{"id":8894,"date":"2010-09-30T19:46:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=8894"},"modified":"2010-09-30T19:56:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T18:56:01","slug":"yamunas-raise-to-embrace-vrindavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=8894","title":{"rendered":"Yamuna’s raise to embrace Vrindavan"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lakshman (das) Vrindavan (IN)<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Yamuna’s flood in vrindavan photos see the link…..<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48332942@N05\/page2\/<\/a><\/p>\n

This year, Yamuna wanted to kiss Vrindavan with no miss. She swelled and swelled and expanded her reaches to embrace Vraja as much as she could. When alarm bells rang, those graced her ways dwelling on her sides moved on to safe elevations fearing her overflowing tears of love. Dear Yamuna was worried seeing the Vrajavasis pestered by the blistering heat of summer with acute water shortage. The whole of Vrajavasis worshipped Radha-Shyamsunder for relief. She, therefore, recharged her secret bellies in her far reaching embankments with ample groundwater and resourced the sinless bhaktas of Krishna to dwell in plenty in the years to come.<\/p>\n

Yamuna swelled to astonishing levels this year 2010, a rarity unseen in the long past. Her previous grace of fury was 32 years ago in 1978, but this year she overlooked it. Although some were aggrieved, she stood still gracing the graze-lands of Vraja for a couple of weeks. Unable to find Krishna, Yamuna graced the holy dust of the feet of His dear bhaktas and circum-ambulated Vraja through the Pancakosh Parikrama Marg. At Barah Ghat, she stood 2.5ft above the Parikrama Marg, 4.5ft at Kaliya Daha, 5ft at Madan Mohan, 2ft at Imlitala and stood at the maximum stretch of her toe on high heels at Keshighat and overlooked all around and frantically searched to see her gracious lover in His temples of wisdom such as Madan Mohan, Radha Damodar, Radha Vinod, and Radha Vraja Mohan. Assured of the future of Vraja and her dear kamadhenus, she decided to return to her original fold. Thanks to Shrimati Yamunaji, Gaura-Nitai, Krishna-Balaram and Radha-Shyamsunder.<\/p>\n

Originally. Yamuna was born as Yami, the daughter of Vivasvan (Sun-god) and his wife Samjna. She is the sister of Yamaraja and Shraddhadeva, the current Manu. According to Rupa Goswami, Vishakha-sakhi, one among the ashtha-sakhis of Radharani was none other than Yamunadevi. Srimati Yamuna always remembers the blissful pastimes of Shyamsundar. The Lord enacted wonderful lilas on the waters of Yamuna and her beautiful banks. The Lord danced on the hood of the demoniac serpent King Kaliya in her waters and played with Lord Balarama and the gopis and gopas of Vrindavan. Yamuna became blissful washing the holy dust from the lotus feet of the Lord and therefore Krishna bhaktas take holy bath in her divine waters and wipe off their sins. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Nityananda Prabhu, Advaita Acarya, the Goswamis, Narottama Dasa Thakura, Madhavendra Puri, Prabhupadaji, and many other great Vaishnava Acharyas such as Ramanuja, Madhva, Vallabha, Nimbarka, Vishnu swami, Shankaracarya and many others paid respectful obeisance to Yamunadevi and showered their praise on her.<\/p>\n

In Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya (3.28), Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu offered prayers to Yamunadevi :<\/p>\n

cid-ananda-bhanoh sada-ananda-sunoh<\/p>\n

para-prema-patri drava-brahma-gatri<\/p>\n

aghanam lavitri jagat-kshema-dhatri<\/p>\n

pavitri-kriyan no vapur mitra-putri<\/p>\n

Translation by H. D. G. Srila Prabhupada:<\/p>\n

“O river Yamuna, you are the blissful spiritual water that gives love to the son of Nanda Maharaja. You are the same as the water of the spiritual world, for you can vanquish all our offences and the sinful reactions incurred in life. You are the creator of all auspicious things for the world. O daughter of the sun-god, kindly purify us by your pious activities.”<\/p>\n

Sripad Vallabhacarya sung in his Yamunastakam (sloka-3) :<\/p>\n

bhuvam bhuvana pavani madhigata manekasvanaih<\/p>\n

priya bhiriva sevitam shuka mayura hamsadibhih<\/p>\n

taranga bhuja kankana pragata muktika valuka<\/p>\n

nitamba tata sundarim namata krishnah turiya priyam<\/p>\n

“O glorious Yamuna, you have appeared to sanctify earth and play with your lovely perching friends like parrots, peacocks and swans and enjoy with their enchanting pleasure games and melodious music. The waves of Yamuna giggle as though her clamour of glamorous bangles and her banks abound like pristine pearl belts around her beautiful waist, for she is the fourth blissful lover of Krishna in Vrindavana.”<\/p>\n

Sripad Shankaracarya sung in his Yamunastakam (sloka-2) :<\/p>\n

madhuvana-carini bhaskara vahini jahnavi-sangini sindhu-sute<\/p>\n

madhuripu-pusani madhava tosini gokula bhiti vinasha-krte<\/p>\n

jagadakha-mohini manavasayini kesava keli nidana gate<\/p>\n

jaya yamune jaya bhiti-viharini sankata nashini pavaya-mam<\/p>\n

“O Yamuna, you gracefully flow through Vrindavana beholding the brilliance of sun and you join the holy Ganga like her sweet daughter. You adore Lord Krishna and keeps Him always happy, and you remove the fear of Gokula. You are the eraser of sins of this universe and the sanctifier of humans, and you prepare wonderful playgrounds for the glorious lilas of Keshava. We hail you, O Yamuna, as the winner of glories, destroyer of fear, and vanquisher of grief, and may your pristine holy waters purify us.”<\/p>\n

The holiness of Yamuna is great indeed and anyone touching her pious water will be absolved of all sins. Therefore, dear friends, come and see the overflowing beauty of Yamuna and touch her holy tears of love and help those who moved away mesmerised by her ecstatic swell in love of her beloved friend Krishna and chant to receive His bliss-<\/p>\n

HARE KRISNA HARE KRISNA KRISNA KRISNA HARE HARE<\/p>\n

HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lakshman das<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year, Yamuna wanted to kiss Vrindavan with no miss. She swelled and swelled and expanded her reaches to embrace Vraja as much as she could. When alarm bells rang, those graced her ways dwelling on her sides moved on to safe elevations fearing her overflowing tears of love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894","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=8894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}