{"id":7383,"date":"2009-06-21T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T09:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2009-06-24T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T14:24:15","slug":"kancana-kunda-darshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=7383","title":{"rendered":"Kancana Kunda Darshan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Devaki Prana das<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Respected Vaisnavas, Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada All Glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga All Glories to Sri Kancana Kunda!<\/p>\n

After several days of battling with the upsurging waters coming into Radha Kunda from Kancana Kunda with pumps breaking, clogging pipes and goverment disunity amidst general mismanagement (a body without a head), despite such shortcomings, Sri Radha has finally allowed a darshan of Her sacred lila stan. Three pumps were used instead of the one and finally the area around
\n30 feet square, of where Radha first marked the ground with Her bangle, came into veiw for minutes the other night but consistently from yesterday morning on wards.<\/p>\n

Exihibiting transcendental arrogance in having created such a beautiful Syama Kunda, filled with the sacred waters of all the holy places in the universe, Krsna began teasing Radharani and the gopis saying that because they were only simple village girls, they must never have performed any religious duties in this world for the pleasure of the demigods. Krsna informed them that that because they sided with the demon Aristasura, in the form of a bull, they would have to share the sin of cow-killing, and must also take bath to purify themselves.<\/p>\n

Feeling the pinch of Krsna’s joking words, Radharani suddenly exhibited Her transcendental anger(mana) and seeing a deep impression of Aristasura’s hoof print nearby, broke off one of Her bangles and using it as digging instruement, started to dig the soft earth. Upon seeing this, the gopis also broke their bangles and started digging, within a short time a large kunda had been created right next to SyamaKunda. Sri Radha Kunda ki jaya!<\/p>\n

When Kancana Kunda finally came into view, a roar came up from the crowd and the brajavasis just dropped their buckets to just watch and enjoy the sight. After a while the team leaders were able to regroup the lines and continue the revolving bucket brigade. With 3 pumps still working, more people began to converge on the site, for the restrictions were dropped keeping all away due to fear of stirring up the mud. But unfortunately due to so much collective excitement a few mud sports manifested, resulting in some unwanted displays, but then again we can never judge the actions of the locals in the mundane light.<\/p>\n

Then the giant multitude began to circumambulate the small kunda, from the prankish youth to the elders, mothers with children in arm, lumbering clock wise in the ankle, knee deep, mud. A rainbow of bright colors, became moistened and darkened slowly as more and more of the brajavasis became half\/fully covered in mud. The pumps were turned off to ensure no one would be harmed. A symphony of speakers glorifed Sri Radha. It was just like a page out of Krsna book. First there were many onlookers deciding whether to ‘change colors’ or not but gradually the onlookers lessened.<\/p>\n

The most amazing feature was a sudden shift in the atmosphere(around 5:30 pm) from ‘uncontrollable’ to ‘unified’ as the small kunda began to fill and the pilgrims, with muddied faces and racoon like eyes, wallowed like crocodiles in a circle parikrama. Then the subdued crowd began to bathe in the thick mud water in the center, similar to overly intoxicated ants, or even pacified bumble bees, peacefully floating and bobbing about like human corks. It was almost as though a Divine Grace had descended.<\/p>\n

Work will continue for the next 5 days, then the waters will gradually refill the enitire kunda. The plan will be to fully drain Kancana kunda
\n(another 11 feet) and the major amount of mud from the base area. This would allow some recovery for Guru Purnima.<\/p>\n

one can access a large variety of photos on line at<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/39522410@N03\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Jaya Sri Radhe! Your servant, Devaki Prana das<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Devaki Prana das<\/strong><\/p>\n

After several days of battling with the upsurging waters coming into Radha Kunda from Kancana Kunda with pumps breaking, clogging pipes and goverment disunity amidst general mismanagement (a body without a head), despite such shortcomings, Sri Radha has finally allowed a darshan of Her sacred lila stan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}