Tharunaaruna karunaamaya vipulaayatha nayanam
Kamalaakucha kalasibhara pulakikrutha pulakam
Murali rava tharalikrutha munimaanasa nalinam
Mama khelathi madachethasi madhuraadhara mamrutham!
Leela Shuka conjures up astounding and different visions of Lord Krishna in his mind! Describing the soft jingling sound of Krishna's anklets, he gives a beautiful simile. Beautiful swans are moving about the lotus forests in the Yamuna. Melodious gentle sounds emanate from them and it is Impossible to describe them. The sounds of jingling anklets of Krishna are similar to the indescribable notes produced by the movement of Swans in Yamuna waters!
In this Sloka the poet realizes the wonderful and extraordinary form of Krishna capable of granting him moksha or salvation! The features and other attributes that he sees in his mind are exceptionally described by the poet. Krishna’s eyes are a little red colored. Thus they indicate His compassionate nature. Krishna is lovelorn as he sees Goddess Lakshmi with Her heavy golden pot like breasts. He is moved by amorous feelings. The sages and saints lose their concentration and get disturbed by the Divine music of the Lord wafting in the air! Krishna’s heart stealing lips are a never ending attraction to His devotees and lovers! In short, Krishna is the very embodiment of moksha or emancipation! The poet declares at the end of the sloka that such a personification of Moksha is playful in his arrogant heart!
Lord Krishna is wonderfully described in the Bhagavata purana and various stotras by sages and seers! Krishna is “ Kamala nayana, Kamala patrekshana”-one endowed with lotus eyes, having very broad eyes similar to the lotus leaf! He is also described as” Nila jimuta varna- one of the color of the dark blue cloud! He is the proud owner of the peacock feathers which is His speciality—” Barhi pinchava chudankam”. Every part of His person is so sweet and attractive that the Gopikas want to be in His presence for ever drinking deep that eternal beauty of Krishna and serve Him Leela Shuka is following the same tradition in his description.
”Alankara priyo Vishnuhu abhisheka priyo Sivaha namaskara priyo Bhanuhu” is the Sanskrit saying. Accordingly we find decorations to the Lord in all Vaishnavite temples. We also find abhishekas to Lord Shiva in Saivate temples. Not much decoration can be done to Lord Shiva as He is mainly in the form of Linga! But Vishnu and Krishna demand and extract maximum decorations or alankaram!
In all descriptions of Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva their spouses too have an important part. They are inseparable. Paramatma and parasakthi can never be separated. Their Divine Love is referred to again again by illustrious devotees and even sages in their stotras. Adi Sankara in his Soundarya Lahari describes SriMata in that way. In one of the stotras on Lord Lakshmi Nrusimha the Lord is described thus: “ Lakshmi charu kucha dwanda kumkumankitha vakshase..”One whose chest is smeared with Vermillion from the beautiful breasts of Goddess Lakshmi. God considers His great devotees as His darling children and is never offended by their sensuous descriptions! Adi Sankara prays to Goddess Rajarajeawari and calls himself as Her beloved child! Leela Suukha too belongs to that generation of very great devotees who lose themselves in God Realization!
Kamalaakucha kalasibhara pulakikrutha pulakam
Murali rava tharalikrutha munimaanasa nalinam
Mama khelathi madachethasi madhuraadhara mamrutham!
Leela Shuka conjures up astounding and different visions of Lord Krishna in his mind! Describing the soft jingling sound of Krishna's anklets, he gives a beautiful simile. Beautiful swans are moving about the lotus forests in the Yamuna. Melodious gentle sounds emanate from them and it is Impossible to describe them. The sounds of jingling anklets of Krishna are similar to the indescribable notes produced by the movement of Swans in Yamuna waters!
In this Sloka the poet realizes the wonderful and extraordinary form of Krishna capable of granting him moksha or salvation! The features and other attributes that he sees in his mind are exceptionally described by the poet. Krishna’s eyes are a little red colored. Thus they indicate His compassionate nature. Krishna is lovelorn as he sees Goddess Lakshmi with Her heavy golden pot like breasts. He is moved by amorous feelings. The sages and saints lose their concentration and get disturbed by the Divine music of the Lord wafting in the air! Krishna’s heart stealing lips are a never ending attraction to His devotees and lovers! In short, Krishna is the very embodiment of moksha or emancipation! The poet declares at the end of the sloka that such a personification of Moksha is playful in his arrogant heart!
Lord Krishna is wonderfully described in the Bhagavata purana and various stotras by sages and seers! Krishna is “ Kamala nayana, Kamala patrekshana”-one endowed with lotus eyes, having very broad eyes similar to the lotus leaf! He is also described as” Nila jimuta varna- one of the color of the dark blue cloud! He is the proud owner of the peacock feathers which is His speciality—” Barhi pinchava chudankam”. Every part of His person is so sweet and attractive that the Gopikas want to be in His presence for ever drinking deep that eternal beauty of Krishna and serve Him Leela Shuka is following the same tradition in his description.
”Alankara priyo Vishnuhu abhisheka priyo Sivaha namaskara priyo Bhanuhu” is the Sanskrit saying. Accordingly we find decorations to the Lord in all Vaishnavite temples. We also find abhishekas to Lord Shiva in Saivate temples. Not much decoration can be done to Lord Shiva as He is mainly in the form of Linga! But Vishnu and Krishna demand and extract maximum decorations or alankaram!
In all descriptions of Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva their spouses too have an important part. They are inseparable. Paramatma and parasakthi can never be separated. Their Divine Love is referred to again again by illustrious devotees and even sages in their stotras. Adi Sankara in his Soundarya Lahari describes SriMata in that way. In one of the stotras on Lord Lakshmi Nrusimha the Lord is described thus: “ Lakshmi charu kucha dwanda kumkumankitha vakshase..”One whose chest is smeared with Vermillion from the beautiful breasts of Goddess Lakshmi. God considers His great devotees as His darling children and is never offended by their sensuous descriptions! Adi Sankara prays to Goddess Rajarajeawari and calls himself as Her beloved child! Leela Suukha too belongs to that generation of very great devotees who lose themselves in God Realization!
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