The Beauty of Krishna QI
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. Other-
wise, 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 superexccllent 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 betwecn 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 appre-
ciate 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
