Kasthwam Bala Balaanujah kimahathe manmandiraa sankaya
Yuktam than navanitapaatra vivare hastham ki martham nyaseh
Matah kanchana vatsakam mrugayitum maaga vishaadam kshanaa
Dityevam vara vallavi prati vachah Krishnassa pushnaatu naha!
Leela Shuka's imagination is simply splendid! The way in which he visualizes his beloved Krishna is unparalleled! He imagines that Krishna, while stealing butter from the pots of Gopikas, creates a flow of smiles to the beautiful Lily like eyes of Rukmini Devi! The smiles are similar to the cool, pleasant moonlight! Krishna shines as the paramour of Gopikas! Let such Son of Nanda move about freely in my heart, says the poet!
“ Oh! Boy! Who are you?” “ I am the younger brother of Balaraama!” “ What makes you enter my home?” “ I came here thinking that it is my residence!” “That is alright, but why did you put your hand in the pot containing butter?” “ O Mother! Don’t be worried about this! I came here to search for a missing calf!” “ Let these questions of Gopika and answers of Krishna protect us always!” says Leela Shuka in this beautiful sloka!
Leela Shuka , in this sloka, transports us immediately to Nanda Gokulam where little Krishna grew up along with the Gopas and Gopikas! He had gained notoriety already with his mischiefs in the homes of many Gopikas. He had gone with his band of followers to the homes of several Gopikas and stolen butter and distributed it to his friends! In one such incident, a Gopika catches Krishna red handed! She questions Him who He is and what His intention is in coming to her house. To escape from the situation Krishna answers that He is the younger brother of Balaraama and that He came there suspecting it to be His home. The Gopika questions why Krishna inserts His hand into the pot containing butter. Krishna, to escape from the tight corner bluffs that He is searching for a missing calf in the pot with butter!!
The question answer session between the Gopika and Krishna is very captivating! Instead of a mere description of the incident, the poet renders it very graphic and interesting by bringing together the Gopika and Krishna face to face! Krishna has ready answers for all her questions. Mischievously he says that He mistook her home as His? Questioned about His intentions in coming to her house, and why He put His hand in the pot with butter, Krishna says that He came in search of a missing calf!! He just wants to tide over the crisis by being too smart and displaying His presence of mind!
Does the Gopika believe in the words of Krishna? Doesn’t she know who Krishna is? Is she also ignorant of the intention of Krishna in entering her home? The beauty of the conversation is that both Krishna and the Gopika are portrayed as ignorant and innocent! Krishna is Omnipresent and Omnipotent and Omniscient God It is His Divine Leela or sport! Krishna is Paramatma, the Absolute Brahman! The pot is the body or deha! Inside the pot is butter which stands for Jeevatma or the individual Soul! It is the aim of God to receive the individual Soul and merge it with Him! We can infer that God is always in search of Jivatma whose ultimate aim is to merge into the Absolute Brahman or Paramatma!!
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