Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 9:11-20

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Sri Nanda-putrotsava

The Festival of Sri Nanda’s son

Chapter 9: Verse 11-20

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 11.Who can describe the glories of Lord Krsna, the master of Goloka? We incarnations of Krsna cannot understand Him. How can the great philosophers understand Him. How can the great philosophers understand Him? 12.O sage, Varaha, Vamana, Kalki, Buddha, Kapila, and Matsya are among His primary incarnations. How many are His secondary incarnations? 13.The primary forms of the Lord are Nrsimha, Rama, and the splendid master of Svetadvipa. The most perfect, full, most complete, original form of the Supreme Lord is Sri Krsna, who resides in Goloka, the highest realm in the spiritual sky. 14.In Vaikuntha He appears in many forms as four-armed Lord Narayana, the beloved of Laksmi. In Goloka and Gokula He appears in His original form as two-armed Lord Krsna, the beloved of Radha. 15.The yogi’s meditate on His Brahman light, but the devotees meditate on His lotus feet. How can there be a light without a source? 16.O brahmana, listen and I will describe the austerities of Nanda, Yasoda and Rohini, austerities that enabled them to see Lord Krsna face to face. 17.In his previous birth Nanda was the ascetic Drona the best of the Vasus, and saintly Yasoda was his ascetic wife Dhara. 18.In her previous birth Rohini was Kadru, the first mother of the snakes. Listen and I will describe to you what they did in their previous birth. 19.-20.O sage, in Bharata-varsa, on Mount Gandhamadana, near Gautama Muni’s asrama, in a secluded place by the Suprabha river, Drona and Dhara performed austerities for ten thousand years so they might see Lord Krsna face to face.