Prema-Sarovara
This pond is situated on the road to Nandagaon, one mile from Varsänä. It is shaped like a boat and is so beautifully decorated on all sides with lush kadamba trees that it seems prema itself has manifested as a pond. This charming place, which attracts the hearts of the devotees, is where Sri Rädhikä and Shri Krishna enjoy loving pastimes together.
Once, Rädhä and Krishna, surrounded by Lalitä and the other sakhés, were immersed in various kinds of loving pastimes when a bumblebee hovered around the beautiful lotus face of Shri Rädhikä. Thinking Her face to be a lotus flower, the bee wanted to sit there and drink its nectar; and so it continued to hover around Her face.
Radha ji became afraid and covered Her face with Her palms. She also tried to chase the bee away, but to no avail. Madhumangala saw Shri Rädhikä’s distress and chased the bumblebee far away with his stick.
Upon his return, he announced, “I have chased madhusüdana far away from here. He has gone and will not return.”
When Shri Rädhikä heard Madhumangala’s words, She at once thought that Madhusüdana Krishna had gone away and had left Her, although She was sitting directly in Krishna’s lap.
She began to lament, deeply afflicted by separation from Him. She could not, at that instant, understand that madhusüdana also means “bumblebee”. She wept and repeatedly cried out, “Oh, Pränanätha, where have You gone? Oh, Lord of My life, where have You gone?”
Upon seeing these amazing transcendental sentiments known as prema-vaicittya, in His beloved Rädhikä, Krishna also forgot that She was sitting on His lap. He too wept and cried, “O My beloved!” and They both fainted. The tears that flowed from Their eyes and the perspiration that poured from Their bodies created this pond. When the sakhis saw Their condition, they too became senseless.
Shri Radikha’s female parrot began to loudly chant Shri Rädhä’s name, and the male parrot began to loudly chant Shri Krishna’s name. As They heard each other’s name, Rädhä and Krisna regained external consciousness and gazed upon each other with great yearning. Gradually, the sakhis also regained consciousness and in boundless bliss began to call out, “Jaya, Jaya!”
Prema-Sarovara is a manifestation of Rädhä and Krishna’s transcendental sentiments, as the following Brajabhäsa poem explains:
"prem sarovar prem ki bharé rahe din rain
janh janh pyäri pag dharat shyäm dharat tanh nain"
“Day and night, Prema-sarovara is always filled with prema, or divine love. Pyäri Shri Rädhikä keeps Her lotus feet there, and Syäma desires to keep those lotus feet in the vision of His eyes. (In other words, Syäma worships this pond because Shri Radha has placed Her feet in its waters.)”
There is no doubt that by bathing in this pond, one attains prema for the Divine Couple Shri Rädhä-Krishna. Here one can take darsana of Lalitä-Mohana ji, a Räsa-Mandal, a place where They would swing (jhüla-sthala), the temple of Prema-bihäré ji and the sitting-places (baithakas) of Shri Vallabhäcärya and Shri Vitthalanätha. The village of Gäjipura lies east of this pond. On the day of Bhädra-Suklä-dvädasi (the fourth day from Rädhasthmi) bhudhi-lilä is performed here.
This pond is situated on the road to Nandagaon, one mile from Varsänä. It is shaped like a boat and is so beautifully decorated on all sides with lush kadamba trees that it seems prema itself has manifested as a pond. This charming place, which attracts the hearts of the devotees, is where Sri Rädhikä and Shri Krishna enjoy loving pastimes together.
Once, Rädhä and Krishna, surrounded by Lalitä and the other sakhés, were immersed in various kinds of loving pastimes when a bumblebee hovered around the beautiful lotus face of Shri Rädhikä. Thinking Her face to be a lotus flower, the bee wanted to sit there and drink its nectar; and so it continued to hover around Her face.
Radha ji became afraid and covered Her face with Her palms. She also tried to chase the bee away, but to no avail. Madhumangala saw Shri Rädhikä’s distress and chased the bumblebee far away with his stick.
Upon his return, he announced, “I have chased madhusüdana far away from here. He has gone and will not return.”
When Shri Rädhikä heard Madhumangala’s words, She at once thought that Madhusüdana Krishna had gone away and had left Her, although She was sitting directly in Krishna’s lap.
She began to lament, deeply afflicted by separation from Him. She could not, at that instant, understand that madhusüdana also means “bumblebee”. She wept and repeatedly cried out, “Oh, Pränanätha, where have You gone? Oh, Lord of My life, where have You gone?”
Upon seeing these amazing transcendental sentiments known as prema-vaicittya, in His beloved Rädhikä, Krishna also forgot that She was sitting on His lap. He too wept and cried, “O My beloved!” and They both fainted. The tears that flowed from Their eyes and the perspiration that poured from Their bodies created this pond. When the sakhis saw Their condition, they too became senseless.
Shri Radikha’s female parrot began to loudly chant Shri Rädhä’s name, and the male parrot began to loudly chant Shri Krishna’s name. As They heard each other’s name, Rädhä and Krisna regained external consciousness and gazed upon each other with great yearning. Gradually, the sakhis also regained consciousness and in boundless bliss began to call out, “Jaya, Jaya!”
Prema-Sarovara is a manifestation of Rädhä and Krishna’s transcendental sentiments, as the following Brajabhäsa poem explains:
"prem sarovar prem ki bharé rahe din rain
janh janh pyäri pag dharat shyäm dharat tanh nain"
“Day and night, Prema-sarovara is always filled with prema, or divine love. Pyäri Shri Rädhikä keeps Her lotus feet there, and Syäma desires to keep those lotus feet in the vision of His eyes. (In other words, Syäma worships this pond because Shri Radha has placed Her feet in its waters.)”
There is no doubt that by bathing in this pond, one attains prema for the Divine Couple Shri Rädhä-Krishna. Here one can take darsana of Lalitä-Mohana ji, a Räsa-Mandal, a place where They would swing (jhüla-sthala), the temple of Prema-bihäré ji and the sitting-places (baithakas) of Shri Vallabhäcärya and Shri Vitthalanätha. The village of Gäjipura lies east of this pond. On the day of Bhädra-Suklä-dvädasi (the fourth day from Rädhasthmi) bhudhi-lilä is performed here.
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Shri Vraj Dham Darshan Part- 1 de Mukesh K Agrawal
Shri Vraj Dham Darshan Part- 1 de Mukesh K Agrawal
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