Krishnakarnamrtham-Part3 slokas5 to10(not part 2)

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5. kandharpaprathimalla kaanthi vibhavam

kaadhambinee baanDhavam

brndhaaraNya vilaasinee vyasaninam

vesheNa bhooshaamayam

mandhasmera mukhaambujam maDhurima

vyaamrshta bimbaaDharam

vandhe kandhalithaardhrayouvana

kaiSorakam SaarngiNaha

 

I salute the budding youth of Krishna, kandhalithaaardhra youvanakaiSorakam, who

vanquishes the god of

love with his lustre, kandharpaprathimalla kaanthi vibhavam, who closely

resembles the row of dark clouds,

kaadhambinee bhaanDhavam, the enchanter of the gopis,

brmdhaaraNyavilaasineevyasaninam who is

decorated with ornaments, vesheNabhooshaamayam, and whose lotus-like face with

sweet smile,

mandhasmeramukhaambujam, spreading over his lips, maDhurimaa vyaamrshta

bimbaaDharam .

 

6.aamuktha maanusham amuktha nijaanubhaavam

aarooDayouvanam agooDa vidhagDhaleelam

aamrshtayouvanam anashtakiSorabhaavam

aadhyam mahaH kimapi maadhyathi maanase me

 

A wonderful primordial form of light, aadhyam kimapi mahaH, Krishna is playing

delightfully in my mind,

maadhyathi maanase me.. He is beyond human attributes, aamukthamaanusham without

swerving from His

glory, amuktha nijaanubhaavam, assumed youthful form by Himself,

aarooDayouvanam, but His real nature

is not hidden from His devotees but discerned from His leelas, agooDa

vidhagDhaleelam. He is at the

brink of youth,aamrshtayouvanam, still not relinquished his childhood,

anashtakiSorabhaavam..

 

Krishna appears as human but he is beyond the human limits because even in his

incarnation as the son of

Vasudeva, he has not given up his glory as he did in Ramavathara. He has assumed

the form of youth but

his leelas like playing with the gopis, do not deceive the devotees who know

his real identity and hence

enjoy them. He is not yet out of childhood just touching the youthful state. He

is the Supreme reality, the

self illumined light that is the root of everything and " this light is playing

in my mind gleefully, " says

Leelasuka.

 

7.the the bhaavaaH sakalajagathee lobhaneeyaprabhaavaah

naanaathrshNaa suhrdhi hrdhi me kaamamaavirbhavanthu

veeNaavenukvaNitha lasitha smeravakthraaravindhaath

naaham jaane maDhuram aparam nandhapuNyaamburaaSeH

 

Let the exploits of Krishna, the sea of fortune of Nandha, nandhapuNyaamburaaseh

desired by all the

three worlds, manifest in my heart, which is befriended by mean desires. I do

not know anything else

sweeter than the smiling face of Krishna blossomed out by the sound of the music

from his flute ,

resembling that of veeNa.

 

 

The heart of man is riddled with mean desires. Leelasuka says that his heart has

been befriended by these

desires, naanaathrhNaasuhrdhi, so long. But when the lotus-like face of Krishna,

, smiling and blossoming,

lasithasmera vakthraravindhaath, with the pleasure of the music from his flute

which sounds like veena,

veeNaaveNukvaNitha, appears in the heart the thoughts of other desires go away

and the heart is filled

with the exploits of Krishna, the the bhaavaah, which are enchanting to all the

three worlds,

thrijagatheelobhaneeyaprabhaavaah, because , says Leelasuka, he does not know,

naaham jaane, anything

more delicious, maDhuram aparam, than his face.

 

8.sukrthibhiH aadhrthe sarasaveNu ninaadhasuDhaa

rasalaharee vihaara niravagraha karNapute

vrajavarasundhareemukha saroruha sanmaDhupe

mahasi kadhaa nu majjathi madheeyam idham hrdhayam

 

When will my heart get immersed, kadhaa nu majjathi madheeyam idham hrdhayam, in

that light, mahasi,

that is Krishna, who is worshipped by those who have done good deeds in previous

life, Krishna,whose ears

revel without hindrance the waves of the nectarine music from the sweet flute

that he plays, aadhrthe

sarasaveNu ninaadhasuDhaa rasalaharee vihaara niravagraha karNapute,

who is like a bee to the lotus of the faces of the most beautiful damsels of

Gokula,

vrajavarasundhareemukha saroruha sanmaDhupe.

 

To worship Krishna one needs to have done sukrtha , meritorious deeds in the

previous birth. Leelasuka

describes Krishna s the bee that hovers around the lotuses which are the faces

of gopis. He further says

that Krishna revels in the music from his flute which is like nectar to his

ears, and flows like a flood

unrestricted.

 

9. thrshNaathure chethasi jrmbhamaaNam

mushNan muhuH moha mahaanDhakaaram

pushNaathu naH puNyadhayaikasinDhoH

krshNasya kaaruNya kataakshakeliH

 

May the kind glances of Krishna, who is the ocean of mercy and puNya, remove

the darkness of delusion

in our mind afflicted by desire, and protect us.

 

The dense darkness of delusion, mohamahaanDhakaaram, grows in the mind, chethasi

jrmbhamaaNam, which

is afflicted by desire, thrshNaathure. The kind glances of Krishna, krishNasya

kaarunyakataakshkeliH, alone

can remove, mushnan, the delusion caused by desire because he is the ocean of

mercy and puNya,

puNyadhayaikasindhoH.

 

 

10. nikhilaagamamouli laalitham

padhakamalam paramasya thejasaH

vrajabhuvi bahumanamahetharaam

sarasakareesha viSesharooshitham

 

We adore, bahumanmahe, the lotus feet, padhakamalam, of the Supreme light,

paramasya thejasaH, that is

Krishna, which is honoured at the head of all the Vedas, nikhilaagamamouli

laalitham, and which is now

smeared extensively, viSesharooshitham, with wet cow-dung, sarasakareesha, in

the cowshed, vrajabhuvi.

 

The feet of Krishna, the Supreme Being of whom the Vedas extol, are found on

the top of the Vedas,

namely the Upanishats. That is, He is the Brahman of the upanishats. The same

feet are found in the

cowshed of Gokula, smeared with cow-dung. Leelasuka says that he adores the feet

covered with cow-

dung because it shows the soulabhya and vaathsalya of the Lord, who disguising

His parathva, supremacy,

appeared as a common cowherd to protect his devotees and became easily

accessible to all.