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• THE MOST GLORIOUS PLACE His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada • PROPER OBJECTS FOR ANGER Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada • KUND AND SHYAMA KUND From Srila Narahari Chakravarti’s Śrī Bhakti-ratnākara Highlights Highlights • SHELTER OF RADHA KUND Srila Raghunath Das Goswami’s Rādhākuāakam,PAGE ONE TOP text COLLUMN 2 TWO

THE MOST GLORIOUS PLACE all because it is there that love of Krishna over- flows. Advanced devotees prefer to reside at His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Radha Kund because this place is the site of many Swami Prabhupada memories of the eternal loving affairs between The spiritual world is three Krishna and Radharani (rati-vilāsa). fourths of the total creation of the In Caitanya-caritāmta, madhya-līlā, it is stated Supreme Personality of Godhead, that when Sri first vis- and it is the most exalted region. ited the area of Vrajabhumi he could not at first The spiritual world is naturally find the location of Radha Kund. This means superior to the material world; that Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was actually however, and the adjoining areas, al- searching for the exact location. Finally he found though appearing in the material world, are con- the holy spot, and there was a small pond there. sidered superior to the spiritual world because He took his bath in that small pond and told his the Supreme Personality of Godhead himself ap- devotees that the actual Radha Kund was situ- peared at Mathura. The interior forests of ated there. Later, Lord Chaitanya’s devotees, are considered superior to Mathura headed first by the six Goswamis such as Rupa because of the presence of the twelve forests and Raghunath Das, excavated the pond. Pres- (dvādaśa-vana) such as Talavan, Madhuvan and ently there is a large lake known as Radha Kund Bahulavan, which are famous for the various there. Srila has given much stress pastimes of the Lord. Thus the interior Vrindavan to Radha Kund because of Sri Chaitanya forest is considered superior to Mathura. But Mahaprabhu’s desire to find it. Who, then, superior to these forests is the divine Govardhana would give up Radha Kund and try to reside elsewhere? No person with transcendental in- Hill because Krishna lifted Govardhana Hill like telligence would do so. The importance of Radha an umbrella, raising it with his lotus-like beauti- Kund, however, cannot be realized by other ful hand, to protect his associates, the denizens vaiava sampradāyas, nor can persons uninter- of Vraja, from the torrential rains sent by angry ested in the devotional service of Lord Chaitanya Indra, King of the demigods. It is also at Mahaprabhu understand the spiritual impor- Govardhana Hill that Krishna tends the cows tance and divine nature of Radha Kund. Thus, with his cowherd friends, and there also he had Radha Kund is mainly worshiped by the his rendezvous with his most beloved Sri Radha Gaudiya Vaishnavas, the followers of Lord Sri and engaged in loving pastimes with her. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.  Kund, at the foot of Govardhana, is superior to — Purport to Nectar of Instruction, verse 9. next column ! ! Issue One hundred thirteen, Page — 2 é[q k* Z

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