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Chapter 30 - 31 - 32 - 33 - 34 - 35

 

Chapter 30: The Gopîs Search for Krishna Gone with Râdhâ

(2) The smitten ones who in their hearts were overwhelmed by the movements, affectionate smiles, playful glances, charming talks
and other games of enticement of the husband of Ramâ, enacted absorbed in Him each of those wonderful activities.

(28) He must have been perfectly venerated [ârâdhitah, see Râdhâ] as the Supreme One Lord and Controller by Her
since Govinda so being pleased has turned us down and taken Her separate.

Chapter 31: The Songs of the Gopîs in Separation

(10) We are happy to meditate Your affectionate smiles of divine love, Your glances and pastimes, but the conversations in secret, which go to the heart, o deceiver, disturb our minds! (11) When You leave Vraja to herd the animals, o Master, are we pained, feeling uncomfortable within o Lover, thinking of the husks, grasses and sprouting plants sharp to Your feet that are more beautiful o Master, than a lotus.

Chapter 32: Krishna Returns to the Gopîs

(11-12) The Almighty One taking them with Him arrived at the soft sandbanks of the Yamunâ that the auspicious river had collected by the hands of her waves. There the kunda and mandara flowers with their bees bloomed fragrant in the autumnal breeze while the moon, plentifully shining, with its rays dispelled the dark of night.

Chapter 33: The Râsa Dance

(3-4) The festive play commenced with the gopîs in a circle that was decorated with, in their midst, Krishna, the Controller of the Mystic Union, who held the woman, two by two present besides Him, by their necks. At that moment the sky was crowded by hundreds of celestial carriers belonging to the denizens of heaven and their wives who by the eagerness of respecting them in their minds were carried away.

(17) He, the Master of the Goddess of Fortune, thus with embraces, touches of His hand, affectionate glances and broad
playful smiles enjoyed the young women of Vraja just like a boy who is playing with His own reflection.

Chapter 34: Sudars'ana Delivered and
S'ankhacûda Killed

(12-13) The [erstwhile] serpent said: 'I am Sudars'ana, a certain Vidyâdhara well-known for his opulence and appearance, who used to wander the directions in his celestial carrier. Vainglorious having laughed at the sages born of Angirâ I was for my sin of deriding them forced to assume this ugly form.

(31) Overtaking him effortlessly, He the Almighty Lord,
with His fist simply blew off his crest jewel together with his head.

Chapter 35: The Gopîs Sing of Krishna as
He Wanders in the Forest

(18-19)

When He, with the garland
of the by Him favored fragrance
of tulsi, counts the cows
on a string of colored beads
and, throwing His arm
over the shoulder of a loving
companion, so now and then sings,

the wives of the black deer,
the doe, just like the gopîs
who gave up their homely aspirations,
approach that ocean
of transcendental qualities to sit
at His side with their hearts stolen
by the sound that Krishna
produces with His flute.

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