RĀYA RĀMĀNANDA SAṂVĀDA · 48
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To the returning Kṛṣṇa's silent plea for forgiveness Rādhikā answers with refusal
smayamāna-mukhāmbujaḥ pītāmbara-dharaḥ sragvī"lotus face gently smiling, wearing yellow silk, garlanded" — SB 10.32.2
To the returning Kṛṣṇa's silent plea for forgiveness Rādhikā answers with refusal
smayamāna-mukhāmbujaḥ pītāmbara-dharaḥ sragvī
"lotus face gently smiling, wearing yellow silk, garlanded" — SB 10.32.2
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"Smayamāna-mukhāmbuja — Kṛṣṇa has a very gentle smile on His lips: when He reappeared, He was very embarrassed, so He could not have a big smile. And His lotus eyes are looking up and looking down, very shyly."
Pītāmbara-dhara — He is holding His pītāmbara. One meaning: He rushed out from His hiding place so quickly that it was falling off, so He had to catch it. The other: He was holding it at His very throat. Every Vaiṣṇava keeps such a cloth at the neck, and it is a sign of humility — lower than the straw in the street: I have done wrong, I have made a mistake, please forgive me. So Kṛṣṇa folds His palms while holding the pītāmbara, and by that whole posture He says: forgive me. He raised His hand: forgive me, please. And Rādhikā was thinking: why should I forgive you? And she thought: I am not going to forgive you.
Begin your rounds with the request you cannot bring yourself to say.
Source: Rāya Rāmānanda Saṃvāda · part 6
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