Kshatriya clan.
Surdas's poetry is full of unique utterances and nectarine rhymes with beautiful alliteration. The letters and the word configuration are beautifully placed. The love he raised at the beginning of the poem was followed till the end.
There was a village called Sanjhapur in Narnaul, where a saintly person of the Gaur Brahmin clan lived, whose name was Shri Chaubelal. He was a complete knower of Vedas and was also very wealthy.
The leelas of Shri Krishn, the beloved of Radhika, the charming son of Yashoda and the darling of Braj residents is pleasing to everyone’s heart.
