Krishna's Face - an essential subject

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Krishna (God's Name) is the all-attractive Supreme Person, and as such every limb of His body is supremely attractive. Krishna is called Madana-mohan, the enchanter (mohana) of Cupid (Madana), because He conquers the mind of Cupid. Krishna's perfect beauty is His conjugal attraction. Such perfect conjugal beauty eternally exists only in God's form of Krishna, whereas His other five opulences are present in some of God's other forms. The superexcellent beauty of Krishna is such that the goddess of fortune, the constant companion of Nārāyaṇa (a form of God), gave up His association and engaged herself in penance to gain the association of Krishna. It is from that beauty that all other beautiful things emanate. The cardinal nature of this beauty is its supreme sweetness. Of all the limbs of Krishna, His face is considered the most beautiful. The Vedic hymn known as Kāma-gāyatrī poetically describes the face of Krishna as the king of all moons. The sweetest part of His face is His smile. In the Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta, a book written by a devotee, Krishna’s body, face and smile have been described as sweet, sweeter and sweetest. Such beauty is the essence of all opulences and is appreciated only in Goloka Vrindavana (God's original, primeval abode) and nowhere else.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Krishna's Face category. An introduction from his books is given below in the following 16 quotes.

Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's books


vanipedia.org 		My dear friend, the luster of Kṛṣṇa"s body is more brilliant than that of a newly formed cloud, and His yellow dress is more attractive than newly arrived lightning. A peacock feather decorates His head, and on His neck hangs a lovely necklace of brilliant pearls. As He holds His charming flute to His lips, His face looks as beautiful as the full autumn moon. By such beauty, Madana-mohana, the enchanter of Cupid, is increasing the desire of My eyes to see Him. (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 15.63)



vanipedia.org 		Devotees do not ask anything from the Lord in exchange for their service. Even the most desirable liberation is refused by devotees, although offered by the Lord. Thus the Lord becomes a kind of debtor to the devotees, and He can only try to repay the devotees, service with His ever-enchanting smile. The devotees are ever satisfied by the smiling face of the Lord, and they become enlivened. And by seeing the devotees so enlivened, the Lord Himself is further satisfied. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.8.27)



vanipedia.org 		Seeing His own beauty, Lord Krsna began to consider: He (Brahmā) has not given millions of eyes to see the beauty of Kṛṣṇa. He has given only two eyes, and even those eyes blink. How then shall I see the lovely face of Kṛṣṇa? (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.151)



vanipedia.org 		The Lord Govinda is engaged there in herding the surabhi cows as His natural occupation. These goddesses of fortune can be seen automatically if we are attracted by the bodily features of the Lord. The impersonalists cannot observe such goddesses of fortune because of their dry speculative habit. And those who are artists, overtaken by the beautiful creation, should better see to the beautiful face of the Lord for complete satisfaction. The face of the Lord is the embodiment of beauty. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.11.26)



vanipedia.org 		Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has written a very nice verse wherein one gopī advises another, "My dear friend, if you desire to enjoy the company of material society, friendship and love, then please do not go to see that smiling boy Govinda who is standing on the bank of the Yamunā and playing His flute, His lips brightened by the beams of the full moonlight." Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī indirectly instructs that one who has been captivated by the beautiful smiling face of Kṛṣṇa has lost all attraction for material enjoyments. (Kṛṣṇa Book, Chapter 29)



vanipedia.org 		The dancing features of His face surpass all other full moons and expand the marketplace of full moons. Although priceless, the nectar of Kṛṣṇa's face is distributed to everyone. Some purchase the moonrays of His sweet smiles, and others purchase the nectar of His lips. Thus He pleases everyone. (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.130)



vanipedia.org 		Kṛṣṇa's face is decorated with ornaments, such as earrings resembling sharks. His ears are beautiful, His cheeks brilliant, and His smiling attractive to everyone. Whoever sees Lord Kṛṣṇa sees a festival. His face and body are fully satisfying for everyone to see, but the devotees are angry at the creator for the disturbance caused by the momentary blinking of their eyes. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.24.65)



vanipedia.org 		O most beautiful friend, please accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is standing before You full of transcendental bliss. The borders of His eyes roam from side to side, and His eyebrows move slowly like bumblebees on His lotuslike face. Standing with His right foot placed below the knee of His left leg, the middle of His body curved in three places, and His neck gracefully tilted to the side, He takes His flute to His pursed lips and moves His fingers upon it here and there. (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 1.166)



vanipedia.org 		The Vedic hymn known as Kāma-gāyatrī describes the face of Kṛṣṇa as the king of all moons. In metaphorical language, there are many different full moons, but they are all one in Kṛṣṇa. There is the full moon of His face, the full moons of His cheeks, the full moon of the sandalwood-pulp spot on His forehead, which is a half-moon, and the beautiful full moons of His fingernails and toenails. In this way there are twenty-four and a half moons, and Kṛṣṇa is the central figure of all of them. (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 10)



vanipedia.org 		The unsatiated seer of Kṛṣṇa's face thus laments: "I do not have thousands of eyes but only two, and even these two eyes are disturbed by the movements of my eyelids. So it is to be understood that the creator of this body is not very intelligent. He is not conversant with the art of ecstasy but is simply a prosaic creator. He does not know how to arrange things properly so one can see only Kṛṣṇa." (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 10)



vanipedia.org 		Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, “"My dear friends, I have not the slightest tinge of love of Godhead within My heart. When you see Me crying in separation, I am just falsely exhibiting a demonstration of My great fortune. Indeed, not seeing the beautiful face of Kṛṣṇa playing His flute, I continue to live My life like an insect, without purpose." (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 2.45)



vanipedia.org 		If by devotional service one gets the results of pious activities and sees Lord Kṛṣṇa's face, what can he relish with only two eyes? His greed and thirst increase twofold by seeing the nectarean face of Kṛṣṇa. Due to his inability to sufficiently drink that nectar, he becomes very unhappy and criticizes the creator for not having given more than two eyes. (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.132)



vanipedia.org 		Any comparison of the different parts of the Lord's body to different material objects cannot factually be a complete comparison. Ordinary persons, who cannot understand how exalted are the bodily features of the Lord, are simply given a chance to understand by a material comparison. It is said that Kṛṣṇa's face is as beautiful as the moon, His thighs are powerful just like the trunks of elephants, His arms are just like two pillars, His palms are expanded like lotus flowers, His chest is just like a doorway, His hips are dens, and the middle of His body is a terrace. (Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 21)



vanipedia.org 		One cannot avoid the influence of material energy, even when one is on the transcendental plane. Sometimes disturbances come, but the agonies and anxieties of the devotees are at once mitigated when they think of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His beautiful form or the smiling face of the Lord. The Lord bestows innumerable favors upon His devotee, and the greatest manifestation of His grace is His smiling face, which is full of compassion for His pure devotees. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.31)



vanipedia.org 		The form of the Lord in any shape is always transcendental and full of knowledge and mercy. The Lord is the destroyer of all material contamination because His form is personified Vedic knowledge. All the Vedas worship the transcendental form of the Lord. In the Vedic mantras the devotees request the Lord to remove the glaring effulgence because it covers His real face. That is the version of the Īśopaniṣad. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.13.26)



vanipedia.org 		"My dear Mukunda, if mother Yaśodā, the Queen of Gokula, is forced to stand on fire but is allowed to see Your lotus face, then this fire will appear to her like the Himalaya Mountains: full of ice. In the same way, if she is allowed to stay in the ocean of nectar but is not allowed to see the lotus face of Your Grace, then even this ocean of nectar will appear to her like an ocean of arsenic poison." Let the anxiety of mother Yaśodā of Vraja, always expecting to see the lotus face of Kṛṣṇa, be glorified all over the universe! (Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 43)


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