# NOD **21 images** --- <h3>Sr Caitanya Mahaprabhu Dancing</h3> ![[0023_TLC-f.c.jpg]] *Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared five hundred years ago in West Bengal, India, to propagate the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa all over the world.* <h3>Krsna and a Dancing Peacock</h3> ![[0029_TLC-12.jpg]] *“Even the impersonalists will become attracted to the personal form of Kṛṣṇa known as Śyāmasundara.” The transcendental form of the Lord is not material. It is composed of the spiritual elements of external existence (sat), full knowledge (cit), and complete bliss (ānanda). It also possesses unlimited opulences.* <h3>Sankhya-yoga Meditation</h3> ![[0036_SB-3-4-4.jpg]] *The perfection of yoga is to meditate on the Supreme Personality of Godhead within one's heart and make Him the ultimate goal of life.* <h3>Mother Yasoda Dresses Krsna</h3> ![[0053_AB-C49.jpg]] *“Kṛṣṇa's younger friends assist Mother Yaśodā in dressing Him.” The spiritual world is full of ever-increasing love for the Supreme Lord. There is no way to measure the love and devotion Kṛṣṇa’s devotees feel for Him.* <h3>Krsna Enters Dvaraka</h3> ![[0061_SB-1-2-13.jpg]] *Dāsya-rasa (transcendental affection – servitude): “The followers of Kṛṣṇa who live in the transcendental city of Dvārakā are all great devotees who are constantly engaged in varied personal service to the Lord.” Each soul, according to its constitutional nature, possesses a unique loving relationship with Kṛṣṇa in one of the five principal categories. When devotees return to the spiritual world, they engage in direct loving devotional service to Kṛṣṇa in their particular rasa.* <h3>Krsna and Balarama Playing with the Cowherd Boys</h3> ![[0071_BG-63.jpg]] *The playmates of Kṛṣṇa are so immersed in pure love that they do not even realize He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.* <h3>Puspanjali</h3> ![[0075_BG-49.jpg]] <h3>Radha and Krsna on a Swing</h3> ![[0092_NOD-1st-ed.-FC.jpg]] *Mādhurya-rasa (Devotional service in conjugal love): "The intimate mellow of devotion to the Supreme in conjugal love is established by Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, but such feelings are not at all material." Unless a person frees himself from all lusty desires for material sense enjoyment, he can never experience, or even understand, pure love of God in the conjugal rasa.* <h3>0092/NOD Nanda Yasoda</h3> ![[0092_NOD-Nanda-Yasoda.jpg]] *Vātsalya-rasa (Parenthood): “Mahārāja Nanda addressed his wife, 'My dear Yaśodā, how wonderful Kṛṣṇa looks, and how He is increasing my transcendental bliss more and more!;" Kṛṣṇa is the supreme enjoyer, and He takes pleasure in all the varieties of love offered to Him by His devotees. He sometimes lets His confidential devotees think of Him as their son and enjoys their parental affection.* <h3>Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami</h3> ![[0156_NOD-517.jpg]] *Śrī Rūpa és Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, az Úr Caitanya közvetlen tanítványai, akiket Caitanya Mahāprabhu azzal a misszióval bízott meg, hogy írjanak könyveket a vaiṣṇava filozófiáról.* <h3>The Butter Thieves</h3> ![[0157_QK-11.jpg]] *“In enjoying Kṛṣṇa’s attitude of stealing butter very stealthily, Mother Yaśodā experienced the ecstasy of maternal love.” All Kṛṣṇa’s devotees experience their own unique sentiments of ecstatic love for Him, and the Lord performs different pastimes to enhance their particular relationships.* <h3>Seeing Aristasura, the Gopis Embrace Tamala Trees</h3> ![[0158_NOD-p240.jpg]] *“Seeing the fearful giant bull, the gopīs, due to the madness of love, embrace the tamāla trees, which resemble Kṛṣṇa’s bodily hue.” The gopīs are the most intimate devotees of Kṛṣṇa and exhibit highest love of God. Sometimes the intensity of their love causes them to act in transcendental madness.* <h3>Jatila Chases Abhimanyu From His Own Door</h3> ![[0159_NOD--534.jpg]] *“Kṛṣṇa playfully impersonates Abhimanyu, the so-called husband of Rādhārāṇī.” As part of His confidential amorous pastimes, Kṛṣṇa sometimes acts in joking ways to increase the love of the gopīs.* <h3>Krsna in the Coils of the Kaliya Serpent</h3> ![[0159_NOD--535.jpg]] *“When Kṛṣṇa was chastising Kāliya Nāga in the Yamunā River, the big snake wrapped his coils all over Kṛṣṇa’s body.” Kṛṣṇa performed this pastime in order to increase the ecstatic spiritual emotions of His devotees, who felt unlimited transcendental anxiety for His safety. In the spiritual world, devotees experience all varieties of emotions.* <h3>The Brahmana Burns His Finger While Offering Sweet Rice to Lord Narayana</h3> ![[0160_NOD-251.jpg]] *"In his meditation, the sage‘s finger was burnt." This illustrates the absolute nature of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. By the proper practice of meditation one can directly experience the presence of Kṛṣṇa.* <h3>Sweet Kṛṣṇa</h3> ![[0160_NOD-524.jpg]] *“We have seen that in Vṛndāvana even the cows, the deer, the birds, the trees – everyone – has been enchanted by the sweet vibration of Your flute and the fascinating beauty of Your person.” In His transcendental abode, Kṛṣṇa reveals Himself to His pure devotees, awakening within them deeper and deeper love of God and causing them to experience ever-increasing ecstasy.* <h3>Damodara Bound By His Mother's Love</h3> ![[0160_NOD-p179-_-BTG-14.5.jpg]] *“Because of her ecstatic love for Him, Kṛṣṇa allowed Mother Yaśodā to bind Him with ropes.” Yaśodā experiences spiritual love for Kṛṣṇa that resembles the affection a mother feels toward her child. After catching Him stealing butter, she dutifully chastises her naughty transcendental son.* <h3>Sri Sri Rukmini-Dvarakadhisa</h3> ![[0161_NOD--508.jpg]] *“One must see the Deity with great devotion.” This instruction is one of the basic principles of Deity worship, which is an essential part of the science of God realization.* <h3>The Brahmana Burns His Finger Testing Sweet Rice in His Meditation</h3> ![[0163_NOD-503.jpg]] *“Now, when he looked at his finger, he saw that it was burnt.”* <h3>Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura</h3> ![[0235_Aca-14-NE.jpg]] *Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja the spiritual master of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda and foremost scholar and devotee in the recent age* <h3>Gaura Kisora Dasa Babaji</h3> ![[Art-0016_01.jpg]] *Śrīla Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja the spiritual master of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja and intimate student of Śrīla Ṭhākura Bhaktivinoda* --- ## Copyright Notice All artwork on this page is © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc. All rights reserved. These images are reproduced here with permission for educational and devotional purposes. The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc. (BBTi) holds exclusive rights to all images created for books published by BBTi and its predecessor entities. **Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or commercial use of these images is strictly prohibited without prior written permission from BBTi.** For licensing inquiries, please contact: - Website: https://www.BBT.info - Email: [email protected] All textual content and commentary © A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada