Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 27:91-100

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Çri Gopikä-vastra-haraëa

Stealing the Gopis' Garments

Chapter 27: Verse 91-100

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 91.-92.Go to your leader, Rädhä, and tell Her She must fold Her hands and beg for Her garments, otherwise I will not give them. What can your leader, Rädhä, do to Me? 93.What will the goddess you worship do to Me? Go and tell Rädhä all that I have said. 94.After hearing Kåñëa's words, the gopis stared at Him with angry eyes. Then they returned to Rädhä. 95.When they told Her what Kåñëa said, Rädhä laughed. She was tormented with amorous desire. 96.As Rädhä listened to the gopis words, the hairs of Her body stood erect in ecstasy. Shyly smiling, saintly Rädhä did not go to Lord Kåñëa. 97.Sitting in a yoga posture in the water, Rädhä meditated on Lord Kåñëa's lotus feet, which are worshiped by Brahmä, Çiva, Ananta, and Yamaräja, and which fulfill all desires. 98.As again and again She meditated on Lord Kåñëa's lotus feet, Rädhä's eyes became filled with tears. Overcome with love, She offered prayers to the master of Her life, the Supreme Lord who is beyond the modes of material nature. 99.Çri Rädhä said: O master of Goloka, O master of the gopis, O My master, O Lord more dear than life, O friend of the poor, O master of the poor, O master of all, I offer My respectful obeisances to You. 100.O master of the gopas, O master of the cows, O delight of Yaçodä, O son of Nanda, O bliss of the devotees, O eternally blissful Lord, I offer My respectful obeisances to You.