Prabhupāda Says

THE HOLY PLACES OF VṚNDĀVANA
by Kṛṣṇadasa Kavirāja Gosvāmī

jaya rādhe jaya kṛṣṇa jaya vṛndāvana
śrī-govinda, gopīnātha, madana-mohana

All glories to Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, and to the transcendental realm of Vṛndāvana! All glories to the three presiding Deities of Vṛndāvana—Govinda, Gopīnātha and Madana-mohana.

śyama-kunḍa, rādhā-kuṇḍa, giri-govardhan
kālindī yamunā jaya, jaya mahāvana

All glories to Śyāma-kuṇḍa and Rādhā-kuṇḍa, which are beautiful garden pools belonging to Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa and are the places of the pinnacle of Their līlās. Glories to Govardhana Hill and to the Yamunā, or Kālindī, and to the great forest.

keśī-ghāṭa, vaṁśi-vaṭa, dvādaśa-kānana
yāhā saba līlā koilo, śrī-nanda-nandana

Glories to Keśī-ghāṭa, where Kṛṣṇa killed the horse demon, and to the vaṁśī-vata tree, where Kṛṣṇa used to sit and call the gopīs with His flute. Glories to the twelve groves of Vṛndāvana. These places set the background for the son of Nanda Mahārāja to play His pastimes.

śrī-nanda-yaśodā jaya, jaya gopa-gaṇa
śrīdāmādi jaya, jaya dhenu-vatsa-gaṇa

Glories to Kṛṣṇa's divine mother and father, Nanda-Yaśodā, and to the cowherd men. Glories to Kṛṣṇa's friends the cowherd boys headed by Śrīdāmā. All glories to the cows and calves of Vṛndāvana.

jaya vṛṣabhānu, jaya kīrtidā-sundarī
jaya paurṇamāsī, jaya ābhīra-nāgarī

All glories to Rādhā's mother and father, Kīrtidā and Vṛṣabhānu, and to Her grandmother, who is the personality of Yogamāyā.

jaya jaya gopīśvara vṛndāvana-mājha
jaya jaya kṛṣṇa-sakhā baṭu dvijarāja

All glories to the Lord of the gopīs of Vṛndāvana and to Kṛṣṇa's brahmaṇa friends Sudāmā and Madhumaṅgala.

jaya rāma-ghāta, jaya rohiṇī-nandana
jaya jaya vṛndāvana-vāsī yata jana

Glories to Rāma-ghāṭa. Glories to the son of Rohiṇī (Balarāma), and glories to all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana.

jaya dvija-patnī, jaya nāgakanyā-gaṇa
bhaktite yāhārā pāilo govinda-caraṇa

All glories to the Nāgapatnīs. All glories to the wives of the Vedic brahmaṇas who left their husbands and surrendered at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, Govinda, and were bestowed with pure bhakti.

śrī-rasa-maṇḍala jaya, jaya rādhā-śyāma
jaya jaya rasa-līlā sarva-manorama

Glories to the arena of the rāsa dance and Rādhā and Śyāma. Glories to the rāsa-līlā which captures the minds of all.

10)

jaya jayojjvala-rasa sarva-rasa-sāra
parakīyā-bhāve yāhā, brajete pracāra

All glories to the ever-shining mellow of parakīyā-bhāva, the supreme platform of the unalloyed "lawless love" of the gopīs.

11)

śrī-jāhnavā-pāda-padma koriyā smaraṇa
dīna kṛṣṇadāsa kohe nāma-saṅkīrtana

With memory of the lotus feet of Lord Nityānanda's śakti, Śrī Jāhnavā-devī (Yogamāyā), Kṛṣṇadāsa, who describes himself here as very fallen and lowly, sings the names of the Lord.

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