{"id":1308,"date":"2008-12-30T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T07:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2008-12-30T13:13:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T07:43:02","slug":"kk-601-the-universe-is-full-of-govinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/sweet_books\/excerpts-from-sri-krishna-karnamritam\/kk-601-the-universe-is-full-of-govinda\/","title":{"rendered":"KK 60.1 &#8211; The universe is full of Govinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; text-underline: double;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: -1pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Verse 60<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"mso-element: para-border-div; mso-border-alt: double-wave windowtext 5.25pt; border: windowtext 5.25pt double; padding: 0cm;\">\n<p class=\"Versestyle1\" style=\"margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\">agre samagrayati k\u00e2m-api keli-laxmi-<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Versestyle1\" style=\"margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\">manyasu dikshmu-api vilochanam-eva s\u00e2kshi,<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Versestyle1\" style=\"margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\">h\u00e2 hanta hasta-patha-duram-aho kimetad,<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Versestyle1\" style=\"margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\">\u00e2sh\u00e2-kishoram-aya-amba jagat-trayam me.60.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; text-underline: double;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;; letter-spacing: 1pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Translation<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Lucida Calligraphy&quot;;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Sri Krishna is performing such amazing love-sports in front of me! I can see such beautiful scenes all around me! My eyes are the very witnesses. Alas! Alas! I am trying to catch Him, but He is moving away. Oooh mummy! What is this! The whole universe has taken the form of the divine Kishor! 60<span style=\"mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"mso-element: dropcap-dropped; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-height-rule: exactly; mso-element-linespan: 3;\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color: transparent; border: #ece9d8; padding: 0cm;\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 40.1pt; mso-element: dropcap-dropped; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-height-rule: exactly; mso-element-linespan: 3; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 48.5pt; font-family: &quot;Old English Text MT&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-text-raise: -5.5pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">S<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">rila Kavir\u00e2j Gosw\u00e2mip\u00e2d says, after this, Sri R\u00e2dh\u00e2 got a <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">sphurti<\/em> which She mistook as \u2018actual meeting\u2019. She felt as if Sri Krishna had truly appeared before Her. She thought She had got Sri Krishna\u2019s <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">darshan<\/em> and considered Herself extremely fortunate. She started thinking \u2013 is this real? While She deliberated<!--more-->\u00a0in this manner, Sri Lil\u00e2shuk echoed Her feeling. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">She mused, &#8220;He is here expressing inexpressible beautiful love-sports right before my eyes. Is this genuine?\u201d She pondered and looked to Her left, right and behind. All She could see was His wonderful love-sports. Therefore, She said, &#8220;When I can see Him in all directions, then it is definitely true.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">However, She thought again and shook Her head \u2013 &#8220;How can it be true, when I can see the same thing everywhere?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Then She concluded \u2013 &#8220;It is true, there is no doubt about it, since my eyes are the witnesses. They cannot lie.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Again, She was suspicious \u2013 &#8220;The eyes alone are not to be trusted. Let\u2019s see whether I can touch Him or not.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1309\" title=\"dsc02392\" src=\"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc02392-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"dsc02392\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc02392-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc02392-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc02392.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Therefore, She spread out Her hands and tried to touch Him. She realized He was not quite near, but just a little distance away. Yet, however much She advanced, with Her outstretched hands, She always felt Him a little distance away. Then She uttered in woe \u2013 &#8220;What is this? \u2013 I cannot touch Him \u2013 He is always a little away!\u201d She looked miserably to Her right; He was there, but a little distance away \u2013 same to Her left as well as behind \u2013 just a little distance away. Then Srimati gazed sorrowfully up at the sky and exclaimed \u2013 &#8220;Oooh mummy! What is this? The whole universe has taken the form of Kishor! Wherever I look, I find the Delight of my eyes \u2013 the same Nava Kishor Who is as sweet as honey!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">If we assume Sri Lil\u00e2shuk uttered this verse in s\u00e2dhak state, then too its meaning is wonderful. It proves that the poet was so engrossed in Sri Krishna that such visions were most natural for him. He contemplated so deeply on Sri Krishna that he naturally got <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">sphurti<\/em> and when the <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">sphurti<\/em> was deep, he mistook it as \u2018<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">s\u00e2ksh\u00e2tk\u00e2r<\/em>\u2019. At this stage, it is easy and natural for a devotee to get Sri Krishna\u2019s <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">darshan<\/em>. Sri Krishna has called such a Mah\u00e2tm\u00e2 (great soul) as \u2018very rare\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">v<\/em>\u00e2<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">sudevam-sarvam-iti sa mah<\/em>\u00e2<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">tm<\/em>\u00e2<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"> sudurlabhah<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u2013 [B.G.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;\" align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">(contd&#8230;&#8230;)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Oooh mummy! What is this? The whole universe has taken the form of Kishor! 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