Damodarashtakam Verse 05 – The Lord reveals a form according to the devotee’s desire

Only you thank you so here Satyavrat Muni is taking this meditational vision of Damodar in a close-up so in the previous verse he has said idam te vapurnatha gopala balam so the focus was on the full body this is an extraordinary form of the lord as a small child but now he is taking the vision closer and he is focusing on the face of the lord so idam te mukambhojam mukambhojam the face is like a lotus now lotus has this special characteristic that it can be amidst dirt and still stay untouched by dirt and similarly when the lord descends to this material world he remains transcendental even when he is present in the material situation that's how he is like a lotus idam te mukambhojam atyantanilai atyantanilai extraordinarily beautiful he is vritam kuntalai snigdha raktaishyagopya so here Krishna's vision is not separated from his devotee's vision in Damodar Leela the focus is on Krishna and Baleras or in the parental pastimes with his mother so vritam kuntalai snigdha raktaishyagopya so Krishna has got a bluish black complexion he has got silken curly hair and all of this vision adds to his beauty kuntalai snigdha kuntalai snigdha silken hair he has raktaishyagopya muhushchum bitambimba raktaadharamme so the Krishna kissed him repeatedly so he kisses Krishna when at various times when the waves of affection in their heart go so deep and so strong that they flood out of the heart and they become stronger and stronger muhushchum bitambimba raktaadharamme sadame manasya avirashtam kimanyai so sadame manasya avirashtam alam lakshalabhai so there are two similar verses and in both verses what sattvamit muni is telling is let this vision continue let this vision continue the previous vision was sadame manasya avirashtam kimanyai manasya avirashtam alam lakshalabhai so the mood is more or less same but they are the focus of sadame manasya avirashtam sadame let it always be there kimanyai what others often use here is manasya avirashtam alam lakshalabhai lakshalabhai means even laksha crores of others' benefits are of no comparison now krishna is rasaraj and how does he act as rasaraj by reciprocating in pure love with every devotee's mood so in the shimad bhagavatam there is a verse which describes how krishna reciprocates and manifests in an appropriate form a devotee approaches the lord in a particular mood and then accordingly a lord manifests in a corresponding vapu in a corresponding form out of his mercy for that devotee so in in the anand vrindavan champu kavi karanapur takes this principle ahead and he describes that just as krishna can manifest in different forms as narasimha as vishnu as vamana depending on the mood of the devotee and the appropriateness as is required for the past time similarly within krishna leela also krishna can manifest different forms depending on what is required to enhance a particular rasa and a particular past time the most so just as krishna is the source of all vishnu forms similarly he says kishore krishna the youthful krishna is the source of all forms so krishna performs three main three main rasas past times he performs past times in the sakhya ras in the vatsalya ras and in the madhurya ras so now in the madhurya ras the kishore form is the best suited the madhurya past times cannot be performed with krishna as a baby or even krishna as a small boy krishna is kishore so the kishore so the kishore rupa the youthful form of krishna is the madhurya ras vigraha or madhurya ras ashraya it is with that form that kishore past times are performed and then there is a paugand rupa of krishna that is between the age of 5 and 10 and that is the time when krishna performs youthful childhood past times or boyhood past times with his sakhas that is the sakhya ras vigraha and then there is the bala rupa the child and that is the kumara rupa kumara is till the age of 5 so kumara rupa we can say small form that is the vatsalya ras vigraha so here because this past time is primarily focusing on vatsalya so satyavrat muni is meditating on that form and he is saying that how beautiful is this krishna that he who is the source of the effulgence of the brahman and he is manifesting a form and what is this form there are beautiful lips and there are the imprints of the kisses that ishodamaya has imprinted on him and then there is this form which is covered over with his locks of hair so this is the form that i want to see the spiritual vision is devotional and personal for a bhakta every devotee has individual relationship with krishna and krishna reveals one's own beauty and glory according to that devotional vision so krishna is saying what can i as compared to one's own swaroopa and the sweetness that one relishes within that swaroopa as compared to that everything else pales into insignificance even crores of other benefits are of no use i want only this my dear lord i don't want anything else and this is the same mood we see in chaitanya mahaprabhu's ashtakalya leela there when the devotees had seen certain extraordinary pastimes of krishna as they had happened with him and they want to just relish those pastimes we see that kolavicha shridhar was so extraordinarily poor but still chaitanya mahaprabhu would go to him and would bargain with him and while bargaining they would sometimes appear as if they were haggling this price not this price this price not this price and chaitanya mahaprabhu would sometimes spend hours just talking with him teasing him haggling with him and at the end of all the haggling he would just take the food and go away and kolavicha shridhar would think he is a brahmana i cannot resist and moreover if i try to resist he is so tall and well built he may beat me up also so he is a brahmana let me give it as a charity to him so when who was a brahmana with such power actually kolavicha shridhar was not exactly a brahmana i am sorry but he was thinking that chaitanya mahaprabhu is a brahmana and he was a just a person who would do the menial work relatively speaking of taking the plants and selling the vegetables selling the fruits selling the cups and he was poverty stricken in fact he was so poverty.