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    Chapter 1: The Depression-yoga of Raadhaa

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    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.]

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    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.)]

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    Śrī  Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-

    [God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

    1. 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?]

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    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.]

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    Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-

    [Shri Raadhaa Devii spoke:-]

    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!]

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    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.]

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    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.]

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    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.]

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    Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-

    [God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

    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.]

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    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.]

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    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.]

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    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.]

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    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.]

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    నీ వెంటే పడతం దత్తుడో!
    వేదశాస్త్రాల అర్థాల నిర్ధారకా! (పల్లవి) 

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