The Beauty of Krishna
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when He plays His flute all the living creatures, mobile and immobile, become overwhelmed with ecstasy, and they quiver and tears flow in their eyes.
His conjugal love is the summit of His various opulences. The Lord is the Master of all riches, all strength, all fame, all beauty, all knowledge, and all renunciation. Out of these, His perfect beauty is His conjugal attraction. The Form of Krishna, the conjugal beauty, is eternally existent in Krishna alone, whereas His other opulences are present in His Narayan Form.
When Lord Chaitanya was describing the superexcellence of Krishna's conjugal attraction, He felt a transcendental ecstasy, and caught up the hands of Sanatan Goswami and began to say how fortunate the damsels of Braja were. He recited in this connection a verse from  Srimad Bhagwatam , Tenth Canto, Twenty-fourth Chapter: "How much penance and austerities the damsels of Vrindaban must have undergone, for they are able to drink the nectar of Krishna, Who is All Beauty, All Strength, All Riches, All Fame, and Who is the center of all the beauties of bodily luster."
The Body of Krishna, the ocean of the eternal beauty of youth, can be seen as moving in waves of beauty. And there is a whirlwind at the sound of His flute. Those waves and that whirlwind make the hearts of the Gopis flutter like dry leaves on the trees, and when the leaves fall down to Krishna's Lotus Feet, they can never rise up again from there. There is no comparison with that beauty, because no one has beauty greater than, or equal to, Krishna. He is the Origin of all incarnations, including the Form of Narayan. Otherwise, how could the Goddess of Fortune, who is a constant companion of Narayan, give up the association of Narayan, and engage herself in penance for gaining the association of Krishna? This is the superexcellent beauty of Krishna, the everlasting mine of all beauty. And from that beauty all other beautiful things emanate.
The attitude of the Gopis is just like a mirror on which the reflection of Krishna's beauty develops at every moment. Both Krishna and the Gopis increase their transcendental beauty at every moment, and there is always transcendental competition between them. Nobody can appreciate the beauty of Krishna by proper discharge of his occupational duty, or by austerities, or by mystic Yoga, or by cultivation of knowledge, or by offering different kinds of prayer. Only those who are on the transcendental platform of love of God—who only out of love are engaged in devotional service—can appreciate the transcendental beauty of Krishna. Such beauty of Krishna is the essence of all opulences, and His characteristics in that connection are only appreciable in Goloka Vrindaban and not anywhere else. In the Form of