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VilapKusumanjali

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ŚrīŚrī GodrumCandrāya Namah     Śrī VilāpKusumānjali ḥ     tvaṁ rūpamañjari sakhi prathitā pure’smin puṁsaḥ parasya vadanaṁ nahi paśyasīti vimbādhare kṣatamanāgatabharttṛkāyā yatte vyadhāyi kimutacchuka puṅgavena   [At the commencement of his composition, Śrīla Raghunāth dāsGosvāṁī Prabhupād, while offering obeisance to his spiritual master, Śrīla RūpaGosvāmī Prabhupād, finds in his heart that the awareness of the siddha deha of both his guru and himself has been wholly awakened. In this state of affairs, full with the sentiments of a cowherd maiden, he wishes to offer some praise to his spiritual preceptor, delivered nonetheless in the form of an artful insinuation, a jocular comment hinting that something is slightly amiss.]   siddha deha – eternally perfected body (that of a cowherd girl or boy, gopa, gopī or manjari)   “Ayi! Sakhi RūpaMañjari! You are renowned throughout BrajaMandala as the most chaste young girl, without even so much as a sligh...