19810720 03 Gitanjali Singers Mr Rao Radha Govinda Radha Gopala HH Jayapataka Swami Explains @ Madras (Chennai), India

Acharya is glorifying Lord Sri Krishna, being decorated with the flower garland, wearing the yellow garments and having stolen the Parijata flower from the heavenly planets, having lifted up the Govardhan Hill, and being the life and soul of all of the cowherders of Vrindavana, having 4 hands and carrying the Sudarshana Chakra, the conch shell, lotus flower and the club.

He is offering his obeisances to the beloved son of Nanda Maharaja, Devakinandan, Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is a friend of all brahmanas, protector of the fallen, and who is very merciful to the cows, senses and to the land. So we should take this opportunity to remember the transcendental pastimes of the Lord.

When Lord Sri Krishna appeared on the lap of His mother Yashoda in Vrindavana, when He killed the Putana demon by sucking her life from her breast, when He was lifting the Govardhana hill or when He was dancing in the rasa lila or speaking the Bhagavad Gita on the battle field of Kurukshetra, at every stage in His life, He was transcendentally situated, Supreme Personality of Godhead; but He is so kind that out of His own transcendental potency, He has come down on this earth to bless us, to show us His transcendental pastimes, so we may be attracted. Why are we rotting in this material world, attached to our temporary body, our temporary relatives, our temporary attachments of materialistic society? But we should be attached to dev otees like Madhvacharya and the great devotees, to the transcendental qualities of Sri Krishna? Krishna means all-attractive and if we allow ourselves to be attracted by hearing His qualities and His transcendental pastimes, then we will be taken out of this material world of birth and death and returned to His eternal service– which is the highest goal of life–of pure love for Krishna.

Jayadev Goswami, Manju Tara, Ashta Pada has also been sung. Jayadev is also directing the listeners to focus their mind on the transcendental qualities of Krishna. Allowing our natural flow of love to go to Krishna is the perfection of life. That is the ultimate happiness. And when we allow this affection to go to other places, then we misuse our affection and, as a result of that, we are forced to suffer in so many ways. So if we follow in the footsteps of these great devotees who have achieved permanent happiness, paramananda, then we will allow our minds to simply be attracted by the transcendental qualities of Krishna. And therefore we will say Jay Jay Radha Krishna, glories to their transcendental pastimes and qualities.


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