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| We get an idea of Brahmā's day from the following statement of the Bhagavad-gītā: "By human calculation, a thousand yuga cycles taken together is Brahmā's one day. And such also is the duration of his night." (BG 8.17) The gopīs said that even if they could have that duration of night, it would still not be sufficient for their meeting with Kṛṣṇa. * 4,300,000,000 solar years equals twelve hours, or one night, of Brahmā. | | We get an idea of Brahmā's day from the following statement of the Bhagavad-gītā: "By human calculation, a thousand yuga cycles taken together is Brahmā's one day. And such also is the duration of his night." (BG 8.17) The gopīs said that even if they could have that duration of night, it would still not be sufficient for their meeting with Kṛṣṇa. * 4,300,000,000 solar years equals twelve hours, or one night, of Brahmā. |
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| In the [[Vanisource:SB 10.31.15|Tenth Canto, 31st Chapter, 15th verse]], of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the gopīs lament: "My dear Kṛṣṇa, during the daytime when You go out into the forest of Vṛndāvana with Your cows, we consider one moment to be twelve years, and it is very difficult for us to pass the time. And again when You come back at the end of the day, by seeing Your beautiful face we are so much attracted that we are unable to stop looking upon You constantly. At these times, when there is occasional blinking of our eyelids, we condemn the creator, Lord Brahmā, as a dunce, because he does not know how to make perfect eyes!" In other words, the gopīs were disturbed by the blinking of their eyes because for the moment that their eyes were closed they could not see Kṛṣṇa. This means that the gopīs' love for Kṛṣṇa was so great and ecstatic that they were disturbed by even His momentary absence. And when they saw Kṛṣṇa, they were also disturbed. This is a paradox. | | In the [[Vanisource:SB 10.31.15|Tenth Canto, 31st Chapter, 15th verse]], of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the gopīs lament: "My dear Kṛṣṇa, during the daytime when You go out into the forest of Vṛndāvana with Your cows, we consider one moment to be twelve years, and it is very difficult for us to pass the time. And again when You come back at the end of the day, by seeing Your beautiful face we are so much attracted that we are unable to stop looking upon You constantly. At these times, when there is occasional blinking of our eyelids, we condemn the creator, Lord Brahmā, as a dunce, because he does not know how to make perfect eyes!" In other words, the gopīs were disturbed by the blinking of their eyes because for the moment that their eyes were closed they could not see Kṛṣṇa. This means that the gopīs' love for Kṛṣṇa was so great and ecstatic that they were disturbed by even His momentary absence. And when they saw Kṛṣṇa, they were also disturbed. This is a paradox. |
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| One gopī, expressing herself to Kṛṣṇa, says: "When we meet You at night, we consider the duration of night to be very small. And why speak of only this night? Even if we had a night of Brahmā* we would consider it a very short time!" We get an idea of Brahmā's day from the following statement of the Bhagavad-gītā: "By human calculation, a thousand yuga cycles taken together is Brahmā's one day. And such also is the duration of his night." ([[Vanisource:BG 8.17|BG 8.17]]) The gopīs said that even if they could have that duration of night, it would still not be sufficient for their meeting with Kṛṣṇa. | | One gopī, expressing herself to Kṛṣṇa, says: "When we meet You at night, we consider the duration of night to be very small. And why speak of only this night? Even if we had a night of Brahmā* we would consider it a very short time!" We get an idea of Brahmā's day from the following statement of the Bhagavad-gītā: "By human calculation, a thousand yuga cycles taken together is Brahmā's one day. And such also is the duration of his night." ([[Vanisource:BG 8.17 (1972)|BG 8.17]]) The gopīs said that even if they could have that duration of night, it would still not be sufficient for their meeting with Kṛṣṇa. |
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| In the [[Vanisource:SB 10.35.15|Tenth Canto, 35th Chapter, 8th verse]] of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the gopīs tell Mother Yaśodā, "When your son plays on His flute, Lord Śiva, Lord Brahmā and Indra—although they are supposed to be the greatest learned scholars and personalities—all become bewildered. Although they are all very great personalities, by hearing the sound of Kṛṣṇa's flute they humbly bow down and become grave from studying the sound vibrated." | | In the [[Vanisource:SB 10.35.14-15|Tenth Canto, 35th Chapter, 8th verse]] of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the gopīs tell Mother Yaśodā, "When your son plays on His flute, Lord Śiva, Lord Brahmā and Indra—although they are supposed to be the greatest learned scholars and personalities—all become bewildered. Although they are all very great personalities, by hearing the sound of Kṛṣṇa's flute they humbly bow down and become grave from studying the sound vibrated." |
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| In his book Vidagdha-mādhava, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī thus describes the vibration of Kṛṣṇa's flute: "The sound vibration created by the flute of Kṛṣṇa wonderfully stopped Lord Śiva from playing his ḍiṇḍima drum, and the same flute has caused great sages like the four Kumāras to become disturbed in their meditation. It has caused Lord Brahmā, who was sitting on the lotus flower for the creative function, to become astonished. And Anantadeva, who was calmly holding all the planets on his hood, was moving in this way and that due to the transcendental vibration from Kṛṣṇa's flute, which penetrated through the covering of this universe and reached to the spiritual sky." | | In his book Vidagdha-mādhava, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī thus describes the vibration of Kṛṣṇa's flute: "The sound vibration created by the flute of Kṛṣṇa wonderfully stopped Lord Śiva from playing his ḍiṇḍima drum, and the same flute has caused great sages like the four Kumāras to become disturbed in their meditation. It has caused Lord Brahmā, who was sitting on the lotus flower for the creative function, to become astonished. And Anantadeva, who was calmly holding all the planets on his hood, was moving in this way and that due to the transcendental vibration from Kṛṣṇa's flute, which penetrated through the covering of this universe and reached to the spiritual sky." |
