The Monsoon Swing Festival A Short Film by Dr. Sahadeva dasa

• published: 02 Sep 2015
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Lyrics And The Setting: (1) rādhā-kṛṣṇa prāṇa mora jugala-kiśora jīvane maraṇe gati āro nāhi mora (2) kālindīra kūle keli-kadambera vana ratana-bedīra upara bosābo du'jana (3) śyāma-gaurī-ańge dibo (cūwā) candanera gandha cāmara ḍhulābo kabe heri mukha-candra (4) gāthiyā mālatīr mālā dibo dohāra gale adhare tuliyā dibo karpūra-tāmbūle (5) lalitā viśākhā-ādi jata sakhī-bṛnda ājñāya koribo sebā caraṇāravinda (6) śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-prabhur dāser anudāsa sevā abhilāṣa kore narottama-dāsa TRANSLATION 1) The divine couple, Sri Sri Radha and Krsna, is my life and soul. In life or death I have no other refuge but Them. 2) In a forest of small kadamba trees on the bank of the Yamuna, I will seat the divine couple on a throne made of brilliant jewels. 3) I will anoint Their dark and fair forms with sandalwood paste scented with cuya, and I will fan Them with a camara whisk. Oh, when will I behold Their moonlike faces? 4) After stringing together garlands of malati flowers I will place them around Their necks, and I will offer tambula scented with camphor to Their lotus mouths. 5) With the permission of all the sakhis, headed by Lalita and Visakha, I will serve the lotus feet of Radha and Krsna. 6) Narottama dasa, the servant of the servant of Sri Krsna Caitanya Prabhu, longs for this service to the divine couple. THE PARTY THAT NEVER ENDS Dream fade, bubbles pop, dew evaporates and lightning ceases. Nothing is permanent here. (Ven. Wuling) All things change. Time is cruel. It shows no mercy. Wheel of time crushes everything in its way. When time is up, it’s up. Respect the sheer power of time. A poet says, This thing all things devours Birds, beasts, trees, flowers Gnaws iron, bites steel, Grinds hard stones to meal, Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down! Time is a universal ingredient here. Everything is produced in time, stays in time and perishes in time. But there is a place and there are beings, completely beyond the influence of time. Everything is eternal there. No one ever dies or grows old there. Time is not divided into past, present or future. That realm, characterized by complete happiness, full consciousness and permanence, is known as Vaikuntha, the spiritual world. This place is free from all anxiety. Here every word is a song and every step is a dance. God, the Absolute Truth and the Supreme Being, resides there along with His energies and expansions. His pleasure potency expands as His eternal consorts. Chief of such eternal consorts is Radharani, and He is known as Krishna. Srila Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, explains the difference between these two worlds: "Here, in this material world, we have to work. Without work, you cannot maintain even your family, your body. That is not possible. Sarira-yatrapi te na prasiddhyed akarmana - Krsna says to Arjuna that without karma you cannot maintain even your body. So you have to work. Sarira-yatrapi te na prasiddhyed akarmana-. And this material world means you have to maintain by working. And spiritual world means na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. There is nothing to work, as Krishna has nothing to work. He is simply enjoying What is called? Swing. So Krishna is enjoying, and Krishna's associates are enjoying. They have nothing to work. That is spiritual world. Cintamani prakara sadmasu kalpa vrksa: that is a different world. There is no material body. Therefore there is no need of the material body. That is a different world. But in this material world we have to work.” This Divine Couple, Radha and Krishna, eternally engage in loving pastimes. These loving pastimes are enacted on the spiritual platform, which is free from the contamination of material inebrieties. The ocean of bliss, emanating from these loving pastimes, expands continuously. Every moment is a festival or a party that never ends. One of such divine parties is the monsoon swing festival. Srila Kavi-karnapura, a prominent Sanskrit scholar, explains this in his book, Ananda Vrindvana Champu. Dr. Sahadeva dasa