||Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya ||
Chapter -237 – The legend
of Lord Krishna – 88
Vandhe Nanda Vrajasthreenam Padharenum Ambheekshnasha: | Yasam Harikathothgeetham Punathi Bhuvanathrayam ||
Shuka Bhramam speaks “ Oh!
Rajan, Udhdhava was astounded watching the intense devotion and faith upon
supreme Lord, his admiration towards them grown beyond words, the cowherds
lived in the woods of Vraja attained intense devotion with their constant remembrance
of Lord Krishna. They have enriched with the knowledge of the
ultimate truth, the all-pervading nature of supreme Lord who resides as a soul in
living beings. Udhdhava felt that even
though he was born in the illustrious clan of Bhramin he could not achieve that
highest state of spirituality, intense devotion, and faith upon the supreme
Lord, as the cowherds of Vraja, he felt himself inferior to the women of
cowherds who abandoned the worldly matters and bondages for supreme Lord and surrendered
at his lotus feet. Those women lived in
the woods of Vraja, they have abandoned their homes and families to remain closer to
Krishna. Their mind and intellect are
wedged in the Paramathma. Udhdhava felt
even though he had attained knowledge in scriptures, Veda and born in the clan
of twice-born, he could not elevate his soul to the supreme Lord, as the
cowherds of Vraja. He looked at the dust
on the feet of cowherds, sands of Vraja, and sincerely prayed to supreme Lord “Oh!
Lord, if I have to take birth again, I would love to be born in the Vraja which
is auspicious with the dust at the feet of the cowherds. Oh! Bhagavan, If I
could not take birth as a human, I would love to take birth as the grass on the sands of Vraja graced with the footprints and dust from the feet of cowherds
who are freed from the extremely difficult chain of worldly bondages at ease
and surrendered to Mukunda. The
intellectuals master the knowledge of Shruthi and Upanishads that recommends
the highest of the truth. These females of cowherds have fulfilled all the desires contemplating upon Yogeshwara, and
performed passionate sport /Maharasa with him, kept his lotus feet on their
bosom, in this way they have freed from all the lust and desires. If I did not
adorn those specks of dust from the feet of the cowherds on my head, I will not have any
fortune. Hence, I shall prostrate before
the virtuous maiden of cowherds of Vraja, whose heart filled in the music
praising the splendor of supreme Lord Hari which is capable to purify the three
worlds.”
Vandhe Nanda Vrajasthreenam Padharenum
Ambheekshnasha: | Yasam Harikathothgeetham Punathi Bhuvanathrayam ||
Shuka Bhramam “ Oh! Rajan,
The mind which is soaked in love for Krishna, or his myths will not get affected by the constant miseries and sorrows of worldly existence, it is a great fortune to be
fall in love with Krishna and his glorious myths, Udhdhava could clearly understand that fact
from the female of cowherds of Vraja, he praised Vraja and the cowherds of
Vraja and returned to Mathura. Udhdhava narrated all those happened in Vraja to
Krishna and Rama.”
