POEM 3 : GOVINDA THE DELIGHTFUL BLUE BOY OF VRINDAVAN

I worship Govinda the delightful blue boy of Vrindavan who is always kind and gracious to his devotees and is always playing his leela with radha ji for the sake of them.
Sham Sunder; please help me to attain your beautiful vigraha. Maya has put a sheath in my heart which does not allow my inner eyes to see you within my self. I have come to your holy lotus feet and pray to you to give me the vision so that I can see you in your Banke Bihari posture of Vrindavan.

I worship the Adi Purusha, who is the darling of Nand and Yashoda, in fact the whole of Vrindavan; who resides in the heart of Radha as well as the damsels or gopis of Vrindavan.

I worship Gopal, the cowherd boy who loves his cows so much that he walks barefoot just because his cows too walk barefooted. He wears a tilak of the dust of the feet of the cows, and is thus called Govinda (Go+Vind).

I worship Radhavallabha who is so fond of his consort Radha ji who is always with him And cannot stay without him for a single minute. She is always with him in the nikunj leela, and is a fountain of pleasure for him

I bow before your divine vigreha and worship you devotedly. You are also known as Gopivallabha who is the soul and heart of the gopis’ inner conscious, whom they are always remembering while doing their household chores, and whom they cannot forget even for a second.

I worship my dear Kunj Bihari who is always engrossed in keli leela in the grooves of Nidhivan raja and is always a source of pleasure to the sakhi’s and sahchar’s of nikunj leela. I also bow before Swami Shri Haridas Ji.

Oh Kunj Bihari you have appeared from the Kunj’s of Nidhivan by Swami Shri Haridas ji, that is why you have been given this vibrating name by your sahhachari’s. You are a darling baby of Swami Haridas who is incarnation of Lalita sakhi.
At his request you agreed to stay in your vigraha and today we are so fortunate to have your darshan.