HARIṆĪ HARIṆĪ NETRĀ RAṄGIṆĪ RAṄGIṆĪ PRIYĀ
RAṄGIṆĪ DHVANINĀGACCHAT SURAṄGA DHVANI HĀSINĪ (31)
She is called Hariṇī (golden girl) and Hariṇī-netrā (doe-eyed girl), Raṅgiṇī (playful girl) and Raṅgiṇī priyā (dear to Raṅginī), She comes when she hears Raṅgiṇī (calling Her) and She laughs when She hears ‘Suraṅga’.
Stavāmṛta Kaṇā Vyākhyā:
In the Medinī Koṣa-dictionary it is said: hariṇī haritāyāṁ ca nārībhid vṛtta bhedayoḤ suvarṇa pratimāyāṁ ca – “Hariṇī means a golden image”, and Śrī Rādhikā is of course the most beautiful golden image.
In Śrī Govinda Līlāmṛta it is described how Rādhikā once hid Herself between some golden statues, which were like the aggregate of beauty, to make fun with Śrī Kṛṣṇa when He came to meet Her in a kuñja in Vṛndāvana at nightfall.
Kṛṣṇa could not recognise Her when He saw Her and not even when He touched Her, because when Kṛṣṇa touched Her, Her tender golden vine-like body became as hard as the statues, so that She could not be distinguished from them anymore.
Śrīmatī is called hariṇī-netrā because Her wide restless eyes extend to Her ears and they are always eager to see Kṛṣṇa, just like the does’ eyes.
Śrīmatī is called Raṅgiṇī because She is very playful and is always adorned with so many extraordinary emotional ornaments such as hāva, bhāva and kila kiñcita, and She is called Ranginī priyā because She is a dear heart’s friend of Rangadevī, one of the eight main sakhīs (aṣṭa sakhī).
When She hears Her own hariṇī (doe) named Raṅgiṇī She immediately comes to see her, because Raṅgiṇī is her dearmost pet. She laughs when She hears Suraṅga, Kṛṣṇa’s pet deer, for She knows that wherever Suraṅga is, his master Kṛṣṇa may also come.
BADDHA NANDĪŚVAROTKAṆṬHĀ KĀNTA KṚṢṆAIKA KĀṄKṢAYĀ
NAVĀNURĀGA SAMBANDHA MADIRONMATTA MĀNASĀ (32)
She is very eager to go to Nandīśvara, desiring to see Her lover Kṛṣṇa, and Her mind is drunk with the wine of Her relation of fresh attraction (to Him).
Stavāmṛta Kaṇā Vyākhyā:
Because Rādhikā is so eager to see Kṛṣṇa in Nandīśvara, Kundalatā visits Her every morning and takes permission from Jaṭilā to take Her there on the pretext of cooking a meal for Queen Yaśodā. Śrī Rādhikā blooms up with joy then and tells Kundalatikā:
vrajapura parameśvarī prasādaṁ mayi sakhi vakti tavodayo hy akasmāt
na śiśira rucinā vinaiva pūrvāṁ diśam adhirātri sameti kāpi lakṣmīh
tad aham anumime nideśa dambhāt kim api kṛpāmṛtam eva sā vyatārīt
yad idam anupalabhya yan mamātmā svam api sakhedam avaityanātmanīnam
(Kṛṣṇa Bhāvanāmṛta 5, 1-2)
“Sakhi! By Vrajeśvarī’s grace you have quickly come here! Your arrival is as indescribably beautiful as the moonrise in the east at nightfall! I understand that Queen Yasoda showers Me with nectar by giving this order! If I had not gotten this order
(to cook for Kṛṣṇa) My mind would be so sad that it would have been better for Me to leave My body!”
“Her mind is drunk with the wine of Her relation of fresh attraction”:
Only Śrīmatī has a relationship of anurāga with Kṛṣṇa, which is the pinnacle of Their ecstatic extramarital relationship. She is always intoxicated by these ever-fresh feelings of attraction and love for Kṛṣṇa, and when She had drunk this wine of anurāga She can easily forget about Her family duties and all physical traditions and become completely attached to Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet.
