Text 43] Description of the Kingdom of God 619
beautiful sight within the spiritual and material creations of the Lord; she
has a sense of being the most beautiful, yet her beauty was defeated when
the Lord appeared. In other words, the beauty of the goddess of fortune is
secondary in the presence of the Lord. In the words of Vaisnava poets, it is
said that the Lord’s beauty is so enchanting that it defeats hundreds of
thousands of Cupids. He is therefore called Madanamohana. It is also des-
cribed that the Lord sometimes becomes mad after the beauty of
Radharani. Poets describe that, under those circumstances, although
Lord Krsna is Madanamohana, He becomes Madanadaha, or enchanted by
the beauty of Radharani. Actually the Lord’s beauty is superexcellent,
surpassing even the beauty of Laksmi in Vaikuntha. The devotees of the
Lord in the Vaikuntha planets want to see the Lord as the most beautiful,
but the devotees in Gokula or Krsnaloka want to see Radharani as more
beautiful than Krsna. The adjustment is that the Lord, being bhakta-
vatsala, or one who wants to please His devotees, assumes such features so
that devotees like Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and other demigods may be
pleased. Here also, for the devotee-sages, the Kumaras, the Lord appeared
in His most beautiful feature, and they continued to see Him without
satiation and wanted to continue seeing Him more and more.
TEXT 43
TANT «= TANI -
fracahiqerarca: |
ARVTTTTAINY Frraeat: 182i
tasyaravinda-nayanasya padaravinda-
kinjalka-misra-tulasi-makaranda-vayuh
antargatah sva-vivarena cakara tesam
sanksobham aksara-jusam api citta-tanvoh
tasya—of Him; aravinda-nayanasya—of the lotus-eyed Lord; pada-aravin-

da—of the lotus feet; kifijalka—with the toes; misra— mixed; tulasi—the tulast
leaves; makaranda—fragrance; vayuh—breeze; antargatah—entered within;
sva-vivarena—through their nostrils; cakara— made; tesam—of the Kumaras;
sanksobham—agitation for change; aksara-jusam—attached to impersonal
Brahman realization; api—even though; citta-tanvoh—in both mind and
body.
