{"id":7579,"date":"2024-07-24T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T04:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2024-07-24T06:30:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T04:30:35","slug":"verses-100-102-decorating-radhas-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/verses-100-102-decorating-radhas-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Verses 100-102 Decorating R\u0101dh\u0101’s feet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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100-102 Decorating R\u0101dh\u0101’s feet<\/h2>\n

Verse 100
\nAround R\u0101dh\u0101’s ankles, Vishakha places jeweled bangles that tinkle like the sound of chatak birds. They steal the patience of Krishna’s swan-like mind<\/strong> and ears!<\/p>\n

Rasa-tarangini Tika:
\nSrila Gopala Guru Goswami’s Arcana-paddhati lists Vishakha Devi’s seva as vastra-alankara, decorating with jewels<\/strong>. The previous verses provide plenty of evidence for this. Vishakha was born on the same day as R\u0101dh\u0101.<\/strong> Hence their nitya ages are both 14 years, two months and 15 days<\/span><\/strong>. Indeed, Vishakha is most like Srimati in every respect-even her personality is vama madhya <\/strong>like R\u0101dh\u0101. A vama madhya nayika possesses a moderate degree of jealous, loving pride.<\/p>\n

Vishakha<\/strong><\/span>‘s dress is star-clustered, <\/strong>and her body is the color<\/strong> of a champak flower<\/strong>. Her father is Pavana, Dakhina is her mother, and the name of her husband is Bahuka. In Gaura lila, she appears as Sri Ramananda Raya<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Verse 101
\nThen Vishakha takes the famous ankle bells named Ratna-gopur\u00a0<\/strong>(“that are an abode of effulgence”) and gently places them on Rai Rangini’s lotus feet. Their sound is madhura, for they are the school-mistresses who teach the Yamuna’s swans the art of sonorous quacking.<\/p>\n

Rasa-tarangini Tika:
\nKrishna-bhavanamrita described that the trijagat-madhuri (“total sweetness of the three worlds”) has taken the form of R\u0101dh\u0101’s anklebells so that it can dance! Their runu-junu, runu-junu sound calls out to the pious, “Just praise the glories of Rai-vinodini’s sri charana padma!” (Krishna-bhavanamrita, 2.95)<\/p>\n

In Krishna-bhavanamrita, one other important seva is mentioned-decorating the bottom of R\u0101dh\u0101’s feet with red alta. Although the question may arise: “Why do the clever sakhis do so? Aren’t R\u0101dh\u0101rani’s feet naturally red?” In answer, the following analogy given: Surya Deva is the source of fire, yet his worship is performed by a mere ghee lamp. Similarly, to worship R\u0101dh\u0101’s crimson lotus feet, red alta is used. And seeing them attractively decorated, one can imagine-“Surya desired sayujya mukti, i.e., to merge in oneness. Thus he merged with R\u0101dh\u0101’s charana kamala in the form of this alta!”Then Lalita says, “Hey alta! Don’t be depressed for failing to increase the redness of R\u0101dh\u0101’s lotus feet. Hereafter, your fortune will increase. When Krishna comes to take their shelter, you will make a red stain that will appear on his forehead!” (Krishna-bhavanamrita, 2.96-98)<\/p>\n

Verse 102
\nSudevi places rings on Radhika Devi’s tows; their effulgence and wonderful craftsmanship would even astonish the Creator!<\/p>\n

Rasa-tarangini Tika:
\nEverything within the creation is material, yet Srimati’s ornaments are all transcendental. Therefore, every item of R\u0101dh\u0101’s shringar far surpasses the beauty and effulgence of any worldly object.
\nSudevi is R\u0101dh\u0101’s eighth sakhi. She is the twin sister of Rangadevi.<\/strong> Her outfit is the color of a red jaba flower; and her bodily hue resembles a lotus pod.<\/p>\n

Like Lalita, her personality is vama prakhara;<\/strong> her nitya age is 14 years, two months and four days<\/strong>. Sudevi’s father is Ranga-sagara and her mother is Karuna. She is married to the younger brother of Vakre-khon (Rangadevi’s husband). Sudevi’<\/strong>s seva is bringing water. In Gaura lila she appears as Sri Vasudeva Ghosh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

100-102 Decorating R\u0101dh\u0101’s feet Verse 100 Around R\u0101dh\u0101’s ankles, Vishakha places jeweled bangles that tinkle like the sound of chatak birds. They steal the patience of Krishna’s swan-like mind and ears! Rasa-tarangini Tika: Srila Gopala Guru Goswami’s Arcana-paddhati lists Vishakha Devi’s seva as vastra-alankara, decorating with jewels. The previous verses provide plenty of evidence for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-govinda-lilamrita"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7580,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions\/7580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}