Jaya Radhe-Govinda !
In Goloka, near Govardhana, during the eternal-seeming rasa dancing, amidst jewel-garnished sepulchres and swings and sitting places of cushions and flowers, a great festival is going on! The different sets of gopis and manjaris play fantastic much-loved music to please all. Fruit laden wish-filling desire trees and campakas and bael and fig and neem and banyon trees decorate the flower-laden park-like scene. Everyone is serving and enjoying loving service.
The sets of dancing are truly out of this world! There are many styles, sometimes solos, sometimes many dance and play instruments in concert. Sometimes the dancers touch the back of their own heads with their own feet, the break dancing is so amazing. Sometimes it is beautiful and sweet, sometimes wild and ecstatic!
Mrdangas, lyres, tambouras, esarajas, vinas, karatalas, flutes; so many wonderful instruments and players and expressers of divine love and happiness and enchantment show their mature skills ! Some of them are dressed gorgeously and meticulously, some almost lose their clothing as their bodies change shape due to extreme happiness and ecstasies. The residents there laugh and cry, clap and sing along, sometimes they, also, dance.
Comedians do ribald slapstick routines, whereas others tell hilarious jokes about Krsna and Radha's games and pastimes. Sometimes they bring Radha Krsna delicious snacks and drinks, such as katchorees and chutney. Mother Vrnda has arranged her vana dasis to provide all manner of delicious and intoxicating beverages made with infinite varieties of Vrndavana's fruits and vines. Gentle refreshing breezes carry showers of fragrant flower petals. The peacocks dance, expectant of monsoon showers.
Sooner or later, Sri Radhe does her solo, and it is said to be the topmost and breathtaking, such that the residents there become stunned! Her set is so much fantastic, everyone falls into deep ecstasy with tears and joy and laughter and delight wishing this moment would never stop! and it is eternal, yes.
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada and compilations of HH Mahaniddhi Swami
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