{"id":88934,"date":"2020-09-01T18:46:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/628074771487326208"},"modified":"2020-09-02T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T09:06:50","slug":"radha-and-krsna-and-the-eight-chief-gopisin-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=88934","title":{"rendered":"RADHA AND KRSNA AND THE EIGHT CHIEF GOPIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d829f697626bd42715992fd6ad614660df57f66f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d829f697626bd42715992fd6ad614660df57f66f.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d829f697626bd42715992fd6ad614660df57f66f-249x187.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RADHA AND KRSNA AND THE EIGHT CHIEF GOPIS<\/p>\n<p>In the Brahma-samhita, Lord Brahma states, \u201cI worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who resides in His own realm, Goloka, with Radha, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic potency hladini. Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody extensions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful spiritual rasa.\u201d The gopis assist Radha and Krsna in Their transcendental pastimes, expertly using their talents to increase the divine couple\u2019s spiritual pleasure.<br \/>\nSrila Rupa Gosvami glorifies the divine couple as follows in his Stava-mala: \u201cO Krsna, You have placed the flute to Your lips to sing the glories of Srimati Radharani, who is the best of the gopis, who are all personifications of prema. O Radha, Your tongue is expert at relishing transcendental mellows by singing the glories of Mukunda, who delights the whole universe. O Krsna, the swan of the mind of Radha, the crest-jewel of all the gopis of Vraja, is enchanted by the sweet beauty of the lotuses of Your eyes. O Radha, You are expert at catching the king of fishes (the mind of Sri Krsna) in the net of Your sidelong glances. O Krsna, the sound of Your flute is the Agastya Muni who drinks the ocean of the composure of Srimati Radharani. O Radha, the deer of the mind of krsna, who enchants the entire world, is enchanted by the glorious song You play on your vina. O Radha and Krsna, since the lakes of Your hearts are always being filled by the giant waterfalls of the nectar of Your intense mercy, please show mercy to this rascal and grant him just a hint of love for You, which will guarantee his seeing You in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PAINTING BY MURALIDHARA DASA (1984)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/b26084d58e56bb05c941310d31b56c37\/8906358f009598e3-8a\/s500x750\/d829f697626bd42715992fd6ad614660df57f66f.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the Brahma-samhita, Lord Brahma states, \u201cI worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who resides in His own realm, Goloka, with Radha, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic potency hladini. Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody extensions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful spiritual rasa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-88934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88934","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\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88936,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88934\/revisions\/88936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}