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    Chapter-1: The Depression-Yoga of Raadhaa (Śrī Rādhā Viṣāda Yogaḥ)

    Shri Datta SwamiJanuary 8, 202637 min readenglish
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    1) Ekadā vyathayā Rādhā,

    Tyaktvā Bṛndāvanaṃ vanam|

    Mahārāsād gatā dūraṃ,

    Rudantī madhurasvarā ||


    [Once upon a time, in the Dvāpara age, Śrī  Rādhā left the Mahā-Rāsa dance taking place in the forest of Bṛndāvanam and went very far from the forest with high depression weeping with sweet voice.]

     

    2) Sakṛdantardadhe Kṛṣṇaḥ,

    Sa nrutyā nmadhya maṇḍalāt |

    Rādhā mupetya duḥkhena,

    Brūte sma madhusūdanaḥ ||


    [Lord Krishna, who is called Madhusūdana or killer of the demon called as Madhu, immediately disappeared from the central point of the circle of the Rāsa-dance. He appeared before Rādhā and came close to her. He started speaking to Rādhā like this.

    (The word Madhusūdana means killer of Madhu Demon. The word ‘Madhu’ indicates Madhura Bhakti or Sweet devotion. Sweet devotion is divine when it is filled with divine love. The same sweet devotion becomes demonic if it is filled with just beastly worldly lust. God kills such sweet devotion filled with false lust devoid of true divine love.)]

     

    Śrī  Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-
    [God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

    3) Rādhike kimabhuutte'dya?,

    Rasakeli cyutiḥ kutaḥ? |

    Kimartha māgatā dūram?,

    Kimarthamapi rodiṣi?||


    [Oh Rādhikā! What happened to you today? Why have you left the Rāsakeli dance? Why have you come so far? Also, why are you weeping like this?]

    4) Mahāmāyā'si me Rādhe!,

    Tvattaḥ pariṇatā jagat |

    Tāpāt te prakṛuti ssṛṣṭiḥ,

    bhavitā pralayonmukhī ||

    [O Rādhā! You are My mystic power called as Mahā Māyā. This creation is your direct modification only. If you are pained, this entire creation called as Prakruti will start entering into its own dissolution.]

     

    Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
    [Shri Raadhaa Devii spoke:-]

    5) Coro'si kevalaṃ na tvam,

    jāro māyāviśekharaḥ |

    Jārā rahasi vartante,

    jagatpratyakṣakṛt bhavān! ||

    [You are not only the thief of butter, but also an illegal sex-monger. Even the illegal sex-mongers hide themselves secretly. You are publicizing Your illegal sex affair to the entire world by this dance done in the Bṛndāvanam forest!]

     

    6) Mama pārśvasthito madhye,

    bhinno'si bahudhā sakṛt |

    Ekaika Gopikā pārśvam,

    gatvā śṛṅgāra darśakaḥ ||


    [You were standing by my side in the centre point of the circulating dance. At once, You multiplied Yourself into several forms. Each form is standing by the side of each Gopika and exhibiting Your romance with each Gopika.]

     

    7) Nāgatastvaṃ mahā māyā –

    premṇā sṛṣṭiḥ priyā tava |

    Necchāmi matpadaṃ śāntyai,

    māṃ vivartaya cāśmavat ||


    [Even now, You did not come to me due to Your true love on me. You have come to me to save the creation from my anger. Creation is more dear to You than myself. I don’t want my position as Goddess Mahā Māyā. You remove me from my position and turn me into a stone in Your creation so that I can exist with eternal peace.]

    8) Eva muktvā papāta drāk,

    Vṛṣaabhānu sutā bhuvi |

    Vilapantī galadbāṣpa–

    vṛṣṭyā śvāsā'nilograyā ||


    [Like this, Śrī Rādhā Devii, the daughter of King Vṛṣabhānu, spoke and suddenly fell on the ground with continuous weeping. Her eyes were raining tears and her speedy respirations were like the violent waves of wind mingled with  heavy cyclonic rain.]

     

    Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-
    [God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

    9) Nāhaṃ bhinnassvayaṃ sṛṣṭāḥ,

    jīvāḥ Kṛṣṇā ihādhunā |

    Svabhede bahu jīvānām,

    sarge śaktirmamā'sti hi ||

    [In the present dance happening at Bṛndāvanam, the Krishnas appearing are not Creator-Krishnas since I didn’t multiply Myself at all. In fact, I have created those Krishnas, who are just human beings only and they are not different from the human beings created by Me. I have the power to multiply Myself into many forms and I also have the power to create human beings having My own form as it is.]

     

    10) Gopikā sadane coraḥ,

    śayānassvagṛhe sakṛt |

    Rāse tu jīva sṛṣṭiśca,

    yatra śṛṅngāra ceṣṭitam ||


    [Even in the past, I had multiplied Myself so that I stayed in the house of Mother Yaśodā sleeping on the bed and simultaneously stayed in the houses of Gopikas to steal their butter. In this context, there is no romance and hence, I multiplied My own self. In the context of this Rāsa-dance, there is need of romantic activity between Myself and Gopikas and hence, I created some Krishnas, who are just equal to human beings already created by Me in this creation.]

    11) Ahaṃ Dattaḥ Parabrahma,

    Yo'vatāro hi taijasaḥ |

    Ādyo mānuṣa rūpo'tra,

    so'vatāro bhavatyapi ||


    [I am the unimaginable God called God Datta. The unmediated unimaginable God becomes God Datta, the first energetic incarnation, when He is mediated by the energetic medium. I have incarnated on this earth through a human medium and became a human incarnation called God Krishna. You are also a human incarnation of the same unimaginable God just like Myself.]

     

    12) Dattānaghopādhi pathā,

    tadanūhyaṃ mayi tvayi |

    Naropādhi dvayaṃ Deve–

    Bhakte Jñāne jaḍe dvidhā ||


    [That unimaginable God has incarnated as human incarnations called Krishna, Myself, and Rādhā, yourself, through the energetic incarnations of Datta and His power Anaghā respectively. I am in the role of knowledge and you are in the role of ignorance, but, the Parabrahman or unimaginable God is one and the same actor in our two roles.]

     

    13) Rādhe! Rāmava dajñā tvam,

    bhaktapātre tvahaṃ gurau |

    Brahmokta Brahmacāryasmi,

    svarūpā'si yataḥ priye! ||


    [O Darling Rādhā! You are in the role of a devotee and hence, you are covered by full ignorance. Don’t think that the ignorant roles are always given to females only. Even God Rama existed in the role of a fully ignorant human being throughout the period of His incarnation so that He can mix with the other ignorant human beings and can stand as an ideal human being. The same unimaginable God while incarnating as devotee through your role, simultaneously incarnated as the divine preacher through My role. Since yourself and Myself are essentially the same Parabrahman (unimaginable God) only, there is no dualism between both of us. Hence, God Brahma told that this Krishna alone is the perfectly chaste celibate.]

     

    14) Rukmiṇyapi bhavatyeva,

    Viṣṇorme śakti rūpiṇī |

    Durvāsaso'vatārastvam,

    Śivasya Gopikādhipā ||


    [Even Rukmini is yourself only because she is the incarnation of Goddess Mahā Lakshmi, the personified power of God Vishnu, whose incarnation is Myself. You are also said to be the incarnation of Sage Durvāsa, who is the incarnation of God Shiva. You are the leader of all these Gopikas of Bṛndāvanam.]

     

    15) Āvāṃ śakti śaktimantau,

    ahaṅkāra dvayaṃ smṛtam |

    Upādhi janmataḥ pūrvam,

    naṭa eko'pyahantayā ||


    [O Rādhā! You are the power and I am the possessor of the power. Both cannot be separated. You are feeling your identity separately as ‘I’. I am feeling My identity separately as another ‘I’. This separate identification started when we both appeared as separate personalities. Before the appearance of such double roles, there was only one actor with His personal identification as one ‘I’ only.]


    16) Rādhā Kṛṣṇā vimau veṣaū,

    Parabrahma naṭasya hi |

    Nātīte deśakālau sto,

    vārdhau vācyau jalagrahe ||


    [Krishna and Rādhā are the two expressed roles of the same one basic actor called Parabrahman or unimaginable God. This Parabrahman is beyond space and time. Hence, which portion of Parabrahman became Krishna and which portion of the same Parabrahman became Rādhā cannot be told. In the case of the sea, we can at least say that we lifted the first pot of water from this place and the second pot of water from the other place. But, in this case, Parabrahman has Its own single identification as one ‘I’ only.] 


    17) Parabrahma Mahā māyā,

    Dattasyaivānaghā tathā |

    Triśaktayas trimūrtīnām,

    Rādhā Kṛṣṇasya śakyate ||


    [The unimaginable power of Parabrahman called as Mahā Māyā became the power of God Datta when Parabrahman merged with the first energetic being to become God Datta, the first energetic incarnation. God Datta is also called as Hiraṇyagarbha (Brahma), Narāyaṇa (Vishnu) and Īśvara (Shiva). Similarly, Mahā Māyā, who became the power of God Datta called as Goddess Anaghā, also became the power of the above Trinity called as Saraswati (power of Brahma), Lakshmi (power of Vishnu) and Parvati (power of Shiva). Krishna is the incarnation of God Datta and Rādhā is the incarnation of Goddess Anaghā. Therefore, as God Datta is Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, Goddess Anaghā is Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati.]

     

    18) Tvaṃ me śaktiḥ puraḥ proktā,

    jñānadātrī Sarasvatī |

    Lakṣmīr balaṃ kriyā Gaurī,

    trimūrti Datta Kṛṣṇagā ||


    [Just like Mahā Māyā is the power of Parabrahman, Goddess Anaghā is the power of God Datta, Goddess Saraswati is the power of God Brahma, Goddess Lakshmi is the power of God Vishnu, Goddess Parvati is the power of God Shiva, Goddess Rādhā is the power of God Krishna. The power of God Krishna called Rādhā is Saraswati, who creates the knowledge of plan of any program, Lakshmi, who is the power of strength of the program and Parvati, who is the power of action of the program. I am Krishna, Datta, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. You are Rādhā, Anaghā, Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati. You are present in Me as My power.]

     

    19) Rāsa nṛtyasya racanā –

    jñānaṃ tadbalakarma te |

    Tvāṃ khaṇḍayasi bhavatī,

    pātrājñānaṃ puro matā ||


    [Therefore, this plan of Rāsa dance is given by you only. You are the strength of this dance and you are the action of this dance. You are contradicting your own program and blaming Me! Anyway, do not worry since I am giving the reason for your present illusion also. You forgot yourself because you are covered with very strong ignorance for the sake of the role of an ideal devotee in order to mix with ignorant human devotees. This is the first basic reason for your ignorance.]

     

    20) Dattān Madhumatī śaptā,

    Mahiṣī sā'surī purā |

    Lokasaṅgraha rakṣārtham,

    bhavatyeva sadarcane ||

    [I am giving the second reason also. In your previous state of energetic incarnation, you took another human incarnation called Madhumati when God Datta took the human incarnation called Sage Dattatreya. In that period of incarnation, you embraced Sage Dattatreya while He was performing the ritual worship of God for the sake of the world called Lokasamgraha (This means that even though Sage Dattatreya is God Himself, He worships God so that others can imitate Him and worship God.).]

     

    21) Sā hatā Maṇikaṇṭhena,

    Dattenaiva pramāsinā |

    Jñānadevī punar bhūtvā,

    svasthitiṃ prāpa cā'naghā ||


    [Then, in view of the protection of His duty called Lokasamgraha, Sage Dattatreya cursed Madhumati to become a demon called Mahiṣī. That demon was killed by God Datta Himself through another human incarnation called Śāstā or Manikantha. Mahiṣī, the embodiment of ignorance was removed by the spiritual knowledge of Sage Dattatreya and Madhumati regained her original position.]

     

    22) Tvāmāveśya bhramaṃ cakre,

    Mahiṣī brahmarakṣasī |

    Ajñānaṃ dviguṇam te'bhūt,

    duḥkhaṃ ca dṛśyate bhuvi ||


    [The same demon Mahiṣī became a demonic ghost after her death and is possessing you now so that you forget your own personality and enter into a wrong conclusion. This ignorance possessed by Mahiṣī that is superimposed on your brain at present is the second reason. Due to these two reasons of ignorance, you are doubly ignorant so that you have forgotten your original divine personality and are affected by depression in this way. Even an ordinary ghost can make any human being to enter into complete ignorance and suffering.]

     

    23) Ajñam na taijasaṃ dravyam,

    nṛṇāmeva tamas Śivāt |

    Jñānam tasmācca sā śaktiḥ,

    trividhā śṛyate khalu ||


    [Goddess Anaghā, Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati will not have ignorance because they are energetic forms. Ignorance is the quality of Tamas, which represents matter. Awareness represents Sattvam (Lakshmi) and inert action represents the inert energy (Parvati). Tamas or matter is related to Shiva and you are the incarnation of Shiva. Since Shiva is the source of knowledge also (Jñānaṃ Maheśvarāt...), you will regain your original status of knowledge after sometime. The Veda says that the power of Parabrahman is of three types:- Knowledge, Strength and Action (Jñānabalakriyā ca), representing Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati.]

     

    24) Śakteḥ patis samartho'sti,

    dvidhā na jñā'si Sadguruḥ |

    Sadasat tarka vaktā'ham,

    vivṛṇomi samantataḥ ||


    [Since Saraswati is the power of God Brahma, Brahma became the author of the Veda or knowledge. Since Lakshmi is the power of God Vishnu, Vishnu became the source of strength and we can realize that wealth is the strength at any time. Since Parvati is the power of God Shiva, Shiva became the deity of destruction action. Due to your double ignorance, you are unaware of this deep background and since I am in the role of divine preacher or Sadguru, I am revealing all your background with sharp and perfect analysis.]


    25) Daiva pātre'pyahaṃ bhaktā

    –pātre tvaṃ bhakta dohade |

    Mānavī mānava śreyaḥ

    – kṛte bhakti tamārthinī ||


    [Since we both are in the roles of devotee and Divine Preacher, I have to treat you as a devotee only so that you can stand as the ideal devotee for all the other devotees. Therefore, there is necessity of My testing of your level in the devotion. I have to decide whether your devotion is in the human level or divine level. If your devotion is in the human level, I will preach you just the basics of the spiritual knowledge so that you can stand as an example for the development of devotion of normal human beings. If your level of devotion is in the divine level, you will stand as an example for the climax devotees.]

     

    26) Ādye prema prati prema,

    pare prema sthiraṃ sadā |

    Na parīkṣā puraḥ paścāt,

    trimūrtyākhyā tridhā kṛtā ||


    [In the first type of the level of human devotion, love is shown if the same love returns back, which means that “I love you if you love me in return similarly”. In this level, there is no need of conducting any test. It is called ‘Business Devotion’, which is like the customer giving Rs. 50 to the shopkeeper and taking 1 Kg of sugar in return from the shopkeeper. In the second type of the level of divine devotion, love is always shown irrespective of any return or no return. There are three tests in the divine devotion named after the Divine Trinity of Brahmā, Vishnu and Shiva.]


    27) Ādyāyāṃ maunamevāsyā,

    prati spandana maśnnute |

    Daśa bhāgeṣu bhakteṣu,

    bhāga eko' vaśiṣyate ||


    [In the first Brahmā test, God keeps silent for the love expressed to any extent by the devotee. 90% of the devotees will run away and only 10% devotees remain at the end of this test. After this first test, only 10 devotees out of the 100 devotees will remain for the second test. God keeps silent for the love of the devotee showing negligence towards the devotee. Even if the devotee asks God for just ten rupees, God will not respond to the prayer of the devotee. In this test, silence will be shown by God towards the devotee.]

     

    28) Dvitīyāyāṃ vinā dānam,

    tataścādhika māhṛtam |

    Bhāge'smin daśamaṃ śiṣṭam,

    bhūṣanāni hṛtāni te ||


    [In the second Vishnu test, God not only refuses to respond positively, but also gives negative response. Here, God not only refuses to give the ten rupees asked by the devotee, but also steals a hundred rupees from the devotee. After this test, out of the 10% remaining devotees, again 90% of them will run away. It means that out of 10 remaining devotees, only 1 devotee remains. In this test, loss will be done to the devotee (Yasyānugrahamicchāmi, tasya vittaṃ harāmyaham – Vishnu Purāṇam).]

     

    29) Tṛtīyāyāyāṃ mahā hiṃsā,

    svapnātītā yayā naram |

    Āviśya tanmayo Datto,

    viparītaṃ phalaṃ śṛtam ||


    [In the third Rudra test, God gives unbearable torture to the soul so that the leftover last one devotee also runs away. In this test, the devotee weeps due to torture (Rodayati iti Rudraḥ). Therefore, no devotee of ordinary human level can even dream about the final test of God Datta. But, if the devotee stands firm in this test also and continues to love God Datta without shaking in anyway, God Datta will be extremely pleased to merge with such devotee to make him/her the human incarnation. The salvation given by God Datta is always reverse, which means that the soul will not merge in God Datta, but, God Datta will merge with such devotee, who passes the final test.]

     

    30) Rādhe! Guptaṃ samaṃ divyā

    –parīkṣāyāṃ parājitā |

    Bhavatī pātratassarva

    – parājaya nivedinī ||


    [O Rādhā! Even you were tested by Me at the divine level. Hence, I did not tell you that I created several Krishnas having My form and I did not reveal that I have not multiplied Myself as real Krishnas in this Raasaa-dance. The reason is to test you whether you will continue to love Me, the Sadguru or God in spite of My exposed defects. You acted as if you have failed in this test just to show to the world of devotees that even the devotees of very high level can also fail in My tests. This is not your real failure, which is a failure shown through your role (Rādhā) only and not the failure of the actress (Goddess Anaghā or Mahā Māyā) of the role.]

     


    31) Ajñāna mubhayossāro, 

    vidyunmegha miva śritaḥ | 

    Tava me viditaṃ sarvam,

    Sadgurorjñāna vistaraḥ ||


    [Due to your strong ignorance-black cloud, you don’t know all the details about you and about Me. Such state is as per the requirement of your role, which is a devotee. But, still, the basic essence of the details strikes the consciousness of your real self like the lightening. As per the requirement of My role as Sadguru, I am fully aware of all the details even though I also maintain My ignorance for the sake of entertainment from this world-drama.]

    Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
    [Shri Rādhā Devī spoke:-]

    32) Atra tiṣṭhāmyataḥ Kṛṣṇa!,

    Brūhi māṃ dharma eṣa kaḥ |

    Saputrā gopikāḥ kanyāḥ,

    dūṣitāssṛṣṭa jīvibhiḥ ||


    [O Krishna! You are correct. Because of my consciousness only, I am still sitting here without going to my native place. Still, I have some questions provoked by my mind. Tell me, how are You justified by creating new human beings having Your form to be used for romancing with the Gopikas, who are duly married and have children? Also, it is injustice to spoil even the unmarried Gopikas (This same question was asked by King Parkshit to Sage Shuka.).]

     Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-
    [God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

    33) Rādhe! Nāṭakamevedam,

    kalaye pāpine puraḥ |

    Yuga sandhi kṛtaṃ pūrvam,

    naivaṃ dharmabalāt Priye! ||


    [O Darling Rādhā! All this dance in Bṛndāvanam is a big drama. This drama is enacted in Bṛndāvanam at this fag end of Dvāpara age. This divine play is meant for the souls of sinful Kali age, which has already cropped into this Dvāpara age making border between two ages. This drama was not played in any age earlier because of strong justice existing in those earlier times.]

     

    34) Rāmo'ha mṛṣayo Gopyaḥ,

    Sarve jārāḥ kalau khalāḥ |

    Daṇḍa tyāgaḥ parā prāptiḥ,

    Moho duṣkarmaṇi sthitaḥ ||


    [In My previous incarnation as Rama, I advised sages to be born as Gopikas in this time and I am born as Krishna. In the coming Kali age, almost all souls irrespective of gender are going to be horrible sinners fascinated for the illegal relationships, which are condemned by justice. The advice for such sinners entering Dushpravrutti leaving Pravrutti will be to divert their bad qualities towards God so that they will have triple benefits of i) escaping the serious punishments in hell, ii) attaining salvation and iii) continuing their bad qualities simultaneously.]

     

    35) Duṣkarma Bhagavat saṅgāt,

    kalyāṇa guṇa mohataḥ |

    Dharmātmā bhavati kṣipram,

    pravṛttaḥ paramicchayā ||


    [When the bad qualities are diverted towards God like dancing with God, lot of fascination will be developed towards God. Due to such intensive fascination, there will be interest to study the qualities of God in which His liking for justice and His dislike for injustice will impress on the minds of the associated sinful souls. They become fond of justice shortly and result as the perfect followers of Pravrutti. Later on, if these souls in Pravrutti are interested in the Nivrutti also, they can even reach the abode of God by their further efforts.]


    36) Pravṛttir niyatā dharmyā,

    Nivṛttistu yathepsitā |

    Svecchayā saṅgatā Daivam,

    arthavādaḥ parā gatiḥ ||


    [Pravrutti, which is worldly life with justified worldly bonds, is mandatory for every soul. Hence, God changes the soul from Dushpravrutti, which is the worldly life with unjust worldly bonds, to Pravrutti. Since Nivrutti is optional, those souls interested in God will have to make further individual efforts to reach God, the goal of Nivrutti. Actually, God helps the soul till it reaches Pravrutti from Dushpravrutti and the soul is leftover at the stage of Pravrutti only. The next optional step of Nivrutti or merge with God in the upper energetic world (Paraṃjyotirupasampadya, svena rūpeṇābhi niṣpadyate, nirañjanaṃ sāmyamupaiti divyam - Veda) after salvation from all the worldly bonds, is attained by those souls of Pravrutti, who develop mad fascination for God through their individual efforts. The advice that the soul in Dushpravrutti will attain salvation directly just by diverting its bad qualities to God is purely a beneficial-meritorious-lie called arthavāda, which is the attraction for the initial step to be taken by the soul showing the final utmost fruit as the fruit of the initial step itself.]

     

    37) Arthavāde śiśurbhuṅkte,

    paṇḍitassatya kevalaḥ |

    Gururvadati cāsatyam,

    kriyālābhāya śṛṇvataḥ ||


    [Arthavāda is a lie told to do good benefit of encouragement in right progress. It is not a sin. Instead, it is a merit. A mother tells her child that if the child eats food, the moon will come down. Though this is a lie, it is told for the benefit of the child to make it eat the food. A scholar (Paṇḍita) does not care for the practical benefit of the disciples since he simply preaches the theoretical truth irrespective of the practical progress of the disciple. A preacher (Guru) takes more care about the practical progress of the disciple so that the disciple practically climbs at least the very next step for the sake of which the preacher does not mind to tell a lie for the practical benefit of the disciple.]

     

    38) Purā yajñāpsaro vṛttam,

    vaidikaṃ bhāryayā saha |

    Idamindrāgni śabdārthāt,

    duṣpravṛtteḥ pravṛttigaḥ ||


    [In the ancient days also, this type of plan was propagated by the Veda. The Veda says that a sinner interested in Dushpravrutti can get most beautiful heavenly dancers for illegal sex in the heaven after death if he performs the sacrifice (Yajña), which is the worship of God called as Indra, Agni etc. Indra means ruler (Idi – aiśvarye) and agni means the first (Agni – agri). While doing sacrifices, the sinner gets absorbed in God and slowly understands that God is the embodiment of justice and thus, turns into a righteous soul of Pravrutti in course of time. Since the wife of the sinner also participates in the sacrifice, she also becomes a virtuous soul of Pravrutti.]


    39) Vaidikā 'vaidikau mārgau,

    krīḍākarṣaṇa lālasāḥ |

    Mucyante madvido jīvāḥ,

    arthavāda phalacyutāḥ ||


    [There are two ways of developing devotion to God:-

    i) The Vedic way:- By performing sacrifices (Yajnas) concentrating on various names like Indra, Agni etc., of God. These devotees like formless God having these names. The males are attracted by female heavenly dancers and the females participating in sacrifice are attracted by male heavenly dancers.

    ii) Non-Vedic way:- The female devotees are attracted to sing and dance with the created forms of the human incarnation of God like Me, while the male devotees are attracted to associate with Me as friends in doing mischievous deeds like stealing butter, playing games etc. These souls develop lot of attraction towards God and after knowing the qualities of God, they get liberated from all the worldly fascinations before death and hence, need not be worried about the lies told regarding the upper energetic world called heaven. In heaven, the souls exist in energetic forms (Rajas is energy) and in an energetic form, these sexual desires do not exist, which exist only in materialised forms of Tamas of human souls. This means that the heavenly dancers don’t exist in the heaven because the pure heaven itself is the pure abode of God (in western religions heaven and abode of God are one and the same). The heaven containing dancers is arthavāda and does not exist. It is told to contain dancers for the sake of encouraging bad souls of Dushpravrutti to perform the sacrifice to God and this is arthavāda only. Actually, the soul is reformed before death and reaches God through Nivrutti. The heaven for the sake of doers of good deeds without much concentration on God exists with all other facilities of pleasure except dancers. Such heaven is different from the abode of God (7th upper world) and exists as 3rd upper world.]

     

    40) Cauryaṃ nṛtyaṃ ca kartavye,

    bhūmāvanṛta durgamāt |

    Jīvānāṃ Jīvanādhānāt,

    na pāpaṃ tādṛśasthiteḥ ||


    [On the earth in the non-Vedic way, the rāsa-dance played with females and the mischievous plays like stealing butter in association with males can’t be lies and have to be performed by Me since these attractions are on the earth on which the souls are alive. The males and females are not spoiled by Me through these two sinful deeds, which are stealing and illegal dancing respectively since they are already staying in such sinful states due to their Dushpravrutii.]

     

    41) Duṣpravṛttiḥ kalāveva,

    sūcyate munibhiḥ puraḥ |

    Divyanāṭaka pātrasthai,

    raspṛṣṭaissṛṣṭa jīvibhiḥ ||


    [At present, neither these Gopikas are in Dushpravrutti nor My male friends participating in stealing butter are in Dushpravrutti. These cowherd males and females are actually the sages doing penance for Me for several past births. Such pure sages cannot play the actually sinful roles in this divine play, but, they represent the sinful females and males present in Dushpravrutti in the coming Kali age for whom only these attractions are created and are applicable. The sages are unaffected since they are only indicating the sinful souls in the coming Kali age. I have created human beings having My forms in order to do romance with Gopikas, who are the actual sages. The hidden secret is that these created Krishnas didn’t have the real sexual union with Gopikas even in the divine play.]

     

    42) Gopī sṛṣṭeṣu cāśleṣa–

    cumbanaṃ bhrātṛ dhīkṛtam |

    Ābhyantara rataṃ naiva,

    jīveṣvasti paratra yat ||


    [During the rāsa-dance, only the external actions like kissing and hugging were done by the created Krishnas and Gopikas. Hugging and kissing can be done by brothers and sisters also without any sexual intentions. These external actions are misunderstood as hugging and kissing done with sexual intentions. In this way, the Krishnas created by Me and the sages acting as Gopikas have not done even the shadow of trace of sin. All this divine play was meant for attracting sinful souls with really bad qualities and diverting them towards God so that they slowly transform into righteous souls with good qualities. During the early period of such transformation, the most good-looking devoted human beings acting as preachers (both men for bad women and women for bad men) created by Me will have facial attraction on those souls having bad qualities and this is not a sin on My side because these sinful souls will have the same sin in Dushpravrutti continuously even if this arrangement does not exist from My side. The good-looking devotees created by Me will transform the bad souls into good souls within short time by preaching devotion of God to them. Actual sex is neither present in the divine play enacted by God Krishna and Gopikas nor present in the facial attraction of preachers and the attracted bad souls. God’s permission is only upto the facial attraction and not the actual sex. If the preachers and devotees cross this boundary prescribed by God, they will be punished for their sin.]

     

    43) Gopyā suratanātheti,

    Sṛśṣṭaḥ prokto natairiva |

    Saṅkalpa rahitaṃ karma,

    Na pāpāyeti paṇḍitāḥ ||


    [The created Krishnas were addressed by Gopikas as masters of sex (Suratanātha) and such addressing can be taken as superficial acting dialogues among the cinema actors in their roles. The role is always unreal and the actor/actress is the basic reality. The dialogues uttered by roles are always unreal. Hence, this blame can’t stand substantially. When there is no intention, sin can’t enter into the external acting like action and every wise scholar with deep understanding of spiritual knowledge says this.]

     

    44) Saundaryā'karṣaṇam bhakte,

    prārambha duṣṭalakṣaṇam |

    Satsṅga para mānītam,

    Sadguṇa sthiti muttamām||


    [When the souls having very bad qualities get attracted to the beautiful devoted preachers, they are turned into souls with good qualities due to the excellent devotion preached by the devoted preachers. The physical attraction is only initial bad psychological attraction to come close to the devoted preacher. After some spiritual discussions, the bad psychology disappears and divine devotion flares up transforming the bad qualities into good qualities due to the power of God. This is the main background of this rāsa-dance.]

     

    44) Loka vāñchā pradaḥ karṣan,

    bhaktān sāmīpya mānayet |

    Pravṛtti macirāt karṣet,

    kanṭakaṃ kanṭakena hi ||


    [God grants even unjust desires (with the help of His unimaginable power called Māyā) in the beginning stage to attract the bad souls towards His close association and develop devotion in them, which will reform them. The aim of this devotion is to make the bad souls to turn into good souls of Pravrutti leaving their bad state of Dushpravrutti. During the initial stage of transformation from bad to good state, the bad quality is plucked out by another bad quality shown from the side of divinity just like a thorn is plucked out with the help of another thorn.]

     

    46) Arthavādamayaṃ sarvam,

    prerakaṃ satpathāya hi |

    Anyathāpi durguṇatvāt,

    divya pakṣe na durguṇaḥ ||


    [All this entire divine play is full of arthavādas, which are utter lies in order to initiate the soul to enter into the better virtuous path from sinful life. For this purpose, the Creator Krishna appears to have involved in the sin by creating extra human beings having His own form for the sake of involving in the same sin to give inevitable response from the side of God. Since the created human beings are directly involved in the sin of facial attraction from the side of God, it may also appear that God is touched by sin because He made this arrangement with an intention of facial attraction. Even if this sin is not done from the side of God through His created devotional preachers or human beings having His own form, the souls of Dushpravrutti will do the same sin (in fact, even more sin like involvement of sex is done apart from the little sin of facial attraction) in Dushpravrutti continuously with other illegal human beings. Based on this single crucial point, the sin doubted on the side of God neither touches the Creator Krishna nor touches the created souls or divine preachers, who are directly involved for this purpose. Anyway, the Creator Krishna is not at all involved in this sin anywhere directly or indirectly.]

     

    47) Icchā kanyā guṇo dharmyo,

    balātkāro na tadvaśaḥ |

    Māyā rūpaiḥ pariṇatāḥ,

    Rukmiṇī Radhikā parāḥ ||

    [A female devotee having the desire to marry God Krishna is having no trace of injustice because any female has the right to love anybody based on her deep analysis. This desire can be treated as the fruit of Nivrutti for a devotee, who passes the Nivrutti tests and attains the stage of disappearance of all the worldly bonds resulting in a single bond with God and in this single bond possessing all forms of love towards God, the romantic love towards God is also justified from the side of the soul. But, such desire should not be forced on God because forcing God through the threat of suicide shows the lack of total surrender to God in which no fruit in return is even aspired from God and not to speak of forcing God to fulfill the aspiration. In fact, 1000 Gopikas and 16,108 wives (including Rukmini) have forced this God Krishna for marriage (God Krishna is talking about the future marriage with Rukmini and 16,107 daughters of kings since He is omniscient knowing past, present and future as told in the Gita as “Bhaviṣyāṇi ca sarvāṇi…”). All others were married by the created forms of Krishna, whereas Rukmini and Radha were married by the real form of Krishna. Radha did not force, whereas Rukmini forced Krishna threatening that she will commit suicide otherwise. But, Radha never forced Krishna to marry her and Krishna Himself proposed and married Radha secretly through the exchange of rings (Gāndharva Vivāha). Radha went to the higher Goloka, whereas Rukmini went to the lower Brahmaloka. Hence, Radha was kept in the heart of God Krishna and not Rukmini (this is exhibited by the red-hot Krishna after Radha drinks the hot milk). The marriage through real form with these two became inevitable since both these are the embodiments of Anaghā or the Mahā Māyā power of the original God. The sages born as Gopikas threatened Krishna that they would commit suicide not for marriage, but only for a dance.]

     

    Iti Śrī Datta Svāmi viracita Śrī Rādhā Kṛṣṇa Gītāyāṃ Rādhā Viṣāda Yogo Nāma prathamadhyāyaḥ |

    [Like this, in Shri Rādhā Kṛṣṇa Gītā, composed by Shri Datta Swami, the first chapter called ‘Depression Yoga of Rādhā’ is completed.]

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