Jagat

Govinda Kund at Anyaur, Govardhan. vṛndā-kānana kānanasya paramā śobhā parātaḥ parā- nanda tvad-guṇa-vṛndam eva madhuraṁ yenāniśaṁ gīyate | hā vṛndāvana koṭi-jīvanam api tvatto'titucchaṁ yadi jñātaṁ tarhi kim asti yat tṛṇakavac chakyeta nopekṣitum|| Vrindavan! You possess all the highest, most transcendent beauties of a woodland, and so you are supremely blissful! Ah Vrindavan! If someone should constantly sing sweetly of your virtues, and know that in comparison to you, even millions of lifetimes are extremely insignificant, then what is there in this world that he could not disregard, even as one disregards a blade of grass? This verse is repeated at 3.22. See also VMA 2.25 :  Vrindavan's divine sylvan virtues What a fortune to live in the Holy Dham! Here again Prabodhananda Saraswatipada talks about the sylvan virtues. Though Prabodhananda specifically talks about Vrindavan, his Vrindavan should really be taken to mean the whole of Braj . ...

saundaryādi-mahā-camatkṛti-nidhī divyau kiśorau mahā- gaura-śyāma-tanu-cchavī niśi-divā yatraiva cākrīḍataḥ | yatraivākhila-divya-kānana-guṇotkarṣo'ti kāṣṭhāṁ gatas tad vṛndā-vipinaṁ kadānu madhura-premānuvṛttyā bhaje ||2.25|| The one and only place where the divine youthful couple, of complexions dark and fair, the two treasure-oceans of beauty and other divine qualities, enjoy their pastimes; that place, where alone are found all the divine sylvan virtues manifest to the most extreme degree, Ah when, with sweet transcendental love, will I properly worship Vrindavan ? Commentary Vrindavan is the appropriate site of Radha and Krishna's pastimes because it alone possesses all the divine sylvan virtues manifest to the most extreme degree. If we look at the historical development of the concept of Vrindavan by looking at the Puranas and then the Vaishnava poets of the medieval period, we can see how the awareness of Nature and the concept of the Dham ...