Krsna is the reservoir of all beauty.

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The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is the reservoir of all beauty.

All beautiful things emanate from Him, and His personal form is so

attractive that it steals the eyes away from all other objects, which then

seem devoid of beauty in comparison to Him. When Lord Krsna was on the

earth, He attracted the eyes of all people. When Krsna spoke, His words

attracted the minds of all who remembered them. By seeing the footsteps of

Lord Krsna, people became attracted to Him, and thus they wanted to offer

their bodily activities to the Lord as His followers. In this way Krsna very

easily spread His glories, which are sung throughout the world by the most

sublime and essential Vedic verses. Lord Krsna considered that simply by

hearing and chanting those glories, conditioned souls born in the future

would cross beyond the darkness of ignorance.

 

Sukadeva Gosvami

SB 11.1.6-7

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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Bhakti Vikasa Swami wrote:

> The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is the reservoir of all beauty.

> All beautiful things emanate from Him, and His personal form is so

> attractive that it steals the eyes away from all other objects, which then

> seem devoid of beauty in comparison to Him. When Lord Krsna was on the

> earth, He attracted the eyes of all people. When Krsna spoke, His words

> attracted the minds of all who remembered them. By seeing the footsteps of

> Lord Krsna, people became attracted to Him, and thus they wanted to offer

> their bodily activities to the Lord as His followers. In this way Krsna very

> easily spread His glories, which are sung throughout the world by the most

> sublime and essential Vedic verses. Lord Krsna considered that simply by

> hearing and chanting those glories, conditioned souls born in the future

> would cross beyond the darkness of ignorance.

> Sukadeva Gosvami

> SB 11.1.6-7

 

 

Compare this exquisite verse (Bhagavatam, 1.9.33) and purport: both are

overflowing with transcendental wonder, like the milk bags of the cows during

the righteous reign of Maharaja Yudhisthira. Grandfather Bhismadeva prayed:

 

tri-bhuvana-kamanam tamala-vara

ravi-kara-gaura-varambaram dadhane |

vapur alaka-kulavrtananabjam

vijaya-sakhe ratir astu me 'navadya ||

 

“Sri Krsna is the intimate friend of Arjuna. He has appeared on this earth in

His transcendental body, which resembles the bluish color of the tamala tree.

His body attracts everyone in the three planetary systems [upper, middle and

lower]. May His glittering yellow dress and His lotus face, covered with

paintings of sandalwood pulp, be the object of my attraction, and may I not

desire fruitive results.”

 

PURPORT

When Sri Krsna by His own internal pleasure appears on earth, He does so by the

agency of His internal potency. The attractive features of His transcendental

body are desired in all the three worlds, namely the upper, middle and lower

planetary systems. Nowhere in the universe are there such beautiful bodily

features as those of Lord Krsna. Therefore His transcendental body has nothing

to do with anything materially created. Arjuna is described here as the

conqueror, and Krsna is described as his intimate friend. Bhismadeva, on his bed

of arrows after the Battle of Kuruksetra, is remembering the particular dress of

Lord Krsna which He put on as the driver of Arjuna's chariot. While fighting was

going on between Arjuna and Bhisma, Bhisma's attraction was drawn by the

glittering dress of Krsna, and indirectly he admired his so-called enemy Arjuna

for possessing the Lord as his friend. Arjuna was always a conqueror because the

Lord was his friend. Bhismadeva takes this opportun!

ity to address the Lord as vijaya-sakhe (friend of Arjuna) because the Lord is

pleased when He is addressed conjointly with His devotees, who are related with

Him in different transcendental humors. While Krsna was the charioteer of

Arjuna, sun rays glittered on the dress of the Lord, and the beautiful hue

created by the reflection of such rays was never forgotten by Bhismadeva. As a

great fighter he was relishing the relation of Krsna in the chivalrous humor.

Transcendental relation with the Lord in any one of the different rasas (humors)

is relishable by the respective devotees in the highest ecstasy. Less

intelligent mundaners who want to make a show of being transcendentally related

with the Lord artificially jump at once to the relation of conjugal love,

imitating the damsels of Vrajadhama. Such a cheap relation with the Lord

exhibits only the base mentality of the mundaner because one who has relished

conjugal humor with the Lord cannot be attached to worldly conjugal!

rasa, which is condemned even by mundane ethics. The eternal !

relation

of a particular soul with the Lord is evolved. A genuine relation of the living

being with the Supreme Lord can take any form out of the five principal rasas,

and it does not make any difference in transcendental degree to the genuine

devotee. Bhismadeva is a concrete example of this, and it should be carefully

observed how the great general is transcendentally related with the Lord.”

 

 

The above verse exhibits the typically remarkable standard of poetry that

permeates the Bhagavatam, while fairly every sentence in the purport also has

more significance than can be adequately described.

 

MDd