Vasanta Panchami – Contribute to nature’s contributing for enhancing the rasa in Krishna’s pastimes

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Hare Krishna on the occasion of Vasant Panchami let us contemplate how all of nature is ultimately meant for the pleasure of Krishna and how this is manifested in Vrindavan in Anand Vrindavan Kavi Karunapur describes that actually all the seasons are manifested at the same time in Vrindavan in the sense that it is not that it is simultaneously cold and hot but whatever is the best that each season has to offer so if for Krishna’s pastimes particular flowers or particular fruits are required then those are manifested whichever be the season so all the specialities of all the seasons can be manifested at the same time that is the divine nature of the abode of Vrindavan if for Krishna’s purpose it is required to be raining it will rain for enhancing the rasa of Krishna’s pastimes it is required there be heat or there be cold it will be accordingly so essentially the pastimes of Krishna are the purpose and essence of everything in Vrindavan and all the everyone whether it be Gopas, Gopis, trees plants even the atmosphere in the seasons they all assist Krishna’s pastimes so that is in the spiritual world and the practice of bhakti in one sense is like creating or recreating or rehearsing for our eternal life in the spiritual world so we create or recreate the spiritual world in the world here and we rehearse for our eternal life in the spiritual world so therefore whenever there are markers in this world there are different seasons which signify different occasions so those are all celebrated by devotees in a devotional culture and how do they celebrate that so Vrindavan has a flourishing devotional culture and that the essence of the devotional culture is intense remembrance of Krishna and maximization of the pleasure of Krishna so Vasanth Panchami involves the starting of a fresh season and new pastimes of Krishna will be performed in that time so whatever are the best products of that season they as soon as they start appearing they are offered to Krishna so yellow is a special color because it is for many reasons one of them is that Krishna wears dress made of yellow color so on this particular day of Vasanth Panchami fruits and seasonal fruits and flowers and especially those of yellow colored flowers they are offered to the deities and devotees also dress themselves in yellow and the idea is to enhance the pleasure of Krishna just as the seasons are changing thereby Prabhupada would say variety is the mother of enjoyment so the transition of the seasons is just to enhance the ecstasy of Krishna and this enhancing of the ecstasy of Krishna is done through the nature’s arrangement and devotees also by offering their heart and by offering their various appropriate offerings according to the seasons they try enhance Krishna’s pastimes so that’s how by enhancing the rasa of Krishna’s pastimes we taste the rasa and we enable Krishna we contribute our part in enhancing the rasa of Krishna’s pastimes so this is how these various festivals of the season and of the year are marked and celebrated by being used as occasions to intensify our remembrance of Krishna. Thank you Hare Krishna