VERSE 49:
SUBHAGĀ VALGU VIÑCHOLĪ MAULI BHŪṢAṆA MAÑJARĪ
ĀVAIKUṆṬHAM AJĀṆḌĀLI VATAṀSĪKṚTA SAD YAŚĀḤShe is the bud that decorates the crowns of all the fortunate and beautiful girls,
Her spotless fame decorates the ears of everyone,
from the material universes up to Vaikuṇṭha.
Stavāmṛta Kaṇā Vyākhyā:
While describing the sweet attributes of Śrī Rādhārāṇī, who is the boundless ocean of attributes, Śrīpāda Raghunātha says:
“She decorates the crowns of all fortunate girls.”
The more you love Kṛṣṇa, the more fortunate you are, and only Śrī Rādhikā has the greatest love for Kṛṣṇa, for in Her is the supreme mādanākhya mahābhāva.
Thus She is the bud crowning the heads of all the fortunate consorts of the Lord.
The word bhūṣaṇa mañjarī indicates that Her beauty is limitless.
The fame of God serves as ear-decorations for all the people of the world, and the ears of a person who does not listen to these glories are condemned by the Śrīmad Bhāgavata as useless holes.
bile batorukrama vikramān ye na śṛṅvataḥ karṇapuṭe narasyaḥ
(Bhāg. 2.3.20).
na śṛṇvato narasye ye karṇapuṭe te bile vṛthā randhra ityartha
(Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī’s commentary):
“The earholes of a human being who does not listen to the glories of God are useless and wasted”.
But even Vrajendra-nandana, the fountainhead of all forms of God, considers His ears to be blessed when He hears about the name, fame and glories of Śrī Rādhārāṇī, therefore there can be no doubt that Her glories decorate the ears of everyone, from the material world up to Vaikuṇṭha, as the best ear-decorations.
VERSE 50:
VAIDAGDHYAIKA SUDHĀ SINDHUŚ CĀTURYAIKA SUDHĀPURĪ
MĀDHURYAIKA SUDHĀ VALLĪ GUṆA RATNAIKA PEṬIKĀShe is the only nectar-ocean of erudition, the only nectar-abode of cleverness,
the only nectar-vine of sweetness and the only box filled with jewel-like attributes.
Stavāmṛta Kaṇā Vyākhyā:
kalā vilāsa digdhātmā vidagdha iti kīrtyate –
“A person who is expert in arts of playfulness is called vidagdha”, and Śrī Rādhikā is the only nectar-ocean of this vaidagdhya.
All the arts and sciences are automatically accompanying a lover of God and bless him/her, therefore these arts are self-manifest and self-perfect in the presiding goddess of love, Śrīmatī Rādhārānī.
It is said: ye jana Kṛṣṇa bhaje se boḍo catura – “Anyone who worships Kṛṣṇa is very clever”.
If a living entity can become counted among the most clever people of the world and can attain the nectar of bhajana, when just one drop of the formless pleasure potency appears in it, then it is needless to say that She who is the embodiment and the presiding goddess of the Lord’s pleasure-potency, and who is Herself a deep and boundless ocean of Kṛṣṇa-bhajanāmṛta, is the supreme abode of cleverness.
Apart from that it should also be understood that She is the abode of all kinds of cleverness because She expertly makes Kṛṣṇa drink the honeydrink of erotic mellows.
Śrī Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī has written in Rādhā Rasa Sudhānidhi (64):
sā bhrū nartana cāturī nirupamā sā cāru netrāñcale
līlā khelana cāturī varatanos tādṛg vaco cāturī
saṅketāgama cāturī nava nava krīḍākalā cāturī
rādhāyā jayatāt sakhījana parīhāsotsave cāturī
“Glory to the incomparable dexterity of Rādhā’s dancing eyebrows, the dexterity of the corners of Her beautiful playful eyes, the verbal dexterity of this beautifully formed girl, Her dexterity in coming to the trystingplace, Her dexterity in everfresh artful pastimes and Her dexterity in having a festival of laughter and joking with Her girlfriends!”
Śrī Rādhā is also a nectar-vine of sweetness.
Sweetness means being all-enchanting in all circumstances in form, qualities and pastimes. Even Govinda, the very embodiment of sweetness, is beside Himself of ecstasy when He relishes Śrī Rādhikā’s sweetness, and this vine of sweetness blesses the boundless ocean of sweetness Govinda with Her nectarean, rasika forms, qualities and pastimes. As soon as the embodiment of sweetness (Govinda) simply hears the name of this nectar-vine He faints of ecstasy!
mori kon vidhi, āni sudhā nidhi, thuilo rādhikā nāme.
śunite se vāṇī, avaśa tokhoni, murachi poḍolo hāme
ki āra bolibo āmi?
se dui ākhara, koilo jara jara, hoilo antara gāmi.
saba kalevara, kāmpe thara thara, dharaṇe nā yāy cita
ki kori ki kori, bujhite nā pāri, śunaho parāṇa mita
kohe caṇḍī dāse, bāṅśulī ādeśe, sei se navīna bālā
tāra darśane, bāḍilo dviguṇe, paraśe ghucabo jvālā
“Which Creator has brought this nectar-ocean named Rādhikā here? When I hear Her voice I become overwhelmed and I fall in a swoon. What more can I say? These two syllables are burning Me when They enter My heart! O My heart’s friend! I don’t understand! What shall I do? What shall I do? My whole body shivers and I cannot keep My composure anymore! Caṇḍī dāsa says: “This young girl doubled the intensity of Bāṅśulī’s (Kṛṣṇa, the flute-player) fever of love by revealing Herself to Him, but extinguished the fever by touching Him.”
Śrī Rādhikā is a guṇa-ratna-mañjuṣā, a jewel-box of jewel-like attributes.
sarva mahā guṇagaṇa vaiṣṇava śarīre;
Kṛṣṇa bhakte kṛṣṇera guṇa sakala sañcāre
(C.C.)
“All the great qualities dwell in the body of a Vaiṣṇava; all of Kṛṣṇa’s attributes also reside in the devotee.”
yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavatyakiñcanā sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāh
(Bhāgavata 5.18.12)
“All the qualities of the gods reside in those who are exclusively devotion to Lord Hari”.
It is through a mere drop of Rādhārānī’s grace that one is endowed with all of Kṛṣṇa’s qualities; who can then possibly describe how unlimitedly qualified She Herself is?
Even Kṛṣṇa Himself cannot find the limits to Her qualities, what to speak of others?
śrī Kṛṣṇa yāra anta nā pāya jīva kon chāra (C.C.)
