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DIARIES BY SACINANDANA SWAMI

VRINDAVAN DIARY 2014 - PART 6

By Sacinandana Swami

Krishna Never Leaves Vrindavan

When one lives in Vrindavan, one is constantlyreminded of Krishna. He is worshiped in the manytemples there, devotees glorify Him in song andnarrations (katha), sadhus and saints describeHim with affection, etc.

But does He ever appear in person and makeHimself visible to the eyes of those who soardently worship Him? Is He only adored butremains invisible or does He actually engage ina tangible relationship with His worshippers? Can

they hear Him with their ears, touch Him with their hands, eat the food He offers them and evensmell His fragrance? These questions have held my interest for such a long time because I wish toworship a God with whom I can have an experience having become tired of the innumerablereligious concepts and mental concoctions.

In this entry of my Vrindavan Diary I wish to recount a case when Krishna appeared in person toone of His devotees some 5 years ago in the village of Aniyor. I heard about this amazing pastimefrom Krishna Murari Goswami who had heard it from his relatives who still live in this little village atthe side of Govardhana Hill. They spoke to a person to whom Krishna had appeared in person!

Five years ago there was a terrible monsoon. Water poured from the sky as if the end of the worldhad come. Soon the small lanes where turned into torrents of waters, which created a lot of troublefor both men and animals. Especially affected were the free-roaming cows who soon began towander throughout the village, desperately in search for shelter to take from the devastatingrainfall.

One sadhu whom the villagers called Baba, felt the obvious distress of the cows very deeply anddecided to put his own bhajan (spiritual practice) aside in order to help the cows. Baba thought:Five thousand years ago Krishna had helped the cows in an even more difficult situation by liftingthe Hill Giriraja and held it up like a huge umbrella...Something quick needed to be done becausethe cows were in a similar situation as they had been at that time.

Baba worked day and night for two days getting help from whoever had a free hand to give and atthe end he had constructed a simple rain-shelter large enough to accommodate the cows of Aniyorand thus he gathered them under the roof of his makeshift goshala (cow-ashram). Exhausted hewent to sleep together with the cows. But soon he woke up and could not fall asleep again because of hunger. He had worked so hard that for 48 hours he had found no time whatsoever toeat.

At around midnight he saw a little boy entering the cowshed. He had a bowl of laddhus with himand sweetly offered them to Baba: Here, eat these laddhus you must be hungry. In the morningI will collect my bowl. And by the way, you may need this too With these words he handed Babaa stick for cow-herding and quickly left. Everything happened in the dark and ever so quickly.

The next morning, there was a big commotion in the village. The priests of the temple on top of the

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Giriraj mountain had ordered a search of the whole village. That night a thief had entered thetemple and had stolen Nathajis (the name of the local Krishna deity) silver bowl and His cowherdstick.

When Baba heard about this he immediately went to the cowshed and inspected the bowl and stickin the bright daylight. There was little doubt they matched exactly the descriptions the priests hadgiven. Could it be that the Lord had personally appeared before Baba, fed him laddhus and providedhim with a cowherd stick just to acknowledge the seva which he had done to protect the cows?

Baba decided to find out for sure but without taking the risk of becoming famous as someonefavoured by the Lord. Thus, he went to the chief priest with the silver bowl and the golden stick inhand and told him that a boy had visited him at night and deposited these items, saying he wouldreturn to collect them sometime later.

When the priest inspected the bowl and the stick he immediately recognized them as the belongingsof Sri Nathaji and thanked Baba for returning the lost items of the Lord.

Baba must have smiled in ecstasy thinking: If you only knew that the thief was the One youworship upon your altar!Later Baba revealed the entire story to a relative of Krishna Murari Goswami and that is how I cameto know of it.

Vrindavan abounds with such stories. Stories in which Krishna touches the human dimension justlike when He came down from the altar to play marbles with the village boys, etc.

Anywhere else one might be inclined to discuss such stories as imaginative but here in Vrindavanwhere Krishna seems to be standing just around the corner, the supernatural becomes totallynatural a part of life.The reason is given in the sacred scriptures:

krishno nyo yadu-sambhutoyah purnah so sty atah parahvrindavanam parityajyasa kvacin naiva gacchati

The Krishna known as Yadu-kumara is Vasudeva Krishna. He is different from the Krishna who isthe son of Nanda Maharaja. Yadu-kumara Krishna manifests His pastimes in the cities of Mathuraand Dvaraka, but Krishna the son of Nanda Maharaja never at any time leaves Vrindavana. (CCAntya 1.67)

Srila Rupa Goswami writes this about Krishna:

O Lord who rises in the hearts of Your devotees. You became deeply concerned when You saw Yourdevotees and the cows troubled by the terrible rainclouds sent by Indra. Thus you lifted the greatGovardhana Hill with Your left lotus hand.O Lord who protected Vraja, O lotus eyed Lord, please please protect me in the same way.(Sri Mukunda-muktavali 4)

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