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- 10:4510:45, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m Sometimes they used to snatch His clothing or snatch away the flowers from His hands. Sometimes one would try to induce another to decorate his body for him, and failing this, they were ready to fight, challenging one another to combat in wrestling Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 42 - Fraternal Loving Affairs' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4510:45, 18 July 2020 diff hist +4,485 m While Krsna is spending His days as a cowherd boy, He is in the kaumara and pauganda ages Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 42 - Fraternal Loving Affairs' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4510:45, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m Sometimes, for the sake of amusement, they used to decorate their faces in strange ways. Another business of the friends was that each of them wanted to defeat Krsna Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 42 - Fraternal Loving Affairs' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4510:45, 18 July 2020 diff hist +9,541 m Subala, "Although I am usually stronger than You (Krsna) or any of our friends. Since this is so, I do not know how these features of Your body can fail to defeat the pride of all the young girls of Vrndavana" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 42 - Fraternal Loving Affairs' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4510:45, 18 July 2020 diff hist +7,539 m The cowherd boy friends of Krsna once said, "My dear Krsna, You need not decorate Your body with so many ornaments Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 42 - Fraternal Loving Affairs' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4510:45, 18 July 2020 diff hist +5,984 m In the Mathura-khanda chapter of the Skanda Purana, there is a description of Krsna and Balarama, surrounded by all the cowherd boys, always engaged in taking care of the cows and calves Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 42 - Fraternal Loving Affairs' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4510:45, 18 July 2020 diff hist +6,834 m At the end of Krsna's pauganda age, Krsna's hair sometimes hangs down to His hips, and sometimes it becomes scattered. In this age His two shoulders become higher and broader, and His face is always decorated with marks of tilaka Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 42 - Fraternal Loving Affairs' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4510:45, 18 July 2020 diff hist +8,467 m When Krsna is more grown-up, in the middle age of pauganda, His nails become finely sharp, and His chubby cheeks become lustrous and round. On the two sides of His waist above His belt there are three distinct lines of folded skin, called tribali Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 42 - Fraternal Loving Affairs' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4510:45, 18 July 2020 diff hist +9,921 m The friends and servants of Krsna were combined together in serving Him, and all of their activities are known as anubhava Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 42 - Fraternal Loving Affairs' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4510:45, 18 July 2020 diff hist +5,773 m Sukadeva Gosvami, "at that time He (Krsna) accepted the pastimes of an ordinary boy, keeping His flute under His arm and His bugle on the right side in His belt, along with His cane" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 42 - Fraternal Loving Affairs' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4510:45, 18 July 2020 diff hist +5,729 m Sukadeva Gosvami said, "In His (Krsna's) left hand He would hold a lump of rice paste with yogurt, and in His fingers would be pilu, the king of fruits" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 42 - Fraternal Loving Affairs' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +8,678 m There is the following prayer by a devotee for the vayasyas in Vrndavana, "All glories to Krsna's vayasyas, who are just like Krsna in their age, qualities, pastimes, dress and beauty Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +7,964 m Taking this opportunity, Devaprastha, out of his strong affection for Krsna, immediately began to massage His legs. Such are the activities of Krsna's friends out on the pasturing grounds Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +8,023 m In the midst of their excitement one of them ascertained that it was actually only a cloud on Govardhan Hill Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m Other friends' behavior is on the ground of paternal love or servitude, but the basic principle of the confidential friends is simply friendship on an equal level Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +6,958 m Sukadeva Gosvami said, "By this anyone can understand that these boys must have accumulated heaps of the results of pious activities to enable them to associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in such intimate friendship" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +7,846 m He (Krsna's older friend) therefore informed the others not to take the trouble of worrying about Krsna, because there was no present danger from Aristasura Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m Sometimes a confidential friend would come before Krsna and embrace Him with great affection Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +12,301 m One of the elderly friends said, "My dear Mandalibhadra, why are you wielding a shining sword as though you were running towards Aristasura to kill him" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +12,097 m The vayasyas said, "This is very troublesome for us because we see that you have undertaken a severely laborious task. We think, therefore, that you need not continue to stand in that way holding the hill" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m His face is decorated with tilaka made from kasturi (musk), and His broad chest is decorated with a garland of gunja (small conchshells). His complexion is as white as an autumn cloud, He wears garments of blue color, and His voice is very grave Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m Sridama said, "Believe me, my dear friend, a moment's absence from You creates great havoc, not only for us but for the cows also. Everything becomes disarranged, and we become mad after You" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +6,352 m When the sons of Pandu, headed by Maharaj Yudhisthira, saw Krsna in His fourhanded form on the battlefield of Kuruksetra, holding His conchshell, disk, club and lotus flower Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +8,097 m All of these sakha friends of Krsna sought only to serve Him. Sometimes some of them would rise early in the morning and immediately go to Krsna's place and wait at the door to see Krsna and to accompany Him to the pasturing grounds Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m The associates of the Lord said, "The Lord, Hari, whose bodily hue is like the indranila jewel, whose smiling is as beautiful as the kunda flower" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +6,373 m Sridama said, "If You want to pacify us, You (Krsna) must embrace each one of us with Your arms" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m Krsna was very pleased by His friend's blessings, and He would supply him with more and more laddus Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +6,033 m The degree of intimacy shared by Krsna and Subala can be understood by the fact that the talks between them were so confidential that no one else could understand what they were saying Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51'
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m Whenever the friends ate, he (Madhumangala) would eat more than all others, especially laddus, of which he was very fond Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +4,108 m Some of them create wonderful situations by their activities, apparently against Krsna; some of them are very talkative, always arguing with Krsna and creating a debating atmosphere Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +4,048 m Some of them are very gentle and give pleasure to Krsna by their sweet words. All of these friends are very intimate with Krsna, and they show expertise in their different activities, their aim always being to please Krsna Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m Out of all these confidential friends, Sridama is considered to be the chief. Sridama used to put on a yellow-colored dress Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +7,763 m Some friends would say, "My dear Visala, please take this fan of lotus leaves and fan Krsna so that He may feel some comfort. Varuthapa, you just brush the scattered hairs on Krsna's head which have fallen upon His face" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +8,538 m The vayasyas said, "We are very much aggrieved to see You in this position. If You think that Sudama is not able to support Govardhan Hill, then at least You should change hands" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:4010:40, 18 July 2020 diff hist +11,995 m Here is an instance of such friendly feeling, When Krsna was holding up Govardhan Hill with His left hand, the vayasyas said, "My dear friend, You have been standing for the last seven days and nights without any rest Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3910:39, 18 July 2020 diff hist +6,736 m Krsna would be dressed by Mother Yasoda, and when she would see a boy standing at the door, she would call him Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3910:39, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m Out of the many intimate priya-narmas, Subala and Ujjvala are considered to be the most prominent Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51'
- 10:3910:39, 18 July 2020 diff hist +4,590 m Krsna's age, His beauty, His bugle, His flute, His conchshell and His pleasing attitude all provoke love in friendship for Him Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3910:39, 18 July 2020 diff hist +3,463 m When one is liberated and discovers his eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord, the Lord Himself becomes the impetus for increasing fraternal love Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3910:39, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m Mandalibhadra said, "I can see that He is very fatigued. Let me massage His head silently while He is taking rest in His house. And you, Subala - you just massage His thighs" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3910:39, 18 July 2020 diff hist +5,983 m Radharani said, "His entreaties are so powerful that it is very difficult for a gopi to resist her love for Krsna, even though she may be very bashful, devoted to her family duties and most faithful to her husband" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3910:39, 18 July 2020 diff hist +4,584 m Sometimes the different names, forms, paraphernalia and transcendental qualities provoke fraternal love Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3910:39, 18 July 2020 diff hist +9,204 m Gopis said, "Some of them cut jokes with Him in mild voices and please Him very much by this." For example, Krsna had one brahmana friend whose name was Madhumangala. This boy would joke by playing the part of a greedy brahmana Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3910:39, 18 July 2020 diff hist +9,193 m Some confidential friends are as follows: Sridama, Sudama, Dama, Vasudama, Kinkini, Stokakrsna, Amsu, Bhadrasena, Vilasina, Pundarika, Vitanka and Kalavinka Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3910:39, 18 July 2020 diff hist +10,273 m These older, well-wishing friends of Krsna imagined a large cloud to be the Aristasura, appearing in the shape of a huge bull Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3910:39, 18 July 2020 diff hist +7,527 m One gopi addressed Radharani thusly, "My dear Krsangi (delicate one), just see how Subala is whispering Your message into Krsna's ear, how he is delivering the confidential letter of Syamadasi silently into Krsna's hand" Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 41 - Fraternal Devotion' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3810:38, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m In addition to jubilation, there are sometimes symptoms of disappointment. Pradyumna once addressed Samba with these words Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 40 - Reverential Devotion of Sons and Other Subordinates' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3810:38, 18 July 2020 diff hist +54 m Sometimes the behavior of Krsna's sons appears similar to the behavior of His personal servants Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 40 - Reverential Devotion of Sons and Other Subordinates' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3810:38, 18 July 2020 diff hist +2,625 m Every day Pradyumna looked over Krsna's lotus feet with tears in his eyes Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 40 - Reverential Devotion of Sons and Other Subordinates' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current
- 10:3810:38, 18 July 2020 diff hist +5,945 m For example, the sons used to offer their obeisances, they were silent, submissive and gentle, and they were always ready to carry out Krsna's orders, even at the risk of life Moved from category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 40 - Reverential Devotion of Sons and Other Subordinates' to category 'The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51' current